Photos and Video from Alabama Football’s First Practice of LSU Week

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Alabama soccer hosted its first observe of the week forward of the Crimson Tide’s street journey to face LSU this coming Saturday.

Alabama practiced outdoor on the Thomas-Drew Observe Fields for an hour and a half, with the Crimson Tide donning spider pads during the observe. Climate situations had been cloudy, with temperatures hovering within the low 70s Fahrenheit and winds blowing 3 m.p.h. due east.

Earlier within the day on Monday, Alabama head coach Nick Saban spoke with the media and gave his preliminary ideas on the LSU Tigers.

“So we had work week final week,” Saban mentioned. “Actually tried to emphasise with the gamers, what are you going to connect your self to for the upcoming challenges for the remainder of the season? It’s a good time to perform a little self-assessment of what we have to do to get somewhat extra constant execution, whether or not it’s particular person gamers — systematically, offense, protection, particular groups.

“So we actually want to come back collectively as a group versus opponent. And that’s clearly going to be actually essential for this recreation versus LSU, who proper now might be taking part in in addition to anyone within the nation. They’re very well-coached. This recreation has at all times obtained important implications – they’re at all times ranked, we’re at all times ranked. It’s form of a rivalry recreation that’s at all times a extremely essential match-up.

“Brian Kelly has carried out an excellent job there bringing his group alongside, bettering every week. Jayden Daniels is without doubt one of the best quarterbacks within the nation together with his capacity to run the ball, rush the ball. Very efficient, environment friendly passer. They’ve obtained actually good operating backs. They’ve obtained a complete corps of receivers which have 20 or extra catches that every one do job by way of getting open, catching the ball, run after catch. Superb systematic scheme on offense.

“Their protection is permitting, like, 21 factors a recreation which is without doubt one of the tops within the nation. They’re aggressive, they’ve obtained good rushers, they’re athletic. They’ve obtained good cowl guys within the secondary, they usually’ve obtained good ability guys on particular groups. Their specialists are very, excellent so very difficult recreation throughout for us. We’re gonna should do an awesome job of taking note of element, making ready for the sport so we are able to get extra constant execution and play for 60 minutes within the recreation.”

Gallery: Alabama Observe – October 31, 2022

Photos courtesy of Alabama Athletics

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