re: Time to say goodbye to this thread - The season is here

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More athletic maybe, but how well rounded a player Ryan Anderson became is gonna be missed. 

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Just rewatched the Clemson game. He had a heck of a night.

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I'll never forget being in BDS when we played LSU in 2011 and watching Cade miss kick after kick. I literally turned to my brother and said " god dangit what will it take for saban to pull this guy from the fricking game!"

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There really should be a psych study done on Cade Foster. We talk about the mental aspects of the kicking game all the time, but he is the biggest example I've ever seen. When you look at his numbers, they say "Ok, not great but not that terrible either" but when you break them down by game situation, it was an entirely different story.

I'm not going to dig and find the post, so I'm going from memory but in games Bama won by more than a TD (in other words, where there was no pressure) Foster had Shelley-esque numbers. They guy was almost automatic. In games Bama lost or won by less than a TD, he was under 20% for his entire career. It wasn't just that LSU game. If there was a pressure kick to be made, Foster was going to miss virtually every time.

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Kicking is probably the hardest to project from high school to college. It's boom or bust. And Alabama busts a lot.

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Agreed

We had 2 really good kickers back when I went to HS (1998 to 2002) and 1 got a full academic ride to Samford (where he went) and several other schools outside the state, the other was an average wrestler (HS had a powerhouse wrestling program those years) and got a full ride on a wrestling scholly and of course he took it.

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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — The Monday following a scrimmage is when you can expect some changes for Alabama football, but there wasn’t a ton of movement during the viewing period.

The Crimson Tide worked outside on a humid Tuscaloosa day.

Injury updates

- After being held out of the scrimmage, running back Najee Harris (hamstring) participated in drills. Harris showed no signs of being limited during the viewing period.

- There was no sign of running back Josh Jacobs. Jacobs was held out of a scrimmage due to a pulled hamstring. Alabama coach Nick Saban said it would take a few days for Jacobs to recover.

- Linebacker Jamey Mosley (concussion) was back with his position group, but he was still limited.

- Linebacker VanDarius Cowan (back) also was back with his position group. Cowan participated in some drills.

What we saw

- The first-team offensive line remained the same coming out of the first scrimmage: Jonah Williams at left tackle, Ross Pierschbacher at left guard, Bradley Bozeman at center, Lester Cotton at right guard and Matt Womack at right tackle. This is another step toward this group taking the field to start against Florida State.

- The second-team offensive line featured freshman Alex Leatherwood at left tackle, Dallas Warmack at left guard, J.C. Hassenauer at center, Chris Owens at right guard and freshman Jedrick Wills at right tackle. Saban said Saturday that the team would invest a lot of times in Wills and Leatherwood this week to see if they can help the team this season.

- There was a slight change on with the first-team secondary when Alabama worked on dime. Hootie Jones stepped in at safety next to Ronnie Harrison. Jones and Deionte Thompson are competing for that spot. The rest of the group was the same: Trevon Diggs at left cornerback, Anthony Averett at right corner, Tony Brown at star (fifth defensive back) and Minkah Fitzpatrick at money (sixth defensive back).

- The second group had Nigel Knott at left corner, Levi Wallace at right corner, Jared Mayden at star, Hootie Jones at money, and Deionte Thompson and Xavier McKinney at the safety spots. Kyriq McDonald shadowed Mayden, Keaton Anderson shadowed Jones, Daniel Wright shadowed Thompson and Bo Grant shadowed McKinney.

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I mean, it worked out well last time.

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Yes it did but this board had a vocal majority calling for his head after that first year. Just saying it's gonna take some time for Diggs.

Me too. Getting a full ride in wrestling in virtually unheard of. Divided up more than baseball. I think on a top program D1, few have full rides.

Boz,

Is there any chance we will see any 4 or 5 wide sets this year? Foster, Ridley, Jeudy, Sims, and Ruggs on the field all at once would be a DC's nightmare.

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Boz, Is there any chance we will see any 4 or 5 wide sets this year? Foster, Ridley, Jeudy, Sims, and Ruggs on the field all at once would be a DC's nightmare.

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I have seen something similar involving Irv Smith. Not sure it will be the norm.

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I'll never forget being in BDS when we played LSU in 2011 and watching Cade miss kick after kick. I literally turned to my brother and said " god dangit what will it take for saban to pull this guy from the fricking game!"



Amen Boz. I never carry booze into a game. That one I wish I'd taken some.

BTW Boz, did you feel the earthquake that night?

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I did not and I think my seats were part of it. I was just to the right of the visitors tunnel upright. Cade almost killed me with one of his horrid kicks.

Who was it that everybody wanted to start over Vinnie? Vinnie got as much crap as anybody in the summer before his junior year. Then he balled out. Same thing happened with Cyrus, Arie K, Nick Perry (to a lesser extent), and it seems like it happens every year now.