Lane Kiffin wins this round: Nick Saban walking back his Ole Miss sign stealing comments
Ole Miss wasn’t stealing signs on Saturday, what Nick Saban really meant to say was that Alabama was just one play behind against the Rebels all night long.
Saban sure had a different way of describing things after having an opportunity to go back and review the Ole Miss tape.
Here is what Saban said immediately after Ole Miss scored 48 points on Alabama’s defense.
“It seemed like everything we did, though, they had an answer for. I don’t know if they had our signals or what. I’m not — that’s not anything unusual. But it seemed like every time we called something, they had the best play they could have against it,” Saban said on Saturday night. “They had a really good plan.”
After seeing those comments, Lane Kiffin responded by saying, “FYI when u go as fast as we do we call our play first. Stealing signals wouldn’t help us at all because we are snapping the ball why they were still trying to just line up. #facts,” on Twitter.
When asked to clarify his sign stealing comments, Saban walked those back pretty quickly during his Monday press conference.
“I think what I was really speaking to was, we were more like, I felt like we were always one play behind,” Saban said during his first media availability of Georgia Week. “When I say one play behind, I mean, you know, sometimes when you play in the NFL against Joe Montana or somebody really good, you always feel like you’re one play behind.
“Because if you call this, they do the right thing against that. So I think that was more what I was sort of referring to as if they knew what we’re going to do. And some of that is our issue, in terms of how we disguise things, or they were going fast.”
“We were struggling to get lined up, we didn’t do a very good job of disguising things, so they were able to take advantage of a lot of situations. They know us well, so all those things probably contributed to me feeling a little bit like we were one play behind.”
That’s some serious backpedaling there by Saban.
Who says the Alabama coach has lost some speed?
He realized making excuses is for pu–ies, and decided he didn’t want to be one.
Would’ve been better had he owned up to it, but I’m sure he brought Dylan Moses into his office to have a conversation about excuses.
What excuses are Georgia fans going to make come Saturday. Thats all I here from geo6fans every time Bama beats them
Dude, find me a Georgia fan who thinks we’re going to win.
I’ve said in MULTIPLE places here I think it’s 28-20 Bama and that’s because our offense is still a work in progress.
I do think we win the rematch on December 19th, though.
However, what excuses will you have the ready if / when you do lose?
Gonna blame the “cellphone pictures” of Bama’s Big Board again?
It will be the refs Jason… They are still using that from years ago.. You have UGA fans already trying to use it because of some calls in the Ole Miss game they didn’t like…
I never thought he was making excuses. To me he meant that Ole miss had a good plan and we didn’t have a good plan to combat them. We won the game by a respectable 15 points. Ole miss quarter back played his best game, their offense made no mistakes, which was unusual for them, and their couch did a great job. Why not, he learned from the best how to coach a team.
“their offense made no mistakes, which was unusual for them”. Um, you apparently haven’t watched any other Ole Miss game. Their offense has been getting it done with very few mistakes in every game this year.
Bratton, your headline of Kiffin wins this round…yeah, no. The only round that matters is 63-48. Was it pretty, no again and our defense stunk, but the scoreboard said 63-48 Bama at the end and I’ll take it.
The media is making more or of this than necessary. He made a comment, not an accusation.
Nick Saban just got out coached, plain and simple.
He knew it and felt he had to come up with an excuse for why.
Hard to get out coached and win by 15 points but if that is what happens when you get out coached, I hope he gets out coached the rest of the season.
It is what happens when you get outcoached but there is a tremendous talent and depth difference between the two teams. You’d best not hope he gets outcoached on Saturday because the talent and depth matchup is much more even
Gutter, it was a one score and two point conversion game with only 1:29 left in the 4th quarter.
Saban’s defense is stacked 3 deep with 4-5 Star talent and Saban just let a 1st year coach with Mississippi talent take him to the wire.
With that vast talent disparity it really does come down to coaching.
I’m assuming that you didn’t know that Bama is replacing 4 DB’s. I guess he was out coached when they only scored 63 points. I get your point but there are 2 sides of the ball so while the D was horrible the offense was spectacular.
So will Muschamp out coached Kirby last season Right? Coach O out coached Kirby both times they played correct?
UGA had more talent than both of those teams and lost… Bama still actually won their game.
DarthA…. Ole Timmy doesn’t know anything about the Bama. He likes to think he does but his posts prove he doesn’t.
How the heck is Kiffin a “first year coach”. Did his stints with the Vols, USC and FAU not happen…his NFL coaching…… what am I missing here?
Don’t dwell on the “15” point win…we all watched the game… one possession game with 89 seconds left. Kiffin burning timeouts for one last shot with the offense to tie it up. It was THAT close my man. If not for the Najee jailbreak run at the end, it would have ended in single digits. Bama wins by the hair of their chinny chin chin. Everybody knows it dude. Better get some things fixed this week or you’ll be singing a different tune come Sunday.
Did you also watch a “fumble” early on the goal line when forward progress was stopped that turned into a 14 point swing? If Bama scored there they are up 2 touchdowns early and the beat down is on. I love Kiffin, he dialed up a heck of a game plan, but your 89 seconds crap is BS. At 3:16 in the 4th it was 56-45 prior to the 29 yard 4th down field goal at “89 seconds” 20 seconds later the fans were wide eyed and Harris scored his “jailbreak”5td of the game. Ole Miss was out of it when they kicked the field goal, they were out of it at 3:16 left, and they were out of it when Harris scored his last TD run. Put it another way 21-21 Halftime, Bama outscored Ole Miss by 7 in the third and by 8 in the 4th. At 3:14 in the second quarter was the last time Ole Miss led in the game, and never led in the second half ever. It looked close, it wasn’t.