Most Arizona Cardinals rolling with Tigers, not Tide

This game should be fun to watch and very competitive, but don’t get it twisted; Alabama will win its 16th national championship on Monday night.

Jordan has been there, done that and still has the T-shirt to prove it. If the Tide force a turnover or two, it could be curtains for Clemson.

Earlier this week, we talked about some matchups that will determine who wins the national championship.

“I know there’s a lot more media now than there was back then and we didn’t have Twitter and Facebook and all the social media”, Jordan said.

“If I was Clemson, I would incorporate as many jet sweeps and across the field and across the ball motions that I could possibly have”. And a belief that this group of Tigers will only get stronger as the game goes on. “We had to grind when I was there”. Watson may be the quarterback in the country. Trying to make the tigers offense one dimensional is going to be like trying to herd cats because quarterback DeShaun Watson is a multi dimensional cat that helps to keep the tiger attack balanced.

“This happened when I was eight years old”. It’s going to take more than that. Deshaun Watson with a performance that he’s capable of, if he plays his best game you can make the argument that he’s the best player in college football. He caught seven passes in his career at Alabama and played on special teams. They beat four teams that are now in the top 15, three of which are still in the top ten.

“I thought the airport would be slammed security-wise this morning”, Sandra Nesmith said.

So there you have the esteemed crew at Bama Hammer’s predictions.

“I know if we beat them, we can’t really be doubted anymore”, Clemson linebacker Ben Boulware said as he looked toward the showdown at University of Phoenix Stadium in Arizona – the same venue that hosted Super Bowl 49 last February. Henry’s last huge workload, in the SEC Championship game against Florida, came more than a month ago.

Saban does have the task each season of battling the big heads and stamping down any sense of entitlement among his players.

I call these wasted completions, though of course that’s oversimplifying things. If they get into 2nd and maybe 3rd down and intermediate, you will begin to see them throw the ball. “They want to win”. Alabama will win another this time around against Clemson for several reasons. Clemson has a 56-11 record since the start of the 2011 season, which is the best five-year mark in school history. If Henry can’t get a rhythm going and the run game stalls, Alabama will be forced to rely heavily on quarterback Jake Coker.

And those who follow recruiting closely can also tell you about the Lee family member Georgia didn’t get. “Our styles are so different”.

For assistant coaches like Reedy and former Tigers defensive backs coach Curley Hallman, the matchup would be closer than some might think. So he went out for the team and made it as a walk-on. None of us expect Smart to be distracted. That is not a good omen for Clemson.

It is hard to believe that we are coming to the end of the 2015 football season.