Alabama Holds First Scrimmage of Fall Camp on Saturday
8/10/2019 3:34:00 PM | Football
Crimson Tide puts in two hours of work under sunny skies at Bryant-Denny Stadium
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - The Alabama football team took part in its first scrimmage of the fall on Saturday afternoon at Bryant-Denny Stadium. The scrimmage lasted roughly 135 plays and just over two hours on a warm, sunny Saturday afternoon.
The scrimmage was Alabama's first of the fall in preparation for its season-opening contest with Duke in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Ga., on Saturday, Aug. 31. The matchup between the Crimson Tide and Blue Devils is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. CT on ABC. The team will be off this Sunday before getting back to work on Monday afternoon.
Nick Saban Post-Scrimmage Opening Statement
"We had a lot of good things happen out there today, and we had a lot of guys that didn't make good plays. The most important thing that we can do right now is everybody needs to focus on, 'Where am I at as a player?' That's all that matters. 'What do I need to do to improve, and to take responsibility for that and be accountable to that?' so that we can coach and teach guys to improve and get better so that they don't make the same mistakes the next time.
"The thing that you don't want to happen is how many of the errors we made that were mental errors, penalties, unforced errors. Nobody on the other side did anything to beat you, but you basically beat yourself. Lack of knowledge, lack of experience, or lack of discipline in terms of doing what you were supposed to do, the way you're supposed to do it, and do it that way all the time – that's got to be where we are right now. We've got some guys that have experience that are probably a lot closer to being game-ready than others, and we have a lot of other guys that we need to really work hard with so that we develop a lot of depth on our team."
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