re: Prospective 2 deep- reading tea leaves

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Sucks to lose a few key pieces but if there was one team in America who had talent stockpiled it is Bama

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That was really the point of this whole exercise. The reserves that were stockpiled have left in droves. the "not key pieces" are the ones that could really screw us. When the injury bug hits you aren't replacing a starter with a starter/second string level player anymore, you're replacing him with a third or fourth string level player or a true freshman. Guy like Kirkpatrick Jr and Red Morgan, bless them, had a most likely career path of a Kristian Story or Jake Pope. Depth guys that you have to have on a roster in the event of injuries to minimize dropoff. They're serviceable players by their junior season. We're staring down the possibility of guys like that having to play year one. I'm not picking on them specifically, but we haven't had 3 star freshmen defensive backs see much playing time in the last 2 decades