re: Who was the WORST starting QB for us in the 2010s?

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He was the fricking SECCG MVP. In his first career start, he hit Marquis Maze with a bomb to start a 4th quarter comeback. He was far from terrible.

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He played so poorly at times in '09' that G-Mac joked that coach Saban asked him as he was coming off the field, "if he was concussed." He was so bad when we played South Carolina at BDS that Mark Ingram literally had to play wildcat the whole evening. Had it not been for Mark and his 250 yards rushing we would have lost. Tennessee and Kiffin come to BDS and G-Mac again stunk up the place and if not for the heroics of Mt. Cody, twice, we would have lost that as well. He was butt awful for most of the game at Auburn in the final regular-season game. If not for the "drive" where he was down to his last possession, that he finally figured out to keep throwing short to Julio, whether he was wide open or not.

By far, the SECCG was the best game Greg had the entire year. A real out of body experience for him. He then follows that up with another clanker against Texas in the natty. A game that he couldn't throw for 100 yards in the game.

Maybe coach Saban was on to something. Maybe he was concussed.

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Tennessee and Kiffin come to BDS and G-Mac again stunk up the place and if not for the heroics of Mt. Cody, twice, we would have lost that as well.

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Selective memory forgets Ingram's fumble in our own territory in the 4th quarter against Tennessee that led to the only touchdown of the game.

"Butt awful" against Auburn? Again, selective memory. If you think 21 for 31 and 218 with 2 TDs and 0 INTs is "butt awful" you just don't do football very well.

You want to talk about "butt awful" against Auburn? I'll tell you who was butt awful against Auburn. Mark Ingram and his 16 carries for only 30 yards. Now that was butt awful.

No one is saying McElroy was the greatest QB of the decade, and as already mentioned, he had a bad stretch of a couple of games, but to say that he was "terrble overall" as a QB just displays an astonishing level of football illiteracy.

Don’t forget, G-Mac played that natty with busted ribs. He was injured bad enough that they were ready to burn AJ’s redshirt in that game.

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I really can't blame McElroy for that game. It seemed like every time he dropped back, he was being pressured or was sacked. As great of a day as the offensive line run blocking, they were getting killed in pass protection. The only good clean pocket I remember that night was when Greg hooked it up to Julio. I think Texas ended up with five sacks in that game and he only attempted 11 passes.

Early on in '09, McElroy had a 9-1 TD-INT ratio and the offense was rolling. Then, the offense couldn't score touchdowns in the red zone due to poor QB play and questionable play calling from McElwain.

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Half those sacks vs Texas were because Greg hung on to the ball much too long. And you can have a 9-1 ratio for much the same reason. With our potent run game, teams were committed to the box. Julio often had man to man coverage and unless Julio cleared his opponent by a large margin he wasn't throwing the ball. Greg took some hellish hits that season and in the Texas game. Perhaps he took to heart Saban's thing about turnovers more than he should. Sometimes that kind of coaching can make a guy, who already tends to think too much out there and make him too hesitant. He's not the first QB at Bama that got way too cautious with the ball and he had a case of it.

There really isn't an argument to be made for '09 Mcelroy being better than '16 Hurts, and '14 Sims. If we are going solely by stats, then it clearly isn't close. You put either one of those players on '09 Bama, and the W/L results are the same, but we probably blow the doors off of LSU, UT, and AU.

'10 Mcelroy was significantly better than '09 Mcelroy.

McElroy's 2009 slump began on October 10 against Ole Miss. He was 15-34 in that game for 147 yards and no touchdowns. The very next week he was even worse against South Carolina with a stat line of 10-20 92 yards, 0 TDs and 2 INTs. And then you had his game against Tennessee where he was 18-29 for 120 yards and 0 TDs.

After that...McElroy was pretty good. That terrible interception at the end of the half aside, he threw for close to 300 yards against a solid LSU team. Was a solid 13-18 for 192 yards and 2 TDs against Mississippi State, and saved the day with his performances against both Auburn and Florida.

He finished the 2009 season with a pretty solid stat line:

198-325 (60.9%) 2,508 yards 17 TDs 4 INTs

Those were the best overall stats put up by an Alabama QB in the 00s. The only other QB to finish over 60% passing in a season for us in that decade was Tyler Watts in 2002. And he passed for less than 1,500 yards that year.

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I know Coker wasn’t the best we’ve had by any stretch but the offensive talent fit his style way more. If he plays all year we likely would’ve won back to back championships.

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He was better than he gets credit for. He had the biggest arm of any QB we've had in the Saban era, and was a tough runner

“There really isn't an argument to be made for '09 Mcelroy being better than '16 Hurts, and '14 Sims. If we are going solely by stats, then it clearly isn't close. You put either one of those players on '09 Bama, and the W/L results are the same, but we probably blow the doors off of LSU, UT, and AU.

'10 Mcelroy was significantly better than '09 Mcelroy.“

This just isn’t true. The offense that season was built on running the ball and play action pass. GMac is definitely less talented than Hurts(more talented than Sims) but he took care of the ball, spread it around enough, and mastered the offense.

Once again Coker didn’t play well vs Ole Miss either. Also I know he gets a lot of credit for the Clemson game but well over half his yards went to OJ. 4 of OJ’s catches he was wide open because Clemson completely forgot to cover him. Another was a 60 yarder screen. Sims only had one such opportunity vs OSU.

Also we ran for more yards (also we had one more game) because of Henry. He was healthy and we ran the ball more in 2015. Teams were definitely stacking the box versus Henry because we were running him 30-40 times a game towards the end of the season.

Overall the top 2 RBs avg 0.2 YPC more in 15 vs 14. I don’t know how you could say that was definitely because of Coker instead of the OL and Henry being better.