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Alabama has all of the pieces in place for another potential run to the College Football Playoff, including the leadership of a CBS Sports/247Sports Preseason All-American in the defensive backfield with Malachi Moore returning to the starting lineup. Despite all of the talent across this roster, though, the Crimson Tide enters the 2024 season with more question marks than it is used to. With Nick Saban retired and Kalen DeBoer in place as his heir, the program has much to prove.

Doubt from outside of the program serves as motivation for the Crimson Tide players as they seek a playoff berth and national championship contention, Moore said during an appearance on The Paul Finebaum Show.

I think the mentality of the team since the transition and since the change has been that we have doubters out there,” Moore said. “I think that’s something that we take with us through the offseason, and we’ve had that chip on our shoulder since the end of last season.”

Camp has been great. Each day, everybody comes to work trying to go 1-0 and really win the day. That’s what Coach DeBoer preaches. We’re just trying to come out here and be better, and I think that’s something that the team understands. We really take pride in coming out there and giving it our best each and every day, each and every play, going 1-0 on the rep and really trying to maximize our opportunity.”

Last year was a year for us where we really had to band together as brothers. Losing to Texas early in the season and that USF game, it was a time for us to really just lock in and figure out what we want to do, what the destiny of this team, what we want it to be at the end of all this. All last year, no matter how hard we fought, it seemed like we weren’t moving up in the polls. So we just stopped worrying about the polls, like don’t even look at them, just go out there and do our job, try to be as dominant as we can.

As a defense as a whole, Coach Wommack has preached from Day 1 of him being here that there’s no better time to be a defensive player than right now. Everybody wants to see what the Alabama defense is going to be when Coach Saban left, and this is the best opportunity to show that. When you lose Kool-Aid McKinstry and you lose Terrion Arnold and a guy like Caleb Downs, it’s hard to replace those guys.

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