🏈 David Pollack: "Quennin Williams is the best defensive player Saban has had at Alabama." How do you feel about that statement? True, or false?

[TerryP]

It sounds like a good question for Saban to be asked in his next press conference. We know how much he likes comparing players to each other!

Back to the question: Is Q the best defensive player Saban has had since he's been in Tuscaloosa? I don't know...

 

[rammerjammer]

Well....David is wrong. There is no Quentin Williams on the team.

Quennin Williams is another story. Pollack has played DL at a high level, and knows way more than I do in regards to this. I would be interested to see if Cole Cublic agrees with Pollack.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Quinnen is outstanding. There have been so many, and it's hard for me to equally compare DL/DE/LB/DB. He's the most disruptive NT I've seen at Bama since Willie Wyatt. Can't remember another stud NT from the 70's-80's. Showed up as a FB, got bigger, kept his #34.

Alabama Crimson Tide football under Nick Saban - Wikipedia

Let's just assume that the best defender under Nick Saban was a first team All-American. I know I'm leaving out some very good players, but this is the cream of the crop: MINKAH, Marlon, Reuben, Jonathan Allen, A'Shawn, Ragland, DePriest, COLLINS, MOSLEY, Ha Ha, Milliner, Upshaw, Menzie, Dre, Javy, Hightower, BARRON, Orlando McCain, Cody and Rashad.

My all caps, I place ahead of Quinnen. My bold, I consider them comparable. What a defensive squad this is!

And, in your other post on NOTs, absent on this list is Eddie Jackson, who was a NOT machine.

RTR,

Tim

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Well....David is wrong. There is no Quentin Williams on the team.

Quennin Williams is another story. Pollack has played DL at a high level, and knows way more than I do in regards to this. I would be interested to see if Cole Cublic agrees with Pollack.

You made me go check my own spelling. Quinnen.

 

[TerryP]

Well....David is wrong. There is no Quentin Williams on the team.

That mistake would be due to Samsung and voice to text...not on David, it's on my phone.

 

[TerryP]

My all caps, I place ahead of Quinnen. My bold, I consider them comparable. What a defensive squad this is!

My first thought was CJ. How much of that is based on timing? I do think he's the best linebacker in pass coverage we've seen under Saban. And, considering it's a defense that's pretty much led by linebackers and it was a concern up until his day...

You made me go check my own spelling.

Orlando McCain

Channeling Verne this morning, Tim?

 

[It Takes Eleven]

My all caps, I place ahead of Quinnen. My bold, I consider them comparable. What a defensive squad this is!

My first thought was CJ. How much of that is based on timing? I do think he's the best linebacker in pass coverage we've seen under Saban. And, considering it's a defense that's pretty much led by linebackers and it was a concern up until his day...

You made me go check my own spelling.

Orlando McCain

Channeling Verne this morning, Tim?

Couldn't resist. It's the all-time butchery by the master butcher.

 

[BamaFan334]

He may not be the best defensive player Saban has had, but I think he may be the most important one. We have a lot of studs on defense, but I have not seen a true alpha or multiple alphas like we have seen in the past, so I think Williams doing what he has done has been the most important to this team and to Saban.

 

[TUSKtimes]

It always feels like every time anyone has the who's the best argument it seems to take a body of work approach. On that basis alone I would say no. Productivity over the long haul is important. Now, if the Q man wants to build on his resume next year I'll be happy to reconsider.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

Well....may be...may not be....
But.....i had him as D mvp in semi vs ok....mckinny had a very good game but....
Q was pushing that o line and disrupting the QB on near every play

 

[Tidestalker]

He's had the biggest impact in 1 season... McClain or Mosley probably the best career IMO

 

[jdpas29]

This group leans on him more and I think that makes his presence felt more. Upshaw and Hightower as far as front 7 players i think would be in the tops...

 

[#80]

D. Pollack also said L. Riley is the best coach in college football.

 

[rammerjammer]

Let's narrow it down to strictly linemen. Does Q fall into that category as the best lineman under Saban?

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Let's narrow it down to strictly linemen. Does Q fall into that category as the best lineman under Saban?

In terms of being a difference maker, Jonathan Allen is right there with Q for me. Cody was a huge piece of the puzzle for our defense of that day.

 

[Tidestalker]

Let's narrow it down to strictly linemen. Does Q fall into that category as the best lineman under Saban?

The best season, hands down.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

You are in "High cotton" if u are the best at any position under Nick....

 

[bamaledge]

What makes high cotton better than low cotton?

 

[50+yeartidefan]

What makes high cotton better than low cotton?

Lol......when cotton balls get ripe for picking...full grown...opening.....they have grown to max...they are "high cotton " ... low cotton wouldn’t be fully developed..
Just an old old expression...first heard it from my gran-mother...( not about Saban then though....she was born right after civil war)

 

[bamaledge]

I remember my daddy saying “ shittin in high cotton “ but it was mostly about the rich folks in town!