re: I&#39;m a Hurts fan, but Tua showed some good stuff yesterday

Posted by mpwilging

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Posted on 9/24/17 at 8:10 pm to Lieutenant Dan

Move Hurts to RB.

Once Bo & Damien move on, Hurts is the best one available. He may be the best one right now...

Posted by BradPitt

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Posted on 9/24/17 at 8:14 pm to Kcoyote

Can't wait to see him light up the scoreboards for Honolulu Tech two years from now!

Posted by tider04

North Carolina

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Posted on 9/24/17 at 8:22 pm to BradPitt

Tua is legit and his time will come. Heck he's getting decent playing time now. That said, Hurts looks better as a passer this year and gets little credit for it. We just haven't thrown it a ton. He's completing close to 65% of his passes with no picks. And there's none of this jet sweep Kiffin stuff to pad his stats like last year. He's hit some deep balls and even some stuff over the middle. Heck, he had several dropped balls yesterday, 1-2 would have been TDs. I like both of our QBs a lot.

Posted by BamaScoop

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Posted on 9/24/17 at 9:02 pm to warau

Only makes sense that little brother would go to little brother!

Posted by llfshoals

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Posted on 9/24/17 at 9:07 pm to RockyMtnTigerWDE

I was doing it before the season started. I've been watching this kid for a while.

He sees it, ball is out like lightning, mostly on target too.

Hurts is dangerous with the ball in his hands. Tua is special.

Posted by UAgrad93

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Posted on 9/24/17 at 9:40 pm to Kcoyote

I like the fact that Saban has gotten Tua involved in games and allowed him to run the offense. All it takes is one hit, and Jalen could be out for a series, a few weeks, or even the season. I'm comfortable with our QB situation!

Posted by BamaGradinTn

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Posted on 9/25/17 at 8:08 pm to Kcoyote

Everyone who subscribes to the "if you have two QBs, you don't have a QB" theory...including Greg McElroy...is too young to remember Bear Bryant's championships of the seventies.

This post was edited on 9/25/17 at 8:10 pm

Posted by CapstoneGrad06

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Posted on 9/25/17 at 8:16 pm to BamaGradinTn

Quite a bit different than the wishbone era.

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Posted by Herman Frisco

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Posted on 9/25/17 at 8:27 pm to CapstoneGrad06

Ask Jimbo how quick a team can lose a QB.
Best have a back up.

Posted by Bench McElroy

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Posted on 9/25/17 at 8:32 pm to Kcoyote

Mark my words. Tua will run off Hurts much like Mariota ran off Darron Thomas at Oregon.

Posted by BamaGradinTn

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Posted on 9/25/17 at 10:02 pm to CapstoneGrad06

quote:
Quite a bit different than the wishbone era.

How so? We're not talking about lack of consistency on who the starter is. Although Bryant played 2 QBs in almost all of those years starting with 1973 and Gary Rutledge/Richard Todd, there was always a clear starter. Just because Tua might get a series each half doesn't mean it's a lack of confidence in Hurts. It could give defenses one more scheme to have to plan for.

Posted by BamaGradinTn

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Posted on 9/25/17 at 10:04 pm to Herman Frisco

quote:
Ask Jimbo how quick a team can lose a QB.
Best have a back up.

Not to mention the fact that Bryant's only undefeated national championship team of the seventies was led by a guy who was a veteran QB, yet had never started a college game before that season.