What makes you believe we can compete with Alabama?

[WiregrassTiger]

Three guesses on who missed this tackle against their slow ass QB?

This is really not a fair criticism. Jake thought he was going to give him one of those high five hip bumps but the dude just kept on running.

[bottomfeeder]

Jake "the Snake". The Kenny Stabler of Linebackers.

[Saniflush]

Jake "the Snake". The Kenny Stabler of Linebackers.

Dodge, Duck, Dip, Dive, & Dodge

[Pell City Tiger]

Gus took a sizeable chunk out of Jake's ass after that whiff. I heard he went off on him on the sideline.

Does anyone else find themselves inexplicably focused on Jake when the defense in on the field? It's like easing past a horrible wreck on the highway; you don't want to look because you know its going to be gruesome, but you just can't help but look.

[WiregrassTiger]

Gus took a sizeable chunk out of Jake's ass after that whiff. I heard he went off on him on the sideline.

Does anyone else find themselves inexplicably focused on Jake when the defense in on the field? It's like easing past a horrible wreck on the highway; you don't want to look because you know its going to be gruesome, but you just can't help but look.

I was walking to the kitchen for a beer and hit the door frame with my toe from rubberneckin Holland. He is captivating. I think my toe is broken. Should I sue him?

[The Prowler]

Three guesses on who missed this tackle against their slow ass QB?

I was actually laughing out loud when that play happened. I told my Dad that Jake thought he was playing intramural flag football. That picture will be called "The Holland Tackle II".

[Godfather]

Gus took a sizeable chunk out of Jake's ass after that whiff. I heard he went off on him on the sideline.

Does anyone else find themselves inexplicably focused on Jake when the defense in on the field? It's like easing past a horrible wreck on the highway; you don't want to look because you know its going to be gruesome, but you just can't help but look.

Whats worse he is there on every tackle...always standing about 3 yds away.  How can a MLB always be the guy standing outside of the actual tackle?

[Saniflush]

Whats worse he is there on every tackle...always standing about 3 yds away.  How can a MLB always be the guy standing outside of the actual tackle?

Love?

[Snaggletiger]

He's no CJ Mosely

[WiregrassTiger]

Whats worse he is there on every tackle...always standing about 3 yds away.  How can a MLB always be the guy standing outside of the actual tackle?

He's got their back.

[Kaos]

He's no CJ Mosely

No, but I bet his nuts are bigger. Don't steroids shrivel those things up?

[dallaswareagle]

I was actually laughing out loud when that play happened. I told my Dad that Jake thought he was playing intramural flag football. That picture will be called "The Holland Tackle II".

I was talking to my dad during halftime, and he has heard me mention Jake "ghost" Holland and said he had been looking for that number 5 I keep talking about and just never saw him. I chuckled. 

[bottomfeeder]

I was talking to my dad during halftime, and he has heard me mention Jake "ghost" Holland and said he had been looking for that number 5 I keep talking about and just never saw him. I chuckled.

Jake is the 12th man on offense.

[dallaswareagle]

Jake is the 12th man on offense.

 

[WiregrassTiger]

No, but I bet his nuts are bigger. Don't steroids shrivel those things up?

Yes but the contrast makes your dick look bigger.

[Snaggletiger]

Yes but the contrast makes your dick look bigger.

Tell me about it.

[Pell City Tiger]

Jake is the 12th man on offense.

That is damn funny, man!

[AUChizad]

Auburn still has the Iron Bowl series lead in my 31 year old lifetime at 17-14.

In my 31 years of life, Alabama has only beaten Auburn three years in a row once. 1990, 91, & 92. Auburn has gone on 4 & 6 game streaks.

Gathered from Twitter:

Nick Saban, at LSU & Alabama, has never beaten an Auburn team that finished the season with 4 or less losses, i.e. really good Auburn teams.

The Bama adage "Auburn only beats us when we're down" is not only utterly false, but if anything the opposite is true

Alabama is 1-6 all-time vs. ranked Auburn teams at Jordan-Hare.

Bama has never beaten an AU team w/8+ wins coming in at JHS. They are 0-4 in such situations ('89, '93, '97, '05).

[AUChizad]

Alabama hasn't beaten an Auburn team that went on to win 10 or more games since 1974.

[AUChizad]

http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2013/11/nick_sabans_never_beaten_an_au.html

Nick Saban and Alabama tend to lose to Auburn's better teams (Kevin Scarbinsky)

By Kevin Scarbinsky | kscarbinsky@al.com

on November 21, 2013 at 2:43 PM

If you're Auburn, you spend the next nine days looking for every edge you can find to try to beat Alabama.

You look on the practice field, in the film room and on the stat sheet.

You search for every possible advantage, physically, emotionally and psychologically, to convince yourself you can do what no one else has done this year.

You tell yourself Alabama has struggled with Texas A&M and Mississippi State. You tell yourself the Crimson Tide secondary is vulnerable.

You also tell yourself that Nick Saban's record isn't the best against Auburn's better teams.

It's a strange but true fact.

Saban is 6-5 overall against Auburn as the head coach at Alabama and LSU. He's 4-2 against the Tigers at Alabama after going 2-3 against them at LSU. He's dominated them of late, winning four of their last five meetings by a commanding combined score of 180-63.

But Saban hasn't enjoyed the same kind of success against Auburn's better teams. In fact, he's coached against Auburn teams that would finish the season with nine or more wins five times.

He's lost all five of those games.

At LSU, Saban lost in 2000 to an Auburn team headed toward 9-4, in 2002 to another 9-4 team and in 2004 to Auburn's 13-0 SEC champs. At Alabama, Saban lost in 2007 to a 9-4 Auburn team and in 2010 to Auburn's 14-0 BCS champs.

On the flip side, against Auburn teams that would finish with fewer than nine wins, Saban is 6-0.

This Auburn team, of course, already has 10 wins.

But it's not just Saban-coached teams that struggle to beat the better Auburn teams. It's Alabama teams in general.

The Crimson Tide has lost the last eight Iron Bowls to Auburn teams that would finish the season with nine or more wins: 2010, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2002, 2000 and 1997.

The last time Alabama won an Iron Bowl against an Auburn team headed toward nine or more wins was 1994. That was Terry Bowden's second season as head coach, and it was his first defeat on the Auburn sideline.

In contrast, Auburn's won three of the last seven Iron Bowls against Alabama teams headed toward nine-plus victories. The Tigers beat an Alabama team that would finish 10-3 in 2010, an Alabama team headed toward 10-2 in 2005 and an Alabama team en route to 10-3 in 2002.

What do those trends mean for the 2013 Iron Bowl? Maybe nothing. The past isn't always prologue. This game will be decided by matchups, by Tre Mason's ability to run past C.J. Mosley, Dee Ford's ability to get to AJ McCarron, etc.

But a 10-1 Auburn team that'll walk into its own stadium for the Iron Bowl as a double-digit underdog needs every possible reason to believe it can shock the world one more time.

Recent history provides a reason. Auburn's better teams tend to walk out of the Iron Bowl with a smile.