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You clearly think this group of players is better than they actually are.

This is not a bad group.
There should have been a plan for two quarterbacks to play if Milroe struggled.

Yes, it absolutely is a bad group, by Alabama standards. Two quarterbacks? None of them are SEC championship material. The OL is not good at all by Alabama standards. Seriously...do you think our center deserves to be mentioned in the same sentence as Jones, Kelly, Bozeman, Caldwell, or hell, even Vlachos? What OL do you see as being a first round draft choice?

RB...I've already mentioned the talent we've had in the past...even Glen Coffee. None of these guys are remotely that good.

At WR we've been spoiled with multiple first round draft picks over the last several years. You can name at least 8 that would keep any of this year's crew from ever seeing the field.

The coaching certainly can improve, but the talent on this team is woefully less than what we've been accustomed to over the last 15 years, and even with great coaching, their ceiling is going to be at a level below the standard we are used to.

They may be great young men. They are not great football players.

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Posted by CrimsonCrusade

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Posted on 9/10/23 at 9:07 am to BamaGradinTn

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At WR we've been spoiled with multiple first round draft picks over the last several years. You can name at least 8 that would keep any of this year's crew from ever seeing the field.

Wide receivers looked a lot better last night than they did in 2022. Are you forgetting the constant drops last season and going back to the title game against Georgia? Last night they made a bunch of leaping grabs, adjusted to overthrows, underthrows, passes behind them, etc. That's a position group that looked to have taken a massive leap. Defense was much more fundamentally sound. Offensive line was bad, as they were last year, but it looked worse than it was due to Milroe's mistakes in the pocket and Texas being able to put seven or eight guys near the line of scrimmage. Even the snap issues are often with the quarterback - McLaughlin had these same issues when Milroe was in last year but did much better with Young. McClellan looked very good until, again, he couldn't compete with the stacked box. There was notable improvement from last season at many positions, but Milroe obscured it all.

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