re: Can we just declare Alabama the 33rd NFL team and be done with it?

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Unless they're playing the Patriots they'd have the coaching advantage.

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This entire thread is full of retarded.

Saban couldn't hang with NFL teams with a roster full of NFL players at the dolphins. And he wasn't exactly the 2nd Best coach behind the pats coach at that time. Saban is a great college coach and it stops there.

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Posted by mizzoubuckeyeiowa on 10/15/16 at 7:32 pm to Street Hawk They lost to Ohio State they year before in the playoffs and they needed an onside kick to beat Clemson last year in the Championship game. That's not exactly so much better than EVERYONE else.

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And ole miss this year. People need to pump the brakes. Tennessee has been living on the edge and is really just average and the sec as a whole isn't great. Bama will be tested in the playoff.

Serious question to you and the people that actually upvoted you: are you guys retarded?


You actually think a college team could beat a fricking NFL team?


Lmao

These threads are very good at showcasing the true idiots

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vengeanceofrain

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posting this further proves this point

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if they trott out that sorry **** they keep trotting out the last few weeks bama would make it a game

i don't think bama could hang with a real nfl team. but i think they could give the browns a legit run for their money.

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It has to be reiterated.


The last college all-star game was 24-0 in a driving rainstorm called in the 3td quarter when college and pros weren't as separated as today.


As someone rightfully said, the LOS decimates.

If Bama was winning Natty's 70-0 over Everyone that might mean something but they never have. Even if they did they weren't besting all star teanms. They barely won to beat a head case team in Clemson and lost to a 3rd string tOSU QB.

2001 Miami or 2003-2004 USC or 2008 Florida or wouldn't stand a chance and they won titles far more impressively.

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They barely won to beat a head case team in Clemson and lost to a 3rd string tOSU QB.

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also held on to beat a Texas squad minus Colt McCoy in that one championship game. If McCoy doesn't get hurt in that game I'm thinking the final is way closer than 37-21. Texas even cut a 24-6 lead down to 24-21 at one point but then ran out of gas.

alabama did have one of the ultimate games on defense against lsu in the bcs championship one year but some of that's on lsu. Looked like Lsu had no in depth preparation for that game. No new wrinkles.. no adjustments.. played flat.


Alabama-Notre Dame was another clunker the following year. Alabama was up 4 TD's at the half but the game had way better ratings than the year before with AL-LSU.

i remember how much running room Eddie Lacy had against Notre Dame and at times it did kind of look unfair. If there was a year when people tried to make a dumb argument that Alabama could beat a pro team I think it was this one. Seems like a thread like that would happen every other week back then.

I saw 5 or 6 plates yesterday when Tenn had Hurts confused and he got sacked. This would happen every play against the Browns. The Bama offensive line would not be able to countinue by halftime. It would be a slaughter.

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25 pro prospects

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Prospects? Closer to 50. Actual draft picks? 25 is probably correct.

For example, the 2010 team only had 1 player on the 2 deep who didnt get at least a shot in fall camp. That team lost 3 games.

This team might be Saban's most talented roster. Might.

Tim Williams
Humphrey
Jonathan Allen
Eddie Jackson
Reuben Foster
Calvin Ridley
OJ Howard
Camrob

Those 8 players might all be 1st rounder in next year's draft. With Jackson and Ridley being the least likely. That's not even counting freshmen and sophomores with the potential to develop, or juniors like DeShawn Hand. Who turned enough heads against Clemson last year to have his name thrown out by talent evaluators as a potential first rounder.

All of that being said.

The Browns would beat this team like a drum. They led the league in rushing before last Sunday. Bama has first and second round prospects at every spot on the DL and LB, and it wouldn't matter. They would go up and down the field like a hot knife through warm butter.

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Alabama's starting roster may be 50% NFL talent

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Not sure how they'll perform, but more than 50% of Alabama's starters are NFL talent. Who on the defense isn't NFL talent? Maybe 1 guy