00:00Alabama minus 13 and a half in Tallahassee for an opener at Doe Campbell, 3.30 p.m. start.
00:07So I'm kind of, you know, perplexed here a little bit.
00:11I understand the Seminoles were not a good football team last year,
00:15but this is still a really big number for any team to have to go in and play their first game here on the road.
00:22Does it tell me more that Alabama is going to be much better in year two
00:26or that Florida State certainly isn't going to get back to what we thought they would be from a couple years ago?
00:31Yeah, I could really only speak to the Alabama perspective on it,
00:33but around this program there's just so much comfort and confidence in what Kalen DeBoer,
00:38this coaching staff, and these players are starting to do.
00:41In this day and age of the transfer portal, I think it said a lot about Alabama football after last year.
00:46Yes, some players went in the portal in the early window in December and January,
00:50but after spring practice was over, nobody entered the portal from this team.
00:54And with that, you have nine starters coming back on defense.
00:57Offensively, I think this is a group that we will play to the standard a little bit more than what we saw a year ago.
01:03Ryan Grubb is now the offensive coordinator for the Crimson Tide.
01:06He and Kalen DeBoer get reunited after they were so good together at Washington
01:09in that magical 2023 season that took them to a national championship game.
01:14And also Ty Simpson, firmly named as the starting quarterback for the Crimson Tide.
01:18Somebody that just doesn't make a lot of mistakes.
01:21He may not wow you like crazy with his deep arm or anything like that, moving the ball down the field.
01:25But so far in preseason camp, he's not thrown an interception against one of the better secondaries in the country that Alabama has.
01:32So I think with all of that, there's just so much confidence in this Crimson Tide team, especially early in the season,
01:39especially against a group like Florida State, like you mentioned, that's still trying to figure a lot of things out.
01:43They have some new coordinators as well on their end.
01:46So I think that's maybe why you see so much confidence around this Crimson Tide team.
01:50Everything's just so much more familiar, and it truly is Kalen DeBoer's program more, it feels like, as he gets ready for year two.
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