re: The “greatest team ever”* only had 10 players drafted?

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you don't have to go get the stats for me. but you faced teams devastated by opt outs (not your fault) and covid. we are talking about teams missing 20% of their roster.


not acknowledging that is a symptom of how stupid and unserious this post is. but youre allowed to do that.

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As noted by Glorious the other day, the only team in our league that was truly "devastated" by opt outs against Alabama in terms of starters and NFL level talent was LSU with 4 (Marshall, Chase, Shelvin, Vincent). Outside of LSU, Alabama faced 2 SEC teams who had NFL level draft picks not play (Jamin Davis from Kentucky and Shawn Davis from Florida). That's it - over 10 SEC games.

I've said multiple times that 2020 is a unique season not really comparable to others. But the fact is most players did play, very few did not, and Alabama only ran into 1 or 2 teams that had large scale COVID issues the week they played (Kentucky being the main one, Ohio State with 2-3 in their front 7).

And Alabama beat the ever living shite out of basically everyone they played other than Florida in Atlanta and Georgia in Tuscaloosa for 1 half. The idea that we wouldn't have dismembered the SEC in a "normal year" is a joke. It's fine for possibly disqualifying them from a "best of all time" discussion, but that's where it ends. Nobody in this league was beating Alabama in 2020 - whether they had 200,000 fans in the stands or 20.