Alabama Quarterback and Wide Receiver Discussion

[Marshal Dillon]

I know this is a VERY touchy subject with some of the posters, but we need to discuss this since the Ole Miss game may have changed perceptions or revealed weaknesses.

First of all, what's the perception of QB Blake Sims now. Just one bad game, too much happy feet, no change and why or why not? I never thought he was a Heisman candidate or the next coming of Namath or Stabler but I thought he might be a stable, serviceable QB. We play Arkansas & A&M next. These games will tell us a lot about Sims. Personally, in the 2nd half, I saw a unconfident, and hesitant QB who appeared confused at times.

Second, the WR situation is somewhat confusing. At the start of the season, we were told we had the deepest WR corps in the country. Where did that depth go in the Ole Miss game? White was hurt and Drake injured, so that's a known, but what about the bench? We threw 1 pass each to Black & Jones. OJ Howard was a disaster with 2 costly penalties and having a 5'9" CB take a reception from him in the end zone (he's 6'5" 250). Instead of aggressively going after the ball, he waited for the ball to come to him and it cost us.
Maybe someone else has another take on the WR situation and I would enjoy hearing it, because the situation really has me confused about what was going on. Were they just covered up every time, did the QB not see them, or something else?


 
 

[ALTideUp]

Despite the understandable attention to Drake's horrific injury, the loss of Kelly at center was another pivotal challenge that Sims had to face at crucial point in the game. Crunch time deep in the OM student section. The only things I think Sims did poorly were running out of bounds behind the line of scrimmage when a toss out the sidelines would have saved 5-9 yards.

I don't even know our depth at WR past Jones and Black. Anyone on that?

[Chechem]

Despite the understandable attention to Drake's horrific injury, the loss of Kelly at center was another pivotal challenge that Sims had to face at crucial point in the game. Crunch time deep in the OM student section. The only things I think Sims did poorly were running out of bounds behind the line of scrimmage when a toss out the sidelines would have saved 5-9 yards.

I don't even know our depth at WR past Jones and Black. Anyone on that?

There was a screen pass called.  Thus, the linemen had released down field.  It would have been called ineligible receiver downfield.

[ricky023]

I am so confused I don't what one end of a basketball from a football. So I am no help at all in nothing. RTR!

[Jamos]

First of all don't go blaming Sims for the offensive woes. Take a look at what the offensive line didn't do yesterday. When Kelly got injured it only made Sim's job that much harder, the OL had a bad second half. If you had been in my seat yesterday you could have seen that Ole Miss did a fantastic job on pass coverage, much better than Bama did. As far as receivers, we had our best receivers on the field and they could not get much space between them and the defender.

I give all the credit to Ole Miss, they played the way they had to to beat Bama and it was no one person's fault with the way the score ended up, they were not the better team on Saturday.

[Crimson Phoenix]

I don't know football the way most of you men do, but I am still sick over
Coach Saban going back on his word to walk-on quarterback Luke del Rio.

It's water under the dam now...but Luke (son of Denver Broncos defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio) worked his way up to wearing the headsets for A.J. McCarron.  He beat out all the rest of the quarterback recruits.  He is tall, very bright, and a game manager type quarterback like A.J and Greg McElroy.  His scholarship was given to Jacob Coker.      

So now, Luke will soon be starting for Oregon State where he turned down a scholarship to walk on at Alabama.  He will have several years to play.  I will feel sick for the rest of the year and maybe longer.

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[Chechem]

I don't know football the way most of you men do, but I am still sick over
Coach Saban going back on his word to walk-on quarterback Luke del Rio.

It's water under the dam now...but Luke (son of Denver Broncos defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio) worked his way up to wearing the headsets for A.J. McCarron.  He beat out all the rest of the quarterback recruits.  He is tall, very bright, and a game manager type quarterback like A.J and Greg McElroy.  His scholarship was given to Jacob Coker.     

So now, Luke will soon be starting for Oregon State where he turned down a scholarship to walk on at Alabama.  He will have several years to play.  I will feel sick for the rest of the year and maybe longer.

What's the del Rio relationship with Kiffin?

[Marshal Dillon]

First of all don't go blaming Sims for the offensive woes. Take a look at what the offensive line didn't do yesterday. When Kelly got injured it only made Sim's job that much harder, the OL had a bad second half. If you had been in my seat yesterday you could have seen that Ole Miss did a fantastic job on pass coverage, much better than Bama did. As far as receivers, we had our best receivers on the field and they could not get much space between them and the defender.

