Matt Hayes -- September 20th, 2015

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The fact of the matter is Alabama has looked awful on defense in big games of late, and the days of dictating games on that side of the ball are long gone.

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This is not the Alabama team that dominates and suffocates and eviscerates. This program, since late last season, stumbles and eventually crumbles in big games.

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“He said we can do the same thing again,” said Tide tight end O.J. Howard.

Not with this defense they can't.

There are more big games on the horizon (at Georgia, at Texas A&M, LSU, at Mississippi State); more games for the unthinkable to become the inevitable.

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