A healthy 2026 Bama is a legit top 5 team

RCW and the center were on the practice video provided by the school.

The teams we were playing had some great players too. You can't win every down

Other teams are beat up too lol. That’s football.

Theres zero excuse for how we played in that game. And there are puzzling losses over the last 2 years.

I agree with you that injuries played a part but it shouldn’t have caused us to go 2011 LSU in the championship

That’s consistently been my gripe. Losses are going to happen but can we stop penciling in 3 games a year where it looks like we forgot what football is?

This year, we are not a consistent top 5 team and I lay most the blame on Grubb for this.

Grubb over-thinks and gets cute. But his biggest issue is there is something he is lacking in playcalling. Its like he just calls plays, not looking at what the defense is giving him. This is most evident when defense bring a heavy rush. This leads to placing his QBs and the OL in a bad situation. Then the whole O gets rattled which increases offensive problems.

The thing that gets me the most is when his offense is rattled and collapsing, he just sits in the press box. He needs to get on the sideline and get in some ear-holes to help them. Instead he just sits in the press box calling the same shiit over and over. And ultimately this is Deboer fault.

These cfp rankings are just click bait

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But his biggest issue is there is something he is lacking in playcalling.

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theres no rhythm to grubbs play calling, at all. if you watch the best playcallers theres a beautiful rhythm to their calls. you can tell when they're setting stuff up and you can tell when they hit their stride. with grubb, it's a perpetual state of head scratching. or maybe a perpetual state of, wut...

Getting ZB, Green, Hill, and Umeozulu back will be HUGE for this team.

Getting Racin and RCW back will also be huge.

Also what about AK Dear? He was slated to be RB 1 before his injury. Might be nice to get him back as well.

We've been playing down a lot of key pieces.

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Yes and no.

We have had periods where we look incredible. But even healthy we also saw the 1st half vs Kentucky. 1st half vs FSU. Etc.

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Final score is all that matters. Otherwise, we should take into consideration that Louisiana Tech had LSU on the ropes in the first half (LSU also lost to Kentucky). Vandy (without their starting QB) had UGA on the ropes in the first half (and UGA lost to Auburn and should have lost to us).

In this instance, we go long stretches without being able to run the ball consistently. That was still true in the UK and FSU games but were masked by long runs that make the average look better.

We should be able to fairly regularly pick up 4-5 on the ground but more often it’s 0-1-0-3-2-then randomly 48. That’s not good because you’re constantly behind the chains. And with 2 years of evidence and a new oline coach it seems like it’s a scheme/playcalling problem.


If we keep winning I’ll gladly eat crow and shut the frick up. I’d love nothing more than us to win a Natty and Grubb tell me to frick myself on National TV while holding the trophy.