I agree with this but, as always, that O-line of ours is not going to do us any favors. ARK is BIG on both lines. I think we can contain Kody Walker (new #1 RB) better than we would have Williams, but Walker still got 700+ yards last year as 3rd stringer, so he has the ability to be just as good.
Where we're going to beat them (hopefully) is with our speed on both sides of the ball. If we can keep Williams from large yardages runs, then we force Brandon Allen to throw. And if we do that, then our secondary is the difference in the game.
No worries! She doesn't mind the name and I don't mind it for her. She is...erm...excitable and passionate and she by God loves her team. And let me tell you--being on hold while Tammy is ranting on the show makes you sit there and say over and over "Please not me next...please not me next...please..."
I don't think 9-3 is out of the question. Bama is always loaded and deep with talent, but with the QB situation still up in the air and Amari Cooper gone they're more vulnerable this year than in a long time. Coker has totally blown his shot to start at Bama--I think Jimbo Fisher is still laughing at the fast one he pulled on Saban--and no one has stepped up to the front. Barnett is probably the most talented QB, but ideally they'd want to redshirt him. The frontrunner right now is probably Cornwell, but he's not going to be half as good as Sims was. So I think their offense is going to struggle.
Defensively, though--man. That D-line is scary good. I think we'll be in the game with Bama til the end. I wouldn't dare try to pick it until I see them play. It'll be hard if not near-impossible to beat them in Bryant-Denny, but NEXT year? In Neyland? THAT is going to be different.
Overall I think Bama loses at least 2 regular season games. No clue who's going to survive the west.
That's true, but there is a core of knowledgeable sensible callers--some older gentlemen, for the most part, who know and understand the game.
That being said, they did ambush me with Jim from Tuscaloosa on a call once, and I destroyed him right down to the corns on the bottoms of his ugly a$$ hobbit feet. Since then, a lot of regulars have really taken a shine to me, and I was on the Finebaum "pre-season best caller watch list".
Yeah, I know. It's cheesy, but I'll take it.