Even AJ Mccaron thinks Milroe is arse

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"It's hard because I like the kid a lot and I think he's a good college player, but he's just not the quarterback that he wants to be," McCarron said Monday on a podcast with Neal McCready and former Alabama staffer Tyler Siskey. "That's fine -- there's many a different quarterback now -- but when have we seen him be accurate?

"I've been saying it from the get-go. He hasn't progressed from last year to this year, in any form."

"He still gets way up on his toe, his front toe, throwing," McCarron said. "He locks his front leg out. He falls back. He's super over-the-top. It reminds me of the way he throws it sometimes -- remember when Tyler Watts, they changed his throwing motion back in the day when he got to Alabama? He threw way over the top? He does that. Like, we haven't seen Jalen be accurate. There's plenty of times he doesn't step up in the pocket," McCarron said. "Watch him. Just watch him play. I've watched enough of his game, I've watched enough quarterbacks, played enough ball throughout my lifetime. When he escapes, a lot of times he goes back and to his right, which shows a quarterback that is not comfortable with throwing on the run. Because a lot of quarterbacks, if you're comfortable, it doesn't matter. You're gonna escape left, you're gonna escape right, you're gonna get north in the pocket. He doesn't get north in the pocket very much at all. He goes back, tries to stiff-arm guys and ends up going his right."

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"I love Jalen. I think he's a hell of a player," McCarron said. "He's just not a quarterback -- a pocket guy, like he tries to be. When I think back from, I think maybe it's still in his head somewhere. Maybe he's getting bad advice from somebody. I'm not in that building with him. But leading up to the Texas game last year, when they played Texas at Alabama, they did a big thing -- Texas came out and made some statements about he's not a pocket guy, he can't throw it and beat us. Jalen turns around and does an interview, probably a day later, two days later … and says something about I am a pocket guy. I can throw the ball. That game, I was there for that game. It's like he tried to prove that he is a passing quarterback. That's not his forte. That's not his positive."

McCarron believes other quarterbacks cannot run like Milroe can but he doesn't use his feet enough.

"His biggest positive is also his biggest negative," McCarron said. "He needs to be a 1-2 read guy, [then] go."

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The quarterback who preceded McCarron at Alabama, Greg McElroy, also offered critique this week of Milroe.

"There was a bunch of times where I feel like Jalen -- and this has been a problem for a couple years now -- Jalen sometimes snaps the ball without a plan," McElroy said Tuesday on WJOX. "Every snap there has to be a plan. The what-ifs. The what-if checklist on every snap. ... I just want Jalen to play and snap the ball with a plan as opposed to reacting and appearing surprised every every time he drops back and there's, like, crazy pressure."

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