Dont Blame Shula!!!!

[EASTtennBAMAman]

no need for blaming shula for not having confidence in Guillon. Guillon attempted 18 passes and only completed 6 of them. looks like he got enough chances to show what he has got. another point i want to make is that Matt Jones did not beat alabama by himself. look at his stats! he had about 70 yards rushing(got 50 of them on 1 play), so its not like he ran all over us, he also didnt have alot of passing yards against the bama defense and half of those came on that one play where the arkansas reciever made a lucky catch off a bama defenders back. we beat them on ever catagory. the difference i believe in the game was our inability to complete passes and thats a given. Guillon made his first start ever in college and he just needs to study a little more and get experience and confidence. he will do all this with time. i look for him to be alot better this coming week against south carolina. the only thing he can do is get better! ROLL TIDE

 

[dave12]

I think he will get better, at least he'd better. I understand first game jitters and all that. But he's just got to put this game behind him and Get more reps, and learn. This is his team now, and he's going to have to carry the responsibility that goes along with that. I think he'll do well down the road. I sure hope so.

RTR

 

[wisten]

Time = Experience. Patience is the key.

 

[Bama Greg]

I agree for the most part, yes we did pass 18 times with 6 completions, but we were very predictable in the first half. Guillion, I believe, was very cool in the pocket, he didn't have happy feet and other than that 1 lucky interception that they made, he played pretty well.

I would have loved to have seen more play-action passes in the first half on maybe 1st or 2nd down, I feel that would have set the tone and kept the defense honest. We adjusted in the 2nd half, but didn't keep them off balance as much as we could have. That's just my opinion, another arm-chair QB, I am sure there were reasons, I just didn't see them. We should have had several more completions, several were just dropped. That is where the experience hurt, our freshman receivers are going to be great, but I am sure they were intimidated just a bit with the hostile crowd.

We will bounce back next week at BD and hopefully get the ship headed back in the right direction.

Roll Tide!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

 

[TommyMac]

You can't fairly evaluate Marc's passing because he was only allowed to pass in obvious passing situations.

 

[Bama Lee]

I really noticed that the receivers and the qb were not in synce with the timing on the patterns. I saw several of those passes were the receiver either cut the wrong way or Guillon threw it the wrong way. I also remember noticing the same thing when Brodie made his first start. Guillon was also throwing off his back foot. The ball has a tendancy to sail on ya. I think it will take a little time for Guillon to develop the timing and the mechanics required to be a successful SEC QB. It is comforting to know that we can still run even with 32 defenders in the box ;-)