By james art 
Once the next game week begins, we have a Monday with press conferences from the coaching staff.
Calen De Boer
About Cole Adams…
“With his injury, he will be out for a year. We had to deal with that last week, and unfortunately, because Cole is a guy who pours his all into it. He had an injury early in the season. Obviously at the time it was probably thought that this would be something more significant as far as the time frame with the first one. Just seeing the effort he put in with that first injury, you really understood a lot about who he was as a person and as a player, just the toughness he had. Unfortunately, he had another injury here now. Lower body injury. He will finish the season here this year.”
Adams also had a season-ending collarbone injury in his senior year of high school in 2022, so unfortunately he is now a guy who has only played in a handful of football games over the past three seasons.
Still, he showed a lot of really positive qualities and I think he should be viewed as a big part of the future of the position for Alabama in the coming years.
Nick Sheridan
This was short from OC Nick Sheridan.
What Alabama can learn from the crowd noise at the Tennessee game…
“That we should have been better. I thought that was obvious. Obviously, we didn’t start the game the right way, in terms of noise and communication. We continue to work on it as a group, as a team, to make sure that what we want to do in those moments, they can do it at a high level. I thought the last time we were in a similar environment, there were moments where we felt good, settled in and were able to communicate, but we certainly didn’t start the game the way we would have liked. So, I think the message was to learn and grow from those experiences so that you can do better the next time you’re in those environments.”
If you thought Neyland was strong a few weeks ago, a night game in Baton Rouge is going to be a wild experience. If Alabama can overcome this and play a disciplined game, it will go a long way in making Alabama fans feel much more positive about the Tide’s future.
Kane Womack
“Wolf is a really dynamic position. You want a lot out of both the end linebacker and the edge Huskies, the nickel position for us, in terms of what they do from a coverage standpoint, but getting into the field and pushing off the edge and playing a different coverage oriented the person and the area. And then to the border, on the right, this position of the Wolf. I mean, you want that guy to play a five-technique and a nine-technique so he can lean down and into the inside B gaps or A gaps, fold back inside and work in shape at times, drop in coverage, to cover running backs and tight ends out of the backfield. So it’s a very dynamic skill set.
I always love to catch when coordinators start talking about the skill sets they desire for specific positions. This is one of the more informative types of quotes that help us better understand the intent of the scheme and often the types of players being targeted in the draft.
Here, Wommack further talks about Wolf’s position — notice how it differs from how Pete Golding approached the edge rusher position and more closely mirrors how Alabama talked about outside linebacker in the Kirby Smart years.
Essentially, Wommack’s defense, at least up front, follows more of the original 3-4 concepts in a 5-defensive back formation rather than the four-man fronts that Alabama has mostly used since Jeremy Pruitt.
Alabama linebackers Jihad Campbell and Deonte Lawson were named semifinalists for the Butkus Award, the Butkus Foundation announced Monday morning.
Campbell and Lawson are two of the 15 semifinalists for Butkus, who is presented each year as the best defensive player at both the collegiate and high school levels. Lawson was named a semifinalist a season ago, while Monday’s announcement marks Campbell’s first appearance. Finalists for the 40sth the annual Butkus Award will be announced on November 25, with the 2024 winner announced on or before December 10.
Alabama has had four players take home the Butkus in program history, including Derrick Thomas (1988), Rolando McClain (2009), C.J. Mosley (2013) and Reuben Foster (2016).
Props to Lawson and Campbell for both being named top 15 defensive backs in all of college football. Both played extremely well this season and it was nice to see an improvement in the quarterback play after some real struggles over the last 4 years for Alabama.
Unfortunately for the Tigers, the team will be without a key offensive starter. Left guard Garrett Dellinger will miss the Alabama game, according to Brian Kelly. The guard underwent cord surgery during LSU’s Week 10 bye.
Garrett Dellinger underwent TightRope surgery, Brian Kelly confirmed. LSU will be without the starting left guard against Alabama and possibly longer, though recovery time could vary.
— Wilson Alexander (@whalexander_) November 4, 2024
One of the best parts of LSU’s team is their pass blocking, so losing Dellinger is a big blow for them. Here’s to hoping for a quick recovery for him and a dominant play from Alabama’s defensive tackles over his backup.
“Hopefully our crowd is loud and causes a lot of penalties before rush,” Kelly said. “That’s one thing we can hope for. Maybe we’ll turn their lights off a few times. We’ll try anything. Also, it’s about keeping our composure. For us, we cannot be that team that gets tagged.”
Again, as mentioned above – maintaining composure and playing clean is something Alabama has struggled with in opposing stadiums since 2021. Can this team start to show signs of overcoming it?
Finally, here are the weekly SEC Shorts. Even though it was on a bye week, Alabama was still caught up in the upset because it was a “Citrus Bowl contender.” Ugh.