re: Why WASHINGTON can beat Alabama

This is exactly right. It was painfully obvious that Alabama's defense was not built to defend spread HUNH teams at that time. He had actually already been recruiting for the change for Signing Day 2014. The Hightower and DePreist type LBs and Mount Cody DL were no longer effective. He needed CJ Mosley, Reggie Ragland, and Reuben Foster type LBs and Jonathan Allen type DLs.

Alabama's defense is night and day from then from a personnel standpoint in the front 7. Sometimes the spread HUNH teams give them some problems, but it's an offense designed to give the defense problems. You're going to have that. Anyone who compares this defense to 2013 or 2014 is stupid.