This is an opinion column.

Alabama’s offense is weird.

Sorta like the awkward kid in school, perhaps an aspiring magician who nobody can figure out until he punches you in the nose and walks away.

Unorthodox. Tricky. And ultimately leaves you seeing stars.

It’s a composite of some of the program’s recent greats -- except the complete opposite.

So, when they said the 2025 Crimson Tide offensive experiment with Ryan Grubb would be a shift in thinking, we should have listened.

Just look at its working identity.

This is a ball-control team rooted in the passing game, which is safe but not explosive. It grinds opponents down like the early Nick Saban championship teams, except with the pass and not the run.

They beat teams through the air, but not like the Tua Tagovailoa/Mac Jones/Bryce

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