re: What is your opinion now of this Alabama team?

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When has Alabama had a deep threat under Saban? Don't say Julio Jones either.

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Again. We don't need a Big 12 style deep ball game, but we need our QB to be accurate enough when we do throw the 2 or 3 deep balls a game to keep defenses guessing. If the OL keeps gelling our run game will be fine, but imagine how much better it could be with a respected deep ball game.

Football is a numbers game. You want a ground game good enough that your receivers are not getting doubled and a pass game good enough that your HB's are not facing 8 in the box. When you can do both, you can exploit mismatches.