re: Did BAMA Overachieve This Season?

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At the onset of the season, wasn't there a consensus here and among the media that this was a rebuilding year of sorts for BAMA?

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The secondary, which was what ended up costing us the game, was why people thought that. Lost all 6 starters to the NFL; just no way to replace that in one season.

The LB corps didn't have the playmakers of recent past. Lost a couple of great ones there. Same at DE.

The thought was that the offense would make up for the defense's shortcomings, and most of the season they did. The problem is once you had an offense that could score as well as Clemson did, all it took was one or two bad offensive series to practically end the game.

The two picks especially; that's a 14-28 point swing depending if you think Alabama would have scored on those two drives. Coupled with red zone woes, and the offense basically killed the defense. The D had at least enough stops at the beginning of the game to give the offense the chance to take the lead. Once that didn't happen, it was game over.