Sights and Sounds From Alabama's Practice: August 24, 2022

With rain in the Tuscaloosa area all week, Crimson Tide worked inside the Hank Crisp Facility on Wednesday.

Alabama’s Wednesday practice was the last before the Crimson Tide turned its attention to next week’s season opener.

It was the 17th in a series of 27 workouts for the Crimson Tide as the team prepares for the start of the 2022 campaign. 

Alabama and Utah State will meet inside Bryant-Denny Stadium on Saturday, Sept. 3 at 6:30 p.m. with the game being broadcast nationwide on SEC Network

The SEC Network announced that the broadcast announcers will be Tom Hart and Jordan Rodgers with Cole Cubelic on the sidelines

Alabama players in the trenches / Alabama Athletics

Tristan Walker and Isaiah Hastings / Alabama Athletics

Brian Branch

Offensive line coach Eric Wolford

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Linebacker Jaylen Moody / Alabama Athletics

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Henry To'oTo'o / Alabama Athletics

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Bryce Young on the pitch / Alabama Athletics

Bryce Young under center / Alabama Athletics

Nick Saban's opening remarks during his press conference:

"Well, I haven't really talked to you guys since watching the scrimmage film. So, I do think we made significant improvement in a lot of areas. But still, the question remains: can you complete a simple task on a consistent basis so you can play winning football? And that's the question that a lot of players have to answer, especially some of the backup players, the less experienced players who are getting plenty of reps now, but they have to take advantage of the opportunity. It comes down to what I said last year. You've got to prepare yourself so when you get a chance to play, you can take advantage of that because you are ready to play. Rather than focusing on too many other things. You control what you say, what you think and what you do. And what somebody else does, what somebody else says, what somebody else thinks really doesn't matter.

"So, it's important to stay focused and keep the main thing the main thing, especially at this point in time. Because right now, we've got to start deciding who are we going to coach, who are we going to bring along, who are we going to play on special teams, how many guys can we travel with, what's their role going to be. And guys have had a lot of opportunities to find that. Hopefully, we'll get more and more guys that are ready to play winning football so that we have more depth on the team because we definitely need that to get through the kinda schedule, the kinda difficult challenges we're gonna have in the future."

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