{"id":834289,"date":"2026-09-02T15:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T15:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/834289\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T15:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T15:56:09","slug":"alabama-football-coaches-seem-confident-in-run-game-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/834289\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama football: Coaches seem confident in run game, defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201cTheir new offensive coordinator came from North Texas, who was the number one scoring offense in the country,\u201d defensive coordinator Kane Wommack told reporters on Monday. \u201cThey also led the country in yards per game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">Davis wasn\u2019t the only mastermind behind the Mean Green\u2019s offensive attack last season. Head coach Eric Morris was successful enough to get a bigger job at Oklahoma State, and took along quarterback Drew Mestemaker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">Still, he adds a wrinkle that the Crimson Tide will have to deal with, given that he has never coached a game with the current East Carolina group. Alabama cornerback Zabien Brown gave his appraisal of the ECU offense on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">Preparation has required a look at tape from last year at North Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201cWe watch a lot of where their old offensive coordinator was at,\u201d Brown said. They like the tempo, they want to throw the ball. Spread team, so we\u2019ll be ready for it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cTheir new offensive coordinator came from North Texas, who was the number one scoring offense in the country,\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":834290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[35956,399,281396,398,396,397,99],"class_list":["post-834289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-alabama-crimson-tide-football","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\/834289","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=834289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}