Days 'til the A-Day game: 20 Days 'til Season Kickoff: 153
Coach Saban's press conference after the first scrimmage should have brought all Bama fans back down to earth. "I know y'all want me to say that we have a great team," Saban said at his Saturday post-practice briefing. "But I'm saying we've got to improve a lot." The defensive line is the biggest area of concern, but really, Coach wants impovement and consistency from EVERY position, and it doesn't look like he's getting it yet.
"We can't be up and down," he said. "We need to make a significant amount of improvement at just about every position out there." It's fairly obvious that the players are not displaying the consistency that Coach Saban wants.
Cecil makes a good point about how weak the defensive line really is, and how, eventually, the coaching will recruit their way out of this mess. It's just another reason why this team went 6-7 last year, and why Coach Shula was fired. The direction this team was going was COMPLETELY offensive based. He recruited speed and big time talent to the offensive side of the football, rather than the defensive side.
