re: 2025 Alabama Assistant Coach Thread (Grubb Watch)

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Grubb smoke

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I'd be shocked if he left NFL, he had a pretty good year by all accounts.

edit: unless something changed last 2 weeks

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That doesn’t make me feel better at all, the ILB play was lacking all year

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It was noticeably much better after the Vandy game.

According to X there is about 3K post just thrashing the guy. Apparently they didn't have one pro bowler on offense with Geno Smith, DK, Locket, and a few other of the fan favorites. They speak on there like his firing is a very sure thing. Now this is just fans, so take it for what its worth.

Was that because the ILB's coached by Saban for two years were allowed to finally go free? Or due to coaching?

The main gripe we had up till Vandy was that the ILB's we're waiting for contact every play and not hitting the gap like we had coached.

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Just searched his name on twitter, and he apparently will almost certainly be fired this year. Seahawks fans really hate that guy lol

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Dude took a destined to fail job just so his wife wouldn't have to move. First time HC with a background on defense paired with a first time NFL coach as a playcaller was never going to be a productive marriage.

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When the players you coach react like this, it was probably not a "really dumb move" to fire the coach.

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So maybe it falls under the "unless he was fist fighting dudes" part of my post. Or maybe it was a Dre Jr. personal thing. Hope the reasoning ties to the former, because, whatever he was doing, guys were responding - he was coaching either the best or second best unit on our team.

T-minus a split second (from the tine this news broke, so maybe already happening lol) until some BOL regurgitated insider BS about how someone else actually started coaching the safeties at some point this season (or that it was all Linguist) starts picking up steam though.

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not been good. Their offense has been cratering for the last two months. Book got out and he’s not shown the chops for adapting to counters from NFL DCs

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Currently going through the Seahawks subreddit and it's a very different tone than this. They are mostly blaming John Schneider for not spending on the OL and injuries.

Looking deeper. There was an article posted that delved into Grubb's troubles, and most of the comments are defending him. Most of them want to fix their oline then see how he does.

That being said, maybe they'll fire Huff, I'll certainly take him over our current dipshit.

Side note. Something I noticed in the bowls, Bama, UGA, and Tenn, all got bullied in the trenches by the opposing dlines. As a conference we've lost our edge on the OL and DL which is what made us special. We collectively need to stop hiring recruiters at every position, and start finding actual coaches to do some development. Or the trend is going to continue.

Why would we want Grubbs when all he is going to do here is to look for the next OC job to leave town. His wife doesnt want to be here, so whats the point..

Keep our OC, replace the OL coach. Shephards gotta teach them boys to block and quit being their bestie, and we should be good.

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Why?

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Empathy, compassion for a guy who seemed to have done a good job with a very young secondary. I’m not upset but firing a coach who has done a good job instead of allowing him to get another job and leave with dignity doesn’t seem to be a point to f argument. Either way you’ve moved on.