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Senior reporter for Alabama football via @TDAlabamamag | UA alum | Fred Biletnikoff voter| Host of "In My Own Words"| @InMyOwnWordsTDA

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8 months
The final SEC Championship team of the Nick Saban era. I feel so blessed to have covered this group in 2023.
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Alabama leaves the most impressive resume on the CFP Committee’s desk: -Four wins against CFP Top 25 teams. -Three of those wins coming via double-digits against LSU, Ole Miss, and Tennessee -Beat the No. 1 team in the nation. -End a 29-game winning streak
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For Nick Saban to lose Bryce Young and Will Anderson and hire two coordinators that some thought were not fit for Alabama and he wins the SEC Championship shows one thing: Saban still runs college football.
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5 years
Devonta Smith has more catches (60) and receiving yards (1,120) than Ceedee Lamb of OU (46-999) He also has more touchdown catches than Michael Pittman Jr. of USC (13-11), but he is not a finalist for the Biletnikoff Award. Absolutely crazy.
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Jalen Milroe’s message to the CFP Committee: “Was Georgia the No. 1 team? We just beat them, so what does that make us.” He ended the statement “LANK.”
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5 years
Former Alabama players in the Pro Bowl RB Mark Ingram - Ravens CB Marlon Humphrey - Ravens S Minkah Fitzpatrick - Steelers S Eddie Jackson - Bears WR Julio Jones - Falcons RB Derrick Henry - Titans LB Dont'a Hightower - Patriots
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4 years
DeVonta Smith's trophy case for 2020 SEC Offensive Player of the Year AP Player of the Year CBS Sports Player of the Year Sporting News Player of the Year Walter Camp Player of the Year Maxwell Player of the Year Biletnikoff Award Heisman Trophy It pays to listen to Nick Saban
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9 months
Alabama is about to bury opponents in the CFP with Will Reichard not getting the Groza, Dallas Turner not getting the Bednarik Award, and no Tide player on the Walter Camp All-American Team. LANK on full display now.
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6 years
Dont’a Hightower is the perfect reason why you choose Alabama. 3 Super Bowl rings 2 BCS national title rings 1 SEC Championship ring Dude is blinged out. #BuiltByBama #SuperBowl
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7 months
Kalen DeBoer kept nearly everyone in Alabama’s 2024 class except: -Julian Sayin (5-star QB) -Jameer Grimsley (4-star ATH) Very impressive work from DeBoer and his staff.
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6 years
Damien Harris, the ambassador for Alabama football, speaks on Tua Tagovailoa and what this program shoots for under Saban.
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5 years
Once again, Alabama lost to this LSU team by 5 points and Tua Tagovailoa was not 100 percent.
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3 years
The Alabama football reunions in the NFL based on this draft: - Dolphins: Jaylen Waddle/Tua Tagovailoa -Broncos: Patrick Surtain II/Jerry Jeudy -Eagles: DeVonta Smith/Jalen Hurts -Patriots: Damien Harris/Mac Jones
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9 months
Alabama QB Jalen Milroe is the SEC Championship Game MVP. He quotes former Alabama QB Jalen Hurts by saying “we had a purpose before anyone had an opinion.”
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3 years
How special was Alabama's 2015 national championship team? The top four seeds in the initial CFP rankings all have head coaches from that team. 1. Georgia - Kirby Smart 2. Alabama - Nick Saban 3. Michigan State - Mel Tucker 4. Oregon - Mario Cristobal CFB is a league of Saban.
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9 months
Nick Saban’s decision to bench Jalen Hurts for Tua Tagovailoa in the 2018 CFP National Championship Game was legendary, but his decision to bench Jalen Milroe for Tyler Buchner for USF made Milroe better and has Alabama in the CFP. Saban continues to enhance his coaching job.
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3 years
Will Anderson receiving the Shaun Alexander National Freshman of the Year award. He is the first freshman in Alabama football history to win it.
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4 years
On this date in 2007, Nick Saban became the head coach of the University of Alabama football program. For 14 years, he has won seven SEC Championships, five national championships & has made the Crimson Tide the most respected program in college football. Happy Nick Saban Day.
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5 years
Derrick Henry was better than Leonard Fournette in high school, college and now the NFL. Poor guy from LSU cannot catch a break.
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3 years
After JK Scott never won the Ray Guy Award in four years, Alabama fans have not taken the College Football Awards seriously.
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4 years
So proud of DeVonta Smith... Well deserved, but how did Mac Jones end up in third place. Can someone explain that?
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3 years
Four of Alabama's six national titles under Nick Saban came in years where the team had one loss. 2011 - Loss to LSU 2012 - Loss to Texas A&M 2015 - Loss to Ole Miss 2017 - Loss to Auburn It is difficult to go undefeated. Sometimes a loss is needed to reevaluate things.
