Are Alabama & Georgia on another National Championship collision course? w/ Aaron Suttles & Seth Emerson
Until Saturday: A show about college football
The Athletic
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🗓️ 22 April 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Andy, Aaron Suttles, and Seth Emerson, the latter two cover Alabama and Georgia, respectively, for The Athletic, discuss their observations from the Crimson Tide's and Bulldogs' spring games. Aaron and Andy dive into the difference in this year's club compared to last year's championship runner-up team. Aaron reveals his two biggest question marks about this team in 2022. Seth and Andy admire Georgia's TE room before chatting about key losses on the defensive side of the ball. Plus, Stetson Bennett is locked in as UGA's starter now, but the QB room runs deep.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples show talking national title combatants today. We've got Aaron Suttles, the Athletics Alabama beat writer later. We're going to be talking to Seth Emerson, |
| 0:21.6 | who covers Georgia for the athletic. Last we saw the Crimson Tide and the Bulldogs, they were |
| 0:27.6 | busy playing for the national title. Aaron has covered an entire spring practice at Alabama. |
| 0:33.0 | Guess what? They're still good. But, Aaron, I'm curious from your perspective, you know, |
| 0:40.0 | Nick Savan always does the never waste of failure thing and, you know, learn from a loss. |
| 0:44.8 | They always seem to come back kind of stronger after they lose one of these, these games. |
| 0:49.0 | But how are they different than what we saw in the field in Indianapolis? |
| 0:55.6 | Well, one, I think the chemistry, the makeup, sort of that thing that's always hard to define with the team. |
| 1:02.5 | I think this team has it a little better. |
| 1:04.5 | I think Nick Saban talked about it last year. |
| 1:06.4 | I think there were, I don't want to use the term selfish, but there were a lot of guys that didn't really buy in to the Alabama culture, the Alabama way. And I think that's not going to be an issue this year. I don't think, I don't think Will Anderson, who's now going to be a junior, who's standing now on that team is pretty secure and in the country. I don't think he's going to allow it. And I don't think Bryce Young is going to allow it. |
| 1:28.5 | So I think the culture this year is much better than it was last year. It also feels like they |
| 1:33.7 | may be back to a more dominant brand of defense, which, you know, we kind of written off as nobody's |
| 1:41.2 | going to do that. And then we saw Georgia do it last year. And it's like, oh, I guess you still can do that. I just go back to like that Florida game last year for |
| 1:48.2 | Alabama where I remember watching in the second half thinking, man, these D-Ly linemen are playing |
| 1:53.4 | a lot of snaps for Alabama guys. Like that's not normal. But it feels like now that they have |
| 2:00.3 | a little deeper rotation. |
| 2:01.6 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 2:02.8 | It's gonna look a little more like what we're used to. |
| 2:04.8 | I think the front step is gonna be much, much better. |
| 2:07.2 | And it starts with Willie Anderson. |
| 2:08.9 | And for those, you know, I predicted it last year, |
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