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2017 Fall Camp Thread (Practice Reports and Press Conference Updates)

It may be completely incorrect but I think the style of offense Lane ran vs what Daboll will run had a lot to do with the inconsistency of the OL. I think the more traditional road grader N/S approach will help with the players we have. Just a thought.


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BamaGreek said:
It baffles me with all these prized OL recruits we have that there isn't one that can take that RG spot and play Bama football.
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We talk about inconsistency on the line last year, and there WAS inconsistency, yet we still managed to have a 1,000 yard rusher, a 900 yard rusher, and 800 yard rusher, and a 500 yard rusher. That's pretty remarkable. If we improve even a LITTLE bit, we are going to hurt people.
 
We just need the right side to not be a liability. I don't expect every OL unit to be the 2012 group where there was practically no drop-off from left to right.
 
rgw said:
We just need the right side to not be a liability. I don't expect every OL unit to be the 2012 group where there was practically no drop-off from left to right.
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Agreed...that group was special...a former college football player & friend (who is not a Bama fan) said it was the best OL he had ever seen.

Somehow I think with the continuity this OL has a better than average chance to be special. A lot of OL work is TEAMWORK -- if you play together long enough you understand each other.
 
Padreruf said:
Agreed...that group was special...a former college football player & friend (who is not a Bama fan) said it was the best OL he had ever seen.

Somehow I think with the continuity this OL has a better than average chance to be special. A lot of OL work is TEAMWORK -- if you play together long enough you understand each other.
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That's what worries me about Saban's tendency to continuing experimenting along the line.


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Intl.Aperture said:
We talk about inconsistency on the line last year, and there WAS inconsistency, yet we still managed to have a 1,000 yard rusher, a 900 yard rusher, and 800 yard rusher, and a 500 yard rusher. That's pretty remarkable. If we improve even a LITTLE bit, we are going to hurt people.
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Agree and we are going to hurt people. We are going to be better at RG than we were last year and the OL as a whole will be better IMO. We are going to be scary good on offense this year and will break a bunch of records.
 
Intl.Aperture said:
We talk about inconsistency on the line last year, and there WAS inconsistency, yet we still managed to have a 1,000 yard rusher, a 900 yard rusher, and 800 yard rusher, and a 500 yard rusher. That's pretty remarkable. If we improve even a LITTLE bit, we are going to hurt people.
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Yeah you're right about that. That's what makes me think it's more about pass protect and blocking the right guy versus blocking the run. I don't know.
 
Tideflyer said:
That`s absolutely terrific news IMO. The rotation can only be helped, even if he doesn`t start. Looks like lots of meaningful snaps for Raekwon this year.
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I think this year it could be more about the rotation, like it was in 2015, where we had a ton of DL who all took meaningful snaps, versus 2016 where our rotation was a bit more limited. In 15 we would sometimes sub out the entire DL and there wasn't a huge dropoff. I'm optimistic we could have depth close to that again.
 
Just watched the press conference from Thursday. CNS sounded more like Coach Bryant in his responses than I have ever heard him. His concern for team and then the individual person was extremely evident (more than usual). Glad he is the coach.
 
I get the feeling we're gonna move Minkah around a bunch this season. Could go down as one of the best all-around DBs we've had here with a great season.
 
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