re: Saban just named Milroe the starter

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Milroe is better option because of his legs.

I don't think he was suspended, but I hope he used two weeks to learn the basic of reading the defense.

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Surely to God we are actually going to utilize those strengths sometime soon and call some designed runs.

As much as Rees like to use 12 personnel and motion with the tight ends, designed runs with Milroe should be a nightmare. I'm not talking about read option, I'm talking about straight-up QB power, QB counter, and QB sweep. Wildcat plays but with your actual QB.

I don't think I saw us run a single one against Texas. That's baffling.

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Did Ty Simpson piss in his wheaties or something?

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He looks like the only real QB we have. He must be fricking something up that's not obvious to me.

The problem with Milroe is he has two skills:
1. Running, mostly in a straight line.
2. Throwing the ball far.

If he really is going to be the starter, I have to assume we're planning to Run, run, play-action bomb, and that's it. That's fine, I guess, IF the O-line improves by a thousand percent. If not, we're losing multiple games.

I hope we will just tailor the offense to Milroe. Run RPO quick passes where he has one read and then runs or hands off to a running back if it isn’t there. That keeps Milroe from having to go through progressions, that gets the ball out fast if the offensive line continues to play poorly, etc. Then throw in the occasional deep pass.

It’s not ideal, but if that’s the best offense we have then go with it. What I don’t want to see us do is try to force Milroe to do things he can’t do or be something that he isn’t.

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The problem with Milroe is he has two skills:
1. Running, mostly in a straight line.
2. Throwing the ball far.

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The real issue is that no team is going win a title with a QB as limited in the passing game as ours, which basically takes the program's annual aspirational goal off the table before the regular season games are even played.

I am starting to think there may be more rotting at its core with this team. Not because Jalen is starting, I think he is a good dude and for the time being, gives us the best chance to win. However, I listened to podcast with Booker today where he said they had a players only meeting about togetherness and that he feels like the team is more cohesive now. He made comments that the O-line did a good job ect. Anyone with two eyes can tell that the O-line played horribly. Saban sits Milroe for the whole game for whatever reason, and now two days later he is the starter. It feels like maybe the team chose Jalen for whatever reason it may be and they were just going through the motions because "their guy" wasn't out there. I guess I don't understand how a guy who didn't play in the game earns a starting job, a week after he didn't earn one rep.

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I don't think he was suspended, but I hope he used two weeks to learn the basic of reading the defense.

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Bro, he's had an entire year to learn. He won't learn how to read a defense in two weeks.

I honestly think now Saban was letting the USF game as a tryout game for the other two guys to see who could compete with Milroe to be starter. Even though it was close they had such a talent gap that Saban never felt he had to sub Milroe in and spam QB runs

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As much as Rees like to use 12 personnel and motion with the tight ends, designed runs with Milroe should be a nightmare. I'm not talking about read option, I'm talking about straight-up QB power, QB counter, and QB sweep. Wildcat plays but with your actual QB. I don't think I saw us run a single one against Texas. That's baffling.

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Because it’s not the offense they installed for the season.

Could they put those packages in? Maybe.

I don’t think that’s what they intend(ed) to do with Milroe.

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He caved to the troublemakers on the team.

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What does this even mean?