Beat Everyone: An AL.com Alabama Football Podcast

Preseason practice has begun in Tuscaloosa and while both die-hard and casual fans all know names like Ryan Williams and Ty Simpson, we're here to highlight five lesser known members of the Crimson Tide that Kalen DeBoer and his staff need big things out of this season if they hope to return to the College Football Playoff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our countdown of Alabama's best games of the 21st Century continues with a deep dive into the 2012 Alabama vs. LSU game. Ben and Matt discuss what makes LSU's Tiger Stadium live up to the hype and why this game may go down as Nick Saban's best regular season win at Alabama. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alabama Football seems to be a never-ending succession of great players but there are some guys who just can't be replaced. Today we take a look back and some players we still miss, guys who made such an impact on the program that we can't stop thinking about them. Check out the latest documentary from our award-winning video team, Scott Cochran: Whispers in the Weightroom. Learn more about your a...

Alabama had already announced its presence on the college football mountaintop in December of 2009 by knocking off the Florida Gators in the SEC Championship but the Crimson Tide's ascent was undeniable after they thrashed Texas in the BCS National Championship Game in the Rose Bowl. Michael Casagrande joins the show to share his memories of covering Alabama's first national title under Nick Saban...

We're back home from SEC Media Days and now that the dust has settled, we can tell you all about the behind-the-scenes chatter about Kalen DeBoer, Hugh Freeze and the race for the 2025 SEC Championship. Later, listen to our SEC Media Days interview with "The Film Guy" Brooks Austin on Alabama's strengths and weaknesses heading into the season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/a...

It's Day 3 of SEC Media Days and Alabama is in the spotlight! Alabama offensive lineman Kadyn Proctor and defensive lineman Tim Keenan III join Beat Everyone to preview the coming season. We're also joined by SEC Network analyst Jordan Rodgers for his thoughts on Alabama and his memories of playing against the Tide. Finally, we're joined by AL.com's Nick Kelly breaks down Kalen DeBoer's press conf...

A special BONUS episode of Beat Everyone from SEC Media Days, featuring interviews with Greg McElroy, Cole Cubelic, Pat Forde, and South Carolina QB LaNorris Sellers. TIME STAMPS 0:18 Greg McElroy 14:55 Cole Cubelic 32:48 Pat Forde 39:31 LaNorris Sellers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Beat Everyone is on the scene at SEC Media Days with Nick Kelly. Nick sat down with Josh Pate, Damien Harris, Chris Low and Rich Clark, the executive director of the College Football Playoff, for frank discussions about Alabama, Kalen DeBoer, and the future of the league. Tune in and let us know who else you want to hear from this week. TIME STAMPS 1:06 Josh Pate, CBS Sports, host of Josh Pate's C...

We continue our deep dive into the greatest Alabama Football games of the 21st Century with a look at the 2012 SEC Championship Game between Alabama and Georgia, a game that in retrospect looks like one last farewell to the Power Football Era. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's GOAT vs. GOAT on this episode of Beat Everyone as college football writers and historians Creg Stephenson and Kevin Scarbinsky join us for the ultimate Alabama Football debate: Bear Bryant or Nick Saban? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our countdown continues of the Greatest Alabama Football games of the 21st Century with a look back at the 2009 SEC Championship Game between Alabama and Florida, a rematch of the 20008 SEC championship game and one that marked a passing of the torch in college football and the birth of the game's greatest dynasty. Oh, and Tebow cried. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's the 100th episode of Beat Everyone! Thank you to everyone who has listened and shared the show in our first year. We've got a lot of surprises in store for the next 100 episodes too. This week, we take you behind the scenes of our exclusive sitdown with Kalen DeBoer and our biggest takeaways. Plus a closer look at his success on the recruiting trail this summer. Learn more about your ad choic...

We continue our countdown of the Greatest Alabama Games of the 21st Century with a look back at the 2021 Iron Bowl, the game that Alabama narrowly escaped and that shattered the hearts of Auburn fans. This may feel like a strange game for this list because it was almost unwatchable for most of the game. But then something magical happened. Ben Flanagan and Matt Scalici explore the dynamics of the...

Alabama head coach Kalen DeBoer sits down for an exclusive interview with Beat Everyone's Ben Flanagan and AL.com beat reporter, Nick Kelly. DeBoer shares his outlook for the 2025 season and whether Alabama fans can expect the same second year jump that he's seen at other programs. He describes what he's learned during his first season in Tuscaloosa, his thoughts on the QB battle and joins us for...

Our countdown continues for the greatest Alabama Football games of the century with a look at the 2018 SEC Championship Game, the moment that Jalen Hurts found redemption and achieved mythical status as a Crimson Tide hero. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The time has come to make predictions based on little to no evidence! Ben and Matt go down Alabama's 2025 football schedule game by game and give their predictions for each. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We continue our countdown of the 15 greatest Alabama Football games of the century with a look at the 2008 season opener against Clemson, the moment that Nick Saban and the Crimson Tide announced their return to college football's championship conversation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're entering a new era of college football where colleges will now be able to pay players directly. And we're looking at new scrutiny for so-called pay-to-play NIL deals. Michael Casagrande joins us to break down what the bombshell NCAA House settlement could mean for Alabama's future. Later, he competes against producer Matt Scalici to draft a coaching staff made up entirely of former Nick Saba...

Our series on the Best Alabama Football Games of the Century continues with a look back at the 2005 Alabama vs. Florida game. That quarterback for the Crimson Tide in that game, Brodie Croyle, joins us to recount his memories of the game and all the hype that led up to it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alabama quarterback Brodie Croyle took more than his fair share of hits during his time in Tuscaloosa, both physically and emotionally. Croyle's life growing up around kids from difficult family situations taught him how to take those hits and more importantly how to keep getting up from them and moving forward. Croyle shares his perspective on his time at Alabama and some of his most memorable mo...

We continue our countdown of the 15 Greatest Alabama Football Games of the Century with a look at the 2014 Iron Bowl. One year after the heartbreak of the Kick Six, Nick Saban and the Crimson Tide were out for revenge. But it would take a heroic offensive performance from Blake Sims and Amari Cooper to get the job done. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

While Southerners are busy partying on the Gulf Coast this week, SEC power brokers will be just a few yards away in Destin, Florida deciding on the future of college football. We break down this week's SEC Spring Meetings and what they could mean for the future of Alabama Football. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're continuing our countdown of Alabama's 15 Greatest Games of the Century with what is perhaps the Crimson Tide's most dominant win in program history - a stunning blowout over Notre Dame in the national championship game that changed the way college football fans think about Alabama for years to come. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today on Beat Everyone, we give our picks for the linebacker we want on the field if you just need ONE stop with the game on the line. Later, we blind rank the worst fanbases in the SEC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“This is not the kind of game that Nick Saban likes to play ever. If you told him that the way they were going to have to win this is you’re going to have to score like crazy and you’re going to have to consider every single defensive stop to be a gift from God.” In the latest episode of Beat Everyone’s series on the 15 Greatest Alabama Football Games of the 21st Century, Ben Flanagan and Matt Sca...