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Alabama football held its first scrimmage of the fall on Saturday. It was Alabama’s first time back at Bryant-Denny Stadium since A-Day in what coach Kalen DeBoer said was the team’s biggest scrimmage heading into the fall.
“It’s good to be out there, scrimmage one in the stadium,” DeBoer said following the scrimmage. “Good to be in your surroundings and get familiar with that. It’s been since the spring game.”
The Crimson Tide ran about 102 plays, DeBoer said, give or take, with the ones and twos playing about 81 snaps and the threes getting the remainder. Through Saturday’s scrimmage, and now with eight fall practices under their belt, one thing has stood out to DeBoer: fewer penalties.
“I thought we did a better job today,” DeBoer said. “Did a really good job actually when I think about it. I don’t know the number, but very few. Guys were out there playing ball and just understanding the rhythm and the tempo. Really trying to take advantage of being in here.”
DeBoer also said he did not believe there to be any false starts during the scrimmage, which cost the Crimson Tide at times last season.
“Procedure-wise, I don’t know if there was any false starts offensively, no illegal formations, no movements. If there was, maybe it was one that I can’t remember, but that’s where I think we were pretty clean.” DeBoer said. “So the mental mistakes, or what I would call a foolish penalty where we’re just not sharp, really kind of honed in on that here. So I think we took the next step with the other penalties too. Really not much from a holding, I don’t know if we got any holding calls out there. We had one kind of illegal block back, crackback block that was really good for us to actually have happen because we can learn from that and talk through that. Maybe one pass interference.”
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Publish date : 2024-08-10 18:16:56
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