Your thoughts on Bama's offense after game 1

I think my main concern is that despite the weak outing against tech in 2013, we were fresh off great showings to end 2012.

This looks like the same offense that couldn't sustain drives against Washington and Clemson. 3-16 on third down is fricking putrid. There's really no excuse to be that bad against any college defense with the collection of talent we have. It's very worrisome. The blue print was laid out, blitz Alabama all night and they can't sustain a drive.

We are 9-45 on third down in our last 3 games. 9-45

Didn't see anything I was overly concerned about. OL has some things to clean up, especially on the right side, but thought they did decent.

Not concerned about 3 guys catching a pass? Hurts had more completions to himself than any WR not named Ridley

It was sloppy as hell, I saw a lot to be concerned with. Take away the fantastic special teams effort that won't be replicated every week and that's a nail biter.

I said "overly concerned," and no I'm not really overly concerned that we struggled against an elite defense with a new offensive coordinator. Certainly a lot of room for improvement, but I'll wait a few more games before hitting the panic button.

Jury very much still out. Felt ok about Jalen. His accuracy seemed better, his vision did not. However, he was rushed quite a bit.

Was initially impressed with Daboll's early script, but as the game went on it really felt predictable and stale.

Not necessary concerned with the OL because the quality of defensive front was incredibly high, but certainly wasn't impressed.

Definitely have some kinks to work out. Two weeks to work on them then a nice test at Vanderbilt.

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That was a very strong defense and it was game 1. The jury is still out.

But it looked exactly like our offense in our worst games last season. IE, games against good defenses.

Not impressed, and wondering if Daboll has brought anything fresh to the table. Hope so.

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My thoughts as well. My fear is that Daboll, who isn't a seasoned playcaller, is just using our playbook from last year.

We still struggled to have sustained drives. That has been our biggest problem over the last year.

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I guess you don't remember 2013 v Virginia Tech.

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Or many other games

Hurts averaged 5.3 yards per attempt against FSU.

Here are Bama QBs with games equal or worse than that number since 2009.

2009 McElroy vs Ole Miss - 4.3 ypa
2009 McElroy vs South Carolina - 4.6 ypa
2009 McElroy vs Tennessee - 4.1 ypa
2009 McElroy vs Texas - 5.3 ypa
2010 McElroy vs Florida - 4.9 ypa
2011 McCarron vs Penn State - 5.3 ypa
2013 McCarron vs Virgina Tech - 4.6 ypa
2014 Blake Sims vs LSU - 4.6 ypa
2015 Jake Coker vs Ole Miss - 4.5 ypa
2015 Jake Coker vs ULM - 5.1 ypa
2016 Jalen Hurts vs Ole Miss - 5.1 ypa
2016 Jalen Hurts vs Washington - 4.1 ypa
2016 Jalen Hurts vs Clemson - 4.2 ypa

Honorable mentions
2011 McCarron vs Florida - 5.6 ypa
2013 McCarron vs Ole Miss - 5.6 ypa
2015 Jake Coker vs Texas A&M - 5.5 ypa

So what you're actually saying is that you miss games when Alabama quarterbacks play really, really well and just plain out forget games ever happened when they don't - unless you're talking a"bout the current QB (whomever he may be) and in that case he sucks because his predecessors always played well."

McElroy had more games as a first year starter where his YPA was worse than Hurts in his first year as a starter - and Hurts started as a true freshman.

You'll also note that 2012 was the only season where Bama QBs didn't have at least one game where the passing attack did as poorly or worse than it did against FSU.

The OL needs to improve. Yes, they were playing probably the 2nd best defense in the country.

However, they go against the BEST DL in the country every day. Hurts looked ok when he wasn't running for his life.

Last week we were counting Harris out, now we're bitching because he doesn't get 25 carries a game.

I wanted to see Foster involved more.

I'm not ignorant enough to believe out of 30K students we can't find one that can make a 40yd FG.

The play action pass is almost always gonna be our best pass play due to our running game.

I'd love to see some passes like Indiana threw against Ohio State, minus the int's. They got the ball out in about 1 second.