Nick Saban’s to do list

1. Wake up

2. Eat a Little Debbie

3. Finish coffee

4. Check out recruits on IPad

5. Call Lane and ask about quarterbacks

6. Pick a starting quarterback

7. Install game plan for Wisconsin

  The Alabama head coach’s next two weeks may or may not go as outlined above. He may have already figured it out and he’s doing a better job of concealing it ("it" being the whole quarterback thing) from the media than in years past. Also he hasn’t come unglued in a while. I’m not sure if that’s a good or a bad sign.

  Just to start out with full disclosure last year I believe I said that I thought Saban had a defense in place that could deal with the hurry up no huddle offenses. I was wrong. The defense in place was perhaps the worst of any Saban coached team not named Toledo.

  The 2014 defense bucked up in the red zone and other than that it was literally open for most offenses. This year there seems to be hope that the defense will return to championship form. Perhaps the whole team may revert to championship form. The best teams that have played in Tuscaloosa under Saban were boring old school throwbacks that ran the ball at will, passed when they could, and beat the other team into submission with a combination brutal running game and relentless defense.

  Most everybody, except Alabama fans, hated those teams. They were snooze alarms that simply won and put you (the non-Alabama fan) to sleep while doing it. Somehow one gets the distinct impression that this season is headed in that direction.

Saban is uncharacteristically happy. He likes this team. That’s good news for the Alabama faithful and bad news for everybody else.   He doesn’t seem unduly excited about not having a quarterback in place. This is probably because all that quarterback will have to do is hand the ball to Derrick Henry and throw to mismatched wide open receivers. With all due respect to Blake Sims he looked like a five star quarterback in the offense that was designed to highlight his abilities and hide his weaknesses. Does anyone think an offense can’t be designed to run the ball first and then use play action to create mismatches that a reasonably competent quarterback could hit?

  Well I think so. It seems to me that the offense will use no huddle when it can, but it will also use Derrick Henry when it can as well. The running game should be more dominant this year as it appears the offensive line will be better than in the last couple of years.

  Every indication is that the 2015 edition of the Alabama Crimson Tide football team is headed back to the future. The old impose their will on the opponent trick. If they can do that everything else will take care of itself.

  Roll Tide

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