re: Ran some preliminary numbers for UGA-Bama and AU-Bama

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why

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Because the only long balls he can hit are when the receivers are wide open. How anybody could have faith in Hurts to lead a comeback passing the ball is baffling.

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Because the only long balls he can hit are when the receivers are wide open.

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That must be photo shopped or something.

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How anybody could have faith in Hurts to lead a comeback passing the ball is baffling.

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He's never even had the opportunity to do this, so its kind of baffling to me that you are absolutely certain that he wouldn't be able to.

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Sure, you can find some exceptions,

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I was responding to:

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Because the only long balls he can hit are when the receivers are wide open.

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My gif proved that his statement was false.

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and you can down vote all you want to,

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How do you even know that is me? Do downvotes bother you?

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but 17%, ranking 62 out of 67 starting power 5 qbs is bad.

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Meh, I've seen him do it enough to know with certainty that he absolutely can throw accurate long balls.

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It's the kind of bad that will get you beat. It did last year.

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Last I checked, he scored a touchdown that gave us the lead on his last possession of that game.

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I fail to understand why a supposed Alabama fan would not support the other qb if we needed him.

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where did I say that I would not support another QB if we needed him? You made up that lie. Bad look.

I understand the concern about whether Jalen could lead an 80 yard drive down the field down 6 with 1:40 left in the game. While his passing has improved this year, he still struggles with accuracy, touch and leading his WR's so they can catch the ball in stride and pick up crucial yards after the catch. Tons of times this year our WR's have to stop to catch a ball behind them, and get tackled where a well placed ball keeps them running full speed to pick up many more yards and maybe even scores. That's a problem. And we haven't hit a bomb down the field since game #1.

This is the reason I think we're seeing Tua get so much playing time. I think Saban is trying to get him ready incase we get into a situation that's not conducive to Jalen's strengths. In that scenario, I wouldn't be surprised one bit to see Tua run out with he offense and try to sling it around to give us a chance to win.

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Question Huddie for discussion, does a comeback have to be made up of only 20+ yard passes? If not what is his percentage of passes under 20?

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Jalen has struggled on deep throws (20+ yards) this year and there’s no arguing that. As with every QB the misses aren’t always his fault.

However, I think he has gotten a hell of a lot better at intermediate throws, which keep the chains moving, compared to last year when all we relied on were throws around the line of scrimmage.

Just an opinion I think Jalen will do fine against adversity (being down 7+). It looks like he plays tight and makes the safe play most of the time because we are up 2 scores. Why take the risk.

He hasn't been tested outside of FSU.

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SummerOfGeorge

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I’m not comfortable with either of these margins. Please re-run the numbers.

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Kind of blind to assume we can't run eh?

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Well, that is based on a pretty long history of run defense since Saban's been here. The only teams that have been successful running the ball on Alabama have also had a good passing game. I do think Fromm is probably a better passing qb than Hurts (and Tagovailoa is better than either) but I'm not sure that Fromm will be good enough to take up the slack for the running game. If he can, that will open it up for your running game.

edit: Assuming we both even make it there.

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I’m not comfortable with either of these margins. Please re-run the numbers.

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Begin girding your loins now sir