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Posted on 1/13/26 at 1:20 pm to Diego Ricardo
Posted on 1/13/26 at 1:20 pm to Diego Ricardo
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Those are probably the true numbers for each position in terms of who the staff preps to play in a given week. However, we probably want 10 OL
Going into the SECCG our OL depth chart looked like this:
LT: healthy
LG: out
LG: hurt
C: hurt, forced to play
RG1: hurt
RG2: out
RT: TF
Safe to say we need more than 8 OL guys on scholarship.
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Posted on 1/13/26 at 1:21 pm to Bear88
NFL teams live with that all the time. Bengals decided to get Chase instead of Sewell, so they spend every year having a good season undermined by their QB being out chunks of the year.
Posted on 1/13/26 at 1:23 pm to Diego Ricardo
Posted on 1/13/26 at 1:25 pm to 1BamaRTR
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A Pro Bowler who was the former no.2 overall draft pick with 4 years starting experience (Mitch Trubisky)
I wouldn't care for the odds of Buffalo winning in Denver if Trubisky had to come off the bench for Allen in that game. ProBowl or not. Buffalo's run game has suffered with Cook hobbled as well. No matter how many guys they can sign off the practice squad or from out of retirement, the replacements are very rarely any good.
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but NFL teams have the luxury of signing practice squad players from other teams, can trade players, and just sign unsigned players.
This is definitely the rub. So, coaches are going to have to fill their rosters with "practice squad" type guys along with their actual rosters before the season starts.
Does anyone really expect to win anything of note with injuries? Saban, yeah. Well, he could stack talent. Can't do that anymore. Gotta play the best guys you can afford, hopefully avoid the injury bug and develop talent in the off-season and in any blow outs you can muster.
There just isn't any other way I can see for Alabama to compete with the big money schools.
This post was edited on 1/13/26 at 1:29 pm
Posted on 1/13/26 at 1:27 pm to Bear88
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Sounds like a plan
It sucks, but it's what happens in the NFL. Mahomes gets injured nobody calls for Andy Reid's head for not making the playoffs.
I know the NCAA isn't the NFL, but it is what it is.
Posted on 1/13/26 at 1:49 pm to JoseyWalesTheOutlaw
My bad.
Posted on 1/13/26 at 1:52 pm to Sl0thstronautEsq
9 games 
You could just sit kids during the G5 games and give them an extra year.
Just get rid of eligibility limits at this point.
You could just sit kids during the G5 games and give them an extra year.
Just get rid of eligibility limits at this point.
Posted on 1/13/26 at 1:58 pm to Refrigeraider
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I know the NCAA isn't the NFL, but it is what it is.
It is closer in more ways now than it ever has been and further away in some ways that make it inferior to the NFL too.
Posted on 1/13/26 at 2:00 pm to Sandkhan
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9 games
You could just sit kids during the G5 games and give them an extra year.
Just get rid of eligibility limits at this point.
I'd say that the plan would be to develop them until November then play them the last 4 games of the regular season then post season...claim redshirt at 9 games even if CCGs are still a thing.
Posted on 1/13/26 at 2:07 pm to Diego Ricardo
We just landed a DL from Washington.
Caleb Smith
Redshirted this year. He's from Birmingham.
Caleb Smith
Redshirted this year. He's from Birmingham.
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Posted on 1/13/26 at 2:14 pm to Sandkhan
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Just get rid of eligibility limits at this point.
Give it 2-3 more years and we'll be there. They'll argue that if a school will let them enroll in classes they should be eligible and it'll likely be granted by some shithead judge who went to a tiny Northeastern liberal arts college followed by law school at Yale and could not give less of a frick about college athletics.
Posted on 1/13/26 at 2:16 pm to Sandkhan
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Just get rid of eligibility limits at this point.
I like this idea.
What would the NFL do if they couldn't get players from college?
64 team league.
No salary cap.
No eligibility rules.
Top 16 play a bracket like March madness.
Number 63 and 64 ranked teams play in game like an under card to the national championship game. Loser is out of the 64 team league and the 65th rank team gets promoted up to the league of 64.
Limit transfers to once every 5 years.
Allow the younger players to develop at the smaller schools and junior colleges.
Just lean into it. Ty Simpson is taking a potential pay cut to play in the NFL. Why?
Median salary in the NFL is between $800k-$1m.
Universities can do better than that.
Allow players to enter the draft and find out what they are going to make. If they don't like the terms, come back and play college. That is until there is no longer a draft.
Whatever entity arises from the death of the NCAA in this scenario would have huge leverage over the NFL.
Play football on Saturday, but play all the mid-tier games on Mon-Thur. Spread this tv revenue to the lower 64. Fan interest in scouting and over all interest in college football would drive viewership. It also allows extensive development and surveillance of performance. If there's an 18 year old stud, and a team in the 64 wants to sign him out of high school, allow it.
Allow teams to bring up guys from junior colleges and lower 64 teams mid-season in case of injury.
Force the NFL to adapt or die.
Players will take guarantees over potential NFL salaries. If Simpson isn't drafted until the 2nd day, hes going to leave A LOT of money on the table.
I'm not a huge NFL fan, and I would love to see it die a slow painful death.
Fact is... The NFL doesn't develop talent. It has relied on the NCAA as long as it's been around. I say hell with them. Let the players decide. Create a new league. I didn't graduate college until I was nearly 30. We are paying players now. That's never going away. Why send the best players to the NFL? Keep them in school. Let the woke NFL die.
TV will eventually come in and give money to the 64 team league. BIG money. Share the revenue equally. Balance the scales. Let the donors pay the guys in the junior colleges to develop and act as feeders to their school in the big 64. Have the players age out on their own.
Avg time in the NFL is only 3.3 years. Yes, guys play longer but not the vast majority. This would happen in the 64 too. There wouldn't be many guys playing until they were 40. And if they did, so what?
If every team had the same money to spend guys would play for the team they loved. They'd play for pride and money. Isn't that what we all want? Guys to play for Alabama because they love it?
This post was edited on 1/13/26 at 2:25 pm
Posted on 1/13/26 at 2:17 pm to Diego Ricardo
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It is closer in more ways now than it ever has been and further away in some ways that make it inferior to the NFL too.
Agreed. Time to lean into it.
Posted on 1/13/26 at 2:24 pm to Refrigeraider
Posted on 1/13/26 at 2:26 pm to Diego Ricardo
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According to some sources, we have essentially the same payroll as Indiana in 2025.
No. Mark Cuban says Hi. Carl Cook (Simon Property Group), Gail Miller, Spencer Eccles, Jon Huntsman, William Gore (Gore-Tex sound familiar?), Ed catmull (Pixar Animation). Posted on 1/13/26 at 2:28 pm to Sl0thstronautEsq
One thing to watch is that the portal is supposed to close 1/16, but it could open again for a few teams if their head coaches take off for NFL jobs (e.g., Kirby to ATL, Cignetti to Pitt (he was born there), etc.).
This post was edited on 1/13/26 at 2:29 pm
Posted on 1/13/26 at 2:33 pm to Sl0thstronautEsq
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"Let them know I know my ranking isn't the highest & I don't expect them to respect me yet, but I am ready to work & earn the respect”
Man, I love that. Good to hear. Can win with guys like that.
Posted on 1/13/26 at 2:42 pm to Bear88
How many RB’s and WR’s did we lose this year?
Posted on 1/13/26 at 2:51 pm to Cover1Key
Posted on 1/13/26 at 2:58 pm to UASports23
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