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Originally Posted by plrichard |
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Ugh, all this anti-Bama talk is really annoying to me. Before anyone calls me a Bammer Homer or anything like that I am actually a current student at UA and have been a life-long fan and was actually at the game in Pasadena.
Alabama's offense is loaded this year, there really aren't many problems or even question marks on that side of the ball. Julio Jones finally has had a healthy off-season to go through summer work outs so expect him to have a breakout year.
On defense, it always annoys me when people say that we (I go to school here, so is it ok for me to say "we"?) only have one starter returning when there were so many players last year that got meaningful playing time in the front 7 last year. So there are a lot less question marks than people say. The biggest problem on defense will likely be the secondary.
I don't really think Alabama deserves 99s on everything, but I'm glad that they are actually decently rated this year. Last year's game, even though we were the #6 team, I simmed some seasons for a Madden season and Alabama always lost at least 3 games.
So basically, I do think Alabama should have above 90 for each stat, and I think that at least most of us can agree that Alabama should probably be the best team on the game. Oh well, I guess we'll see when the season starts.
EDIT: I also have a question for you guys. Do you think EA tends to take what they (and usually everyone else) assumes to be the best team in the upcoming season and rate them 99 overall and then rate every other team in comparison? It almost seems that way, at least in the last two installments. They made UGA A+ OVR in 2009 and Florida A+ OVR in 2010. I'm not saying I agree with this, but it would be one way to kind of explain why those two teams (as well as Alabama this year) seem to be numerically rated incorrectly.
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for all of this! Plus we got Mark Barron returning at safety, and I hear LOTS of good things about Dre Kirkpatrick.....when it comes to LBs.....
.....we have Hightower, who will be our best LB more than likely, Courtney Upshaw (yeah, that guy who had the fumble return TD vs Kentucky and fell on the fumble vs Texas), Jerell Harris (heard good things, but we will see...), and Nico Johnson, who as we've seen can be a GREAT blitzer! He had several a year or 2 ago vs LSU
E: oh and let us NOT forget Eddie Lacy..... he is 3rd string, but a la last year's #3 RB, Roy Upchurch, could easily start for 50-80% of FBS teams. Upchurch Suffered injuries throughout his career, however, or he may have been great! Let's hope better for Lacy (42), a much speedier and less powerful guy than Upchurch
E2: and yeah that was what I was just wondering.... if they base ratings on best teams, it sorta makes sense to have Bama 99s all around....just a thought....they shouldn't though.....should base it all off of player ratings for their style of play.
06-21-2010, 11:08 AM