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3 years
Amari Cooper and Trevon Diggs are on the Alabama sideline at the Goodyear Cotton Bowl.
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2 years
Nick Saban explains why the 19th home for Habitat for Humanity was built, despite Alabama football not winning a national title. “Miss Terry changed the rules on me. We won a SEC Championship and beat the team that won the natty, so she said that’s good enough to build a home.”
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3 years
The 18th home that Nick Saban, Terry Saban, and Alabama football has provided a family in Habitat for Humanity in Tuscaloosa. @TDAlabamaMag
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2 years
Alabama QB Bryce Young on his decision to play in the Sugar Bowl: “It was not too hard of a choice. I wanted to play with my guys.”
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3 years
Former Alabama players to compete in the Super Bowl: Jonah Williams (Bengals) Damion Square (Bengals) A’Shawn Robinson (Rams) Terrell Lewis (Rams) All played under Nick Saban and won at least one national championship.
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4 years
This is why Landon Dickerson will go down as one of the best (if not the best center) of the Nick Saban era. Dude loves his boys.
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5 months
I grew up a diehard Alabama men’s basketball fan. The team that made me fall in love with the sport was the 03-04 Elite Eight group with Antoine Pettway. Nate Oats has this team in the Final Four. Greg Byrne, if you can hear me, build the arena now!
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5 years
Damien Harris will forever remembered as the player who brought “Dixieland Delight” back. I’m telling you, he will be Alabama’s AD some day.
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3 years
He rescued Alabama football to a CFP National Championship as a freshman in 2017, but Tua Tagovailoa accomplished something bigger over the weekend. He is officially a college graduate.
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3 years
Jordan Battle shouts out Alabama's team chaplain, Jeremiah Castille, for his message on being of one mind before the SEC Championship. Castille is a former Crimson Tide standout.
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Stephen M. Smith
6 years
Former Alabama players on the Washington Redskins Jonathan Allen Ryan Anderson Shaun Dion Hamilton Da’Ron Payne Reuben Foster Ha Ha Clinton-Dix Cam Sims ArDarius Stewart Arie Kouandijo
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6 years
The loss to Clemson relit the competitive fire under Nick Saban. College football is about to be put on notice next fall. We are about to witness the rebirth of Saban.
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6 years
This weekend Alabama QB Jalen Hurts will march with his undergraduate degree. An amazing journey, an amazing story and one determined young man. Nothing but the utmost respect for Hurts.
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9 months
The real MVP behind Alabama’s season is here … Terry Saban. @TDAlabamaMag
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5 years
Most championships in sports since 2009 Alabama football (CFB) = 5 New England Patriots (NFL) = 3 Golden State Warriors (NBA) = 3 Duke, UNC & Villanova (CBB) = 2 each San Francisco Giants (MLB) = 3 Whether you choose to count 2009 or not, #Alabama definitely owned the decade.
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3 years
People wanted the BCS over because two SEC teams played in the national title game. Now, we have a rematch between Alabama and Georgia in the CFP National Championship Game. Sometimes, you can’t stop the best programs from the biggest stage in college football.
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2 years
Alabama fans, who was the better quarterback wearing No. 10? Retweet for AJ McCarron Like for Mac Jones We are 10 days until Crimson Tide football.
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9 months
Alabama football players graduating this weekend: -Jalen Milroe -Justin Eboigbe -Will Reichard -Tim Smith -Kristian Story -Trezmen Marshall -Jah-Marien Latham -Kool-Aid McKinstry -Seth McLaughlin -James Brockermeyer -Kneeland Hibbett -Kyle Flood Jr. -Thaiu Jones-Bell
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2 years
Jalen Hurts ended a 40-year drought for former Alabama quarterbacks last night. He became the first Crimson Tide alum since Richard Todd (1982) to win an NFL playoff game as a starting quarterback. Todd led the New York Jets to a 17-14 win over the L.A. Raiders in 1982.
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Alabama DL Damon Payne on why he did not choose to transfer when Nick Saban retired: “When I signed them papers, I knew I wanted to be crimson forever. I want it to stay that way.” @TDAlabamaMag
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4 years
Jaylen Waddle making the trip with Alabama. No limp in his walk.
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Stephen M. Smith
3 years
Merry Christmas to all my Twitter supporters. I must say I thoroughly enjoyed providing you Alabama football coverage this year. Hopefully, you guys enjoyed me doing it.
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11 months
Alabama has looked like old ‘BAMA in the second half. Tough, gritty, physical, mean. This is what was needed. I don’t know what was said at halftime, but Saban needs to use it for the rest of the year.
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6 years
Eyabi Anoma is not going anywhere. “I made a promise and I’m sticking to it. There is a process at Alabama and after seeing what has happened to others that stuck to it, I’m just trying to help the team.”
