re: How Milroe can grow and reach his true potential

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Penix has played a lot more football than JM

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Penix is a qb. Milroe is a running back.

Well he has been thru fall practice 3 times, three spring drills and 3 summer drills in his stay at Bama. It's just a few more sessions and it all could just snap in place for him.

Throwing a pass to a WR on the sideline, like the pass to Bond you pointed out, may be hitting him in stride, but it isn’t the same thing as throwing a WR open. When you do that the WR usually gets YAK yardage. I suspect you already know this. Milroe isn’t garbage, but he’s not elite on the level with Bryce, Mac and Tua. At least Hurts knew when to pull it and run and had the speed and strength to escape defenders and break tackles. Milroe has neither, his speed is hyped and he’s not elusive.

I have my doubts Milroe can be the QB Alabama needs to be an effective offense in 2024. I believe the only reason Alabama was able to make Milroe work was a continuous stream of teams that thought the best strategy against this offense was to take away the deep throws and contain Milroe with mush rush and spies. Michigan took the approach Alabama had not seen probably five games and it resulted in a performance more like the early season offense.

Milroe has a big problem with processing defenses. Some of it may be a lack of confidence in his technique to hit windows. Some of it is the man just not having a great idea of what the defense is trying to do pre-snap so he's not even making rational progression reads. It is hard for me to know since I don't have the playbook or game plan adjustments. I do know from my All-22 seat at home games that he routinely missed open receivers that better quarterbacks would have likely recognized. He's just not what I'd expect from 3rd year QB in their 14th game as a starter.

If Sayin or Simpson has a great Spring and Milroe doesn't make marked improvement, QB should be considered a real open competition in the Summer and Fall. Right now I feel like Milroe is a better version of Marcus Randall from Saban's LSU tenure.

Now we are saying that Milroe isn't elusive and doesn't have speed?


This board has went full retard.

He may have reached his ceiling.

He's not nearly as good as he thinks he is.

#LANK/STANK

He has speed and elusiveness in the open field when he’s running north/south and during QB runs sometimes, but not when a play breaks down. Part of being a mobile QB is being able to use your speed and elusiveness when the play breaks down, and he can’t even see the play breaking down fast enough to get away. A mobile QB that gets sacked 5 times in a game ain’t mobile. You can say he’s elusive and fast all you want, but he ain’t elusive enough or fast enough to be successful as a mobile QB and we all know he isn’t good enough to be a pocket passer.

Dude was good for us this year as a stop gap til someone better steps into that role, but for the love, it’s time to move on from this dude.

Bottom line, his play yesterday DID NOT remotely come close to letting all the “naysayers” know…unless he was intending to let them know he’s really not that good of a QB.

We will not win a natty with Milroe at QB.

We've recruited at the highest level possible for 15 years, and somehow we were stuck with starting a 6 year project at the most important position on the field. There's really no excuse for it.

Why are people talking about "throwing people open" when the biggest deficiency is not responding properly when protection breaks down?

9 out of 10 plays, throwing down field was not an option.

What is a qb supposed to do when protection breaks down?

Shouldn't there always be an option or two? Back in the flat, quick out? Something that can be completed in the 1.5 seconds He actually has.

It's the negative plays that lost the game. Not the lack of leading recievers.

Why focus on the irrelevant?