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How did we get so little out of Jalen Hurts?
Posted on 9/5/25 at 9:49 pm
Posted on 9/5/25 at 9:49 pm
I watch this dude in the NFL and I think of how little he improved at Alabama. And how incredible his rise has been since.
Jalen is just a dude that will keep after something until he accomplishes it. Normally, either a guy can process quickly or he can't. But Jalen learned how to do it.
Had Kiffen not Left for FIU, he might have gotten us another national championship.
Jalen is just a dude that will keep after something until he accomplishes it. Normally, either a guy can process quickly or he can't. But Jalen learned how to do it.
Had Kiffen not Left for FIU, he might have gotten us another national championship.
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Posted on 9/5/25 at 9:57 pm to RiverCityTider
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how little he improved at Alabama.
Thank you for once and for all proving you aren't an actual Bama fan. Jalen improved dramatically in the year he backed up Tua and learned from "Where the frick is Dan" Enos.
Posted on 9/5/25 at 9:58 pm to RiverCityTider
Jalen Hurts improved immensely during his time at Alabama. Unfortunately he was on the same team as Tua and there’s only one football to go around. Jalen probably improved the most in 2018, with a dedicated QB coach (Dan Enos).
Posted on 9/5/25 at 10:04 pm to RollTide33
Yes he improved after he lost the job. Based on one game. But you forgot how he lost that job and that a freshman took it.
Im not a fan? Were you one this board when Jealen was most noted for rolling right and throwing it in the stands?
The guy is a AFC champion and one of the leagues best qbs. He transferred out if here as a backup.
You guys are as emotional as women. Jalen was as good as a freshman as he was as a Jr. He never progressed as a passer here.
Im not a fan? Were you one this board when Jealen was most noted for rolling right and throwing it in the stands?
The guy is a AFC champion and one of the leagues best qbs. He transferred out if here as a backup.
You guys are as emotional as women. Jalen was as good as a freshman as he was as a Jr. He never progressed as a passer here.
This post was edited on 9/5/25 at 10:18 pm
Posted on 9/5/25 at 10:10 pm to RiverCityTider
You’re not very bright, are ya?
Posted on 9/5/25 at 10:19 pm to bamabenny
How bout you Benny?
Posted on 9/5/25 at 10:25 pm to RiverCityTider
Pretty weak effort for what’s all going on with bama right now
Posted on 9/5/25 at 10:26 pm to RiverCityTider
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Based on one game
He played plenty backing up Tua as Tua barely played in the second half that season. It was way more than one game.
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Jealen
Moron.
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The guy is a AFC champion
Super Bowl Champion. Also you need to use "an" before AFC not "a".
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Jalen was as good as a freshman as he was as a Jr. He never progressed as a passer here.
Unequivocally wrong. He spent his entire junior year improving his passing game while backing up Tua. Dan Enos did wonders for him and it showed throughout the season.
Posted on 9/5/25 at 11:03 pm to RiverCityTider
You come off as someone that thinks the Earth is flat.
Random, but that’s the vibe. Just stupidity to impressive degrees.
Random, but that’s the vibe. Just stupidity to impressive degrees.
Posted on 9/5/25 at 11:58 pm to RiverCityTider
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You guys are as emotional as women.
This kinda feels like being called a cocksucker by Monica Lewinsky.
Posted on 9/6/25 at 3:40 am to RiverCityTider
I mean he got way better in his sophomore season. You could see the work he was putting in to get to the point where he is now
Posted on 9/6/25 at 3:48 am to RollTide33
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The guy is a AFC champion
Super Bowl Champion. Also you need to use "an" before AFC not "a".
He doesn't need an "a" before AFC, because he plays in the NFC
Posted on 9/6/25 at 8:52 am to RiverCityTider
Look at how he performed against an abysmal LSU defense at Oklahoma. They absolutely embarrassed him which showed Oklahoma didn't get much out of him either when they weren't playing cupcakes...
Posted on 9/6/25 at 9:20 am to RiverCityTider
We wasted the end of the Saban era recruiting “dual threat” QBs.