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Stephen M. Smith
4 years
Nick Saban now has placed 32 student-athletes from Alabama in the first-round of the #NFLDraft
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Stephen M. Smith
3 years
The stigma that Alabama quarterbacks do not work in the National Football League ends this season with Jalen Hurts, Tua Tagovailoa, and Mac Jones. All three are hungry dogs. Criticism fuels them.
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Stephen M. Smith
4 years
Alabama football players graduating on Saturday: Mac Jones (masters) Dylan Moses Najee Harris Christopher Allen Phidarian Mathis LaBryan Ray Brian Robinson Jr. Slade Bolden Hunter Brannon Kendall Randolph Major Tennison Congrats to these young men on earning their degrees.
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8 months
Alabama fans would love for DeMeco Ryans to get the first phone call after Nick Saban retires. Crimson Tide nation is proud of what the former Alabama LB accomplished for the Houston Texans as a rookie head coach. @TDAlabamaMag
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Stephen M. Smith
2 years
Alabama football with six players entering the transfer portal this month: -RB Trey Sanders -CB Khyree Jackson -OL Damieon George Jr. -WR Christian Leary -OL Tanner Bowles -WR Traeshon Holden
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3 years
Alabama LB Will Anderson has won the Bronko Nagurski Trophy, which goes to college football’s top defensive player from the Football Writers Association of America. He joins Jonathan Allen (2016) as the second Crimson Tide player to win it.
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Alabama RB Justice Haynes talks about the energy that he and Jam Miller bounce off each other: “Jam, that’s my dawg. We talk about being that 1-2 punch all the time. We talk about being deadly and doing special things here. It’s time for us to take over.” @TDAlabamaMag
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8 months
I am now beyond speechless. The greatest to ever coach and an unbelievable man I got a chance to cover is retiring … Nick Saban, thank you!
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8 months
Jalen Hurts is truly Jalen Milroe’s biggest inspiration. This is Hurts’ favorite Bible verse.
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Jesus replied, “You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand” - John 13:7
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2 years
Marquee transfers #Alabama has pulled in since 2019: Landon Dickerson Jameson Williams Henry To'oto'o Jermaine Burton Jahmyr Gibbs Eli Ricks Tyler Steen Nick Saban tried to warn college football, but people are so hard-headed.
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4 years
It is an absolute travesty that Will Reichard did not make an All-SEC Team. The job he did has been overlooked by the SEC. Reichard was PERFECT on field goals (12-for-12) and PAT's (73-for-73).
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6 years
Jerry Jeudy is now the fourth 1,000-yard receiver of the Nick Saban era at Alabama, joining Calvin Ridley, Amari Cooper and Julio Jones.
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3 years
Alabama fans, think about this stat for a moment: Will Anderson & Dallas Turner = 26 sacks in 2021 Ryan Anderson & Tim Williams = 18 sacks in 2016 Anderson & Williams = 16.5 sacks in 2015 John Copeland & Eric Curry = 21 sacks in 1992 Anderson and Turner are a special duo.
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Stephen M. Smith
6 years
Alabama DBs in work for Orange Bowl. Quite a few receivers wearing No. 5. Crimson Tide not wanting Marquise “Hollywood” Brown getting nothing.
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Alabama redshirt freshman WR Cole Adams has earned a nickname heading into his second season: “He’s Mr. Reliable,” Alabama WRs coach JaMarcus Shephard on Adams. @TDAlabamaMag @TouchdownETP
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4 years
Alabama running backs in NFL The group of Damien Harris, Kenyan Drake, Derrick Henry and Josh Jacobs all have rushed for over 100 yards today.
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4 years
According to sources, I have been informed that Christopher Allen is expected to forgo the NFL Draft and return to school for his senior year at Alabama. He was huge in 2020 at OLB with 13 TFLs and six sacks. Allen was named second-team All-SEC for his efforts.
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5 years
Former Alabama players in the 2019 NFL playoffs AFC: Derrick Henry, Rashaan Evans, Mark Ingram, Marlon Humphrey, Anthony Averett, Levi Wallace, AJ McCarron, Dont'a Hightower, Reggie Ragland NFC: Jarran Reed, JK Scott #BuiltByBama
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4 years
From one plane to an airport, yours truly has arrived in Dallas to cover Alabama-Notre Dame for the Rose Bowl.
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7 months
Alabama’s new general manager has a new profile photo. Courtney Morgan is representing the Crimson Tide.
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5 years
Nick Saban gave probably his most stirring, heartfelt press conference in a long time. Tua Tagovailoa is certainly not the average player. He really affected Saban in a positive way. He's one of four to five players that caught his heart
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Alabama WR Kendrick Law confirms that 4-star freshman Caleb Odom no longer a TE. “Caleb is a wide receiver. He is elite, he is the biggest receiver we have - height wise — and he is aggressive.” Law’s NFL comparison for Odom: George Pickens. Wow! @TDAlabamaMag
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3 years
Travarius Robinson is officially a member of the Alabama football family.
