Josh with College Football Nerds just made a statement about Alabamas OL/DL

We gotten worse every year since 2020. Basically since Cochran left we’ve gotten worse on the LOS every year and overall softer as a team every year

This is more a David Ballou problem than a Kalen DeBoer problem IMO

The 2026 season will tell the tale on Kalen. Problem is we have to wait 9 months to learn the deal.

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We had no QB.

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Julian Sayin, Ty Simpson, Jalen Milroe ain’t enough?

This year's complete inability to run the ball is just the nadir of a trend that started when Young was still the QB. The last couple of years we've had Milroe to manufacture rushing yards when the RBs couldn't. This year we didn't.

Kayden Proctor and Jaeden Roberts will never be Andre Smith and Mike Johnson. Those two dudes were monsters and had long successful NFL careers. It’s not a physical make up problem it’s more f an attitude and meanness issue to me. The biggest impact Landon Dickerson had n our OL is he absolutely changed the culture of that OL. He was just that guy. We don’t ah e anyone who can push these players from a peer standpoint.

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I will add that coaches simply can’t coach players anymore. They cry and transfer. It can be hard to get a lot out of guys under such circumstances.

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There's a fine line between HS recruiting and portaling when it comes to building a roster now, but that's what Courtney Morgan gets paid to do.

If a guy is going into his Junior year and he's not a full time starter, you can guess with about an 80% certainty that he's going to transfer.

Lottie Brooks, Ryan Williams, Dijon Lee...guys like that aren't a flight risk. I think it's as important as ever now to make sure your best players are playing, regardless of age. That's going to make "dynasties" impossible. I think pretty much from here going forward until things change, everything is going to have to come together perfectly for a team to win it, and then you'll see them take a dip the next season.

It sucks, because a kid like Keeley who is finally learning to play football is going to be a great player for someone- after Bama spent 3 years getting his body right and teaching him technique.

When those guys leave..that you haven't relied on heavily yet but you are counting on relying heavily on going forward, it's imperative they're replaced with equal or better talent- and it has to be a turn key operation. Losing Keeley means we need to sign the kid from USC. We don't have a ready made replacement for Overton.

When you look at a HS recruiting class now, you can pretty much bank on 1 kid from each position finishing his career at Bama.

I could take our incoming class right now and predict 15 transfers and would bet good money i'd get 7 or 8 of them right. That's the sport now

Cignetti isn't buying you can't coach players anymore. His roster is revealing. Have to be careful.

The Cochran glaze is insane. When we had Scott Cochran we got our arses whipped by hurry up offenses

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The Cochran glaze is insane. When we had Scott Cochran we got our arses whipped by hurry up offenses

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Where did he glaze? He made a correct observation. It isn't like he is begging for Cochran like these guys begging for Cignetti as if he is better than Saban.

We don't need Cochran we need a better S&C program and that isn't what we have gotten from Ballou

That 2008 offensive line that was so dominant on the line of scrimmage featured Antoine Caldwell, Andre Smith, and Mike Johnson. We also had two very talented backs in Glen Coffee and Mark Ingram II running behind them. While we don't go undefeated in the regular season in 2008 or win the national title in 2009 without the players Saban recruited, there was a solid core of players left behind that Shula recruited to the Capstone. They just needed discipline and coaching.