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T&L Extra: AL.com's Michael Casagrande Previews the Alabama Crimson Tide

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SuperTalk Mississippi Media

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4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

No surprise that once again, Alabama looks poised to dominate college football. Can Mississippi State find a way to make it look competitive against the Crimson Tide for the first time under Mike Leach? Brian Hadad welcomes Michael Casagrande of AL.com back to the podcast to give him a look at Nick Saban's squad.

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0:00.0

A Super Talk Mississippi Media Production. I saw this guy last week at SEC Media Days, and I was like, it's almost that time. And he didn't want to believe it. But here we are. We're preview in Alabama with our friend Michael Casagronde from A.L.com. I told you it was time, Michael. We got a set schedule for these kind of things. Yeah, I should have been around long enough.

0:21.7

I should have seen this one coming.

0:23.5

Always a pleasure.

0:24.8

Glad to be with you.

0:26.4

Another year with Alabama, you know, the questions kind of remain the same year in and

0:30.3

you're out with this team.

0:32.2

Bryce Young, the returning Heisman trophy winner, but around him question marks in terms of

0:37.0

there's not a lot of known

0:38.5

commodities.

0:39.1

You know there's talent, but the known commodities aren't there as much as they've been in year

0:43.2

past.

0:43.9

We'll start with Jemir Gibbs coming in from Georgia Tech.

0:46.3

Is this another guy we can pencil in for 12, 1,300 yards with Alabama?

0:51.8

I mean, they seem to be very high on him in the preseason.

0:55.7

It had a big 75-yard touchdown on the spring game,

0:59.4

struck some breakaway speed.

1:01.2

Had some good numbers at Georgia Tech.

1:03.0

We have the offensive line,

1:04.9

the offense to produce the big-time numbers,

1:07.7

but they seemed pretty high on them.

1:09.7

A couple guys coming back from ACL tears behind them.

1:14.2

So there's definitely some talent there in the backfield.

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