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Stephen M. Smith
3 years
Alabama fans, your favorite football reporter is on the plane from Denver to Dallas (Texas). Here we go!
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4 years
Let’s get it, Jalen Hurts. #NFLCombine2020
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3 years
Nick Saban and Bill O'Brien both said they have seen 'a lot of improvement' from Alabama true freshman wide receiver Agiye Hall in Cotton Bowl prep for Cincinnati. What could this mean? Friday will be interesting.
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Stephen M. Smith
4 years
Well, it looks like the following players will be back at Alabama for next season: Chris Owens Phidarian Mathis Christopher Allen Josh Jobe Brian Robinson Jr. LaBryan Ray
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Stephen M. Smith
2 years
Alabama would have given Georgia a way more competitive game. TCU getting destroyed like this says one thing: the CFP Committee really does not watch much football. Do they? There is no way with this performance the Horned Frogs are unequivocally better than a 2-loss Alabama.
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Stephen M. Smith
3 years
According to Bryce Young and Will Anderson, 5-star true freshman QB Ty Simpson is already making an impact during Cotton Bowl prep for Alabama
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3 years
Spring practice for Alabama football starts this Friday.
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3 years
Will Anderson is the 12th Unaninmous All-American defender for #Bama under Nick Saban. Rolando McClain, Mark Barron, Dee Milliner, C.J. Mosley, Landon Collins, Reggie Ragland, Jonathan Allen, Reuben Foster, Minkah Fitzpatrick, Quinnen Williams, & Patrick Surtain were before him.
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Alabama CB Jahlil Hurley on why he did not leave the Crimson Tide after Nick Saban retired: “I’m a Bama kid, of course. Then there were guys like DeVonta Smith, Malachi Moore, and Milroe that could have left, but they didn’t. So, why would I leave.” @TDAlabamaMag
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3 years
Despite not winning a national championship, Alabama's defense finished with 57 sacks in 2021 -- the most of the Nick Saban era. The previous high was 54 in 2016. That defense was the most entertaining under Saban. Will Anderson led everyone with 17.5 sacks last year.
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6 years
Alabama would be on a verge of a three-peat this year, if Eddie Jackson would have not gotten hurt versus Texas A&M In 2016. Tide would have beaten Clemson.
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5 years
Two reasons why Tua Tagovailoa deserves the Heisman Trophy. 1. He has four 1,000-yard career receivers on the roster right now. 2. He has changed the culture of Alabama football, to where it has become more offensive (pass happy) minded. No too many QB’s can say that.
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He was Alabama’s first 1,000-yard RB of the Nick Saban era and now he’s coaching the position. 👀 At Glenn Coffee.
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3 years
Alabama produces nothing but record setters in the NFL: Mac Jones DeVonta Smith Jaylen Waddle Najee Harris Derrick Henry Trevon Diggs These guys are eating through records like Cap’n Crunch cereal.
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4 years
This is giving me chills and with Nick Saban’s voice in the background... perfection. The video that will play inside the tunnel of the Walk of Champions for Alabama players and recruits.
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Stephen M. Smith
3 years
The awards for Will Anderson from Alabama's banquet: Defensive Player of the Year Outstanding Defensive Performer Most Inspiring Player Permanent Team Captain The "Terminator" has cemented himself in the hearts of Crimson Tide fans everywhere.
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Alabama DC Kane Wommack is not one for “stagnant, space-eating defensive linemen.” He wants to create pressure and force turnovers every chance he gets. “We are going to create movement. We are going to get our best pass rushers on their weakest link.” @TDAlabamaMag
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5 years
After a masterful freshman year, the cheetah is back. Jaylen Waddle time.
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Alabama WRs Coach JaMarcus Shephard on why he’s impressed with Emmanuel Henderson this spring: “That boy can run. The ability to drop his weight and get in and out of breaks has immensely improved. He has been everything I’ve wanted him to be.” @TDAlabamaMag
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2 years
With Alabama missing the College Football Playoff, expect staff changes to be made soon?
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4 years
Alabama running backs still running the NFL Derrick Henry [TEN] - 18 carries, 112 yards, 1 TD Josh Jacobs [LV] - 31 carries, 128 yards Damien Harris [NE] - 16 carries, 102 yards, 1 TD #BuiltByBama
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Stephen M. Smith
3 years
If Jameson Williams is not the SEC's Special Teams Player of the Week on Monday, I am calling the front office in Birmingham. He becomes the first player in Alabama football history to return two kickoffs for touchdowns in the same game.
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