BOL Round Table

I think it is a circular argument here. Is our secondary weak because the lack of pass rush, or is our pass rush weak because our secondary has a tough time covering receivers? I think it is a little bit of both. In the LSU game, I can't tell you how many times our D-Linemen were in Mettenberger's face, but every single time he released the ball so fast that we weren't able to get there in time. Other plays we just couldn't cover. Sometimes they were asked to cover guys for a longer time than they should, but a lot of plays they were about 10 yards off the receiver. This has happened in every game since then.

Guys really most of the over all athleticism on the team is in the sophomore and freshman classes. Remember Saban saying in the preseason "We may get beaten but it won't be because of our minds not being right"

To me that smells of "this is an experienced starting group but not world beaters"

Of course most teams in America and even our own conference would kill to have the talent we have.

Belue is better than your rating. I think he's done a good job in his first year at Bama. He's improving with every game.

I think Lester is having an off-year, myself. His coverage has been very loose, in my view.

This'll be unpopular, but I think DePriest is a tremendous drop-off from Hightower and has been a liability for us this year - certainly against Georgia.