🏈 College football: Improved Hurts leads SEC's promising group of young QBs

[By Alex Byington Sports]

TUSCALOOSA — Jake Bentley isn’t buying into any of the criticism surrounding Alabama’s Jalen Hurts, not after spending a week getting to know him last month at the Manning Passing Academy.

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[TerryP]

Combined with six veteran quarterbacks that include Arkansas senior Austin Allen, who led the SEC in passing yards last season, LSU senior Danny Etling, Missouri junior Drew Lock and Auburn junior transfer Jarrett Stidham, the SEC could arguably feature the nation’s top quarterback class this upcoming season.

"They have all the talent to be able to do it," SEC Network analyst and former Alabama quarterback Greg McElroy told the Associated Press. "And I like the supporting cast that a lot of them have coming back. It's just a matter of if improvements are made during the offseason and the rapport is developed with the receivers. If it is, the offenses in this league could take a significant step forward."

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I've been waiting for this story line to get its legs. I've suggested the possibility it'll be the best QB competition the Bama defense will have faced in Saban's era.

There's a few questions on guys like Stidham. Even today, after the reports coming from their camps and summer workouts, I look at him about like I did with Ryan Mallett. Mallett had a live arm, good games against some pretty good teams, and ran into a wall when it come to Bama. Will Stidham have a similar experience?

 

[XXL TideFan]

I've been waiting for this story line to get its legs. I've suggested the possibility it'll be the best QB competition the Bama defense will have faced in Saban's era.

There's a few questions on guys like Stidham. Even today, after the reports coming from their camps and summer workouts, I look at him about like I did with Ryan Mallett. Mallett had a live arm, good games against some pretty good teams, and ran into a wall when it come to Bama. Will Stidham have a similar experience?

As often as not, Bama just gets in your head before the game.

 

[TUSKtimes]

Stidham represents plenty of questions that go deeper than just when we play them. Does Malzahn really turn the offense over to the true philosophy of their new OC? Or is Gus still determined to make his spread concepts work through the air, cause Stidham is not reminding folks of Cam or Nick Marshall?

Offensive schemes give us more trouble than talent, so I look for a Shea Patterson to scare the crap out of us again this year. I can see the barners giving us all we want and I personally hope that attrition puts some tread marks on the plainers before we get there. The aggies have the scheme but at this point do they have a competent trigger puller we need to worry about? Everyone else is in a whole lot of trouble with plenty of matchup issues of their own.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

....if...if....AU survives....and even if Stidham is the starter..and leads them to prime time.....they r the team of the year....
Every QB in the non D conference big 12....puts up big #s.....
And AUs schedule is tough..........
I dont see them better then 8-4....probably a 7-5.....
.....but they will be hyped with their first half....then reality sets in....