252cane
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Alabama's CB's are "system players" IMO.
I'm pretty sure Saban still plays nothing but Cover-4 and Cover-3. I'd think you'd want bigger CB's for those rolls. (I know I would, works for Seattle)
Those big a$$ Bama CB's look good when all they have to do is cover a deep 1/4 or deep 1/3. In the NFL they play a lot of man. Bigger CB's tend to struggle in man unless they're freaks like Patrick Peterson.
Yep Saban run still runs a lot of that cover 4 and 3. But when he had a guy like milliner who was a big corner but was fast too he let him play more man coverage.