Nordstroms’s Notes: Thoughts on Week 2

Nordstroms’s Notes:  Thoughts on Week 2

After a strong showing in week 1, the Alabama Crimson Tide cruised through Tulane in week 2. As a team, I was looking for better consistency from the 2008 version, but saw a little of the 2007 team’s mentality. While we all agree that no matter how you match up on paper, you still have to play the game, the team I saw Saturday night wasn’t the same team I saw against Clemson.

I was disappointed in the lack of effort shown by the entire offense through most of the game. Special teams and defense won this game and showed the consistency I was looking for. Tulane had the ball a lot and had quite a few yards, but that points back to the lack of offensive production.

The most disappointing part of our offense to date is the failure to connect on a deep pass. John Parker Wilson has made approximately 5 attempts at the deep ball, off the top of my head, and has not connected on any of those. If we cannot stretch the defense they will continue to go one-on-one with the deep ball and smother the short passes.

I do believe that there is a lot of this offense we have not seen because we haven’t had to. We jumped on Clemson early and then were never really threatened by Tulane enough to dig into the playbook. I am not saying we are holding back and saving anything for Georgia, but if we don’t need to show our hand, I don’t think we will.

I will be watching a few things specifically this weekend to see improvement.

Can Wilson fix his deep ball? If we are to challenge for the SEC West, we have to have a deep ball threat.

Regardless of the opponent can/will this team have a consistent level at which they play.

I look for Alabama to come to play Saturday against Western Kentucky and earn 40+ points while shutting them down on the scoreboard. They will not overlook this opponent I don’t think.

Tim Nordstrom

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