How would you Tier our defenses under Saban?

Sad part is they probably wouldn’t be that great. No shot at them but it was a different time and we did not have a lot of defenders that had the quickened necessary

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Difficult to do. I don’t know how good 2011 would be in today’s CFB game.

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You judge a team by how well it did against its peers in the year they played. The 2011 Alabama defense will likely be the last to finish #1 in every major statistical category for a very long time.

I would but that Mississippi State performance was abysmal and so was Auburn(Granted we were depleted)

That was a hellacious effort against Clemson though

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I think you can put the 17 defense in the great category.

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Completely agree with this; the ‘17 squad was fantastic.

2020 belongs in the average or bad, the Ole Miss and Florida games are two of the worst defensive performances we’ve seen from a Saban team. Those were really the only two good offenses faced this year. I guess this squad has one last shot at redemption, so maybe it’s premature, but at this point I couldn’t place them in the good category.

2013 was average. The two year span of 2013-2014, was the final years of oversized linebackers and we struggled against spread teams. We also were putting safeties at the star position during these times so we lacked quickness, but tackled well.

2020 is in between good and average.

2007 was Saban’s first year and he worked wonders with what he had, thought they played better than what they really were.

You can go ahead and throw 2010 team into average as well. They had a spectacular performance vs Mallet in the second half, beat down Florida, and stopped Newton for almost an entire half.

Then shite like this happened: Stephen Garcia had a GOAT game, but they got pushed around up front all game and couldn't stop Lattimore. LSU was garbage on offense all year, yet put up 433 yards on Alabama (Jordan Jefferson went 10-13, 141 yards and 1 TD). Then we all know the second half of IB.

Inexperience on defense and Hightower coming off of an injury hurt that 2010 squad. The bright spots were Robert Lester showing out in the secondary and Upshaw emerging as a star late in the season.