re: Sorry SEC, Tua is gonna be ok

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Eh, Jalen had lost all ability to read a defense and throw by the end of last season (and he never had a giant ability to do that as it was).

We had guys running free wide open for large chunks of the season on 2nd/3rd options that the QB just never saw.

DaBoll wasn't great, and I do agree we didn't play enough to Jalen's strengths, but his passing ability was not going to win that national title game no matter who was scheming things up.

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Jalen never had the ability to read defenses. He was terrible under pressure and prone to mistakes when pressure happened. His mid-range passing was dreadful. What he did have was a strong arm and the ability to burn defenses with his legs. He could/can heave the ball downfield with decent accuracy. Kiffin maximized that by specializing in bombs and creating shorter dump-offs with the option to take designed runs.

Bama's OL was weaker than usual and that hurt a great deal but DaBoll sucked. UGA never should've been in that game. Bama had as good of a secondary as Auburn. The only difference was DaBoll trying to make a square peg fit a round hole and a weaker than usual (but still very good) Bama OL.