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coach at Oregon. Dan Lannning coming up in about 10 seconds. We've got the head football coach at

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call or click Granger.com or stop on by. All right. as promised, we are joined by the head football coach at Alabama.

He's in his second season at Tuscaloosa.

Crimson tied 10 and 3 overall.

They went 7 and 1 in SEC play.

They advanced to the SEC championship game.

They are the number 9 seed in the college football playoff.

They're going to take on number 8, Oklahoma, on December 19th in the first round. We're joined right now by Alabama head coach. Kaelin Nabor. Kailen, I appreciate you. I appreciate you always making time for this program. Kailen, how you doing? How are you feeling? I'm good. It's good to see you, Jim. I appreciate you having me on as well. Well, it's good to see you, and I really do appreciate you coming on. Listen, when you and I spoke in August, you made it very clear at that time that you were expecting to improve upon last year's nine-win season. You have already done that. So how do you feel about where your team is right now and how the season has played out thus far? Yeah, you know, that's that you always want the improvement and that's

with your team and that's with your program. And I feel like we've done exactly that. And so

there's greater goals that we want to accomplish with this particular year. And we got that

opportunity. So looking forward to the challenge. I feel like we've been battle tested. You know, just got some areas where we can continue to improve. Looking forward to do that here in the next week and a half. Gailin DeBore joining us. I was going to say you do have everything in front of you. I want to say at this point, too, though, one of the reasons that you're in the playoff was the team's ability to rebound from that week one loss in Florida State.

Given the stakes involved for everybody, how did you go about ensuring that everybody regroup mentally and then put that game behind them as quickly as you all did?

Yeah, well, I mean, we put it behind us, but we had to remember it.

And that was the key all season long.

And that's, you know,

we've got to take those losses that you have, the things where you failed and fell short,

whether it's a game or a situation, you know, a side of the ball that maybe struggles.

Like, you got to always learn and grow. And our team did that. And I think it did bring bring an edge to them I think there was a lot of doubt that was out there regarding our football team and I love the way that our team channeled the energy into the right things and that was getting better and you know it wasn't just a I think a lot of people think it was just a flip of the switch and you know we just had to get our minds right I right. I think there was a reality of like, we need to get better. We knew we needed to get better. And that's what the season's for. We did that the next week, the week after, we had a bye week, and then we played Georgia and, you know, you saw a different team that was evolving. I appreciate that response so much. I mean, very clearly, they bounced back and they came back and they didn't just throw the switch. They did the work, man. You had to go back into the lab and really think about what happened here and do that self-audit. You know, I spoke to your quarterback Ty Simpson in October. I was really impressed, Kaelan, with the way he showed up on the program. It didn't surprise me at all, but it was really impressive. How would you evaluate his season and play to date? And then what does he mean to the team? Yeah, I mean, he's had his

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