Alabama’s offense is averaging 555.2 total yards per game this season, which ranks sixth in the country and second in the SEC. That shouldn’t come as a surprise, considering quarterback Mac Jones is a top Heisman Trophy contender and the Crimson Tide always have talented players on that side of the ball.

Still, in order to have that level of success, players have to go out and execute. And Alabama offensive coordinator Steve Sarkisian has done a good job of getting them to do just that.

In fact, Sarkisian has fared so well that he’s the assistant coach who has most impressed SEC Network analyst Jordan Rodgers, who shared his thoughts on the Tide during an appearance on The Paul Finebaum Show on Friday.

“I can’t tell you enough how impressed I am with Steve Sarkisian,” Rodgers said on the show. “Really. Because if you look at what they did last year, and I just spoke to Steve a couple hours ago and he said, ‘Look, when I came back and they had the RPO thing going and Tua [Tagovailoa] was there, we had talent at the receiver position, I didn’t want to come in and shake it up. It wasn’t really what I had leaned on in the past as much, but it was what we were best at then.’

“And in this offseason, Steve sat down and did some internal thinking and goes, ‘Here’s what I want this identity to be,’ and they’re much more multiple from a personnel standpoint. One of the best things they do is what we call the ‘eye candy.’ The problem plays, where you motion, you shift before the snap, you change the picture right before the snap, which makes it very difficult on defenses.”

Although Alabama may not be facing the toughest defensive competition now, it will be going up against stronger units later in the season. And that’s why Sarkisian’s success has been crucial, according to Rodgers.

“Alabama could probably line up four wide and beat you without any of the ‘eye candy,’ they could hand the ball off 60 times and probably beat you,” Rodgers said. “But they’re going to need that creativity from Steve Sarkisian. I think he does it better than anybody, maybe other than Dan Mullen and Brian Johnson, right now, both those two are doing it at an unbelievably high level. But they’re going to need it in the SEC championship, they’re going to need it in the College Football Playoff against high-caliber defenses that really we haven’t seen in the SEC yet. So that’s what I’ve been most impressed by — their offensive scheme and how Mac has been operating within that scheme. It’s been impressive.”

Alabama will look to keep rolling when it hosts Kentucky at 4 p.m. ET on Saturday on SEC Network.