What was wrong with the 2019 Alabama football team?

Maybe nothing was wrong and the GOAT LSU team was just better

2019 LSU is an all time great team and 2019 Auburn was no slouch either, defense held LSU to its lowest point total of the season. Tua had surgery before the LSU game but still played, and pretty well aside from that pick at the end of the 1st half and that random fumble on the first drive. But then was out for the season with that hip injury against the cowbells. Mac Jones wasn't ready for the moment and threw 2 pick sixes against Auburn IIRC

It was just one of the worst teams Saban had at Bama. Bad defense and then Tua got hurt.

They were gay

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Defense wasn't great the previous year, and there was something like 4 injuries to the 2-deep at Iinebacker in Spring and Fall camp in 2019. 'Bama was starting true freshmen who would never see the field outside of special teams or garbage time the rest of their careers. Shane Lee was the best example. Slow and just not ready for the responsibility that Saban put on his ILB to call the defense. Combine that with the anal wart that is Pete Golding at DC, and the results were not good.

I remember the defense getting worked by a 4-8 South Carolina team early in the season until the offense put the game away. That was the case for most of the games that year.

Jordan-Hare voodoo (a pass bouncing off Najee's back at the 1 for a 99yd pick 6) and no Tua in the Iron Bowl pretty much sealed it. LSU would've probably won a rematch in the playoffs anyway, but Saban with a month to gameplan would've made it interesting at least.

Hope that helps.

Same as every team during Pete Golding’s tenure, they couldn’t buy a stop during big games.

Even in the 2020 season, the defense was liability. See Ole Miss and Florida.

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Tua was hurt, the middle of the defense was littered with true freshman, some playing out of position(I think Alabama started 6 true freshman at the same time) and Alabama had that dogshit DC.

Gonna be tough to beat 2019 LSU with that shite.

Injuries on the defensive side of the ball prior to the start of the 2019 season really hurt us. I think by the end of the year we had five or six true freshmen who were either starting or seeing significant playing time on that side. And then you had the high ankle sprain Tua suffered in the first half against Tennessee where he just wasn't the same player after that. And then we lost him for the season four weeks later against Mississippi State.

Defense