Alabama football fans sound off on spring practice, A-Day in latest mailbag | Goodbread

Alabama football wrapped up spring practice last weekend with A-Day, but with a 90-minute workout replacing the traditional A-Day game, Crimson Tide fans will enter the 2025 season unable to frame expectations with the benefit of seeing a live scrimmage. The quarterback position tops their concerns, but this edition of the Tuscaloosa News mailbag is a forum for much more than that. To the readers …

Ted from Dothan writes: It’s no surprise that Ty Simpson has the nod at quarterback coming out of spring, but what do we really know about him? The second half of the 2023 USF game is the only time he’s ever really been in the fire. I’m hopeful he’ll be a cool customer in the big games, but I feel good about the receiving corps he’ll have to work with.

Hey Ted: A new starter at quarterback is about an every-other-year reality, and rarely do they gain enough game experience as backups to make anyone feel comfortable. Simpson, with 50 career pass attempts, has been around the program for four years and enters his second under DeBoer. But as you note, his next high-profile start will be his first. Answers will come quickly: He’ll open on the road at FSU and will catch Georgia just four weeks later.

Shane from Lakeway, Texas, writes: I haven’t seen anything this spring to change my mind that Alabama’s rushing attack will once again be marginal. We have talented backs, but there are questions on the offensive line and I just can’t see the Crimson Tide for a championship without a solid rushing attack, no matter how good our receivers are. We just haven’t managed to run the ball with any consistency since 2020 and I don’t think it’s coincidence that was the year of our last natty.