re: Bama's QB Race

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What SEC quarterbacks were on NFL rosters last year ? Then we can decide if any of them were below average .

There have been multiple good/decent college QBs that barely played (if at all) in the NFL. The point is Bama doesn't really need a great NFL type QB to win a bunch of games.

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No, the point that Bama fans are missing or ignoring is they have won a bunch of games recently with QBs good enough to make NFL Rosters. To pretend that they will win with any below average QB is ignorant. College Football is becoming just like the NFL, a QB League.

Here's a list of QBs in the NFL. There's a ton of guys on there that I've never heard of.

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you are in the upper 10% at your college position.

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And there's a LOT of shitty QBs in college.

Wilson probably hung around a few years because he could successfully hand the ball off. I don't think he ever got above 3rd string.

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nd there's a LOT of shitty QBs in college.

Wilson probably hung around a few years because he could successfully hand the ball off. I don't think he ever got above 3rd string.

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When George Whitfield says "he's the best 18 year old QB I've ever seen", it says a mouthful. He has no ties whatsoever to the Alabama program. He also tutored Big Ben, Cam Newton, and Andrew Luck, just to name a few.

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It says a mouthful

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not really as when someone says the same thing over and over about people it loses its emphasis.

He has also tutored lots of shitty QBs and had similar praises.

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Barnett looks like a future #1 overall pick to people who have been watching him in practice

This is where I exit the thread, laughing hysterically.

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Why? He was the #1 prep QB, has all the physical tools, has blown away Kiffin with his ability to learn quickly, and has had a renowned QB guru say he's the best 18 year old QB he's ever seen (who worked with several of the current elite NFL QBs). The #1 overall pick is usually a QB. There's absolutely nothing outrageous about that statement at all.

Now, him starting as a true freshman and it being a good thing for this year's success is another story altogether. But by all accounts, his potential is otherworldly.

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Why? He was the #1 prep QB, has all the physical tools, has blown away Kiffin with his ability to learn quickly, and has had a renowned QB guru say he's the best 18 year old QB he's ever seen (who worked with several of the current elite NFL QBs). The #1 overall pick is usually a QB. There's absolutely nothing outrageous about that statement at all.

Now, him starting as a true freshman and it being a good thing for this year's success is another story altogether. But by all accounts, his potential is otherworldly.

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Everything I hear from Birmingham Radio, he is not ready physically or mentally to play this year. He will redshirt.

He's up to 212 (from 195 or so). People continue to say "so and so isn't big enough to play QB in the SEC and take a pounding" about (insert young SEC QB), and those guys continue to survive the full season in the league. I'd prefer if we could redshirt him. He made a lot of mistakes in the scrummage yesterday, but that's to be expected. We'll see. We'll be fine either way.

“I understand what I’m about to say is going to pop some eyes open in the barber shop, but Blake is, by far, the best 18-year-old quarterback that I’ve ever been around,” Whitfield said. “And I’ve got to put that into that context because it’s really where you are at certain stages. I didn’t know Andrew (Luck) at 18. I didn’t know some of the rest of those kids. But he’s further along than some of the prospects we’ve worked with when they came out of college, just physically and skill set-wise and things of that sort.”