I give all the credit to Ole Miss, they played the way they had to to beat Bama and it was no one person's fault with the way the score ended up, they were not the better team on Saturday.

Your comments are somewhat confusing. First, who is blaming Sims? Do you think Sims had a good game? Also, I know we had our best receivers on the field, but if they could not get open, could we have tried a fresh and rested backup a chance to see if they could do better? The depth chart shows the backups for the starters (WR) but we did not use some of them.  I'm trying to have an honest discussion of a particular area of the offense which seem to struggle yesterday. What problems were the O-line having in particular that you saw after Kelley left the game?

[Crimson Phoenix]

I don't know football the way most of you men do, but I am still sick over
Coach Saban going back on his word to walk-on quarterback Luke del Rio.

It's water under the dam now...but Luke (son of Denver Broncos defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio) worked his way up to wearing the headsets for A.J. McCarron.  He beat out all the rest of the quarterback recruits.  He is tall, very bright, and a game manager type quarterback like A.J and Greg McElroy.  His scholarship was given to Jacob Coker.      

So now, Luke will soon be starting for Oregon State where he turned down a scholarship to walk on at Alabama.  He will have several years to play.  I will feel sick for the rest of the year and maybe longer.

What's the del Rio relationship with Kiffin?

They don't get along.  So I guess that answers it.
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[Chechem]

I don't know football the way most of you men do, but I am still sick over
Coach Saban going back on his word to walk-on quarterback Luke del Rio.

It's water under the dam now...but Luke (son of Denver Broncos defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio) worked his way up to wearing the headsets for A.J. McCarron.  He beat out all the rest of the quarterback recruits.  He is tall, very bright, and a game manager type quarterback like A.J and Greg McElroy.  His scholarship was given to Jacob Coker.     

So now, Luke will soon be starting for Oregon State where he turned down a scholarship to walk on at Alabama.  He will have several years to play.  I will feel sick for the rest of the year and maybe longer.

What's the del Rio relationship with Kiffin?

They don't get along.  So I guess that answers it.

The del Rios were classy enough to keep it to themselves, but that was the implication.

[roll tide roll]

Sims lost his starting center and after that was getting low snaps all night.

That naked bootleg to cross the goal line, the third time, to get that one td was beautiful.

I do not blame him for the penalties or dropped passes.

OJ Howard is a TE.  I hope everyone who has been crying about him is happy.
The int is his fault.

Penalties and dropped passes.  BAMA beat ole piss pretty much everywhere except the scoreboard.

Brown saved what he has left of his ass by blocking that pat.

[Old Tider]

Okay, we recruit and coach better than anybody, so why has the team sputtered so much? 

[Crimson Phoenix]

Okay, we recruit and coach better than anybody, so why has the team sputtered so much?  

Cecil Hurt talks about it a little today in his article.  Hope I am not breaking any rules here. "First Opponent Alabama Must Overcome is in the Mirror."

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[Marshal Dillon]

Okay, we recruit and coach better than anybody, so why has the team sputtered so much?  

That's the $10 million question that no one answers. Problems always start at the top, that's Coach Saban, but in the minds of some, criticizing him is like criticizing the Lord. Why do we keep the same lousy Special Teams coach, Coach Saban gets mad if he is asked about that. Coach Saban is a great coach, but he's not perfect (as some of the posters rain thunderbolts down on me for making such a sacrilegious statement about him). The sunny side of all this is we can recover. I expected us to go 10-2 during the regular season due to the competition, and the loss of 7 starters on the defense. The defense, except the DB's, have looked better this year. My biggest concern or lack of understanding is how we could have a week off to prepare and look so out-of-sync on the offense? Is Kiffin not attending to the fundamentals and looking too mutch at play calling? I don't know, I'm just throwing stuff out there to help me understand. We should beat Arkansas & A&M handily, but we will see.



 

[Chechem]

Okay, we recruit and coach better than anybody, so why has the team sputtered so much?  

Cecil Hurt talks about it a little today in his article.  Hope I am not breaking any rules here. "First Opponent Alabama Must Overcome is in the Mirror."

Click here for link

Thanks.
No rules broken.  You can add a link (as you did), and quote up to ~ 1/3 of the article without incident. 
Any more and you have to answer to Jamos (aka. REC Treasurer). 

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