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2 minutes ago, hookem2010 said:

Tightrope is for a high ankle sprain. In people who aren't semi-pro athletes, we used to keep them non-weightbearing for I think 6 weeks. I would think a 300+ lb DT would be out at least a month.

Definitely need to keep him out of the crossfire

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9 minutes ago, BHMCruiser said:

Life-long Alabama fan here: it’s over. Pretending otherwise is stupid. 

Yall will be fine.  Saban has been doing NIL the last 15+ years and now that everybody else can do it the competition is different. 

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1 hour ago, BurntEyes said:

This will all, some how, end up being Texas fault. I'm here for it!

Absolutely. We killed that monster. Same as we ended Nebraska in the 90’s and USC in the oughts. 
too bad we weren’t good enough in the 10’s to ends anyone’s reign of terror. 

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Now everyone saying DeBoer's success at UW was due to Mike Penix. To that end, needs to find someone more consistent than Jalen Milroe and now Ty Simpson, and fix that run defense.

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28 minutes ago, DigDug said:

I think a lot of people are underestimating how good Castellanos is and his effect on a defense.

This.  If he was wearing burnt orange on Saturday the outcome would have been better.  Oh shit what have I done

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2 hours ago, BurntEyes said:

This will all, some how, end up being Texas fault. I'm here for it!

The ags were actually right about something-- Texas really did ruin the SEC.

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Castellanos is so awesome that he was benched last year at BC. He is a baby when it comes to handling adversity. He pouts and quits. Wait until a team is containing him and forcing him to be a pocket passer and watch him lose his shit. 

The reality is that Alabama was absolutely owned in the trenches on Saturday and then they quit. It reminded me of what the best Bama teams under Saban did to many of their opponents. FSU just made Bama excited to get on the bus and go home. 

That OL is B-A-D and FSU's front was eating their lunch all day. Every time I looked up, FSU was in the Bama backfield. It was somewhat hilarious. FSU recorded 3 sacks and 7 TFLs but you could have told me they had 10 sacks and 20 TFLs and I would have believed you. They held Bama to 87 rushing yards.

Conversely, FSU ran for 230 yards, averaging 4.7 ypc. Castellanos spent most of the day free to do whatever he wanted. 

31-17 might as well have been 54-17 because it felt more like that watching that game. 

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Just now, closetojumping said:

Castellanos is so awesome that he was benched last year at BC. He is a baby when it comes to handling adversity. He pouts and quits. Wait until a team is containing him and forcing him to be a pocket passer and watch him lose his shit. 

The reality is that Alabama was absolutely owned in the trenches on Saturday and then they quit. It reminded me of what the best Bama teams under Saban did to many of their opponents. FSU just made Bama excited to get on the bus and go home. 

That OL is a B-A-D and FSU's front was eating their lunch all day. Every time I looked up, FSU was in the Bama backfield. It was somewhat hilarious. FSU recorded 3 sacks and 7 TFLs but you could have told me they had 10 sacks and 20 TFLs and I would have believed you. They held Bama to 87 rushing yards.

Conversely, FSU ran for 230 yards, averaging 4.7 ypc. Castellanos spent most of the day free to do whatever he wanted. 

31-17 might as well have been 54-17 because it felt more like that watching that game. 

I keep going back and forth thinking surely they are too talented to be this bad. Then I remember the Charlie Strong years. 

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Just now, Vertigo said:

I keep going back and forth thinking surely they are too talented to be this bad. Then I remember the Charlie Strong years. 

I don't disagree about thinking they're talented, as I have the same struggle. On paper, they have a lot of highly ranked players who, on the field, look like shit. I feel similarly about Deboer. The guy has won everywhere he's been. Why does he have 4 losses to unranked teams in his first 14 games at Bama? That's wild shit. Auburn was making up an affair scandal to get Harsin fired after his 4th loss to an unranked team and that didn't happen until his 25th game. 

We have discussed this, likely including earlier in this thread, but the last few classes that Saban signed, while as highly ranked as ever, weren't as well regarded off the Internet by guys I trust on evaluations. There was a halo effect, similarly to what was afforded to Mack Brown in the end at Texas. If Deboer's staff isn't excellent at development, and it's looking rough right now, then they've got a little bit of a doom loop going. 

I'm sure everyone is somewhat overreacting and they'll wind up 9-3 and pushing for the playoffs, but what I saw in the trenches and the footage folks are passing around on the quitting, those things are real. Bama has a brutal schedule ahead of them, so they'll need to turn things around quickly. 

at FSU (L)

ULM

Wiscy

BYE

at Georgia (L)

Vandy (? surely this is a W, right?)

at Mizzou (?)

Tennessee (?)

at SCar (L)

BYE

LSU (L)

OU (?)

FCS

at Auburn (?)

We can quibble about those 4 Ls coming to fruition, but we can also argue about the ?s as well, as those aren't sure Ws either. This shit has an outside shot of becoming hilarious. 

 

 

 

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2 minutes ago, Newy25 said:

I set the over/under at 5.5 games before Keelon Russell is the new starting QB. 

Im not sure Russell is going to be appreciably better in year 1 than Simpson. Sure he provides elusiveness and playmaking, but he will get put in a blender like Arch did last week against quality opponents. 

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7 minutes ago, markstanco said:

Some dude refers to himself as Legend?  🤡

His real name is Gary.  LOL

34 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

Castellanos is so awesome that he was benched last year at BC. He is a baby when it comes to handling adversity. He pouts and quits. Wait until a team is containing him and forcing him to be a pocket passer and watch him lose his shit. 

The reality is that Alabama was absolutely owned in the trenches on Saturday and then they quit. It reminded me of what the best Bama teams under Saban did to many of their opponents. FSU just made Bama excited to get on the bus and go home. 

That OL is B-A-D and FSU's front was eating their lunch all day. Every time I looked up, FSU was in the Bama backfield. It was somewhat hilarious. FSU recorded 3 sacks and 7 TFLs but you could have told me they had 10 sacks and 20 TFLs and I would have believed you. They held Bama to 87 rushing yards.

Conversely, FSU ran for 230 yards, averaging 4.7 ypc. Castellanos spent most of the day free to do whatever he wanted. 

31-17 might as well have been 54-17 because it felt more like that watching that game. 

This is what stood out to me immediately.  Simpson was running for his fucking life out there.  I couldn't believe how poorly their OL was playing.

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46 minutes ago, Vertigo said:

Im not sure Russell is going to be appreciably better in year 1 than Simpson. Sure he provides elusiveness and playmaking, but he will get put in a blender like Arch did last week against quality opponents. 


Comparing a third year player to a true freshman is interesting.  One, Alabama’s situation has nothing to do with Arch Manning. Arch is a college veteran who is just not as good as we thought. The reason I predict Russell starting at some point is he is significantly more talented than Ty Simpson and eventually that will win out. 

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