re: Rumor on the Twitters that Milroe pulled a hamstring in practice yesterday

Hurts was terrified to throw the football in the 2nd half of 2017. I don't think DaBoll did him a lot of favors, but at some point when a guy will only throw to a man standing wide open with nobody around him and refuses to throw to a spot or into a window there isn't much you can do. Jalen worked his arse off in 2018 with Enos and Locks to lay the foundation for the 2018 SEC Title Game, what Oklahoma got and helped improve and what he is today, but he was not a good quarterback in 2017 (he was better in 2016 solely because he played less tight, but he was entirely a one read, usually one side of the field, QB).

There isn't much argument about that. He was a great running QB, but he was lost as a passer. Far worse than what Milroe is, IMHO (and I don't think Milroe is terrible advanced at it).

No, Hurts couldn't take Daboll's coaching. Daboll has proven himself to be an excellent football coach as an OC in the NFL and he's been pretty good as an NFL head coach. Hurts needed that season behind Tua to learn. Much like I believe Milroe needs another season on the bench to learn.

Cover 3 podcast mentioned the hamstring rumors today as well.

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Bama DL should own the A&M OL. Johnson gets knocked out and A&M is in trouble

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Aggie O vs Bama D will be interesting. Both are solid and balanced without any glaring weaknesses. The biggest issue the A&M O has had so far has been penalties and TO's though, no one has pushed them around.

That's also why the Aggie D vs Tide O is the more interesting matchup. The biggest thing that jumps out is A&M has 30 TFL and 14 sacks in the last 2 games and Bama has has struggled to protect their QB. Maybe they figure it out but playing on the road at Kyle is a tough place to do it. My hat will be off to them if they can.

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Hurts was much better than Milroe in fact, they shouldn't be mentioned in the same sentence together.And although they do have alot in common, Hurts had muuuuuch better instincts. That alone gives him a tremendous advantage over Milroe.

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He had much better running instincts. He had absolutely zero passing QB instincts. I get it, Milroe sucks, but Jalen was playing QB with the following weapons around him:
Calvin Ridley
Jerry Jeudy
Henry Ruggs
Robert Foster
Devonta Smith

Josh Jacobs
Damien Harris
Najee Harris

And here are Jalen's passing stats from that season against the 7 best teams he played:

Here are his stat lines:
Florida State : 10/18 (56%), 96 yards, 5.3 YPA, 1 TD
Vanderbilt : 9/17 (53%), 78 yards, 4.6 YPA, 0 TD
Texas A&M : 13/22 (59%), 122 yards, 5.6 YPA, 1 TD
LSU : 11/24 (46%), 183 yds, 7.6 YPA, 1 TD
Auburn : 12/22, 112 yds (55%), 5.1 YPA, 1 TD
Clemson : 16/24 (67%), 120 yds, 5.0 YPA, 2 TD
Georgia : 3/8 (38%), 21 yds, 2.6 YPA, 0 TD

He was horrid in 2017. Anything else is the definition of revisionist history.

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He had much better running instincts. He had absolutely zero passing QB instincts. I get it, Milroe sucks, but Jalen was playing QB with Calvin Ridley, Jerry Jeudy, Henry Ruggs, Robert Foster, Devonta Smith and Irv Smith Jr (along with Josh Jacobs, Damien Harris and Najee Harris in the backfield).

Here are his stat lines:
Florida State : 10/18 (56%), 96 yards, 5.3 YPA, 1 TD
Vanderbilt : 9/17 (53%), 78 yards, 4.6 YPA, 0 TD
Texas A&M : 13/22 (59%), 122 yards, 5.6 YPA, 1 TD
LSU : 11/24 (46%), 183 yds, 7.6 YPA, 1 TD
Auburn : 12/22, 112 yds (55%), 5.1 YPA, 1 TD
Clemson : 16/24 (67%), 120 yds, 5.0 YPA, 2 TD
Georgia : 3/8 (38%), 21 yds, 2.6 YPA, 0 TD

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I never said he was a great passer but he was a much, much better football player.

