re: If Milroe was the reason………

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Our offense was handicapped why was the worst offensive output the game he was benched against the worst team on the schedule? I’ve heard on this board all week that Rees can’t run his offense because milroe is limited. He had a whole game with two other quarterbacks and his offense still sucked. I would love for the Rees fanboys to please give me a logical explanation of 

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The two other quarterbacks had even less time to throw the ball than Milroe had against Texas. That shouldn't have happened against USF. Two possible reasons come to mind,the first is that Texas exposed our vulnerabilities on the OL, and we didn't get them fixed (we never totally did, in fact). The other, that I hate to consider, is that a portion of the team wanted Milroe at QB, and didn't give a full effort against USF. Another contributor to the poor showing is that neither Buchner or Simpson had enough practice reps to build timing with the receivers, Milroe had gotten the bulk of the Fall Camp snaps. Yet another reason is that Saban, in my opinion, treated the USF game as basically a scrimmage. We spent more effort trying to work on the passing game, which was an exercise in futility, than taking what was available.