Thursday, March 30, 2006
The Crimson Tide football team had its final workout of the spring season before Saturday's A-Day game.
The team worked out for just over two hours in full pads, while concentrating mostly on tackling.
"I thought it was a really good practice," said head coach Mike Shula. "We spent a lot of time basically tackling, probably a little less the last half of practice. I think that's what this football team needs. I think we did some good things on the offensive side and we did some good things defensively.
"Roy Upchurch had a good day; Jimmy Johns had a couple long runs; John Parker Wilson did some nice things and then missed out on a couple other opportunities or he could have really had a nice day."
Shula continued to praise the defense particularly the area of the red zone defense.
When asked whether he'd like to see the offense or defense prevail in Saturday's scrimmage, Shula commented that he'd like to see a little of both.
"I'd like to see the offense score points because everyone wants to see points on the board, but I want to see our defense come together. I hope you see good effort, you see good execution and we keep everybody healthy."
A-Day is scheduled for Saturday at 1:30 p.m. CT at Bryant-Denny Stadium. The team will break up into offense and defense with the first team offense going against the first team defense. The second team defense will go up against the second team offense.
