re: Bama Football Tidings

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Idk why RT66 even posts that kind of drivel.

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That son of a gun is just trying to get the post count up.

Nah, I like him posting it and putting the disclaimer at the top. The disclaimer says it all

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We'll if post count is his goal, he should break all of the elephant dick length posts up into chodes. The bold font disclaimer is very helpful and funny too.

Wrote an elephant penis sized response; then settled with the I Post; therefore, I am.
Read, skip, engage, hate, love... up to you.
I Post, you choose

I didn't mean to sound like I was dissing on RT66. I was aiming that at the fanboy drival writers. My remark about breaking up posts was nothing more that trying to make a funny about a good way to increase post count, if that's a goal.

I think RT66 is a great person and a great poster too. And from experience, I know how much time he puts into the service he does for everyone who reads this board and the great job he does of that. I just might be his biggest fan.

LINK ] Alabama offensive line could use consistency after preseason mix-and-match for diversity Alex Byington, Montgomery Advertiser

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TUSCALOOSA — Amid all the changes along Alabama’s offensive line the past couple of years, the one constant has been Jedrick Wills Jr.

Whether it was earning his first career start as a true freshman against Ole Miss when the Crimson Tide opened in its jumbo package, or the 15 he made at right tackle last season while superbly protecting the blindside of left-handed quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, Wills has been Alabama’s Rock of Gibraltar.

Which is why the rotating door to his immediate left, where four players — redshirt senior Matt Womack, redshirt junior transfer Landon Dickerson, redshirt junior Deonte Brown and redshirt freshman Emil Ekiyor Jr. — have split first-team reps at right guard this preseason, has been challenging at times.

“The plus side is everyone knows their playbook. So it’s been easy with communication and things like that,” Wills said this week. “I feel it’s more, kind of like, I guess you don’t have the same bond as everybody else. But whomever they hop in there it goes smooth and easy. It’s all been pretty good.”

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Alabama offensive linemen Emil Ekiyor, Jr., (55) and Alex Leatherwood (70) during first half action in the Alabama A-Day spring football scrimmage game at Bryant Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on Saturday April 13, 2019.(Photo: Mickey Welsh / Advertiser)
LINK ] Alabama offensive line could use consistency after preseason mix-and-match for diversity Alex Byington, Montgomery Advertiser

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...Not that any of one has let the constant rotating affect them.

“It’s been smooth. You don’t even know different guys are in there from time-to-time,” Wills said. “Everyone’s working to get better and it will be a coaches’ decision on who plays there.”

At this point, only Brown — who must serve the remaining four games of the six-game suspension levied by the NCAA prior to last season’s playoff — appears out of the mix to start Aug. 31 in Atlanta, though Dickerson, Ekiyor and Owens remain in the running to be the Alabama’s starting center.

Ekiyor, who has been dealing with a right shoulder issue of late, could be the linchpin given how many quality first-team reps he’s seen all across the line this offseason.

“He’s played all three interior positions, (and) especially when he hops in at center he knows what’s he talking about and he knows what he’s doing,” Wills said of Ekiyor. “It’s really good to have him be able to play anywhere for us.”

That said, after both Dickerson and Ekiyor rotated as the first-team center over the previous two weeks of camp, the 327-pound Ekiyor has spent much of the last week working as the second-team center behind Owens while Dickerson has spent the last several practices lined up as the first-team right guard spot ahead of Womack

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Continued from above:... Alabama offensive lineman Evan Neal (73) goes against Alabama defensive lineman Justin Eboigbe (92) during second half action in the Alabama A-Day spring football scrimmage game at Bryant Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on Saturday April 13, 2019.(Photo: Mickey Welsh / Advertiser)
LINK ] Alabama offensive line could use consistency after preseason mix-and-match for diversity Alex Byington, Montgomery Advertiser

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...Neal, the 6-7 and 360-pound five-star tackle signee, has also appeared to have found a home as the first-team left guard, creating a powerful tandem with Leatherwood, the former No. 1-rated tackle in 2017 who started 15 games at right guard last season.

“He’s a big guy,” Wills said of Neal, who he described as a “big, physical player, smart guy — he’s got all the intangibles.”

“But from when he first went in there, he was real smooth and (it was) real easy. I haven’t really seen anything that really stood out about him being in a new position, so that’s a good thing.”

It’s been a similarly smooth transition for Dickerson, the Florida State graduate transfer who arrived at the beginning of August and immediately turned heads. With a powerful presence at the point of attack, and the quality experience having started 15 games over his first three years at FSU, Dickerson has quickly proven he deserves to be a starter on Alabama’s line.

Alabama redshirt junior offensive lineman Landon Dickerson. (Photo: Alabama athletics)
“I think Landon Dickerson has done a really good job,” Saban said last week. “He’s really tough, he’s a very physical player, very smart. He’s played center and guard both for us and to have that diversity as a player is really important, I think.”

