This year the offense can carry us if the defense struggles.

If daboll stays we should be good in year 2 of the system. I still think the jury is out on him due to the underuse of the RBS, meaning not sticking to one if they got hot.

Yeah I hope we don't try to run Tua too much, don't want him getting hurt.

I've been hammering the table for two years saying Damien should have more carries. I was prepared to say Najee would be a 2018 Heisman candidate. Now with both back, plus Josh Jacobs, it'll be interesting to see how the carries are split up. If both could get around 200 carries that'd be nice and in theory Jacobs could get something like 50 carries and 25 receptions. Not as many touches as Jacobs would like I'm sure, and he's dynamic, but we're loaded so it's a good problem to have. Maybe use Jacobs on kick returns too, I think he could break a few and grab some TDs.

The secondary may struggle a bit and we may not get as much pressure from the middle when Big Chef comes out, but they shouldn't be a total shite show as a unit. We will still have elite Ends in Ray, Parks, Buggs and Hall-Lewis. Our LBs will be elite. In the middle we will have Mack and Moses and Miller and Jennings on the outside. We will have Thompson and Diggs as safeties, Smith, Carter, Knott and Mayden as corners. We will be fine on defense. We may not be as nasty as 2015, but we will be damn good. This is a Saban team, bro.

I think the secondary will be fine. Some of our elite defenses also were ridiculed about not defending the deep ball. The pass rush next year will be legendary and will help out the secondary

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He did fumble the ball with the running back rotation for sure and both Harris's should have gotten more carries.

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Burns rotates the RB's, not Daboll.

We may have the best RB corps, but the rest are questionable.

Our front 7, minus the DT questions, is loaded.

My thoughts too, TS. That’s where Bo really made a name for himself in ‘16, as the closer. Just wasn’t effective this year in an expanded role. I feel like we left yards and points off the board by not giving DH and NH more touches. But I wish him well at the next level. He’s a physical freak so maybe he can find a role.

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JordonfortheJ
This year the offense can carry us if the defense struggles.
Not sure. We said that last year...

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Not all of us said that last year.

As long as we can consistently move the bowl and convert third downs when we need too........teams could sell out to the run and as long as they had athletic DBs to go one on one they would be in good shape......see the Auburn game.