re: Bama Football Tidings

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Ty dislocated the thumb on his throwing hand in the 1st quarter

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Would explain some of his poor throws. I like that he's tough enough to play through that. But 3 weeks without being able to throw is not good.

Milroe has game changing running ability, but as a quarterback he’s heavily flawed compared to Simpson. His pre snap reads on disguised coverages was absolute abhorrent. The amount of simple sacks he took because of it was terrible, and Simpson has great running ability even if it isn’t elite.

I love the kid, would love for him to succeed. But you’re going to see Texas A&M all over again, again and again and again.

I think it’s a clear Tua-Jalen situation, and I’m not talking talent. Jalen handicapped that offense heavily in 2017, I don’t think Saban waits a whole season to swap them out this time

Agreed.

The bottom line is that we have running backs to take the ball and run down field with it. We don’t need a quarterback to be a running back: we need him to add the passing dimension to the offense. Hurts was the prime example of how limiting a poor passing, run first quarterback can be.

I like Hurts and am very pleased that his game has developed and that he’s succeeding.

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but stuff like that heave it up throw from his own end zone is the sort of consistent stuff that your QB just cannot ever do.

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I took that play as a conscious decision to arm punt rather than take the inevitable safety in a setting where one finger touching him would have been enough.

The issue there from Milroe was failing to adjust the protection to prevent a free rusher on his own goalline. Unless part of what the coaches were doing was intentionally having him not make pre-snap adjustments to see how the OL handled it, which is entirely possible since A-Day is literally just a really elaborate practice session, his inability to recognize where blitzes were coming from and adjust accordingly was my biggest concern with Milroe.

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The issue there from Milroe was failing to adjust the protection to prevent a free rusher on his own goalline. Unless part of what the coaches were doing was intentionally having him not make pre-snap adjustments to see how the OL handled it, which is entirely possible since A-Day is literally just a really elaborate practice session, his inability to recognize where blitzes were coming from and adjust accordingly was my biggest concern with Milroe.

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Yea, there is just so much of this stuff in spring games that I find it very difficult to take anything away from it other than guys who are new who just pop athletically (Downs and Haynes, for example). Complex positions built around scheme and stuff like QB........I mean what exactly are people expecting? We were running the most base of base sets and plays in an offense that I'm guessing even more so than general that we didn't want to tip our hand with at all. The accuracy stuff wasn't great, but I'm not sure a lot of those throws were even there for anything with a good throw. There just isn't that much to see in these things.

I checked the thread during the game and saw people complaining about goal line plays. Do people seriously expect us to run anything other than snap, hand off on the goal line in a spring game? "Hey Texas, here is one of our new motion options on the goal line. Go ahead and do an install for it."

I'm not any more or less concerned about QB than I was on Friday afternoon. I think it's probably one of the more raw/weaker position groups on the roster at the moment, but I don't think it's a team killer unless other things don't work (OC in general, OL, run game).

Exactly. People are chomping at the bit to see the team be championship ready in the spring, and it just doesn't happen like that. Its never happened like that.

I thought that the defense looked immediately more sound, and playmakers stood out.

I think that our RB room is possibly the best in the nation.

No one really jumped off the screen at WR, but I also think that our secondary is pretty damn good.

Simpson didn't look any better throwing the ball than Milroe IMO, so Milroe's legs put him over the top for me, but who knows what will happen between now and September.

Hard not to be excited about Rees after reading that.

All we have to do is go back two years ago when Agiye Hall had some big catches at A Day and everyone thought that he would be the next big thing. We all know what happened after that. I almost hate that we have A Day because there is so much over the top hyperbole. I did like how the running backs looked. There is no questioning how good that unit will be. I really want to see how Richard Young looks this summer when he arrives.

Does anyone have QB stats from prior A Day performances? Particularly year’s we won the Natty?

Changing gears…I thought Olaus Alinen looked really good. He is quick and light footed for a big man. If our starters are better than him and Proctor, we are in good shape on the OL.