re: What is the new Alabama offense going to look like?

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The Athletic put out a good article recently. We had 2 TEs on 40% of plays last year. Washington just 20%. Since TE probably isnt going to be an overwhelming strength next year, that’ll be a change we see

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I’d argue we could have more receptions at TE despite only using one instead of two because of the number of passing plays we’re likely to run.

DeBoer wants to run a hybrid air raid system, how close we get to that depends on our QBs ability to process his reads and deliver downfield.

Our IOL and RB group should be as good as we’ve had since 2020, we need to block on the edges to give the deep route trees he runs time to develop, find a QB who can run the system and hope some WRs emerge who can challenge the safeties to spread the field for the run game and intermediate passing game we haven’t seen since BY got hurt against Arkansas in 2022.

He and Grubb were merciless in stretching teams vertically with his three WRs and horizontally with eye candy motion before the snap. Once the field was spread Penix could sit back and slash defenses with his arm along with a run game that was surprisingly effective for a team viewed as a pass first unit.