re: Will A&M throw a new defense at Alabama this weekend?

There are definitely going to be some different looks and a lot of different players. A&M has basically used the last 2 games as scrimmages on D to figure out who could earn PT. Just a huge amount of young guys and other guys that haven't played.

The biggest addition talent wise coming back are Jenkins at LB (he is our best and most experience LB) and Harris at CB (who is also a starter). We have some other rotation guys, the biggest one is Stansbury on the DL. You also have guys like Ennis, Obioha, and Hall that have played sparingly.

The biggest "Oh ****!" for A&M right now is Floyd Raven (starting Safety who missed Rice) broke his collarbone on the first series against Sam and he is done for the year. Our Safety depth sucks and it is easily our biggest weakness right now. Two of Sam's long TD's are attributed to our Safety blowing his assignment, another was our backup CB doing the same (that will be fine though). May have to shift a CB to Safety. We have some good coverage DB's but a limited amount of real headhunters. If Bama can find a way to take advantage of that and get to the 2nd level they will get some points for sure.

I do know for sure though that A&M has a LOT offensively they haven't shown. They played about as vanilla as possible the last 2 games on O and never even played at a true HUNH pace like they can. Johnny has played less than 5 full quarters and hasn't run much. Cam Clear has yet to get a catch. RSJ will be back after missing Sam.

Of course Saban is going to be loaded with surprises as well. Honestly I think he tries to beat A&M with the pass on the play action more than the run to get those Safeties to bite.