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Let's get a quick look at who Alabama is and how good it is under Ty Simpson.

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Really a fun show coming up here today.

We're going to take a look, a glance, if you will, at Alabama, some quick stats and

kind of show you where the Crimson Todd rank in the Southeastern Conference in terms of

offense, defense, rushing, passing, you know, all that and more both

offensively, defensively, turnover margin, which is really good, spoiler alert.

And kind of what's at stake for both these programs here in segment number one?

We'll get a more in-depth quarterback look between Joey Aguilar and Ty Simpson on tomorrow's show.

But that's coming up here in segment number one, your mailback questions.

I had the, I said on Monday show we planned on doing the mailback edition of lockdown vaults on Tuesday unless I did a crossover. It's scheduled a crossover later that night. So I hope you guys enjoyed that with Luke Robinson of Lockdown Bama. But we'll get your mailback questions answered in segment number two. And then Ward Wednesday. Go join us in segment number number three all that and more right here on your wednesday lockdown vault so without further ado here's a look at the alabama crimson tie alabama's good football team all right is this a i want to put this out there in front because i think a lot of people are going to you know maybe misconstrue my words or maybe take them out of context or anything.

Like, I think Alabama is a good football team. I think that it's a much improved football team. I think it's shown grits, obviously, and kind of how the season started, that embarrassing

loss on the road to Florida State to a team in Florida State that is obviously not very good.

And kind of what it's transitioned into now, winning five straight,

three straight in South Eastern Conference play.

This is going to be fourth straight SEC game and the third straight SEC game without a buy, right?

So it's going to be a challenge for him.

But maybe this is just Tennessee fan or Tennessee guy covering Tennessee that, you know, Alabama beat Tennessee for 15 straight years before Josh Hoppo got here and it's been split two and two with the home team winning every time. But maybe it's just, you know, that battered syndrome to where Alabama is just the cream of the crop every year. And I do think Alabama is one of the better teams in the country, okay? But like, you look at the stat sheet, this is where I'm going with this, you look at the stat sheet, and I know there's a new coach there in Kalin-Dabor. I mean, it is, they do some things very well. A lot of the stat sheet on paper, mediocre stats, and that doesn't mean that Alabama's not a good football team. You don't play the football game on paper, right? And so, but like you look at the stat sheet. I was just kind of impressed when I was diving in doing my research earlier in the week on Alabama. I'm like, really? Alabama is that bad defending the run. I would have never thought that Alabama was that bad defending the run. Because again, we'll get to it in a moment, scoring defense good, total defense good, scoring offense good, total

offense good. I would have never thought that Alabama had this many issues running the football.

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