We have a running joke here — more gallows humor than anything — that Alabama is fundamentally incapable fielding an across-the-board elite special teams unit. When the kicking game excels, the punting is in the toilet; when the Tide fields an all-world return game, the field goal kicking may as well be a game of chance.
Search your heart: you know it to be true.
I wish we were monkeying around, but we regret to inform you that 2021 brought more of the same, following the departure of Mr. Pole Assassin Jeff Banks to Texas to join Steve Sarkisian’s staff.