ARLINGTON, Texas – There’s rarely a moment in a football game that so perfectly captures the difference between the two on the field, an instant symbol that so vividly describes what a team does to an entire sport.
When alabama’s offensive part, Najee Harris got off the lawn at AT Stadium
No one else in school football can fly that high.
Right now, there’s nothing weird or unexpected about Alabama at the national championship game on January 11 in South Florida. After Crimson Tide’s 31-14 victory over Notre Dame in the semi-finals of the school football playoffs, Alabama will be there for the eighth time in 14 years with Nick Saban.
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But what does this edition of Alabama do and how does it do it?Not general; general at all.
Nick Saban is not enough to dominate school football for more than a decade, he left and hacked the sport, broke the matrix and reached nirvana with a team whose most productive is perhaps the most productive ever.
This Alabama doesn’t physically impose itself on football games as much as it does through them, bold to its war parts to succeed at a point they’ve never played before, and then keep it for 60 minutes without making a mistake. On the other hand, you can take off at cruising altitude and stay there as long as you want. The game becomes serene in the face of tension.
Alabama is not unbeatable. There would probably be moments of calm and failure, opportunities to break the door. Notre Dame crawled with him for a few minutes on Friday at the beginning of the moment, when it was a 21-7 game before the tension of looking to play the best football. For so long they’ve become too much. At the SEC championship, we saw Florida looking to turn it into a tennis fit where a clearing kicked like a service break. In the end, it didn’t work either.
In 10 days we’ll find out if Clemson or the state of Ohio can determine the point it will take to beat Alabama, and not just stay with them for a part or three quarters. same problem: for Alabama, everything is easier.
Alabama RB Najee Harris’ jump over Notre Dame defender is the most productive game I’ve noticed, as this is the first time I’ve noticed a player jumping on a defender state. ????
It is the luxury of your crime, which has gears plus very unlikely dimensions to explain. The natural speed of DeVonta Smith, who almost openly opposed Notre Dame and made receptions even when he wasn’t, totaling seven to 130 yards. and 3 touchdowns. The durability and physicality of Harris, who left enthusiasts panting by relaying his impediment on the board right here an hour after it happened. coordinator Steve Sarkisian, who knows when it’s time to slow down and leave.
Notre Dame had the courage to take the ball first in this semi-final match, hoping to make a leap at Crimson Tide, but instead came 14-0 in Alabama after two possessions, 12 offensive plays and 176 yards. At the end of the first half, Alabama averaged 14. 4 yards consistent with playing some other world, a number that eventually dropped to 7. 95 still absurd.
And it’s not even Notre Dame betting badly or not belonging to the Playoffs as some critics will shout after a momentary semi-final loss in the last three years. The Fighting Irish belonged and by the maximum component did the obligatory to restrict the Alabama attack with an effective racing game and time-consuming workouts.
It didn’t matter because Alabama is surely insensitive and insensitive to everything facing this season. Like few other groups in the history of school football, Crimson Tide has the luxury of knowing that its characteristics are infinite and that its most productive form is untouchable. .
With Saban adopting this offensive formula and recruiting this skill intensity, the total paradigm of the game has been reversed even though the effects seem so normal. Once again, Alabama jumped on everyone.