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Flashback: The 2011 secondary Fab Five
Posted on 1/21/14 at 5:59 pm
Posted on 1/21/14 at 5:59 pm
Has there ever been a better group in the defensive backfield in Alabama history?
The 2011 secondary led the Crimson Tide to the nation's number one ranked pass defense, yielding only 111.5 yards per game, an amazing mark considering the modern era of football. They also led the nation in pass efficiency defense, yielding only an 83.69 mark, on average. The next best that season belonged to the South Carolina Gamecocks, at 94.22. They led the nation in pass yards per attempt defense at 4.3, next best being the Gamecocks at 4.9. They gave up only 6 passing scores, best in the nation. They allowed opposing QBs to complete only 49.1% of their passes, second in the country behind Nevada at 48.3.
The five DBs shown combined for 8 INTs and broke up a total of 37 passes. 45 total passes defended, opponents attempted a total of 334.
They combined to account for 202 total tackles, 15.5 of which came in the backfield, 2.5 of those were sacks.
They forced a combined 3 fumbles, and had 1 hurry on opposing QBs.
From left to right:
Robert Lester: Undrafted Free Agent, signed with the Carolina Panthers and saw action as an extra DB in Dime situations.
DeQuan Menzie: Fifth round draft pick by the Kansas City Chiefs
Dee Milliner: 1st round draft pick by the New York Jets
Dre Kirkpatrick: 1st round draft pick by the Cincinnati Bengals
Mark Barron: 1st round draft pick by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
The 2011 secondary led the Crimson Tide to the nation's number one ranked pass defense, yielding only 111.5 yards per game, an amazing mark considering the modern era of football. They also led the nation in pass efficiency defense, yielding only an 83.69 mark, on average. The next best that season belonged to the South Carolina Gamecocks, at 94.22. They led the nation in pass yards per attempt defense at 4.3, next best being the Gamecocks at 4.9. They gave up only 6 passing scores, best in the nation. They allowed opposing QBs to complete only 49.1% of their passes, second in the country behind Nevada at 48.3.
The five DBs shown combined for 8 INTs and broke up a total of 37 passes. 45 total passes defended, opponents attempted a total of 334.
They combined to account for 202 total tackles, 15.5 of which came in the backfield, 2.5 of those were sacks.
They forced a combined 3 fumbles, and had 1 hurry on opposing QBs.
From left to right:
Robert Lester: Undrafted Free Agent, signed with the Carolina Panthers and saw action as an extra DB in Dime situations.
DeQuan Menzie: Fifth round draft pick by the Kansas City Chiefs
Dee Milliner: 1st round draft pick by the New York Jets
Dre Kirkpatrick: 1st round draft pick by the Cincinnati Bengals
Mark Barron: 1st round draft pick by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Posted on 1/21/14 at 6:09 pm to AllBamaDoesIsWin
The 1992 Alabama defensive backfield was no joke either.
Antonio Langham
George Teague
Sam Shade
Chris Donnelly
There were quite a few interceptions between those four.
Antonio Langham
George Teague
Sam Shade
Chris Donnelly
There were quite a few interceptions between those four.
This post was edited on 1/21/14 at 6:10 pm
Posted on 1/21/14 at 6:12 pm to AllBamaDoesIsWin
They were pretty awesome, but we might have a better group in a couple years, which is crazy.
Posted on 1/21/14 at 7:26 pm to AllBamaDoesIsWin
DBU
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OLU
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All your U's in one.
LBU
OLU
RBU
All your U's in one.
Posted on 1/21/14 at 7:47 pm to RollTide1987
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The 1992 Alabama defensive backfield was no joke either.
:kige:
Posted on 1/21/14 at 7:51 pm to AllBamaDoesIsWin
Mark Barron is fricking enormous
Posted on 1/21/14 at 8:16 pm to tt54l32v
quote:Now you've done it. Hey everyone, wave at the lurking LSU fans.
DBU
Posted on 1/21/14 at 8:20 pm to TreyAnastasio
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Mark Barron is fricking enormous
Quite. It was a good sized secondary overall, but Barron brought the pain.
The LBs were so physically imposing too. Hightower 6'4" 270 (INSIDE LINEBACKER STANDING UP COMING DOWN HILL IT WAS SOMETHING CAPS LOCK BITCHES), Upshaw 6'1" 272, Nico 6'1" 248, Jerrell Harris 6'3" 245lbs.
Of course the DL was probably the best we've had against the run because Chapman was a beast, Jesse was on the same line as an End, so basically two nose tackles that are huge and strong as frick playing together with, between Square, Upshaw, Nico, and Hightower, basically four guys the size of defensive ends coming in on it too, plus Mark Barron like you talked about...
What a defense.
Posted on 1/21/14 at 9:18 pm to AllBamaDoesIsWin
The good ole days. Back when Bama didn't give up 30 and 40+ points in games and let freshman QBs shred their defense.
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