If JM is on trial for anything it's for his play on the field!
That's my biggest concern: not being able to read defenses, not able to go thru progressions, bad footwork, bad accuracy, lack of touch on short throws, etc. (I think we all know these things, but they are so offensive for someone who has been hailed as a "star" by media, fans, etc. it just needs to be said that he has MAJOR struggles related to QB skills).
Now, I'm not in the camp "he's not a QB" (just to get that out of the way), but I am in the camp that he's like 99.9% of us and struggles with elite QB talents like those listed above. But unlike 99% of us he's also a world class athlete that has a chance to improve enough to maybe become a better QB for Bama and beyond!
I wish we could leave it at that but because of his MAJOR weaknesses, his trial in the court of public opinion spills over into what he doing off the field too! And make not bones about it LANK is his idea and so he's running with it!
Every time JM turns around he's repping LANK, going to Talledega, making media appearances, giving interviews, etc. I don't know who is responsible for these things! Is it UA? Does he have an agent? IDK, but I'm almost 100% sure this is not all arranged by JM. He's not a "business man" so somebody is doing this for one reason: money for them!
JM, however, is complicit with is and this is the rub! Every time JM is put in the spotlight it give off the LOOK that he's not being the ALABAMA QB we need him to be. The one who is really working at eliminating all of those major flaws. What about BY's NIL deals? Really, how can anybody compare the development of the two (and if I'm not mistaken JM is actually older than BY right now - at worse same age I think)???
This thread has become a mess, but I really feel like the "concerns" about JM and LANK were really exposed in the first couple of pages.
What JM is doing/being led to do is not WRONG. It's just a BAD LOOK for someone who is not very good yet at his job. It looks, one again, like he's not practicing very good self awareness to know what he really needs to be doing. It looks like he believes he's a star, when he couple possibly not even be the starter next year.
It's not that he shouldn't take advantage of NIL, but the problem IMO but all the other players with NIL deals are enjoying the benefits of NIL but they aren't in the spotlight all the time but they are putting their noses to the grindstone and working their butts off mostly in anonymity.
Bottom line, in the months between spring ball and fall camp we should rarely be hearing about the Bama QB doing anything but working on his game. JM has so many holes in his game he should go into monastery mode over the next few months to work on his QB skills.
That's my biggest concern: not being able to read defenses, not able to go thru progressions, bad footwork, bad accuracy, lack of touch on short throws, etc. (I think we all know these things, but they are so offensive for someone who has been hailed as a "star" by media, fans, etc. it just needs to be said that he has MAJOR struggles related to QB skills).
Now, I'm not in the camp "he's not a QB" (just to get that out of the way), but I am in the camp that he's like 99.9% of us and struggles with elite QB talents like those listed above. But unlike 99% of us he's also a world class athlete that has a chance to improve enough to maybe become a better QB for Bama and beyond!
I wish we could leave it at that but because of his MAJOR weaknesses, his trial in the court of public opinion spills over into what he doing off the field too! And make not bones about it LANK is his idea and so he's running with it!
Every time JM turns around he's repping LANK, going to Talledega, making media appearances, giving interviews, etc. I don't know who is responsible for these things! Is it UA? Does he have an agent? IDK, but I'm almost 100% sure this is not all arranged by JM. He's not a "business man" so somebody is doing this for one reason: money for them!
JM, however, is complicit with is and this is the rub! Every time JM is put in the spotlight it give off the LOOK that he's not being the ALABAMA QB we need him to be. The one who is really working at eliminating all of those major flaws. What about BY's NIL deals? Really, how can anybody compare the development of the two (and if I'm not mistaken JM is actually older than BY right now - at worse same age I think)???
This thread has become a mess, but I really feel like the "concerns" about JM and LANK were really exposed in the first couple of pages.
What JM is doing/being led to do is not WRONG. It's just a BAD LOOK for someone who is not very good yet at his job. It looks, one again, like he's not practicing very good self awareness to know what he really needs to be doing. It looks like he believes he's a star, when he couple possibly not even be the starter next year.
It's not that he shouldn't take advantage of NIL, but the problem IMO but all the other players with NIL deals are enjoying the benefits of NIL but they aren't in the spotlight all the time but they are putting their noses to the grindstone and working their butts off mostly in anonymity.
Bottom line, in the months between spring ball and fall camp we should rarely be hearing about the Bama QB doing anything but working on his game. JM has so many holes in his game he should go into monastery mode over the next few months to work on his QB skills.
