How has Nate Oats approached Alabama's mid week bye?

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00:00 Yeah, I wanted to ask if when you were at Buffalo, if you ever had a bye week like this

00:03 and if you think it's beneficial with it being new this year?

00:07 It's a good question.

00:09 I'd have to go back and look at my, I don't remember having one like this, to be honest

00:14 with you.

00:15 So off the top of my head, I would say no.

00:17 And to answer the second part of the question, yes, I did think it was beneficial.

00:21 It's, you know, you kind of get your legs back up on you.

00:23 We gave him Wednesday off instead of play, you know, typically, you know, we played Saturday.

00:28 We gave him the typical Sunday off.

00:30 You know, if you play Saturday, Wednesday, our typical schedule is off Sunday, practice

00:34 Monday, Tuesday, play a game Wednesday, practice Thursday, Friday, off Sunday.

00:39 So we went off Sunday, practice pretty hard Monday, Tuesday, game totally off Wednesday,

00:45 try to get him rest and then went a lot lighter on Thursday and Friday to try to make sure

00:50 their legs are under him for the stretch run.

00:52 You know, three weeks from tomorrow, there'll be an SEC championship or champion crowned,

00:58 I should say, like that regular season's over three weeks from tomorrow.

01:02 So it seems like it's flown by and we're getting close to the end, but we want to make sure

01:06 that guys are fresh.

01:07 But it also gives you a week to we've been able to focus on some special situation type

01:13 stuff and just whatever you may be struggling with when you got a week between games, you

01:17 can kind of focus on that.

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