Not only can Jalen Milroe not pass the ball, his instincts and ability to evade pressure straight up sucks.

Here are the so called average or limited Alabama quarterbacks who beat A&M saturday.

GMac
AJ
Blake Sims
Jake Coker
Jalen Hurts

Any one of those guys could win this game because they're good football players. Jalen Milroe isn't.

I hope I'm wrong.

Oh and Alabama's receivers this year. They're legit.

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Here are the so called average or limited Alabama quarterbacks who beat A&M saturday.

GMac
AJ
Blake Sims
Jake Coker
Jalen Hurts

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Greg McElroy had a 3 game stretch were Alabama scored 22, 20 and 12 points in 2009. He contributed the following:

Ole Miss (22 pts) : 15/34, 147 yds, 4.3 YPA, 0 TD, 0 INT
USC (20 pts) : 10/20, 92 yds, 4.6 YPA, 0 TD, 2 INT
Tennessee (12 pts) : 18/29, 120 yds, 4.1 YPA, 0 TD, 0 INT

43/89, 359 yards, 4.0 YPA, 0 TD / 2 INT

The only reason Alabama didn't go 9-3 that season is because the defense and Mark Ingram won us those 3 football games.


Jake Coker was incredible the last 1/3 of the season in 2015. Jake Coker was a mess for much of the first half of the season. He threw interceptions, he missed wide open guys, he refused to pull the trigger on intermediate throws.

Everything about Blake was almost identical to what Milroe is now. Nice deep ball, good first read thrower, panicked when first read wasn't there was liable to make a horrible turnover throw.


Again, just absurd revisionist history pre-Tua. We had some average to good college QBs who played some putrid football in stretches from 2007-2017. You roll 2017 Jalen Hurts or 2009 Greg McElroy out there Saturday and it is just as likely (if not more depending on what stretch of the season we're talking) that we lose the football game.

God please let this be true so we can finally say goodbye to this shite-stain, peanut brain, turnover machine garbagecan fake QB.

West title back in the realm of possibility with TyGod at the wheel.

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Greg McElroy had a 3 game stretch were Alabama scored 22, 20 and 12 points in 2009. He contributed the following:

Ole Miss (22 pts) : 15/34, 147 yds, 4.3 YPA, 0 TD, 0 INT
USC (20 pts) : 10/20, 92 yds, 4.6 YPA, 0 TD, 2 INT
Tennessee (12 pts) : 18/29, 120 yds, 4.1 YPA, 0 TD, 0 INT

43/89, 359 yards, 4.0 YPA, 0 TD / 2 INT

The only reason Alabama didn't go 9-3 that season is because the defense and Mark Ingram won us those 3 football games.


Jake Coker was incredible the last 1/3 of the season in 2015. Jake Coker was a mess for much of the first half of the season. He threw interceptions, he missed wide open guys, he refused to pull the trigger on intermediate throws.

Everything about Blake was almost identical to what Milroe is now. Nice deep ball, good first read thrower, panicked when first read wasn't there was liable to make a horrible turnover throw.


Again, just absurd revisionist history pre-Tua. We had some average to good college QBs who played some putrid football in stretches from 2007-2017. You roll 2017 Jalen Hurts or 2009 Greg McElroy out there Saturday and it is just as likely (if not more depending on what stretch of the season we're talking) that we lose the football game.

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Nah, you're the one revising history man, not me.

You live in the numbers. It seems at times that's the only way you can understand this game.

All those guys I listed were straight up ballers, right out of the gate. They were not always good quarterbacks but they were always good football players with excellent instincts for the game and it's that part of it, numbers and percentages can't measure. Try and recall what you saw in those years versus what you can tabulate and you might have different thoughts on it.

Jalen Milroe, almost half way through the season has shown he is neither a good football player or a guy who has good instincts for the game.

Mentioning him in the same sentence as those other guys is an insult to them.

I can this game too…

I am hearing Max is hurt… Did I do it right?