Adjust the NCAA Football All Time Alabama Crimson Tide Team

I'd hate that job if I even remotely thought it's possible to do. Every one of us has our Alabama heroes we grew up with. Games that caught our imagination. A family we saw them with. It's never going away. No matter how many great LBers coach Saban recruits, "Biscuit" destroying the Notre Dame QB in B'ham. will always be there. Especially after so much gridiron futility with that particular team. Derrick Thomas's sack fest against Penn State literally won that game single-handed. Lee Roy Jodan's games where he makes almost every tackle. Who's rising higher than those guys? Not on my list. How many of us followed Woodrow Lowe's great career?

Tua, Burrows, Lawrence, Fields, would shite their pants waiting for guys to get open in Ken Stabler/Joe Willie's era of football. No gaps in the offensive line. They played football in a phonebooth. No hurry up to confuse tired defenses, no rules about leading with your helmets, linemen going straight for the knees and even after a good second and then some after you get rid of the ball those behemoths would still destroy you.

When some jerkwater geek put up a stat line of Tua's passing stats this season vs Joe Willie's career at Bama, Gary Danielson immediately apologized. Saying the stat geek was just young and didn't know any better.

Well, folks, the "prisoner's of the moment" will always quickly go to the stat sheet and say look at the difference, he had to be better. Absolutely nothing could be further from the truth.

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This is going to sound like recency bias, but I think AJ McCarron and Tua would join Namath, dropping the Snake

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If you want a more level field, why don't you compare Joe Willie and Ken Stablers Super bowl champion/HOF career with the bench time McCarron is accumulating with his 3rd or 4th NFL team? The difference in arm talent alone is incomparable. You are talking about 2 QBs who aren't just legends at Bama but legends of football period.

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If you want a more level field, why don't you compare Joe Willie and Ken Stablers Super bowl champion/HOF career with the bench time McCarron is accumulating with his 3rd or 4th NFL team?

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This is the Alabama all-time team. Not the "Alabama in the pros" all-time team.

With your logic, Tim Tebow wouldn't make any list at the University of Florida.

Pretty good list. Why do you have Wilbur Jackson at Fullback?

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I don’t...he was in the OP’s original list and I left it alone (my additions/changes are the ones in italics). I did wonder about that myself as I saw at least a couple of games in ‘73 and didn’t recall Jackson lining up at FB, recall seeing him as one of the HBs. But I looked up a preseason roster and they did have him listed as a FB...but if I recall Ellis Beck was the starting FB. I’ll go back and watch my ‘73 Bama-Tennessee video and see where all they lined him up...

Wilbur Jackson was one of my favorite Bama RBs when I was growing up. If Bear hadn’t shuttled so many backs in and out, he could’ve had a couple of thousand yard seasons. I think he still holds the Bama record for career yards per carry...

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I believe that '73' game is where Wilbur does that 360 spin move and takes it to the house. Wilbur, I believe still has the all-time yards-per-carry at Alabama. He was a halfback in the bone.

Great adjust. I think I would subtract a FB slot and add Julio to the WR corp

First, awesome thread idea. I’m busy as hell or I’d give my take.

But quick question.

Why are there so many outside linebackers listed and only 2 middle linebackers?