Kalen DeBoer and his coaching staff has Alabama football playing at a high level.
After shutting out Missouri, the Crimson Tide locked up one of the best offenses in college football last week.
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Alabama silenced Tiger Stadium in a 42-13 impressive victory.
LSU’s offense could never get going and Jalen Milroe ran over its defense for 185 yards and four touchdowns on 12 carries. The Tide remains in tact for the College Football Playoff and a former Alabama quarterback called the victory a ‘vintage’ performance.
It was a VINTAGE @AlabamaFTBL performance in the Tide’s win over LSU 😤😤#RollTide pic.twitter.com/MSi0u7DHJT
— Always College Football (@AlwaysCFB) November 10, 2024
“If not for the late touchdown, this was as good a defensive performance as I’ve seen from Alabama in quite some time,” Greg McElroy said Sunday on his Always College Football podcast. “People have long said, ‘oh, this ain’t the Saban teams.’ I don’t recall the last time a Nick Saban coached team went to Baton Rouge and completely shut them down. This was a tremendous performance on both sides of the ball from Alabama.”
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McElroy praised how Alabama used Milroe versus LSU and said its coaching staff takes a backseat to no one.
“The quarterback run game and Alabama has the best running quarterback in the country right now with the speed that Jalen Milroe showcased,” he said. “He goes for 12 carries, 185, and had a 72-yard run that put this thing on ice. Alabama’s coaching staff takes a backseat to almost nobody. I don’t know if they are the best. I don’t know where they rank in the top five. I’m not sure how you would rank them all out, but Kalen DeBoer with an extra week of work, good luck, because he is going to have a scheme that is going to be very difficult to defend.”
McElroy does not recall a Saban-coached team shutting down LSU in Tiger Stadium, but it happened in 2016 and 2018.
Saban’s defense pitched a shutout both years, earning a 10-0 win in 2016 and a 29-0 win in 2018. DeBoer did handle the Tigers in “Death Valley” as Alabama’s offense and defense were on point. The national media is starting to get the sense that he was the correct hire for the post Saban era at Alabama. DeBoer and the Tide now turn its attention to Mercer for this week.
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Stephen M. Smith is the senior writer for Touchdown Alabama Magazine. You can “like” him on Facebook or “follow” him on Twitter, via @CoachingMSmith.
