Former Alabama quarterback feels having a young team can benefit Tide this season

Former Alabama football quarterback, AJ McCarron feels the Crimson Tide will benefit from having a young team this season.

The Tide is expected to have a team that is mainly made up of young talent this fall, especially on offense. There is a realistic chance the Tide only starts a couple of seniors on the offensive side of the football this fall. While some feel having a young roster will likely pay big dividends in the future, McCarron feels having a lot of youth on one’s roster could immediately relieve a lot of pressure.

“When you’re young, you also don’t understand the pressure behind it as well because you’re just so young and naive,” McCarron said on “The Dynasty Podcast.” “You don’t know that you don’t know, right? You don’t understand what it means to play in the Iron Bowl, and you don’t understand what it means to be in the SEC Championship. Like, you kind of think, oh, well, “I’m gonna be there each and every year.” Like, it’s you just don’t know. You almost get to go out and play free a little bit because you haven’t been a part of it, and you’re not experienced enough to be like, “oh man, like there’s a ton of pressure in this game.” We gotta go out and do this. You’re just kind of playing.”

Kalen DeBoer previously told reporters that having a young roster should motivate some young Alabama players to grow up fast.

“We just want to take the best players, the ones that fit, the ones that were hungry, the ones that really wanted to be here and be a part of it,” DeBoer told reporters at the Senior Bowl. ” I think we did that. Probably younger again, but that’s something we got to use as an edge and try to make kind of our thing. Let’s continue to grow up faster. Let’s have the Lotzeir Brooks and Dijon Lees and Michael Carrolls and London Simmons and the guys that were true freshmen last year, take that next step along with a lot of our guys who are upperclassmen in our program.”