Beat Everyone: An AL.com Alabama Football Podcast

After three weeks of struggling mightily to find an identity, Alabama finally scored a definitive victory with a 34-0 win over Missouri that included a dominant rushing performance on offense and a commanding shutout on defense. The question now is: has Alabama finally figured things out? Producer Matt Scalici joins host Ben Flanagan to break down Alabama's win over the Missouri Tigers and discuss what, if anything, the game tells us about the 2024 Crimson Tide and its potential.

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The play-by-play announcer has to have all the answers, but what happens when things go sideways? Eli Gold describes how he dealt with unpredictable situations over his decades of experience in the radio booth.

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Everything has seemed off for the once-promising Alabama Crimson Tide since halftime of the game against Georgia and while there are a number of different symptoms, nobody seems to have any answers right now. Beat Everyone called in the most experienced voice in the state when it comes to Crimson Tide football in Kevin Scarbinsky to tell us what he sees when he watches the flailing Crimson Tide right now, what could be to blame, and what the future holds for the program.

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It's the Third Saturday in October, or as some Alabama fans call it "Tennessee Hate Week." Beat Everyone is joined by Eli Gold to discuss why the Bama-Tennessee rivalry is so special and Gold shares some of his favorite memories of the rivalry over the years.

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As Alabama heads into its rivalry game with Tennessee, the Crimson Tide appear to be off-kilter on both sides of the ball. Can Kalen DeBoer and his staff fix all of Alabama's issues in time for this crucial showdown in Knoxville?

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A few years ago, Alabama Crimson Tide radio announcer Eli Gold heard the words no one wants to hear: "you have cancer." The diagnosis took Gold away from the radio booth, as well as from his friends and family, for many months as he battled the disease privately. Now for the first time, Gold recounts the details of his brutal battle against cancer, how he kept his positive outlook throughout the ordeal, and what it taught him about himself and about life.

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Well, it happened...Alabama lost to Vanderbilt. How did this happen? Where does Kalen DeBoer go from here? Can the Crimson Tide save their season? Beat Everyone host Ben Flanagan is joined by producer Matt Scalici and Alabama beat writer Nick Kelly to answer this and many other questions in the fallout of Alabama's shocking loss to Vandy.

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In addition to being the play-by-play announcer for Alabama Football, Eli Gold also hosted Hey Coach, the radio program that let regular fans call in and speak to the Crimson Tide football coaches. In this episode, Gold reveals how this radio show allowed him to get to know the REAL Nick Saban, not the one you typically saw at press conferences but a man who loved to laugh and chat with regular fans.

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Sometimes a heavily-hyped showdown can't possibly live up to expectations - and sometimes, it completely blows those expectations away. In what will likely go down as a classic Crimson Tide victory, Kalen DeBoer's first Alabama squad came out firing on all cylinders and still had room for one more spectacular play at the end of the game to earn a signature win over Kirby Smart's Georgia Bulldogs.

On this episode of Beat Everyone, Michael Casagrande and Matt Scalici join host Ben Flanagan to break down what made this win so special and what we can glean from it about where the 2024 season could be heading for Alabama. Later in this show, Alabama beat writer Matt Stahl joins the show to preview Alabama's game against Vanderbilt and offer some tips to fans headed to Nashville for the game.

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There are few names in the history of American sports that carry as much legendary status as "Broadway" Joe Namath, the Pennsylvania-native turned Alabama Crimson Tide star who went on to become a household name in America. This week on Beat Everyone, Joe Namath joins Eli Gold to share his memories of being recruited by Bear Bryant, witnessing history during the civil rights movement, and the times he spent with his teammates as the Crimson Tide won a national championship.

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