I have to reiterate this fact. Blake Sims looked surprisingly good as a true freshman playing QB at A-Day. He struggled the other two A-Days, and didn't really show much in mop up duty. But, he looked good enough, in person that I came back and made a post about it and have pretty much stuck by the notion that he had legitimate skills at the QB position since then.
I see some of the same people are still hammering away at Blake (not you necessarily). Don't give him credit for putting a ball in a stationary WR's breadbasket, do blame him for things that didn't go his way. Remember that the deep pass that was dropped hung up in the air, forget that he almost hit Cooper in stride on another deep pass. It's getting old, no way he was going to be the backup, Ely was, no way he was going to be the backup, Morris was, no way he was going to be the starter Coker was (even I was guilty of thinking Coker would eventually take the job and he still might). Now, the chorus has gone from he can't throw the deep pass, to he can't throw the deep pass well enough. Ok, sure, what ever.
Blake played a great game, that's all there is to it. There's room for improvement, but he did as well as anyone could hope a QB to do in their debut. That doesn't mean he starts the rest of the games, that doesn't mean he leads Alabama to a championship, but it's about time people give him some credit. He's earned it.