Alabama Football: 5 takeaways from 2019 A-Day Game

Alabama football returned to the field for its annual A-Day game to conclude spring practice. The White team defeated the Crimson 31-17.

Alabama Football is back and now gone again. For many, the A-Day game was the first opportunity to see the first iteration of the 2019 Crimson Tide. It’s the rough draft of Alabama’s 2019 squad, with plenty of talent waiting to converge on Tuscaloosa in the summer, and several talented players sitting out a good chunk of the spring.

As always, the winning team from A-Day is treated with a steak dinner while the losers are relegated to a meal of Beanie Weenies. In this iteration, the White squad got the better of the Crimson, with the first team defense coming out on top of the first team offense.

That was a bit of a surprise after a spring filled with the offense beating up on a young defense. The young defense acquitted itself quite nicely against Tua Tagovailoa and company, with several players standing out.

Tua and the first-team offense struggled to get into a rhythm against the first-team defense until the fourth quarter when the Heisman runner-up hit Jerry Jeudy for a 54-yard touchdown pass.

Some uncharacteristic dropped balls by junior wide receivers Jeudy and Henry Ruggs killed potential touchdown drives and turned a close game into a second half rout.

The A-Day game had its typically sloppy play with scattered rain storms not helping matters. The announced attendance was 62,219, and there was realistically maybe half that number in the stands.

A-Day brought the conclusion of spring practice, and now the long night of the offseason fully sets in. This was the last live football we’ll get to see until the Crimson Tide takes the field in Atlanta to open the season against Duke in the Chick fil-A College Football Kickoff.

There were good things and bad things in the A-Day game, but it’s hard not to walk away from spring with a positive feeling as Alabama officially flipped the calendar and put the loss to Clemson behind them.

The best news from A-Day and the spring is that Alabama got through it relatively healthy.

Here are five takeaways from the A-Day game.