Alabama football’s defensive coordinator Kane Wommack wants to see the Crimson Tide improve in a few different key areas during his second year in Tuscaloosa.
The Tide’s defense showed consistent improvement during the 2024 football season. They were eventually seen as a major strength of the team as the Tide’s offensive woes piled up.
Wommack remains hungry for a better defense in 2025 with a major emphasis on areas where the Tide needs to improve at.
“We want to be able to create more negative plays and that’s hard to be able to see a little bit when the quarterback’s not live,” Wommack said. “At the same time, I thought we took some great strides and had some really good numbers from an efficiency standpoint defensively, but we were not anywhere where we need to be in terms of creating negative plays. That’s got to be a point of emphasis from a fundamental standpoint, schematically. Then just having an understanding of that and then we’re a vision, coverage based team, and we were able to create a lot of takeaways. I think we finished fourth in the country, something like that in takeaways this year, which was good, but I thought we left a lot of opportunities out there from a standpoint of our players being able to anticipate. When you play with vision based on the quarterbacks drop and where his eye progression goes, you’ve got to be able to react upon that, play with anticipation as opposed to reaction. We’re not anywhere near where we need to be.”
Alabama will continue spring practice next week.
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Justin Smith is the Director of Recruiting for Touchdown Alabama Magazine. You can follow him on Twitter, via @Jdsmith31Smith
