My question concerning Buchner’s transferring in from Notre Dame was rhetorical. It was clear the QB play in the spring had been bad and Milroe nor Simpson had separated themselves. And part of that decision to get Buckner by Saban IMO was the fact that Rees had coached him at Notre Dame.
Personally, I never ragged on Rees. I’m not sure why people were pinning the O heavily on him last year.
Poor guy went from limited Notre Dame QBs, to limited Alabama QBs of last year to Deshaun Watson this year. He's in QB purgatory
He's probably wondering what grand prize in hell he's won.
QB purgatory but has an unlimited allotment of massages.
Probably seven years of listening to Beano Cook telling him that Ron Pawlus at Notre Dame would be the first player to win THREE Heisman Trophies instead of just two?
There's a difference between straight line speed and mobility. Admittedly every D coordinator's greatest fear is JM running north south on you. He's as fast as your fastest safety and fairly large. But his movement in the pocket.... It's bad. Like really bad. Some guys just have this knack for moving around in the pocket and others just don't. He's really a below average passer who they thought could make up for it with mobility but he really has no mobility unless you open up the green field right in front of him and better defenses who have watched his film. They aren't going to do that. In fact Tennessee crashed the ends to cut off even the designed runs off tackle. At that point it was just a matter of watching JM flail around in the pocket and self destruct. Sure they knew he's get a few passes off but not enough to win. It's just simple probability and math. If Tenneesee hadn't turned the ball over so much it would have been a blowout win. Kind of sux for them because they don't get many chances to do that to us.
I’m honestly confused why we even recruited him. Maybe he was a “insurance” addition, but he has never matched any of the prototypical things Saban was looking for in a pro-style QB.
Which is exactly why you have to question why he wasn’t taking the yardage available with open field in front of him.
I could be wrong but I believe Drake Maye was originally committed to us and Milroe committed to Texas. Maye changed his mind and committed to North Carolina (which was not unexpected) and we flipped Milroe from Texas. And I truly believe Saban recruited him as an athlete and not a QB.
I believe Coach DeBoer over some guy named Austin Randolph.
He is not hurt! That's just another excuse that people are coming up with to try to defend the way he played. It's so frustrating.We missed out on all the ones we really wanted and JM was the best we could flip.
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