What was Alabama's best offensive line ever? 2012 with Kouandjio, Warmack, Jones, Steen and Fluker?
What was Alabama's best offensive line ever? 2012?
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Some were calling that the best OL ever. I'll say this, that group provided holes a Mack truck could've driven through and could move a pile. I still have an image of DJ Fluker getting upset with the OL on one particular play in the SEC Championship game. It was like a light bulb came on and everybody on that line got in sync. I think we started rolling up yardage after that. The running game could not be stopped after that.
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Can't argue against the 2012 bunch...but that 71 line could move some bodies around....unless those bodies were from Nebraska
It is interesting most of the players on the 2012 line never caught on in the NFL. It is the testamemt of a group which the whole was much greater than the sum of its parts.
As a unit, probably the best in the time I`ve been watching Alabama football ( since `58 ). If John Hannah and Dwight Stephenson, who I would submit are the two best individual O linemen to play at UA, had played on the same line, might be different.
This may be an unpopular opinion but that 2012 group went up against probably the weakest team that has ever appeared in a NC game. They were a really good unit but I'm not sure about all time great based on the level of competition in the highest profile game..
Hannah and Stephenson may have been the best guard and center to ever play the game...for any team.
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ND wasn't a great team, despite their record and hype leading into the game. But that doesn't make the 2012 OL any less great. Ask Georgia in the SECCG. In the second half of that game, everybody in the stadium knew we were going to run, and our backs were getting 5-7 yards downfield before being touched. We could have told them the play, and they still couldn't have stopped it.
And I've always felt that an undefeated season slipped away against aTm and Johnny Football when Nussmeier had a brain freeze after we had first and goal inside the five to take the lead in the last minute or two. He got cute on calling passes when he should have challenged them to prove they were the greatest of all time and run the dang ball 4 times. No way that aTm D could have stopped that OL 4 straight times. Plus, we would have either run the clock down to nothing or forced aTm to burn all their time-outs. As it was, we didn't hit a couple of fade routes, got behind the sticks, then had to pass. Ifs and buts.....
But back to the point, I don't see where the fact that Notre Dame wasn't as strong as their record detracts from the greatness of the 2012 group.
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That o-line was responsible for two championships, and they beat a lot of great defenses during that span.
I've wondered about that, but how much of it was Alabama being so dominant that made Notre Dame look so bad?
Read an article that suggested that Alabama wanted to move Williams to center this year and he did not want to move. Looking at the possible o-line with him at center - his selfish decision there could really have hurt you. I get his decision ($$$), but I wonder if you might have been much better at running the ball with him in the middle.
There was talk last year after the Georgia game that Jonah was moving to center with Leatherwood and Wills each at tackle and Womack at RG. Possible Jonah's decision mattered, but Deonte Brown's injury also played a role in the OL's play, too.
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