re: Can we please have an honest conversation about Kane Wommack's defense?

Both our OL and DL has looked soft the last few years. Milroe has his issues but still pass protection and inability to provide running lanes has hugely impacted the offense. Defensively we have been gashed on the ground too often and can't get consistent pressure with our DL.

I swear to god you are terrible. The defense had one bad game & you won’t let it go. The defense bailed us out many times and is the reason we had chances in a lot of games.


I don’t know if you noticed but every team has games where their defense falters.


Teams like Vandy are tough to defend & if you don’t believe me look at what GT did to Uga.. granted I know your dumb arse won’t.

No it’s because there are a bunch of Buddy Ryan wannabes here whose idea of defense is attack, attack, attack like Teddy Roosevelt charging up San Juan Hill.

That’s a caricature of course but one could get that idea from hanging out in one of our game threads.

IMO, it’s several things. First, it’s an entirely different system, so there’s always going to be some growing pains. By growing pains, I mean every player knowing what he’s doing out there and all the terminology. I also mean on the coaches part. Wommack has (I’m hoping) learned the hard way that what worked at South Alabama probably won’t work in the SEC. He will most likely adjust and adapt. If he doesn’t, he will most likely be out of a job next December.

Second, we simply don’t have any dominant defensive linemen. We have a few that are decent and try really hard (Overton, Latham and Keenan) but they’re not dominant. We also don’t have any great edge guys. Russaw MIGHT eventually develop into one but he’s been hurt most of the year.

Some of this can be rectified thru recruiting and/or the portal. We really, really need some of these young guys to develop and step up next Spring.

We also need to land Justus Terry. He would be dominant. Make him an offer he can’t refuse.

Word of caution regarding the portal. People tend to think getting a really good DL in the portal is easy and they’re plentiful. Good or really good defensive linemen in the portal are few and far between. Honestly, I bet there are or will be only 3-4 good or really good DLs in the portal.

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IMO, we need a new Dline coach. I respect the hell out of him. Played against him 3 times in high school, but our line has not been the same since he took over.

Unless you count Will Anderson as a DE, we haven't had an All-American DL since he got here. The recuiting & development just hasn't been there.

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This. I don’t think our DL has played poorly, but they don’t shine. No one under Roach’s guidance has been a game wrecker. James Smith, Overton and Payne were all Five Star prospects in high school. They have had their moments but they do not consistently disrupt the opposing offense. I hope there is a meaningful evaluation of Roach and his role within the program after this season.

Saban kept him around for years and KDB retained him, so maybe I don’t know shite, but the results on the field from the DL unit have been very underwhelming relative to our DLs from 2009-2017.

Look at position groups that are weak performers - some having been so for several years.
Some position coaches are “great recruiters” but have coached certain players backwards. They may do fine with another group, but not their current assignment.

But is it fair to brand Wommack with a scarlet V forevermore because of that?

I despise losing to anyone and I despise the fact that we lost that night but I’m over that game and moving forward. Or is it an unpardonable sin to lose to Vandy?

And people are piling on Remaster because every, single, solitary post he makes is “DeBoer sucks, he’s not from around these parts.”

I’m over Vandy. I’m not over Oklahoma.

I know being negative isn't popular. I have been an Alabama fan since the mid-70's. We have enjoyed the thrills and the agonies of success/failure. The thing that rubs so many of my generation - is the lack of leadership in this coaching crew. There is zero fire. There is no commanding authority. It's all "golly gee, they were such a tough team but we will get 'em next time" and that doesn't cut it. Right now it SEEMS like the blind are leading the blind. Call us traitors... call us barners or bulldogs or whatever. We are many and our voice matters just as much as yours

I am in my late 60s and my fandom dates back to the same time frame.

The opinions you have expressed … politely and classily I will say, it should be possible to disagree without being disagreeable … go along with what I have said about there being more moving parts to the culture of this football program than W’s and L’s.

I am aware that there is an element of our fan base that sees Bama as representing a certain type of old-school value system that they think is lacking in society today, to society’s detriment.

I respect that. But I will … again, hopefully not disagreeably, it’s just my .02 … submit that in today’s NIL/portal era, there can never again be the level of “commanding authority” in the head coaching position as we had with Paul Bryant and Nick Saban.

I think Saban saw that last year and got out of Dodge while the getting was good.