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I want to make sure I’m being clear. The QB is 90% of the problem. Milroe should have transferred last year instead of wasting the staff’s time. The staff should have done whatever they needed to do in the portal to get a QB. I’ll leave it at that.
Why would Milroe or any other player think about transferring when he is getting the majority of the snaps with the 1’s. That tells me CNS had him at QB 1 all off season and that the real battle was for QB 2.
 
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That drove me crazy. If Milroe is all we have, then we need to play to his strengths. Rees doesn’t know what he’s doing. Kiffin would have won this game.

Well everyone gave Daboll hell all season about not adjusting to Jalen’s talent. But at some point you realize breaking a quarterback from a one read and go tendency is like dealing with a dog who takes a love of chasing cars. You aren’t going to break his worst tendencies other than calling out who is going to throw to for him pre snap. It’s not something you can do during a season and is something you have to break in camp. I don’t think Rees will ever be able to run his offense with Milroe nor do I think he will able to force Saban to make the changes needed like Daboll did.
 
Why would Milroe or any other player think about transferring when he is getting the majority of the snaps with the 1’s. That tells me CNS had him at QB 1 all off season and that the real battle was for QB 2.
With respect, I think you’re being naive. Saban has encouraged many players to transfer over the years. He’s not the only one by any means, it’s a very common practice. Sometimes you just have to cut your losses when you completely whiff on player evaluation.
 
with all of the dumb crap they waste a ton of time on reviewing, i couldn’t believe they didn’t even look at this.
And let me add two things here: first, it may have been a moot point, if it indeed was a fumble, IF* the Alabama player closest to the sideline touched it while out of bounds. Second, why was NOBODY on the Alabama sideline in the side judge’s ear about a review? It is a crucial point in the game. You at the very least “lobby” to get it looked at.

But you are 100% correct. It should have at least been looked at. I’ve seen far more obvious reviewed.
 
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This team, with Milroe at QB, on the road in an SEC game.......with no defense fearing his passing capabilities or just flat out baiting him into bad throws....well, things could get really ugly.

Either we run an option offense with Milroe and hope for the best or a change needs to be made. If Buchner and Simpson are no better then give Lonergan a shot and give him some experience for next year.
 
This team, with Milroe at QB, on the road in an SEC game.......with no defense fearing his passing capabilities or just flat out baiting him into bad throws....well, things could get really ugly.

Either we run an option offense with Milroe and hope for the best or a change needs to be made. If Buchner and Simpson are no better then give Lonergan a shot and give him some experience for next year.
It’s too late to switch to an option offense. That decision should have been made in the spring. If we don’t change our QB, we will lose at least 3 more games.
 
If you go back and watch what Sark did for us against Auburn in 2020 and what he did last night, particularly in the first half, it is remarkably similar. He started early making the defense run “side to side” with the lateral passes, getting it out quick. Ran it “just enough” early to make us respect it, then ran play action to get those safeties moving up and “took the top off”.

And who was the DC at Auburn in 2020? One Kevin Steele.

Sark knew what Steele would do before he did it.
That was one of the things I was afraid of when they hired him...................there were other DCs on the list I would have looked at.

But there are a myriad of issues to work on, and today is the day to start fixing them
 
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This team, with Milroe at QB, on the road in an SEC game.......with no defense fearing his passing capabilities or just flat out baiting him into bad throws....well, things could get really ugly.

Either we run an option offense with Milroe and hope for the best or a change needs to be made. If Buchner and Simpson are no better then give Lonergan a shot and give him some experience for next year.
Cruloc….here’s the really sad thing. With those to interceptions there was really no “baiting”. JM either predetermined his receiver or never read the coverage. I’m leaning towards “never seeing/reading” the coverage.

Interceptions happens…tips, batted balls, overthrows, etc.. But those two interceptions weren’t just bad. They were awful.
 
Bama QB's have been working out with receivers during summer for years. Buchner also worked out with Bama receivers over the summer. Milroe didn't lose the game. Milroe didn't give up five sacks. Milroe doesn't play D. QB gets too much credit when a team wins and too much blame when a team loses.
Milroe threw 2 picks directly to the other team. He had time to throw several times and bailed. One time he literally ran right into a sack after several seconds in the pocket. He is not a QB.
 
Daboll didnt know what to do with Jalen either...

There are bad fits between OC and QB and Rees and Milroe is one of them...

Again this is the NIL era, the kids show no loyalty anymore. Now that may go against the grain of your philosophy of coaching or why do what you do, but this is the way it is.

With that you have to make quick decisive decisions, you can't let things play out on the field. Doing that now, you will walk into an empty locker room. Critical decisions need to be made now. If you have to reinsert yourself into gameplans/technique then do it.

I don't care how many teammates like Milroe none of his teammates signed up to be a part of what we saw last night. I'm not piling on Milroe here. He is a symptom of a larger issue.

Coach is himhawing when he should be doubling down on expectations. If he let's this carry on, then staff and players will make his decision for him...
That drove me crazy. If Milroe is all we have, then we need to play to his strengths. Rees doesn’t know what he’s doing. Kiffin would have won this game.
 
Cruloc….here’s the really sad thing. With those to interceptions there was really no “baiting”. JM either predetermined his receiver or never read the coverage. I’m leaning towards “never seeing/reading” the coverage.

Interceptions happens…tips, batted balls, overthrows, etc.. But those two interceptions weren’t just bad. They were awful.
I agree.............it's like he just threw it without thinking on it...............time to try someone else. I'd let Buchner take a whack at it, since Rees was his OC
 
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How does benching Milroe fix the defense?
Well for starters they wouldn’t have to defend a 20-yard field.
Let's be honest, 2020 really is an asterisk. We hate it, but so many teams couldn't play or had large numbers of player missing due to Covid protocols, etc. It is what it is, but it's not the same as 2017.

Let me ask you this - does Alabama over the last few years look like Alabama from 2009-2017?

It doesn't to me.
If we hadn’t changed our philosophy, I’m certain we would have won NCs in 2018 and 2019.
 
That is all on Saban for continuing to play the wrong QB, in both cases.
Could we be looking at a case of “look what Hurts was eventually able to do” and thinking that Milroe maybe has the same or better potential? I’m just spitballing. Don’t doubt Milroe doesn’t put in the work, it just hasn’t clicked yet. And with Hurts, I kinda feel like he had to get benched before he really committed to learn to be a passing QB who could read a defense and not use his athletic gifts to bail him out all the time.
We have what, 5 QB’s on scholarship? Simpson came in with a lot of fanfare and has a year under his belt. 2 of the 5, Milroe and Simpson, were supposed to have been developed over the last year as Bryce Young’s backup. Seems they weren’t. I remember BOB telling a reporter all the things Milroe couldn’t do which was relayed on the air in a game. I swear it feels like BOB didn’t bother to try and develop players like he knew he wasn’t going to be around to have to deal with it. Maybe I’m wrong but I swear the QB room ought to be farther along than this.
I need to add, what happened last night in no way was all on the QB. There was a myriad of things that went wrong
 
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So Rees, as OC, now finds himself in the same position that Golding resided as DC the last few years. He doesn't have any control over his personnel or offensive strategy. Golding didn't have as DC. Daboll didn't have it with Jalen and only got it with the likelihood of losing the NC.

Staff management has been really poor by Saban for awhile. His gameplan box is too small. It took elite OCs in Kiffen and Sark to put a second leg on the dynasty or it would have ended in 2012.
 

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