re: ********** Official 2018 Alabama QB Situation Thread ************

JMO bit if I'm coordinator when Jalens in I stack the box. I don't know if he presents the defensive challenges that others do.

Hurts would have lost three games had he continued to start.

Booger was making this point the other day but I just don’t see us getting to the summit with Jalen. Tua needs to get more real game reps. He needs to put his head in the lions mouth against teams in the regular season I/m/o

Saban is stubborn. But the cat is out of the bag. And people like Saban don't like looking stupid, which is exactly what he would look like if he played jalen and our offense shite the bed again.

I will never understand exactly why Saban was so reticent to play Tua, especially during the Auburn train wreck. I suspect it boils down to control and comfort zone and all that BS. But regardless, when Tua won that national title, everything changed and there is no going back. Even for Coach Saban.

Boz or anyone in the know - how does the staff feel about Mac Jones? If Jalen did change positions or transfer he'd move into a pretty important role.

I don't really see the big deal with us not getting Winston. AJ was really good in 2013, and wasn't the reason that we lost to AU. Winston would've never supplanted him as starter that year.

In 2014, we barely lost to the team that beat the piss out of the team that beat the piss out of Winston and FSU.


Him going to FSU didn't really change anything for us.


Also Barnett was as close to a can't miss prospect as they get, but he just didn't have the chest. I wouldn't consider that a bad eval.

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If he changes position then we lose basically two and a half years worth of starts at quarterback.

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That may be true but if he stays and changes positions you will always have a more than decent emergency back up QB .
One of the things not factored in jalen performance this year was for the first time at bama had to look over his shoulder.
How much Tua gaining on him made him regress is something we may not really know or factored.

He's a coaches son and I think he can be more than just serviceable as the number two guy and
maybe get better passing wise without the responsibility of being the starter.
Right now recruiting wise by not taking the Williams kid while waiting on Emory Jones may have cost us
a good number two QB.Iam not 100% sold on the kid from Arizona , but we will see.

I mean we passed on Williams and corall waiting on Emory Jones.Had we bagged either as an early signed kid.
Maybe we would be more at ease of jalen transferring or switching spots.
Say what we want but jalen coming in for tua on the road if tua was banged up is night and day from mac jones.
jalen has been around the sec circuit and playoffs and that's not something mac jones is prepared
for yet and tua has not faced himself.
Not saying Tua wont rise to the occasion especially after center stage natty.
I am hoping jalen stays and takes the back up role and be ready when or if his numbers called.

After watching the CFB Final again. I can understand why Nick didn't start Tua over the course of the year. He has been in the program since the spring, he did make a lot of Freshman mistakes and we had some breaks. Thankfully, none of them bit us in the arse.

In the 3rd qtr, Tua threw an INT when the entire team was playing rush. He missed the call from the sideline.
In the 4th qtr, he held onto a ball rather than handing it off to D. Harris for 10+ yards. Resulted in a 1 yard rush.
In the 4th qtr, he almost threw an interception to Sanders (this was more of a break rather than a bad toss)
In the 4th qtr, he almost had a delay of game that would have pushed our FG back 5 yards. Also it cost us a few seconds on the clock at the end of the game.
In Overtime, he took a 16 yard sack rather than throwing it away.

There were a few others.

He is just a gun slinger. In terms of game management, he had a few significant bad decisions that could have cost us. He had about 45-47 plays in the game. Ridley had a few plays that were shite. He dropped a TD on a fade, could have easily caused an INT on the screen play in the 3rd.

Time for Tua to grow and be an awesome QB.

I just can't see Jalen Hurts in the rotation at RB or even H back.
On the outside it may seem ideal, but we have some studs there, and without a small element of surprise, I don't see hurts being successful at RB.
When have we even utilized the H back role recently? It's a position that's long in the tooth imo.

Obviously Tua will be the starter, and a role like you mentioned where JH could come in and tote the pigskin in some form of a wildcat role would be ideal, but really wouldn't have the element of surprise. I could see a defense load the box as soon as he enters the game.

Now, if we had a kicker that threatened the opponent with the possibility of making a field goal, Hurts could be lethal as a placeholder with the possibility of taking off with the snap..

Either way, I hope they find some sort of role where the young man can be successful, and make plays for the tide.

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