Nick Saban is aware that the area where Alabama has struggled this season is opening drives.
Saban addressed the problems at Wednesday’s presser.
Saban said that the sluggish starts all come down to execution regardless of if it’s on offense, defense, or special teams.
“Like, the same thing that goes wrong on anything that doesn’t work. Don’t execute very well. Sometimes maybe they do a little bit something on defense or maybe what you thought they were going to play, they didn’t play. As you get into the flow of the game and see what they’re playing, guys execute a little better,” said Saban. “It all comes down to execution, whether it’s offense, defense or special teams, just like we gave up a touchdown on the first drive last week because we busted a coverage. It wasn’t because it was the first drive, it was because we busted a coverage.”
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Although Alabama didn’t score on its first drive, Saban still credited the team for its fast start and strong finish against LSU.
“They would’ve scored in the fourth quarter with one minute to go if we had played like that,” said Saban. “It always comes down to how do you execute in what you do, and all 11 guys got to do their job, and that’s the key to having success. It’s great to start fast and it’s great to finish strong, so to do both these things is something that we’ve been trying to focus on all year long. We probably did a little better job of that in this past game than we did all year.”
Grant Bricker was a former freelancer for The News TN in his hometown of Nashville, Tennessee. He now freelances for Saturday Football. Follow on Twitter @GrantBricker.
