{"id":898921,"date":"2026-10-29T16:28:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T16:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/898921\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T16:28:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T16:28:13","slug":"alabama-football-kalen-deboer-stands-behind-grubb-lane-kiffin-whines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/898921\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama football: Kalen DeBoer stands behind Grubb, Lane Kiffin whines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g79 _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">DeBoer believes in Grubb.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g79 _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">After Tennessee, DeBoer called Grubb \u201ca great play-caller,\u201d saying the offensive struggles come down to \u201cexecution.\u201d And heading into LSU, during the idle week, DeBoer is not backing down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g79 _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">When asked if he would ever take over as Alabama\u2019s primary play-caller, DeBoer emphatically declined.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g79 _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201cWhy?\u201d DeBoer asked \u201cLook at what\u2019s happening across college football with the guys that actually do it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g79 _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201cThere\u2019s details that, as a head coach, with everything that surrounds being a head coach, that you miss,\u201d DeBoer continued. \u201cWhen you have people who are in it as coordinators and don\u2019t have the head coach responsibilities, they\u2019re in there with their staff hours on hours on hours, picking up on those things and ready for the big moments that could happen. Again, you got to go out and execute those things in those moments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g79 _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">That\u2019s who Grubb is, DeBoer says, someone who is \u201crelentless\u201d at improvement, and there\u2019s evidence DeBoer can point to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DeBoer believes in Grubb. After Tennessee, DeBoer called Grubb \u201ca great play-caller,\u201d saying the offensive struggles come down&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":898922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[207107,35956,399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":["post-898921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-alabama-crimson-tide-basketball","tag-alabama-crimson-tide-football","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898921","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=898921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/898922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}