Alabama player insinuates that Bama beat themselves last season against Tennessee instead of the Vols beating the Tide
Alabama Crimson Tide offensive lineman Tyler Booker made a comment this week about the Tennessee Vols' win against Bama last season that plenty of UT fans will disagree with. Booker joined The Paul Finebaum show this week to discuss Alabama's matchup with Tennessee on Saturday and he was asked if last year's loss in Knoxville […]
Alabama Crimson Tide offensive lineman Tyler Booker made a comment this week about the Tennessee Vols' win against Bama last season that plenty of UT fans will disagree with.
Booker joined The Paul Finebaum show this week to discuss Alabama's matchup with Tennessee on Saturday and he was asked if last year's loss in Knoxville is motivation for the Crimson Tide this season.
"We could've came back in the game and really put Tennessee away, but we had a lot of penalties," said Booker. "We had a lot of missed assignments. So that's what I remember from that game. Going into this week, I'm making sure that we cut out a lot of those penalties, that we cut out a lot of those missed assignments, so we can our brand of Alabama football"
"And what happened last year, happened last year," added Booker. "We can't control that. We're just going into this week, trying to execute and build off what we did this last game."
Sounds like Alabama doesn't think the Vols' beat Alabama last season. Instead, it sounds like Alabama thinks Bama beat Bama last year.
There's no doubt that that there were plenty of missed assignments from Alabama — but that's because UT's offense (led by Jalin Hyatt) essentially had Alabama's defense on skates.
And the only reason Alabama had a chance to win the game late was because of a miscue on a RPO that resulted in a Hendon Hooker fumble that was returned for a touchdown. If not for that play, The Vols probably get to take a knee at the end of the game instead of having to go down the field in less than 15 seconds to kick a field goal.
Tennessee should add this to their growing stack of bulletin board material for Saturday's matchup against Alabama.
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