I think I've about reached my threshold of tolerance for people poor mouthing our starting QB.
It's like he gets NO CREDIT for playing 2/3rds of the season at less than 100%..... he was probably 85% or less most of the time and STILL LIT teams UP.
Was he the same after the knee injury stated vs Arkansas??? NO... he wasn't. He lost almost all of his lateral agility that allows him to buy time and extend plays.
If he did anything wrong it would be him having trouble adjusting to the injury, knee brace etc. He kept trying to make 100% Healthy Tua plays at 85%. He pressed and started doing things out of the norm.
Yes he loves the BIG play..... but go back and watch the 1st 6 games and you'll see him making plenty of checkdowns. He only went away from that after the knee issue started.
I mean look..... these are his stats from Missouri forward where to varying degrees he was banged up.... and NOT MISSING PLAYING TIME.... HE PLAYED THROUGH THE INJURIES....:
169 of 254 (67% Comp) for 2,471 yards 25 TD's and 6 INT's
That's a 9 game stretch of 85% or less Tua..... and if those were his ONLY passing stats he would have still been 10th in Alabama All-Time single Passing yards and 4th (FOURTH) in Passing TD's.
You could even look at it like this.... His November QBR was 178.32 and his Dec/Jan QBR was 158.57
If he had a season long QBR of 178.32 he would have been 2ND in QBR only behind Kyler Murray.
If he had a season long QBR of 158.57 he would have been 9TH in the country.
Is this message getting through??
His WORST PLAY is still Top 10 QB level play....
Some people around here need to get a grip on things with some proper perspective.
Tua's not perfect.... but he's the best QB we have EVER had and he played his GUTS out for us last year and it would nice if people would get off his back criticizing and nitpicking.
It's like he gets NO CREDIT for playing 2/3rds of the season at less than 100%..... he was probably 85% or less most of the time and STILL LIT teams UP.
Was he the same after the knee injury stated vs Arkansas??? NO... he wasn't. He lost almost all of his lateral agility that allows him to buy time and extend plays.
If he did anything wrong it would be him having trouble adjusting to the injury, knee brace etc. He kept trying to make 100% Healthy Tua plays at 85%. He pressed and started doing things out of the norm.
Yes he loves the BIG play..... but go back and watch the 1st 6 games and you'll see him making plenty of checkdowns. He only went away from that after the knee issue started.
I mean look..... these are his stats from Missouri forward where to varying degrees he was banged up.... and NOT MISSING PLAYING TIME.... HE PLAYED THROUGH THE INJURIES....:
169 of 254 (67% Comp) for 2,471 yards 25 TD's and 6 INT's
That's a 9 game stretch of 85% or less Tua..... and if those were his ONLY passing stats he would have still been 10th in Alabama All-Time single Passing yards and 4th (FOURTH) in Passing TD's.
You could even look at it like this.... His November QBR was 178.32 and his Dec/Jan QBR was 158.57
If he had a season long QBR of 178.32 he would have been 2ND in QBR only behind Kyler Murray.
If he had a season long QBR of 158.57 he would have been 9TH in the country.
Is this message getting through??
His WORST PLAY is still Top 10 QB level play....
Some people around here need to get a grip on things with some proper perspective.
Tua's not perfect.... but he's the best QB we have EVER had and he played his GUTS out for us last year and it would nice if people would get off his back criticizing and nitpicking.