Alabama fans, faster on defense?

For a couple of years that has been an emphasis of our recruiting it should start to show this year.

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How good can they be?

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Potential to lead the country again. Gotta watch missed assignments though. Probably a little more weaker at the run, but I think the pass defense is going to be better and will have a better pass rush.

Yes quite a bit faster, Stinson has really improved on getting off initial block, Hubbard is Hubbard but got held a lot of the night from watching replay, would've gotten 2 sacks, 1 especially OT grabbed his face mask after he beat him with explosion and dip

also A'Shawn "Big 86" was so impressive he's like a taller Dareus true 2 tech & Allen was faster than I thought he would be & both those guys are TF

Going to be fun watching them rape Manziel

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Already better than 2012 or 2010. Probably as good as 2009, potential to be as good as 2011.

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Agree but until the end. I seriously don't think any Saban defense will ever come close. That defense was hell on Earth.

I'm saying that today & everyone is saying I'm crazy, but I REALLY like this group

It is 1 thing to be a big fricker like Cody was and demand doubles because of your size, but it presents a totally different problem when the ends can clean an initial block and force an OL to adjust or draw more than 1 blocker because of the speed

That's what this D looks like it is capable of so far..we will just have to see how good VT's line was compared to some of the SEC opponents

Fastest D I have seen since Saban has been here.

Well, judging by the first game, they will be great. And judging by the first game, they had better be. :)

I think this defense will be better than 2012, but a step behind 2011 (mainly because it's a bit too unrealistic to expect this defense to replicate those numbers).

At one point, VT ran 35 plays and managed to get double-digit yardage once. That's nearly unheard of regardless of how bad an offense may be.

Stole this from another board:

VT only had four plays that went 10 or more yards.

These four plays accounted for 65.6% of their total yards.

Not counting punts or FG attempts, VT ran 59 plays.

Of those 59 plays, Bama held them to 3 yards or less 47 times, including 29 plays of 0 or less yards (not including the pick six, either).

Here's every play result (in yardage) for VT:

1
0
0
Punt
0
1
34
0
0
0
Punt
4
2
0
Punt
77 (TD)
3
Interception returned for TD
0
4
0
Punt
2
7
0
Punt
6
3
2
6
0
0
Field Goal
2
1
0
Punt
12
6
-1
0
Punt
-1
0
0
Punt
0
0
1
Punt
2
16
7
1
3
0
-1
0
Punt
0
0
0
Punt
1
0
-4
Punt
3
3
6
3
0
Punt

BUT YOU CAN'T TAKE AWAY THE LONG TD BLAH BLAH BLAH