11/10
You got a lot of bites.
11/10
You got a lot of bites.
Bama is a good NFL team. Lets just state the facts.Half the guys are almost 30 anyway.There are no kids on that team.
in your dreams wrote:
I didn't believe anyone was stupid enough to believe stuff like this until I lived in the south.
+1.
Alabama would be 0-16.
0-16 is the correct answer. And maybe 1-3 in the preseason. 1-20 total.
Time to end this ridiculous debate.
If these two teams played, who would win? The Wall Street Journal asked that question this week, coming down hard on the side of a blowout Cleveland victory. This conclusion was backed up by input from with a Hall of Famer, a college expert, quantitative analysis and men who prognosticate in desert hotels.
"The size, the speed, the athleticism, the mentality," opined Joe Namath, who starred at Alabama before becoming the greatest of all Jets. "A pro team would really have to beat itself by fumbling, interceptions, dropping the ball ... it would have to play its worst game and the college team would have to play its best."
Online sports simulations company WhatIfSports.com crunched the numbers and deduced that over the course of 1,001 games, the Browns would beat Alabama 93.9 percent of the time. By a blowout, too: The average score was 33-14.
I wanted to get closer to the story so I checked in with Chase Goodbread of our excellent College Football 24/7 team. Chase worked the Alabama beat for six years and currently resides in Tuscaloosa. Would the Sabans stand a chance?
"I think the Cleveland Browns' inevitable win over Alabama would resemble a dismembering more than a beating," Goodbread told me. "For all the draft prospects Alabama has, you're still talking about 22 guys who belong in the NFL playing against 22 who are a mix of some who will and some who won't."
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000749326/article/could-bama-beat-the-browns-not-bloody-likely
Polly Plumper wrote:
I agree that Alabama would get slammed if they played any NFL team. But, what you are saying about Hurts is what many people could have been saying about Dak Prescott. Who would have thought he would do as well as he has done. Everyone thought he woudl have been sacked, hurried and blitzed but he has survived all that and flourished. So really it all depends on the player but most collegiate players will struggle in the NFL.
Prescott also went through an entire NFL offseason regiment including training camp and preseason play. On week 1 he was already way better than he was in college. Alabama's current qb isn't even that great. At this point, he's an athlete playing qb (think Terrell Pryor) from what I've seen, and he looks better than he is because he plays on a team with overwhelming talent advantage every week. Casual NFL fans wouldn't know his name if he played at any middling D1 school.
This question has been hashed out thoroughly on another thread. Alabama would be 0-16. Their lines wouldn't stand a chance at the NFL level, making it near impossible for them to run any type of balanced offense or stop the run on defense.
Bama players may get paid more than the Cleveland Browns players. I predict Hurts will never be a starting QB in the NFL.