... know themselves and this week I was able to ask them what they felt about the comparisons to this year’s team and last years.

Starting with Nick Saban he feels this is a quicker, deeper and more athletic team with much more big play potential than last year’s version and that yes it is a better team overall.

 “We are much more explosive than we were last year.” Saban told me. “We have the ability to strike quickly and we really haven’t done that as much as maybe we need to, or we can control the game with sustained drives. It’s not about balance between running and passing as in the numbers of each we do, but the balance of keeping the defense on their heels.”

That is a theme that’...

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