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Kalen DeBoer has a lot to show and prove this upcoming spring season · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  All right, why don't you hear spring football? Kaylen de Boor gets his
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  first spring practice coming up, and ESPN is going to be carrying obviously a
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  day that's the long game. At least reports I saw today that will be
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  on the flagship ESPN. It makes sense with Saban obviously out after seventeen years,
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  everybody's kind of wondering what this program is going to look like now.
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  Obviously on that day that will not even closely define what Kaylend de Bor's team
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  will look like come September. But one art kind of the the the chalking
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  points or the talking points or the bullet points that you want to see in
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  a short window spring practice. I mean, especially with a new staff,
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  it's, hey, let's get them lined up. Let's let's find out who
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  can do this or that, and then of course that second trendsfer portal windows
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  window opens after it. Yeah, that's a perfect segue, Jake, I
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  think the number one concern for me is offensive tackle louse Cayden Brocker back to
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  Iowa. You know, jac Latham went to the NFL as chance be a
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  first round draft choice. You don't have any proven offensive tackles that have played
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  meaningful staf apps. Elijah Prischitt's the closest thing, and he didn't play many.
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  Then you've got young guys like Will coin Formby and Miles McVay, Bertrand
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  from Texas A and m who you haven't even seen in an Alabama practice shit,
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  you know. And of course they've had a call. They had had
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  three practices before they left for the break. But he's he hasn't done much
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  in an Alabama uniform. So you got to figure out first and foremost who
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  you're what's who you're right and left tackles are because this is an offense gonna
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  throw the football. They want to be explosive, but you got to protect
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  the quarterback first and foremost. So they've got to figure out the offensive tackle
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  spot. Wouldn't surprise me if they're not satisfied by the end of spring practice.
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  You just mentioned it. The second window opening up for the transfer portal.
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  I wouldn't be surprised if Alabama tried to add an offensive tackle, if
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  they could find the right experience one. And then I think the second most
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  important thing for me is the secondary. You lost a lot of star power.
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  You lost Terry On Arnold, you lost kool Aid McKinstry. I think
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  they're both first round talent. You lose your best player returning on your roster
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  and Caleb Downs who goes to Ohio State. So there's a lot of young
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  players competing. You know, they got you know, the Z A.
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  B and Browns of the world and Peyton Woodyard and of course you know Zay
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  Minci. They've got a lot of talent jailing and backway, but they're young,
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  and so you do have Malachi Moore back to build around. You've got
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  Domani Jackson and Keon zab out of portal, but you may have to go
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  get another portal edition potentially after you take a look at the secondary in spring.
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  And then the third is, of course the quarterback. I've heard a
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  lot of good things so far about how Milroe is taking to this new coaching
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  staff and he now has skins on the wall. But you've got Ty Simpson
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  still competing, Dylan Lonergan and then Austin Mack the transfers and as you know,
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  you've watched Michael Pennox in this offense. You know at Washington this is
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  a quarterback centric attack. It's going to be completely different than what they've been
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  doing so to me, those are the three underlying stories that I want to
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  watch is offensive tackle, how is it developing and involving the secondary competition,
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  and then just the overall development of the quarterback spot. Make sure to grab
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  him on exit. Drew d ninety seven seven ESPN. He'll beat in Nashville
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  for the SEC Tournament. Should be a good one that's coming up weekend.
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  Also, ninety seven point seven ESPN Radio in Huntsville got the morning show seven
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  A to nine A. Drew, I appreciate your time as always, safe
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  travels to Nashville. Will do it again soon. Yes, thanks, Jake,
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  appreciate it.