What was Alabama's best offensive line ever? 2012 with Kouandjio, Warmack, Jones, Steen and Fluker?
John Hannah says hello!Can't argue against the 2012 bunch...but that 71 line could move some bodies around....unless those bodies were from Nebraska
Hannah and Stephenson may have been the best guard and center to ever play the game...for any team.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.
I would certainly think that they would be in the running.Hannah and Stephenson may have been the best guard and center to ever play the game...for any team.
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.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..
That o-line was responsible for two championships, and they beat a lot of great defenses during that span.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..
I've wondered about that, but how much of it was Alabama being so dominant that made Notre Dame look so bad?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..
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.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.