I seriously doubt Tua and Taulia leave just because he doesn't start game 1. I hope I'm proved wrong and Tua trots out there first myself, but I'm just not sure Coach Saban would choose a true starter until both split time in games. He has some kind of devotion to Jalen or the fact he was the starter because he should have pulled Jalen in the Iron Bowl and we were less of a threat to win that game than we were against UGA.
It's hard to see it that way, though you are not the first to say that lately.
Bama was behind UGA 13-0 at the half, they had a lead vs AU with 3:00 til the 4th quarter. After AU took the lead, Bama had the following 3 possessions:a good return and moved to the AU 12 and fumbled; moved 40+ yards to the AU 33 and gained 3 on 4th and 4; then moved 40+ yards as deep as the AU 30 and turned it over on downs. Yea, they looked embarrassingly incompetent on one of those, but they were leading late in the 3rd, then moved the ball on all 3 possessions following falling behind.
It's just not true that Jalen didn't move the team or that it was obvious that Saban should have replaced him with Tua. Not only the facts I mentioned above speak differently, but at that time Jalen was a 24-1 QB who had one of his biggest clutch passing efforts in Bama's previous SEC game vs MSU. Really, it would have been close to ridiculous to replace him. It was nothing like the UGA game. Full disclosure: I have been on record numerous times stating that Tua is superior to Jalen in every way as a passing QB and is almost as good a runner in a different way - just a far superior QB overall. So superior that IMO, Jalen has no chance to catch him. But some of the retrospective is way off the mark. It's unfair to Jalen and CNS - and uninformed.
Certainly agree that "I'm just ready for the season...to start to see what Tua can do!"