Jumbo Package: Alabama Football’s Press Conference Day

Offense, Coach Sheridan calls the plays throughout a drive. Obviously I can override something if it is but I know as a play caller having done it for 20 years that you have to be in a rhythm. You have a plan in between series, I’ll ask what his thoughts are after he’s had a chance to get with the players. Now, especially with the iPads make get a couple of thoughts together with what they saw and as he’s up in the box putting the next thoughts and the drive together, I’ll be on the defense side and but then I’ll flip over.

If there’s a takeaway early, sometimes I won’t get the chance to talk much. But usually with the TV timeouts and things like that I get a chance to kind of see where his head’s at and give some input there. I think there’s always — I don’t want to say things you’re setting up — but I think there’s rhythm, I think that’s the best way to describe it, that’s really critical. When you get too much input from too many people, you start getting out of that rhythm, and I think we’ve done a great job. That’s something I’ve made a point, ever since I became the head coach again, to do because when I was with head coaches who did that I know how much I appreciated that, and I was was fortunate for 10 years as an assistant to have head coaches that let me go about my business the way I thought it needed to be done

Nothing too noteworthy from coach. Some talk about Elijah Pritchett and Kadyn Proctor’s health statuses, and some talk about Jalen Milroe, as usual. I did like this answer about his process of communicating with Nick Sheridan. We’ve all kind of wondered just how much he would be involved in the offensive playcalling, so this is a good look into it.

On Offensive Line Shuffling and Elijah Pritchett’s availability in pregame…

“We don’t make any excuses. The guys out there are starters and the expectation is they will play well and execute and do their job. We don’t allow anyone in the building to talk about shuffling. The guys who are ready to practice, that’s who we practice with and prepare them to execute, do their job and if they are out there on the field they are capable of doing it. That’s where our focus is.

“As far as availability of players and what that looks like through the week, we go with the group that has the most reps together. Moving forward we’ll do the same thing based on their availability.”

I liked seeing this answer from Sheridan, and it’s a sentiment we’ve seen echoed from Wommack and DeBoer. Perfection is expected, and there are no excuses. It’s a no-nonsense staff from the top down. For any of those worried that it might slip with the retirement of Nick Saban… Breath easy.

Kane Wommack

I couldn’t find anyone nice enough to give us a full transcript from Wommack, but some of the highlights definitely made their way into articles.

Alabama had four sacks and seven tackles for loss on Saturday. Defensive coordinator Kane Wommack removed his Crimson Colored glasses when evaluating the Tide’s defensive performance.

It’s not OK to give up touchdowns in the red zone,” said Wommack.

Wommack also said it was “unacceptable” and he was “extremely disappointed” in Alabama’s lack of turnovers forced against South Florida on Saturday. The Crimson Tide generated no turnovers in the game.

Wommack didn’t want to hear any excuses. While his defense shut down USF through the air, with just 103 yards passing from Brown, they relinquished 206 yards on the ground, with many of those yards coming from Brown on designed quarterback runs or scrambles.

Our old friend Clint Lamb also took Wommack’s clip talking about the two deep balls that didn’t get completed and talked through how/why each DB got beat and how it will need to be corrected, and overlaid the videos from the game.

Again, the attention to detail and consistent push for excellence from this staff is very encouraging.

Next, we have Nick Saban going to Washington to try to talk some sense into the politicians regarding football and NIL:

Just days after thousands roared his name with the rebranding of Alabama’s stadium as Saban Field at Bryant-Denny Stadium, the coach will head to Washington D.C. to present his ideas about new name, image and likeness rules and how they impact the future of college football.

On Thursday, Saban will lead a panel discussion organized by U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Birmingham, during the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s annual legislative conference.

“It is a very hot topic in Congress,” Sewell said in an interview on Sunday with AL.com. “Hearing directly from those who have been involved in the changing landscape would be a benefit for all of us.”

Meanwhile, over in West Georgia, our pal Hugh Freeze is out here throwing players under the bus:

I mean, sure, Thorne was bad. But publicly steamrolling him and then backing up over him again probably isn’t the best strategy. If he can do it to one guy, he can do it to more. Don’t be surprised if things start unraveling on the Plains if they don’t turn things around in the next game or two.

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