Alabama OL says Tide more focused: ‘You can’t be late to workouts no more.’

The 2024 football season was a period of transition for Alabama but under second year head coach Kalen DeBoer and his staff the level of commitment is reportedly different early on in the offseason.

The demeanor of the Tide has grown “more serious”, from workouts to regulations and all the players know it. The outlook is different. Alabama junior offensive lineman, Rod Montgomery made this apparent in a recent podcast interview on “The Bama Standard.”

“The message right now from me and my teammates, just our entire staff, is we got a different outlook on everything,” Montgomery said. “It’s not like we ain’t never been serious about anything, because there’s things that we do, but we just got to get back to the old days, to when Bama does nothing but win, and win championships. That’s the main focus right now.”

The 6-foot-3, 337 pound lineman then went into detail on the subtle changes the Alabama staff has brought this offseason and discussed how the Tide are more “dialed in”.

“You can’t be late to workouts no more,” Montgomery said. “No more jewelry. No more necklaces. None of that. It’s not a fashion show. It’s football.”

With a year under DeBoer’s belt in Tuscaloosa, things appear to be more momentous for the Tide in 2025.