All we needed were drop back passers who could empower our skill players and functional OLs and we win a couple more championships.
Glad Jalen figured it out and I appreciate how he carried himself here, but I didn’t enjoy any of the offenses he ran at Bama.
All we needed were drop back passers who could empower our skill players and functional OLs and we win a couple more championships.
Glad Jalen figured it out and I appreciate how he carried himself here, but I didn’t enjoy any of the offenses he ran at Bama.
Posted on 9/6/25 at 10:37 am to tide06
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We wasted the end of the Saban era recruiting “dual threat” QBs.
All we needed were drop back passers who could empower our skill players and functional OLs and we win a couple more championships.
Glad Jalen figured it out and I appreciate how he carried himself here, but I didn’t enjoy any of the offenses he ran at Bama.
So much agreement with this post. But in Saban's defense, that was the flavor of football at the time and explains most of our losses during his tenure (other than the Garcia effect). Coach probably felt like fighting fire with fire. I feel like we pursued the Deshaun Watsons of the cfb world, but for us they never seemed to possess both maneuverability and polished passing equally. It's like we could have either/or, but never both. But I tell you what, I'd give just about anything for those Jalen hurts teams over what we've been putting out lately.
Posted on 9/6/25 at 10:42 am to prattalumni
He chased the QB that the rules were giving an advantage to in the RPO downfield blocking era.
Had we imported via transfer proven RPO guys it would’ve been fine.
Or we could’ve just taken higher basement QBs and used our roster of future NFL offensive skill players to torch other teams.
Instead we spent years developing guys in the hopes that they’d end up being Lamar Jackson while hiring OCs who wanted to run spread passing concepts at the expense of our onfield production and lost championships as a result.
It was a failed experiment.
Buy an outcome or be true to your system.
Had we imported via transfer proven RPO guys it would’ve been fine.
Or we could’ve just taken higher basement QBs and used our roster of future NFL offensive skill players to torch other teams.
Instead we spent years developing guys in the hopes that they’d end up being Lamar Jackson while hiring OCs who wanted to run spread passing concepts at the expense of our onfield production and lost championships as a result.
It was a failed experiment.
Buy an outcome or be true to your system.
This post was edited on 9/6/25 at 11:34 pm
Posted on 9/6/25 at 10:51 am to tide06
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Ir was all a failed experiment.
I believe that too. Singular best showing for a season feels like Mac Jones's for me. Whatever we did to make that offense work so well...and yes I know we had the Slim Reaper and what-not, but let's face it, Mac was super smart and efficient with the ball. My opinion is he deserved the heisman that year but I'm in the very small minority on that. Just give us a qb like that.
Posted on 9/6/25 at 12:36 pm to RiverCityTider
We got the 2018 SEC Championship out of Jalen Hurts. It's like a Hollywood movie ending. What more do you want?
Posted on 9/6/25 at 12:47 pm to Mobile Patriot
We got a national championship (he helped the team get to the game) and an SEC championship (he came in and won us the game).
What else could we have possibly gotten in the time he spent?
Saban treated him well. There was miscommunication but Saban owned it and Jalen loved him for it.
Yeah the fans turned on Jalen and trashed him that off-season but Jalen won big time in the end with Alabama, with Oklahoma and now with Philadelphia
What else could we have possibly gotten in the time he spent?
Saban treated him well. There was miscommunication but Saban owned it and Jalen loved him for it.
Yeah the fans turned on Jalen and trashed him that off-season but Jalen won big time in the end with Alabama, with Oklahoma and now with Philadelphia
Posted on 9/6/25 at 1:10 pm to RiverCityTider
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He never progressed as a passer here.
The 4th quarter of the SECCG proves you to be monumentally stupid.
Serious question: are you really this stupid, or are you just a troll? Because no one with more brain cells than a head of cabbage would watch the 4th quarter of the SECCG and say he never progressed as a passer.
This post was edited on 9/6/25 at 1:12 pm
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