re: BOLs Jimmy Stein on not playing Ty Simpson

If we walk off the field with the big trophy for 2025 you’re really still going to carry a grudge for 2024?

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Jimmy Stein doesn’t know a damn thing more about the QB situation than every poster here.

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TL/DR: Milroe should’ve been benched mid season and all these “professional analysts” were too cowardly to say it when it mattered.

Here’s Milroes stat line after UGA as a passer: 5 TD / 10 INT / sub 140RTG as a passer

From UGA on he was just an inefficient high volume running back who couldn’t even effectively run the option because he was too panicked to read the defender at the mesh point.

But can anyone name a single Alabama football focused analyst who was brave enough to call for Milroe to be benched? I can’t think of any.

Regardless of what they say now that its safe to criticize Milroe if they didn’t do it in season they’re worthless moving forward because no player has collapsed from a performance standpoint from halftime of the UGA game to the end of the season like Milroe did this season and they were all too cowardly to publicly admit it.

They’re just entertainers pushing whatever narrative they think will drive the most clicks. Congrats to Cubelic and GMAC for telling the truth about Milroe, but it should’ve been said 6-7 games ago.

And the OL narrative is largely worthless. Of course they were getting beat, UM was just crashing the box, taking away the easy reads and laughing as Milroe collapsed mentally.

The OL can’t block 6 with 5.
The OL can’t help Milroe when it’s a rollout and he sits in the old pocket instead of following his protection.
The OL can’t adjust the protection for him on obvious blitz calls.
The OL can’t throw a hot route slant behind a blitz to keep the DC honest.
The OL can’t make him get rid of the ball on time instead of locking up mentally like a deer in the headlights.

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To be fair, he tried another option and it went worse so they ended up back with Milroe.

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No Saban tried to address it, lost the locker room and had to placate the insurgents for a year before retiring because he didn’t want to deal with this garbage NIL era of CFB anymore.

Milroe and the OL who laid down to protect his job ended the career of the greatest college coach of all time.

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So who do we like in the 2027(?) coaching search?

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I think if we can pull a Dan Lanning or Kiffin, give them a hefty NIL budget, give them time to be settled with their own players, they are both sure to not lose 3 games or get blown the frick out in a playoff game.

ETA: I guess sarcasm is lost on people

So you believe the OL gave full effort in the USF game last year?

If so how do you explain why the 110th ranked FEI defense beat our OL nearly every snap for the entire game?

That defense was worse than the LSU defense we put up 600 yards offense on last year and yet somehow they held us to 300 yards offense and pressured Simpson and Buchner on almost every drop back, in many cases from unblocked defenders.

Do you think they had our signals?
Maybe the team was sick?

Because I have no other explanation as to why we were letting players go unabated to the QB when it didn’t happen before or after that game when Milroe was under center.

Y'all would have a lot more to work with if the OL had been good last year outside of that one game, but they were shite for most of the year. Playing their worst game of the year early in the season, on the road, in terrible weather, coming off an ugly loss could just be a coincidence.

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Y'all would have a lot more to work with if the OL had been good last year outside of that one game, but they were shite for most of the year.

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It was the 110th ranked defense and they were letting guys through untouched. Per PFF they had 20 QB pressures on 23 passing attempts that day (87% pressure rate).

Then you look at 6 TFL and Ty Simpson being sacked 5 times. And that’s against what was the worst total defense in the country the year prior.

Even worse when Buchner and Simpson would get hit the OL would just stand around looking at them on the ground. That’s unforgivable and not something you see in a healthy locker room.

That doesn’t speak to getting out talented by some future NFL guy against South Carolina or UGA. That indicates either a lack of communication or a lack of effort.

And the fact that it didn’t happen again all season against much better competition is additional circumstantial evidence that something else was going on that day.

Not to mention that multiple national guys reported being told by sources inside the football building that the OL didn’t give full effort in that game. Is it possible they were FOS? Sure.

Ultimately I can’t unequivocally prove they quit that day, but the options are that Booker and some guys who will end up in the NFL forgot how to block against an FCS level defense or that something else was going on.

Hot take: with the weather in that game, Milroe may have been worse than the other two. He isn't known to play well in poor weather especially. See as soon as it started raining Wed.

Some of y'all have shite reading comprehension and obviously don't know who Jimmy Stein is. He's not making any crazy claims.

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If so how do you explain why the 110th ranked FEI defense beat our OL nearly every snap for the entire game?

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Well they did it again the next year