re: Person on BOL posted this about Alabama's Strength of Schedule among contenders

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Some truth in this, but a lot of our problems in that game had to do with personnel on defense. If we had used Foster instead of Depreist and put Williams in, I think we could have come out better on a lot of those 3rd and longs. We didn't do a good job of fully using our talent advantage.

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Injuries to Collins and Ragland killed us in that game. Now I do think Kiffin's decision to go away from the run hurt us, as Henry was gashing them running behind Cam and Arie, but on one of those Elliott TD runs, SDH got sucked in too far.

Also, we caught hell trying to tackle Cardale. I don't think we were ready for his ability to run downfield. They were the better team (that day) for sure, but I don't think it was by a significant margin.