Will Bama consistently put 9 in the box??

no

No. Bama's front 7 is good enough to make it hard to run on them up the middle, even with Fournette. It will require some creativity on the edges to open up the middle of that defense for Fournette.

nope

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Will Bama consistently put 9 in the box?

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Considering that no team has consistently put 9 in the box against us this year, I doubt Bama will be the first.

The only place where teams consistently put 9 players in the box is on the rant.

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Will Bama consistently put 9 in the box?? by Ignignot

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I hope I see it all night, because the only way Saban will have 9 in the box is when we are on the goal line and that bodes well for us.

Could be a chess match of Les and Nick with changing offensive and changing defensive schemes. Each coach trying to out guess the other. My gues is that sometimes Nick will win and sometimes Les will win. Both will come up with some never before seen wrinkles.

They will put 10 in the box- the front 7 plus 3 officials.

If it works? Sure they will.

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I know this is the million dollar question, but whats your honest opinion....

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Absolutely not.

I think they will start with 7 and expect moderate success. They probably think that if they can hold Fournette to 25-150, and shut down the passing game, they win.

If Fournette starts breaking off some runs, then I expect they will start run blitzing more. If that doesn't work, then they will start rolling an 8th man into the box.

No, if you do this, you are basically in cover 0, with no help over the top. Bama's secondary is still suspect. Don't let the pick 6's against a&m fool you. They can't cover our WR's one-on-one.