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I completely forgot about Belichick, LOL! No doubt, as much hype as he came in with and he and Lombardi claiming they were going to be the "33rd" NFL team, he better show great gains this season or he's probably canned.

I don't even want to think about that. LOL! I'm just glad he didn't turn us down.

I've seen this all over social media and apparently we're getting raked over the coals for it looking "sloppy". Honestly, I don't know what a football team picture is "supposed" to look like. But I think the bigger issue is DeBoer is going to get absolutely picked apart by the media, other fanbases and even his own fans, until he starts winning at a higher level than what he's done his first two years.

Before anyone starts going into all the reasons why things have gone the way they have, I get it and much of it I agree with. But the "why's" don't matter when you're Alabama and the outside football world had gotten used to Alabama being the gold standard of football but now they are not. Valid or not, the petty criticisms are going to keep coming until the winning shuts them up. That's how sports work.

The OL fully control the LOS

That's about right. The ranking reflects the talent the team does have but at the same time reflects the question marks as well. I think 11 is fair.

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- Fans/Media are all focused on the run game, and that has absolutely nothing to do with the success of the offense. It is and has always been the problem these first two years at Bama under CKD, and that’s the DOWNFIELD passing game. It’s been non-existent to the point they rarely tried it due to the personnel (Milroe averaged barely 20 passes per game total).

- The vertical/downfield passing game is what unlocks everything in this offense including the running game. CKD had the 2nd team all Big10 RB while at Indiana. When defenses hsve to account for an offense’s ability to stretch the field vertically at all times, then it forces 2-high/split Safety coverage and that gives the offense the numbers at the LOS to run the ball without having to strictly overpower teams like Georgia who are just as big and strong.

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I don't disagree with any of this. However, if the success of the entire offense is that dependent on one aspect of it working or not, then we're in trouble. An offense has to be able to "dribble left handed" when what they do best is taken away. It's what separates teams that compete for championships from teams that don't. Regardless of the passing concepts and alignments that go with it, a team who wants to compete for championships better be able to pivot and go to another weapon in their arsenal that allows them to still compete at a high level from game to game, opponent to opponent. Which plays into what seemingly has been lost at Alabama for several years (even in Saban's last few years) and that's the ability to just line up and physically win at the LOS. Each game is a life of it's own and in some games teams are going to take away the scheming and force us to beat them "man on man", "let's see who's the most physical team". Then in some games, the game is going to require outscheming the other team and not require "out physicaling" the other team.

We didn't run the ball well with them on the Oline.

Correct, but you could literally see with every possession Indiana making adjustments that progressively started opening up our defense that we had no answer for. Yes, the failed fourth down conversion busted the floodgates open, but Indiana was making successful adjustments before that happened.

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I guess.Bama understands that the Saban/Bear eras aren't business as usual, they aren't super special and 3/4 losses is not necessarily catastrophic or unexpected.

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You can tell those who are ignorant of history. History only remembers the titles Bear won. But go look at the seasons when he went 6-5 in back to back seasons. He didn't win the NC every season. There were great years, good years and bad years.

The non-Bama fan 40 years old and under tend to make some of the dumbest comments and opinions about the Alabama program and it is normally because they are completely ignorant of its history. But carry on...

It doesn't matter "then what happened". "Then what happened" doesn't negate THE FACT that 2025 was an objective, factual improvement from 2024. I expect you to keep squinting your eyes until you see what you want. But again, just because you keep saying the earth is flat, doesn't make it actually flat.

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frick no 2025 wasnt an improvement in the slightest. More enjoyable maybe.

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You have a learning disability. You can objectively prove 2025 was an improvement yet you're sitting here trying to tell everyone the earth is flat. You're embarrassing yourself.