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I've got those gold colored glasses on this time of year too. You're right, though. We probably have the best overall receiving corps and the most accurate passers in the PJ era. I would like to see a passing game which is totally unpredictable. Throw it on any down except third and long...

Thanks for the excellent analysis!

I've often wondered how much success on the field changes things. IIRC, we had a so-so class after our national championship year. We like to think we are close to breaking out, but from an objective, outside perspective we have been in a rut of mediocrity for several seasons now. And yet, we...

Man! Seeing those names lights me up. We sure have had some good ones through the years. I'm not sure if there is a more important single defensive player in today's game than having at least one disruptive rush end.

Injuries and position changes no doubt were big factors. But I think this is perhaps the biggest.

Who was the defensive lineman who was one our biggest names a couple of years ago but Nick Saban came in and turned his head at the last minute? Has he played any for Bama yet?

Maybe the off season gold colored glasses, but I think between Whitehead, Stargell, and Freeman, someone will come through for us.

I didn't know exactly what that play was called nor everything going on in it. But it seemed to me every quarterback who touched the ball in our T game had great success with it. Maybe that says something about our DTs, I dunno. We ran it a lot but there always seemed to be a hole.

Well, just crap. Something else to worry about. I had no idea there were strings attached on Whitehead. Some combination of Whitehead and Freeman has simply got to come through. Otherwise we don't have a pass rush.

I like the slant. Not a fan of the fade, at least for us. I think the pass is much more difficult that it looks. If you have a super accurate passer, it can be a good call. But in our scheme where passing is somewhere down the list of quarterback attributes, it is a pretty risky play.

This snap count thing worries me. Roddy commented on it, saying something like "we tend to snap on the same count a lot and the defense is jumping the play." Some times when they did that the quickest lineman who ever lived could not have gotten in position to block in time. On the plus...

I was pleased to see the game easilty available on ESPN3. It was a very clean broadcast; the action was lifelike and not shaky as it sometimes is on internet broadcasts. Agree with the earlier poster on Roddy. He sounded smooth as any pro and his insights were great since he played in the...

Are the enough differences in the two DE spots such that we couldn't line Whitehead on one side and Freeman on the other?

Boomer has it exactly right as he so often does. If you look at his DC record and had never seen his early years with us, you would see a Mickey or Bud.

keep dreaming! That's what the off season is for. Two potent rushers would indeed change things up for the better.

Good stuff, Jerry! Thanks!

I read the comments before I read the story. I think the worry is premature. The quotes sounded like so much coachspeak to me, just the things coaches always say about young players.

Sidewalk, you may have heard this, but Freddie's mother, Mrs. Dr. Burden, Registrar at Southern, is battling cancer or something else very serious.

I would put it more weasely, but that pretty much sums up my thought. We talk up our many solid players when we beat a middle talent team. Then when we play a Miami, a Clemson, a Georgia we go into frenzy mode about how badly we were out athleted. The B back in our system is a key role. We...

I would love to see Paul Davis on the field as much as possible. Maybe I haven't seen enough of him to make a judgement but he seems to be always where the ball is. I don't know if it is instinct or vision, but he has that knack. Someone in another thread said he might make a good hybrid...