re: Will Alabama struggle on offense next year?

I doubt it. Mostly depends on what they get from the new QB.

Everything depends on offensive line and while we lost 3 starters last year.
They were up and down all year, mostly due to injury.

A lot of guys with playing experience returning just due to the fact we had lots of guys playing snaps due to those injuries

Aren't the FOUR games you speak of the FOUR SEC road games? Those are the four games that make or break a teams season most every year.

That's the true test of an offense. If it can go on the road in the SEC and still be successful. If you compare the SEC home numbers for the bama "O" compared to it's SEC road numbers, the bama "O" did seem to struggle a bit.

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Aren't the FOUR games you speak of the FOUR SEC road games? Those are the four games that make or break a teams season most every year.

That's the true test of an offense. If it can go on the road in the SEC and still be successful. If you compare the SEC home numbers for the bama "O" compared to it's SEC road numbers, the bama "O" did seem to struggle a bit.

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West Virginia, SECC, and the playoff game were all on the road, just at neutral sites. The Ole Miss game was a road game, but it was also early in the season, Sims' first game ever in an opponent's home stadium as the starting qb, and Ole Miss was an outstanding defense. Which of those factors played a part?

The whole point is that there are all sorts of factors in this type of analysis, and when you define your group so narrowly that you look at 4 games and throw out the other 10, your conclusion is going to be based on broad, sweeping generalizations from a minimal amount of evidence.

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They might struggle in the beginning, but we really don't know what kind of offense they will run. I think it will be a little more slow paced with more focus on ball control.

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This.

If your mom had nuts she'd be your dad

Gotta love all these lsu and auburn bama experts. Our oline loses 3, only real loss is kouandjio. whichever combo of bozeman, hill, taylor, and jackson replaces them will be 10x as physical. Only real wr loss is cooper, white and jones were meh. We have tons of talent there, including 2 former#1 high school recievers (when ridley gets here). We will be much larger and more physical overall at wr.m jo 9 Same with rb, tons of talent, bringing in the #1 rb this year with Davis, getting drake back. We lose vogler at te but gain hentages, who knows how to both catch and block, which will be a nice change. If it finally clicks for oj he could turn into the major threat he had the potential to be. At qb, we will get to see what coker does with the benefit of a season and 2 more camps in the system instead of a couple weeks of fall practice. He looked good when he was in this year, especially in his later play (mostly struggled with the game management parts). If not him, we have 2 really talented guys on the team in bateman and cornwell, and bringing in the #2 qb in barnett (whos already on campus). i think we will be at least add good as last year, but less flashy and more physical based on personnel. On the defense we at going to be sick. dline is probably best in the country, we get ragland back in the lbs to run the show, he will probably be the best lb in the country next year, we have all our corners returning, plus 2 more 5 star guys in this class, will get to humphrey play. Only thing I'm worried about is safety, lots of uncertainty there

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we have all our corners returning

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Excellent.

Point taken about our corners returning, but Cyrus was very solid at corner and returns...and with all those young 5 star corners you have to think one of them will start to play like it.