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Normally when it's Alabama Week through the years if you've been a long time listening to this

podcast, you know we always call upon our friend Michael Casa Grande from a.L.com, but Michael has moved on to a bigger and better things at

A.L.com and has brought in a fresh crop of Alabama guys.

So let's meet one of them today. Nick Alvarez, he covers the Crimson Todd for AL.com.

Welcome to the podcast.

Thanks for joining me.

You come to Alabama at a time where I can't tell if they're in transition or not.

There are some people will tell you that they're still the

favorite in the SEC West. There are people like me who voted them second.

With Alabama in this, I don't know, flux is the right word, transition, but

are they are they more dangerous than usual because

some people are discounting them? I mean on the so first off got to give a

shout out to my crossa Grande, obviously.

Got a pair of sex with him.

And so just they kind of give some context.

This would be my second year on the beat first, kind of formally.

But yeah, so when you look at Alabama, I don't think the general perception of Alabama from us, the media, the outside of the fans, I don't think that really matters in the building. I think we saw last year in Georgia, we saw with the

Kin City Chiefs, any team, no matter how good they are, no matter how historically

good they are, they can conjure up some rat poison, you know, if it's served the

right way. What I do think is interesting about this Alabama team is that the

the talent standpoint it's really hard to kind of pin down where they are at some key positions. But

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