What type of performance on Saturday would regain your trust?

If Wommack resigned then Bama won 52-0 I would feel better.

The suspected issues with this team: maturity, discipline, commitment, etc.

are not fixable in a week.

We could come out next week and win 80-0 and you couldn't sleep easy because playing well isn't this team's issue.

We have NFL talent all over the field, we are capable of blowing the doors off anyone if we prepare well and play up to our potential.

However given what we've seen against USF and Vandy, there's nothing that will make people not fear that any given Saturday this team could come out and lay a gigantic egg against anybody.

If they don't take the opponent seriously, don't prepare properly, and don't seem to be "feeling it" during the game they could mail in a sloppy L to anybody on the schedule save Mercer.

The defense can do nothing to regain my trust

Nothing. A team capable of losing to fricking Vanderbilt cannot be trusted.

99-3

Can't fix the trust issue in a single game. Alabama fanatics won't allow it. However, I suggest folks go read the Spurrier comments. Coaches and team completely overlooked Pavia and that offense. Kid beat Auburn 31-10 and rolled up 450 yards of offense when he was playing for NM State. Arrogant and stupid to be sure, but it could be the lesson needed going forward.

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As others are saying, it's gonna take a lot more than one single good outing to calm down the masses. Saban always harped on "consistency", and that's what I hope the team and staff are striving for. There are plenty of teams and coaches who play great one week and crappy the next. A yo-yo style ain't gonna cut it.

If the team (and coaching staff) shows us that they are able to improve and learn from their mistakes on a weekly basis, that's what I am looking for. Bit if South Carolina looks like a great bounce-back, but it's followed by a collapse against UT and/or Mizzu, what have you gained?

For all the criticisms of Saban, particularly in recent years, his teams ALWAYS improved a lot from early in the season to later. The Vandy game was a total exposure of all the existing warts.

Nothing. Alabama just lost to Vanderbilt, it will take years or a national championship to regain trust in the coaching staff.

Saban pretty much had me taking games like Vandy and SC this week for granted. It took several years to get that way after living through the 1997-2007 years. The new coaching staff took 5 games to erase that confidence.

We aren't in Kansas anymore.

Bama has become a version of a 2010s era Big 12 school: prolific offense, speed bump defense How much does one create the other?

Womack is in this role till EOS at least.what I would like to see is just .. Better tackling. That I think is two parts .... Being in position to tackle and wanting to tackle ( blocker be damned ..it does amaze me sometimes watching a defender seemingly reside himself to "well...there's someone between me and the ball, I'll just wait till he gets here with it" )

I personally don't think you can have an elite defense though, unless you can run for 140-160 a game consistently

This is like finding out your wife got gang banged by the Dallas Cowboys and then someone asking you what she could do this weekend to regain your trust.