Thomas Watts

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  Organic Pressure Key for Tide against Tigers

  By any empirical measure, the 2015 Alabama defense is among the best defenses in college football over the past twenty years. To...

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  Defense, Henry Carry Bama to Victory

  Dominance. Destruction. Overpowering. The superlatives surrounding the Alabama Crimson Tide’s 30-16 win over #2 LSU could fill a library several times over....

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  Tide Leads 13-10 After Two Quarters

  Alabama leads LSU 13-10 in a back-and-forth affair that feels similar to many recent games between the Tide and the Tigers. Alabama’s...

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  College Football Playoff: Bleating about the Black Box

  In computer programming parlance, black-box testing examines the functionality of a program without looking at its inner workings. Following the release of...

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  Curiosities Abound in Tuscaloosa Following Bye Week

  Make no mistake about it. The bye week was necessary for the Alabama Crimson Tide to recharge. On top of players recuperating...

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  Wild Fourth Quarter Punctuates Alabama Win

  It wasn’t always pretty, but a win is a win. The Alabama Crimson Tide overcame an anemic offensive performance and a late...

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  Big Bully Bama is Back

  You may have heard of him. In fact, you know him. For years, Hollywood has featured the bully character in cinema. The bully...

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  Alabama Football News

  Mother Nature Leads to Old School Football

    Rule changes have altered the college football landscape. In many ways, it has become basketball on turf. A lot of the...

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  Derrick Henry is a Complete Running Back

  Heading into the 2015 football season, the Alabama Crimson Tide had to reinvent itself thanks to the graduation of Blake Sims and...

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  Alabama in the Pros

  Marcell Dareus Signs Extension Worth Nine Figures

  The Buffalo Bills backed up the Brinks truck for former Alabama defensive lineman Marcell Dareus. The No. 3 overall selection from the...

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  Top Five Reasons That Cooper Bateman Will Start In 2015

  The quarterback competition continues in Tuscaloosa with the Wisconsin Badgers looming on September 5th. It is abundantly clear that all five quarterbacks...

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  Blake Sims May Have Been Right All Along About Alec Morris

  Everyone with even a small stake in the Alabama Crimson Tide football team has an opinion on the 2015 quarterback position. In reality,...

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  Versatility: The Name of the Crimson Tide Defensive Game

  Second-and-nine. The offense decides to run up the middle and gains two yards after a solid defensive play. Third-and-seven. In an obvious...

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  Danny Sheridan: Two-loss SEC Champion to make College Football Playoff

    Danny Sheridan, handicapper and sports analyst for USA Today, spoke to the Mobile Bar Association for the twenty-ninth straight year, and...

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  Two Horses in Crimson Tide 2015 QB Race? Not So Fast!

  ESPN Game Day’s Lee Corso has turned his iconic catchphrase “Not so fast, my friend” into a hallowed part of college football...

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  Injuries, Mistakes Sink Alabama On the Bayou

  New Orleans has turned into a fickle mistress when it comes to the Alabama Crimson Tide over the past few years. The...

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  Rested Yeldon Ready to Roll

  College football is a marathon. The weekly grind wears on even the stoutest hearts, and the bumps and bruises often won’t be...

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  College Football Playoff: The Same, Yet Different

  Ask the majority of the college football universe, from media to fans, and the College Football Playoff is the greatest invention since...

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  Cardale Jones Lack of Film Disturbing

  A common metaphor in football involves the game “slowing down” for a player. It is typically applied whenever a player enters a...

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  When It Clicks at Capstone, Playoffs Result

  There was no conversation about the Alabama Crimson Tide in the inaugural College Football Playoff following a loss to Ole Miss and...