Alabama starter admits the loss to Oklahoma has brought back a mentality that has been missing since the loss to FSU in Week 1
Alabama isn’t afraid to get it’s hands dirty again.
If the Alabama Crimson Tide learned anything from Week 1 against FSU, it was that the team is vulnerable. They have flaws that other teams can expose, and they have to execute an elite level to overcome those flaws.
And for every game between FSU and the loss to the Oklahoma Sooners, Alabama did just that. They played fundamentally sound, and they took care of the football. But that changed on Saturday, when Ryan Williams fumbled a punt, and Ty Simpson continued his costly fumble streak to go along with a bad pick-six.
So with that, you would hope that the edge that Kalen DeBoer has mentioned all year would return. And according to DT Tim Keenan, it has.
Alabama back to being hated
“Just like Week 1,” Keenan said via Touchdown Alabama, “We’re hated by everybody and everything, we’re in a familiar spot, we just got to go work and get better… Everything we want is still in front of us, but we got to go and handle Eastern Illinois next week and go on from there.”
The headline there is that Alabama is back to the “we are hated mentality,” but the key portion of that statement is that Alabama still has everything in font of it. That much is spot on. The Iron Bowl suddenly is a must-win, but if Alabama pulls it off, it will be another trip to the SEC championship, and a chance to set the team up nicely for the College Football Playoff.
“Doing what we know to do, but doing it better,” added Keenan on what needs to change. “Evidently, what we were doing wasn’t the best. So, we got to do what we were doing even better and just execute with even more attention to detail. If you thought you had the most, have even more. If you thought you were going hard, put more into it, pretty much… Just that adversity, us bouncing back. Understanding that now it’s like ‘okay, I knew they were a good team, I knew this and that,’ but now focusing on each other and everybody in the building that’s for you and going out there to battle and playing for your brother.”
We saw this team bounce back after Week 1, and there is no reason to believe they won’t do the same thing going forward. But just how good is Alabama truly? That remains to be seen.
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