{"id":783155,"date":"2026-07-25T05:07:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T05:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/783155\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T05:07:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T05:07:19","slug":"alabama-football-players-talk-toughness-but-play-will-speak-louder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/783155\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama football players talk toughness, but play will speak louder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201cBringing your work hat,\u201d Coleman-Williams said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">Junior defensive back Zabien Brown, who has intercepted passes in some of the program\u2019s biggest wins over the past two seasons, said the standard in the SEC never really changes: every game comes down to a handful of plays and whoever executes when it matters most usually wins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201cThe work you put in every day,\u201d Brown said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">Hubbard, a senior safety who is finishing a master\u2019s degree in December, said he has tried to lead by staying even-keeled regardless of whether the team is riding high or facing adversity, something he said his teammates watch for and mirror. He also credited two years of shared reps in the secondary with Brown, safety Keon Sabb and defensive back Red Morgan for the communication that lets the unit play fast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201cPlay physical all, all year long,\u201d Hubbard said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cBringing your work hat,\u201d Coleman-Williams said. Junior defensive back Zabien Brown, who has intercepted passes in some of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":783156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[207107,35956,103097,399,281396,398,396,397,99],"class_list":["post-783155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-alabama-crimson-tide-basketball","tag-alabama-crimson-tide-football","tag-alabama-crimson-tide-mens-basketball","tag-football","tag-jumbo-package","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}