Everything Alabama football coach Nick Saban said on Wednesday of Tennessee game week.
Week 7’s marquee matchup in college football will take place inside Neyland Stadium this weekend when [autotag]Nick Saban[/autotag] and the Alabama Crimson Tide travel to Knoxville to take on Josh Heupel and the Tennessee Volunteers.
Following Wednesday’s practice, coach Saban got behind the microphone to discuss his team’s preparation for the rivalry matchup with the Vols.
Before fielding any questions coach Saban would get things started with an opening statement discussing the upcoming game and providing a little update on star quarterback [autotag]Bryce Young[/autotag].
“I think that our emphasis this week has been on everybody self-assessing – coaches, myself, players. Do you think you’re really playing to the level that people respect, to the standard that we have, that your teammates respect, the discipline, the toughness, the effort to finish, focus on the next play, accountability to do your job. Those are basic, fundamental things that I think are very, very important to being successful, and that’s something that we’ve really emphasized. I think the players have done a pretty good job so far this week. We’ve got a tremendous challenge against a really good team on the road, SEC game, Game Day, all the things that make great games. If you’re a great competitor, you love great challenges, and this is certainly gonna be a great challenge for us in what we expect to be a difficult environment.
“Bryce continues to practice a little bit more. We’ve got him on a little bit of a pitch count just to kind of wean him back into it and see how it goes. So we expect him to do even a little more tomorrow. That’s all I really have to say about that.”
Here is everything else coach Saban had to say on Wednesday:
