Wednesday, August 13 Practices Updates

RTR91 said:

The team has its final two-a-days today. Also, ESPN's BusBlitz (Rece Davis and Danny Kannell) is at practice today.

SportsCenter will have some live look-ins today. Travis Reier tweeted some of what has already been shown:

Saban bringing the early love to 25 and 29 during "flex" on SportsCenter.
Shaun Dion Hamilton working with the 1s at Mike in nickel; Sims at QB and Drake at RB in hurry up on SportsCenter.

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I'm sure we will see some of that this year.

If only Coker or Sims could sail a ball right at Danny Kannell's head. He is so irritating.

I still wouldn't be surprised to see Blake more this year if he doesn't win the starting job run our offense when we want to speed things up. Honestly I wouldn't mind seeing it period and I hate 2-QB systems.

230kv_barehand said:

Honestly I wouldn't mind seeing it period and I hate 2-QB systems.

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Same here. Gotta have a clear leader IMO.

I think too many people are unfairly making too much of Sims in the spring game. I firmly believe he will be an asset to our offense this season at QB, maybe not as a starter, but I expect him to get plenty of PT in a change of pace role.

TommyMac said:

I think too many people are unfairly making too much of Sims in the spring game. I firmly believe he will be an asset to our offense this season at QB, maybe not as a starter, but I expect him to get plenty of PT in a change of pace role.

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I see no reason that Blake can't take this team to another national championship this year. None whatsoever. Nick Marshal was not a big threat with his arm last year and look how far they went with that awful defense. I am confident with whoever is behind center.

MOAN said:

I see no reason that Blake can't take this team to another national championship this year. None whatsoever. Nick Marshal was not a big threat with his arm last year and look how far they went with that awful defense. I am confident with whoever is behind center.

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And the barn lost in the BCSNCG

RollinTider1335 said:

And the barn lost in the BCSNCG

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But you get what he is saying. Barnie was destined to lose that game. The luck ran out, Bama isn't built like that.

TommyMac said:

I think too many people are unfairly making too much of Sims in the spring game. I firmly believe he will be an asset to our offense this season at QB, maybe not as a starter, but I expect him to get plenty of PT in a change of pace role.

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Maybe, but besides "reports" of much he had improved, that's all anybody really has to base their opinion on. I know CNS and others have said that they didn't do the things that highlight his skills, but he didn't look good doing what tradition QB does, which is throwing the ball. He looked pretty bad making pretty routine throws. Reading between the lines, that says to me that Blake's skillset is going include a lot of running. That doesn't mean we can't be successful with him, I just think the offense is going to vastly different that what we are used to when Blake is behind center.

I heard Butch Davis on the Finebaum show yesterday. Butch Davis is recently hired by ESPN. Anyway, he was at practice and watched Coker running the offense and he said he came away very impressed with Coker. Said he made a lot of great throws and showed off a big arm. Said Coker was working with the first offense. Sims will work with first offense next practice. They alternate days with the first offense.

BamaGreek said:

I heard Butch Davis on the Finebaum show yesterday. Butch Davis is recently hired by ESPN. Anyway, he was at practice and watched Coker running the offense and he said he came away very impressed with Coker. Said he made a lot of great throws and showed off a big arm. Said Coker was working with the first offense. Sims will work with first offense next practice. They alternate days with the first offense.

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RTR91 said:

Sims worked with the first team during the morning practice, and Coker worked with the first team during last night's practice.

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I hadn't seen your post in this thread about Butch Davis' comments but I had posted in the Jacob Coker Breakout thread about these updates and a few more ESPN observations.