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TWITTER:
Cole Cubelic @colecubelic
MY 2019 College Football picks:

CFBP:
1) Clemson
2) Georgia
3) Utah
4) Alabama

Champ game: Clemson vs Georgia

National Champion: Georgia

12:31 PM · Aug 22, 2019 from Homewood, AL·Twitter for iPhone

Too Many hits to that head blocking for Aubarn??? UTAH? really? really?
At least he is giving credence to the "#1 has never won the CFB"
Here is how he gets to this:
SEC:
West: Alabama (must now be a 1 loss team that supercedes B1G and Big 12)
East: Georgia
Champion: Georgia

Big12:
Champ game: Oklahoma vs Baylor
Champion: Oklahoma UTAH Pac12 over Big 12???

Pac12:
North: Oregon
South: Utah
Champion: Utah

ACC:
Coastal: Virgina
Atlantic: Clemson
Champion: Clemson

B1G:
East: Ohio State
West: Iowa
Champion: Iowa

Still remember him raving about Dalcourt at C/G in last year's all star game, but you are right, unless the injury bug continues to melt away the team... I see hard games against aTm, LSU, and the Barn leading up to a really hard game against Uga... but not sure anyone other than Cu can hold up against the '19 team going for 18
Maybe he is looking to get lots of responses and hits to get more followers etc

Christopher Walsh/BamaCentral LINK ]Atlanta may not be the friendliest territory for Crimson Tide, but is familiar by Christopher Walsh

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Alabama heading back to its 'second home' to open the regular season against Duke

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — University of Alabama junior quarterback Tua Tagovailoa can’t be blamed if he has slightly mixed feeling about playing in Atlanta again.

It’s where he threw the overtime touchdown pass to wide receiver DeVonta Smith to win the 2017 national championship, but also where he left the field on a cart last season in the SEC Championship Game.

He’s personally hoping for a better finish during his return trip this weekend.

“We've been there a lot,” Tagovailoa said. “For my class this would probably be our third time playing in Atlanta. It helps because you know where the game clock's gonna be, shot clock, you know where a lot of things are gonna be.

“So I think it helps tremendously.”

When Alabama faces Duke on Saturday (2:30 p.m. CT, ABC), the Crimson Tide might have an extra advantage in that it’s more familiar territory even though the Blue Devils regularly have Georgia Tech on the schedule.

They’ve never played in Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

Alabama is 3-0 in the stadium, having won both a national and conference championship there even though it’s only a couple of years old,

“I feel like that’s my home field, so I don’t really get too much pre-game jitters when I’m there,” junior linebacker Terrell Lewis said. “I feel like I’ve been there more than Bryant-Denny.”

While the fight song “Yea Alabama” includes the lines, “Go teach the Bulldogs to behave; Send the Yellow Jackets to a watery grave,” Atlanta is also in Alabama’s back yard when it comes to recruiting.

There are six players on the roster who hail from the state of Georgia: Miller Forristall, Giles Amos, King Mwikuta, Kevin Harris II, Justin Eboigbe and Xavier McKinney.

“I like playing in a dome, personally,” McKinney said. “I like playing in an NFL stadium whenever we play in one. I think it helps us as far being at a neutral site. It just helps us for when we’ve got away games because technically it is not really a home game for us. I think that helps for when we do have those away games and it gets me more prepared for those.”

While one has to think that offensive coordinator Steve Sarkisian is eager to go back and have some success after spending the last two years with the Atlanta Falcons, Tagovailoa is hoping to walk out a spring in his step after suffering two ankle injuries during his last visit.

That’s actually harder to do than on face value.

“It's not normal field turf if you ask me,” he said. It's a little different."

When asked to elaborate, Tagovailoa said he thought it was “rough. The turf is pretty hard. The turf we have in here is, we just renovated our indoor, it’s a lot softer, I guess. It’s bouncy. The turf over there is almost like concrete.”

When Alabama opened the 2017 season against Florida State, a No. 1 vs. No. 3 matchup according to the preseason polls that was hailed as maybe being the best opener ever (until the Crimson Tide rolled to a 24-6 victory), both teams suffered numerous injuries. Among them, Lewis tore an elbow ligament that sidelined him for 10 games.

He played in the national championship, and had a key sack, but this will be his first game since then after missing the 2018 season with a torn ACL.

"I'm ready,” he said.

Overall, the Crimson Tide is 28-7-1 (.792) all-time in domed stadiums, including a 19-2 (.905) mark since 2009, and is 20-4 (.833) during Nick Saban’s tenure.

Alabama is 13-1 in games played in Atlanta under Saban, including 12 straight wins. The lone loss was in the 2008 SEC Championship Game against Tim Tebow and Florida. The Crimson Tide avenged that loss a year later, though, en route to winning the national title.

During that span, the Crimson Tide is 5-0 in Chick-fil-A Kickoff Games, 6-1 in SEC Championship Games, 1-0 in the Peach Bowl and 1-0 in the College Football Playoff Championship Game.

Alabama is also a perfect 12-0 in season openers under Saban. It’s outscored those opponents 486-141, and outgained them 5,231-2,481. On average, it works out to a 40.5-11.8 score and 435.9-206.8 edge in total yards.

The last time Alabama faced Duke was 2010, won by the visiting Crimson Tide 62-13.

The game was also played on the grass at Wallace Wade Stadium. This will be a little different, on the faster artificial turf.

“Better to run on,” junior wide receiver Henry Ruggs III said. “I like it.

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I read a post that najee and b rob are suspended for the 1st qtr. Will we find that out at kickoff? or can someone confirm here. Thanks