re: ESPN pundits: Jameson Williams best receier in the draft if healthy. ….

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Well Bama had already torched those 5 1st rounders once when both receivers played.

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Absolutely. But we were still missing a ton of players, so....still al speculation. Thing is both teams were missing a lot of players. One team did not fall apart and lose when one player left the game.

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Like it or not those are the facts Mel has in his favor.

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You mean focusing on one player beiong injured while ignoring the players missing for the other team?

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It is all water under the bridge.

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It is. Everybody has injuries and miss players when they are unable to play for whatever reason. There is no doubt that Alabama missed Metchie and Williams....but what Alabama fans miss is you probably missed your DBs more.

Georgia was missing a lot of players and a couple were playing injured. It happens, but we don't stop the game and wait until both teams are at full speed. Had Alabama won the game y'all would be rolling your eyes if we had brought up all of our injuries, but somehow it is an acceptable excuse for Tide fans.

JMO but the 2021 Bama team stole a great year. Bryce saved the day for sure.

I had Bama at 10-2 for the regular season. Fact is I am going with 10-2 again for 2022.

People bring up the Colt McCoy thing like it’s some gotcha but the situations aren’t remotely the same. Alabama and Georgia had played each other earlier in the year. Georgia’s vaunted DL couldn’t pressure Young, Georgia’s secondary could not cover Metchie or Williams, and Georgia’s WRs couldn’t get open against our DBs. Only their TE had any kind of success in that first game.

By the second quarter of the second game, the vast majority of those pieces that held Georgia in check in that first game were out with injuries. Colt McCoy was injured on the sixth snap from scrimmage on a drive that started at Alabama’s 39-yard line. The situations aren’t even remotely similar.

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Ummm. Yes. They are.

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Ummm. No. They're not. Alabama and Georgia had played four weeks earlier so we saw what the Tide's offense was capable of with its two starting receivers healthy and running full speed.

Colt McCoy had six plays from scrimmage that netted about 30 yards before he went out with an injury. To say we know for sure that Colt would have made a difference in that game is pure speculation. On the other hand, we have actual data from a previous game on how important Williams and Metchie were to Alabama's offensive attack. With Colt McCoy, we have just six plays.

They make it seem like this is going to create some chip on his shoulder

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Through the first 12 picks of the 2022 NFL Draft, four wide receivers were drafted ahead of Alabama star wideout Jameson Williams before he was selected 12th overall by the Detroit Lions.

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WTF kind of sentence is this? It's not even accurate or even english. He was the 4th receiver selected, so there were not 4 before him. And he was picked 12th. So through the first 12 picks, he was picked.

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Ummm. No. They're not. Alabama and Georgia had played four weeks earlier so we saw what the Tide's offense was capable of with its two starting receivers healthy and running full speed.

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You said they were not remotely the same. They are were both linchpin players for their team that got injured in the game, and their teams both claimed that injury was the reason they got beat. See the similarities? Are they exactly the same? no. Are they very similar? Yes.

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Colt McCoy had six plays from scrimmage that netted about 30 yards before he went out with an injury. To say we know for sure that Colt would have made a difference in that game is pure speculation.

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And the score fo the title game was 3-3 when Williams went down halfway through the second quarter. Yet in your mind that made all the difference in the world.

It might have. But it is no more a stretch to say it didn't make a difference as it is for Tide fans to say it did not make a difference for McCoy to go down. McCoy made the Longhorn offense go.

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On the other hand, we have actual data from a previous game on how important Williams and Metchie were to Alabama's offensive attack. With Colt McCoy, we have just six plays.

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A game in which Georgia had numerous players out or playing on play counts because of injuries?

Why do Alabama missing players count and Georgia missing players not count?

If my grandma had wheels she'd be a bicycle.

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The guy who couldn't beat out Wilson and Olave for playing time is suddenly better than both of them?

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Different type of players. Olave is a more smooth route runner than anyone in this draft and Wilson is a freak athlete. Williams is the guy you can throw the ball to over the middle for 8 yards and he takes it to the house

JSN being the best of the 4 probably made it difficult for Williams. He was good at OSU, but wasn't going to be featured as the guy ever because of the other studs. He made a great decision for him and could end up with the best stats of the 3 if he ends up in the right situation.

I don't think the Lions is an ideal situation of course but again not his faul

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Getting his cleat caught in the seam of carpet does not take away anything.

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When he went down I saw him reaching for his knee. I genuinely felt bad for him, because I suspected he would go out for the game. I also realized our chances of beating Alabama went up by a lot.....but I felt bad for Williamson. I was hoping it was serious enough to take him out of the game, but not serious enough to hurt his career.