Inside The Episode with Tim Smith | Alabama Football Countdown Ep. 3

blue can say goat and I just run through a wall like that that's the type of energy and Aura the man has about himself Roll Tide and welcome back to Brian deny Stadium we're inside the advantage Center at our podcast Studio I'm Roger Hoover now please be joined by Alabama football defensive lineman Tim Smith as we go inside the episode of countdown fall camp with Crimson Tide presented by poetry financial and Tim Smith game week is here you ready to go absolutely yeah man I'm tired of being up on my guys know what I'm saying excited to see them beat up on somebody else so I can cheer them on but yeah man I'm ready for August 31st what 605 yeah yeah we right into it and be ready to go uh we always hear iron sharpen zire who on the offensive line has made you better getting ready for this year uh definitely that uh that middle three um I'll say our whole offensive line because all of them are competing I feel like it's more of a pride thing like like you like we just got done speaking about I'm a fifth sen so a lot of those guys are young is like I can't keep letting this old head beat me but at the same time I got the Mind said I ain't going to let this young dude beat me so it's like everybody really sharpening each other but like in that first shot I gave that interior 3 Parker quick fast and strong and then you know we got big Jane and big book on both sides so hey man it's that's a struggle that's a battle for sure you still getting the backfield some though absolutely that's absolutely that's mandatory so you got to be ready now I mean not only just to hit somebody else for another opponent like Western Kentucky but also take aame of those quarterbacks right no longer you see the black jerseys MH so that that's definitely something they've been emphasizing on us uh this fall spring know since they were from the QBs and it's like it's kind of difficult some cuz sometimes you can't get know what I'm saying last days and just go like cuz like they s it's not theread the quarterback but you have to still practice pursuing the quarterback you get what I'm saying not just get back in the back field free and then just run somewhere else like you still gotta put yourself through the motions of okay I gotta make sure I'm visualizing myself attacking the quarterback if he got his arm up put a hand up match the ball or either bad get a formable so like those things we still got to take into account of not just okay this is practice but you know I'm saying that's something we got to pick up on the first game too make sure he don't get away absolutely no room to run uh for you you mentioned you are a fifth year senior with Crimson ties who went through four fall camps with Coach Sabin now this your first one with coach Tor what's a little different about Coach Tor and how we organize this fall Camp um I'll say the practic is for one uh this is my first year that I've actually had a morning practice um you know we joke all the talk cuz I used to see memes about schools practicing early in the morning 6:30 all that and now I'm part of one of those schools but at the same time like I I I kind of like it or not kind of I love it you know I'm saying to be able to get up the first thing on your mind like okay how am I going to get better today like just the process of being locked down from the time I wake up to the time that practice is over with so it's I kind of enjoy that more you know I'm saying going and get out the way and then I have the rest of the day to chill evaluate fing with my guys my dine making sure they understand everything that they just did or something they confused on I kind I feel like it gives us more time to grow and uh be better as a team so I like the morning practices a lot more now what do you like about this position group I mean how competitive are you guys with each other very uh it don't matter what we doing uh we can be doing individual drills Freddy roach has this little drill um quick hands to see um quick hands grab the bag to see who uh it's a drill for quick hands cuz if we are defensive lineman so like we have one of our little G in the Middle with the football moving the stick and like we'll push roach behind to the side like hey watch out roach hey we Finn to compete real quick and it's literally just who got the fastest hands let's see who can grab this bag fast so uh a lot of everything with us is competition if somebody does a passw gill on the bag little Stanley or Brutus the bags that we have out there like the next person up we going to try to make sure our our rep looks better than yours and I might talk trash to you I might not but I'm going to let you know my rep look better so like we try to compete in everything if it's if it's a double team during team one like I'm going to make sure my double team look better than yours and it's like eventually like some people going is going to quick for some people like hey man like I know you a good player but I'm a great player too like I'm I can show you that my film look better than yours so that's what I love about my D line group like everybody still competing like everybody definitely still learning even though myself uh but that's one thing I love about my group we compete with everything that we do how much do you enjoy playing for Coach roach I love him man the dude he's literally a big kid man but I love everything about him uh he he definitely has a way of reaching and talking to each and every one of us like uh I know a lot of guys ask me about roach being that he's one of the coaches that stayed um and it's just one thing that I tell everybody is that like one of his favorite one of his best traits as a coach is understands each and every one if it's theine man I think it's about 13 14 of us and he he knows how to talk to each and every one of us like he can come yell at me like hey don't do that no more like get your hands inside play that G right we just did this individual I swear to God I won't mess it up that same play I won't mess it up the rest of practice but it's some guys like you know say you can go speak to or get on then they may react in a different way or not respond as well so it's like he understands each and every one of us in order to talk and Coach coach us through things that we need to understand so he's back for this year but there is a new defensive coordinator and Coach wck who comes in after being a head coach at South Alabama what have you liked about getting to know him and also the role that your position is going to play in his defense I I love omack uh he came in with the juice off rip um he wasn't really scared or iffy about implementing some of his own things that he felt like Alabama needed uh some of U one of our things right now is swarm D I don't know if you guys been hearing about it uh but yeah man we get ready to go out there practice uh ready break SW D and we swor on the field ready to go attack all 11 hats at the ball and that's something I love soon as he brought in because it's like that's something I did in high school my High School coaches did so it's like it kind of just brought back Deja Vu of everybody just being Maniac running to the ball but now we actually got a little a little swag slogan to go with it and then um as far like he said a lot of a lot of the Cs and stuff that he's change with the defense it gives the d linan a little more leadway to get a little more production in um he's very confident in