re: Danielson says McElroy cost Bama 24 pts

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Do you kinda get where I'm coming from?

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yeah, but the point of the thread isn't about what you're talking about here. i was axin y'all about where our weaknesses were on offense if it's NOT mcelroy really.

my title is just to attract people to the thread.

you started the thread so people can agree with you? amazing

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you started the thread so people can agree with you? amazing

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no, you smart arse... i didn't care if people agreed OR disagreed with me... i was seeing if anyone felt differently, and if so, then why. you know, it's what you do with a forum. you have a general feeling about something, you share it and hope to get insight from at least SOME intelligent people.

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The hitch that went for 70 yards to Jones... Bama needs more of that. It's so much easier when you're not having to grind out 20 play drives b/c you lack offensive explosiveness.

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that was Bama capitalizing on an LSU defensive blip. you can't expect that the defensive play calling will give you -any- of those per game. can only hope your offense sees it and strikes before the D can call a timeout. NO one covered jones on that play.

what we need is McElroy to get accurate again on the longer passes... and we DEFINITELY need our WR's to stop dropping easy passes.

what we need is McElroy to get accurate again on the longer passes... and we DEFINITELY need our WR's to stop dropping easy passes.

agreed... I thought he'd be more accurate deep. Give JPW credit... the guy was good deep ball passer. That's definitely been missed this season.

To my post, it's not so much how the 70 yards happened... it's the fact that it needs to happen more. BTW, UF has the same problem... a lack of explosiveness on the passing game. Both teams are having to grind out drives instead of get easy scores... that opens up opportunities for mistakes, penalties, etc...

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McElroy will be fine. He had one or two bad games, but overall has been good. He threw the ball very well downfield earlier in the year but started playing it too safe later. He threw some downfield against LSU, but missed. I'm not at all concerned about his accuracy. He'll be fine if he continues to stretch the field and the Oline give him time to do it.

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he will be fine? one or TWO bad games? you're not concerned about his accuracy?? we gotta play UF now in the SECCG, and if he's not accurate, we WILL be turning the ball over. you can't just RUN and beat a UF team. you will HAVE to pass well enough.

the oline has really never seemed to be an issue. i feel like he's had ample time to pass all season long.

Wilson was pretty good vertical.... where he struggled was making reads and checking down... with the play-action stuff and deep stuff, I thought he was pretty dang good. Remember the deep one to Jones in Athens? Granted, you've seen more of him than me...

A lot of it is the WRs... Jones has been banged up and there really hasn't been anyone else to step up on the opposite side.

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He threw some downfield against LSU, but missed. I'm not at all concerned about his accuracy.

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Really? I mean we're almost through the year and he is badly missing wide open deep passes.

McElroy is not good. It is a testament to the rest of the team that Bama is where they are.

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McElroy is not good. It is a testament to the rest of the team that Bama is where they are.

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at the beginning of the season, i would have told you i thought he was one of the best QB's we've had in a long, long time (regardless of who we'd played up to that point).. and i gave him a couple of the games like the Kentucky game, and the Ole Miss game and even the USC game... but i got tired of giving him outs. he's just not as good as i had hoped he'd turn out. but he has shown an ability to adapt some... he's kept us winning. he's only a half step down from JPW's game management skills... and overall, a small part of me still believes he can light a team up in the air.

still got a few more shots at it. we'll see.

Hanks and Maze stepping up will have a large impact. The one ball in the LSU game that gave me fits was not the missed throw to Julio in the endzone nor the overthrown ball to Smelley. It was the crossing route to Maze that McElroy threw two steps in front of him. That play could have been for big yardage, and it wasn't a difficult throw. The pylon throw to Julio and flea flicker to Smelley I get. Those were throws on the run. The simple crossing route I don't.