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This has got to be a joke. Yeldon lost 4 fumbles in 2013. So did Tre Mason. Jeremy Hill is an outlier with 1 fumble lost, but other SEC running backs are comparable; Alex Collins for Arkansas and Mike Davis for South Carolina lost 3. We were spoiled with Trent and Mark, who never fumbled. I wish TJ fumbled less, but it's not bad enough for me to criticize him about it. Anyone who thinks that a 6 YPC back with 2 1,000 yard seasons after 2 years should be benched is an idiot who I have no respect for, because they do not respect the people who put on the jersey every Saturday for our university.

There are plenty of Alabama players from the mid-2000s who have had solid NFL careers for a long time, including Charlie Peprah, Roman Harper, Mark Anderson, and Wallace Gilberry. Because of this, I think we'd have a lot of depth on defense. My roster would look something like this:


QB: McCarron
RB: Lacy, Richardson, Alexander, Yeldon, Ingram
WR: Julio Jones, Amari Cooper, Tyrone Prothro
TE: Michael Williams, OJ Howard
LT: Andre Smith, Cyrus Kouandjio, James Carpenter
LG: Chance Warmack
C: Antoine Caldwell
RG: Barrett Jones
RT: DJ Fluker, Mike Johnson

DE: Marcel Dareus, Jesse Williams, Mark Anderson, Wallace Gilberry,
DT: Terrence Cody, Josh Chapman
LB: Courtney Upshaw, DeMeco Ryans, Dont'a Hightower, CJ Mosley, Rolando McClain, Nico Johnson
CB: Dee Milliner, Dre Kirkpatrick, Javier Arenas
S: Mark Barron, Charlie Peprah, Roman Harper, HaHa Clinton-Dix, Landon Collins, Rashad Johnson

24 guys are 1st-team All-Americans or 1st round draft picks (assuming HaHa and CyKo go in the first round this year)

South Carolina's 35-7 win over Georgia was a lot more impressive than Texas A&M's 29-24 win over Alabama. As anyone who watched the SEC championship last year can attest, Alabama and Georgia were pretty equal. A&M played Florida a lot closer, but the SC game against Florida was such an aberration that it's hard to compare. How many times does a team score 44 points while racking up 180 yards of total offense? SC also beat a good Clemson team, while A&M is too busy whining about Texas to preserve their own historic in-state rivalry.

Also, we're a better road team than home team. Aggie fans, beating us at Kyle Field would be a bigger accomplishment than beating us in Bryant-Denny.

At first I didn't want to play A&M without Manziel, since we wouldn't be beating them at full strength. But now that I think about it a little more, A&M losing because of Manziel not playing just further underscores the superiority of the entire philosophy of our football program. Alabama would never be caught in a position where losing one player wrecked an entire season, and we would never let a player's fame get out of hand like Manziel's has.

I saw an idea the other day about adopting a pod-style schedule like the Big Sky has. In this schedule, there would be no divisions. Each team would have 2 permanent rivals and cycle through the rest of the conference in 4 years, playing every other team either 2 or 3 times. Would y'all like or dislike this? I would easily prefer this to playing teams from the east only once every six years.