{"id":435093,"date":"2024-11-11T11:45:27","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T16:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/?post_type=article&#038;p=435093"},"modified":"2024-11-11T11:45:51","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T16:45:51","slug":"tyler-booker-insists-alabama-is-done-falling-for-rat-poison-with-win-over-lsu","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/alabama-football\/tyler-booker-insists-alabama-is-done-falling-for-rat-poison-with-win-over-lsu\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyler Booker insists Alabama is done &#8216;falling for rat poison&#8217; after win over LSU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tyler Booker and the Alabama Crimson Tide put together their most dominant performance of the season during the 42-13 victory against LSU on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Booker and the offensive line controlled the line of scrimmage the entire night. The Crimson Tide rushed the ball 48 times for 311 yards and 6 touchdowns. Quarterback Jalen Milroe rushed for 185 yards and 4 touchdowns, and the defense was opportunistic with 2 interceptions in the game.<\/p>\n<p>It was the type of performance that sends a reminder to college football how good Alabama is, and Booker said on The Next Round show on YouTube that the Crimson Tide just have to play their game.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tyler Booker to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NextRoundLive?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NextRoundLive<\/a>: &quot;We just have to make sure we&#39;re playing Alabama football. That&#39;s something we&#39;ve been preaching from the jump, but now that time has gone by, we&#39;ve bumped our head twice &#8212; we&#39;ve touched the stove twice &#8212; and we really believe it. No falling\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mike Rodak (@mikerodak) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mikerodak\/status\/1856002503302643942?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 11, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We just have to make sure we&#8217;re playing Alabama football,&#8221; Booker told <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NextRoundLive\">The Next Round<\/a>. &#8220;That&#8217;s something we&#8217;ve been preaching from the jump, but now that time has gone by, we&#8217;ve bumped our head twice &#8212; we&#8217;ve touched the stove twice &#8212; and we really believe it. No falling subject to the rat poison now. We know we have to play Alabama football.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The win was just what the Crimson Tide needed to remind the College Football Playoff committee that they are a team that can win it all. While they aren&#8217;t in complete control of their destiny when it comes to making the SEC Championship, the Crimson Tide are now in a good spot in the CFP ranking.<\/p>\n<p>Up next for Booker and Alabama is a home game against Mercer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyler Booker thinks the team just has to play Alabama football after a dominant win over LSU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":398109,"featured_media":435100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","tags":[],"class_list":["post-435093","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_types-news","teams-alabama-football"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/435093"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/398109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}