what he calls and what he does you know what I'm saying he he um he doesn't have a problem with discussing or getting down the dirty with you too like he'll come over there mess with us sometimes like he'll come to the dline room and then it's like or over there there individual and he'll just give us some certain pointers or tips not necessarily like technique stuff that roach should be teaching us but understanding the the grasp of or the scheme like this is how I need you to fit within this Gap like technique stuff I'm going leave the roach you what I'm saying I'm not but like this is how I need you to fit in this Gap for the defense de how I needed to play out but yeah I love W he's a cool dude man can you guys believe that he's wearing the hoodie each and every day at practice even with and we know inside the Alabama heat in the afternoon but it's still pretty hot in the morning here yeah your get good as mine cuz if you see when I wear the practice I try to have it the the the least amount of clothes on as possible like is but I mean I guess that's part of his uh routine or whatever he likes to do hey man if you need to sweat some more do it I swear to enough but that's his entire summer weight loss program I guess right that's his plan well uh speaking of that along those lines one coach you've been with throughout all your time at Alabama has been in the weight room coach Belo how much did he get you guys ready to go for what you've been through in Fall Camp uh other than God I say he plays a huge factor in all of that because that's you know I'm saying majority who we spend all of our time with is blue um I just love seeing that the fact that blue I ain't going to say he just come out his shell but like Sam Blue from that freshman year 2020 to now how he operates with us how he talks with us how he interacts with us I love everything about it and it's like he even the old dudes he ain't got no problem with cussing you your behind out cuz you've been here the longest and you know what to expect you know what to do from us so it's like I love that about him he don't care who you is if you wrong you're not doing like what this team is supposed to do or what we're about he will correct it and that's that but uh yeah blue blue has been major factor for us like all the four years that I've been here um as far as motivation he definitely has that as uh workouts the the the competitiveness the speeches like blue can say go and I just run through a wall like that's that's the type of energy and Aura the man has about himself but I love everything about blue man it's just I just find it funny to see him cuz you know we we we make jokes we laugh like I said that's part of like what I love to see about Belo stepping out out of his sh from like that first year cuz everybody like as you a rookie you know you ain't really you skeptical you ain't want to talk to nobody none of that blue is kind of the same way like he's he's a new strength coach here he's trying to figure out how do I relate to these guys how do I talk to him but even then like he was still showing his assertiveness like I know I'm new but this is like this is the program this is what we going to get into like this we goingn to get out we going to get in here get bumpy lift these weights and that's that and I'll see y' guys tomorrow simp like you feel me he keep it simple short and sweet man that's all it is how cool is all the new technology that's in that weight room I mean the weight you guys are able to track every rep and the weights and stuff I mean it's really cutting edge absolutely and that's uh that's another thing like I feel like a lot of guys we like to compete with as well especially in the weight room that's our number one compete in place cuz like you said all those power numbers and Technology they have all of that so as soon as your reer get done it'll be right up there on that TV screen everyone sees it everyone in the weight room will see it so it's like well I know he not stronger than me so I'm going go over here talk trash to him like Hey I bet my first set I get higher than yours like we just be there talking trash to each other but it's it it helps us compete as well now as far as like the whole science part about it I don't hey you know if youan yeah exactly you better know it so like I I know I know they have their different Sciences how to break it down like different meanings behind it like when they go upstairs but as far as like the basis for us is our power number our speed remember see how fast we can move the weight all that so it's like that's what really what we compete at like we may have the same exact weight but sho I'm moving it faster than you are or I may have more weight than you and I'm still moving at faster than you are so it's like a lot of that like I don't think it's a bad thing I think it's just uh another competing age like a lot of guys got to pay attention to that that's really good to see so now all the hard work fall Camp done gameweek preparation you're ready to go for Saturday against Western Kentucky what do you love most about game day especially here in Tuscaloosa of the fans um that's that's really what I like to see is it can be overwhelming but you know we're on the buses and everything so but I love to see the fact that the fans are actually dis excited to see us play some of them may not know all of us our names or whatever but like the support system like to like to not even be be able to hear your music and you got headphones in and like you're walking down the walking Champs like that is amazing I I love to be able to hear that walking down that tunnel saying everybody understands shaking their PM poms but like it's a different POV for me cuz I I would love to be see how they interact and engage with us and how much passion they have for us but then it's like hey man I got to do my job so they can keep cheering for us but I I love everything about game day here down um and Brian Denny other than the traffic after the game other than that Bri get CAU it sometimes man and you would think that like we're parked at the facility malmore like you may be able to get over here across this bridge you gonna be stuck there for about 40 minutes bro come hang with me on the postgame show and on radio yeah little clear up just call me I I'll be able to do a whole hour interview with you sitting in the car just trying to get to my apartment that sounds good uh as we wrap things up uh just pure and simple what is this defense going to be known for this year uh in my opinion turnovers cuz I'm not going to lie our defense has been on one this fall and spring um even with W might being new and us trying to understand everything I it's not even so much the scheme it's just like I'm our mindset as a defensive hole like I just got done mention the Swarm D like everybody want that pill I mean I I I want to put it as I don't want to put my perspective on everybody else but it's like you know in football the whole pictures and the video like they they really only reording a dude who gets the ball you get what I'm saying he getting the most recognition so as a defensive player to go get that rock man that's all you going to see all season interception for his fumbles fumble recovery defense going to have the ball all year we look forward to that we look forward to number 50 having the ball for the Crimson side uh Tim Smith thank you for all the time best of luck with everything that's coming up and uh roll TI roll TI