🏈 Gary Danielson: "The QB's are splitting reps 50/50. It's not what Bama has done in the past with the QB's splitting reps 75/55."

[TerryP]

We've not seen and equal split when it comes to snaps in games--A&M swinging that in Tua's favor by a few dozen I'm sure.

His comment leads to an idle thought this morning. If they're splitting the reps equally, isn't that a Two Quarterback system?

 

[utstnx]

IDK maybe Tua doesn't need the reps and Jalen does. It was obvious in the Texas AandM game that Tua was the man and Jalen didn't see time till mop up duty. How they take snaps in practice doesnt matter to me until it starts to impact the real games. So far Sabans system is working.
#trusttheprocess

 

[Tidestalker]

At Bama Saban goes the extra mile... Giving 130% is the standard!

 

[TUSKtimes]

Rat Poison. Tua played often in games last year when the score went north of 28 points. Vandy, Tennessee, were all second-half games for Tua. With Tua at the controls, we're just about duplicating that feat after the first quarter. Coach Saban on National TV made it clear that Jalen won't play with the second team, so nothing is the same as it was before.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

And its obvious who is the man at qb..he makes it look so easy...and it all changes when he isnt in...same receivers...same backs...same line...and it looks like a different team....amazing

 

[JoseyWalesTheOutlaw]

And its obvious who is the man at qb..he makes it look so easy...and it all changes when he isnt in...same receivers...same backs...same line...and it looks like a different team....amazing

Those that still believe #2 is close to as talented and productive as #13 at QB have another agenda other than football. Dead Horse ahead.

 

[alabama mike]

If you listen to all of Danielson's comments, he was also talking about how much the split in practice has changed since he played QB. He stated the starter always got about 75% of the reps.

As far as our QB's, if 50/50 is working, there is no reason to change it now.

 

[T&B]

The only reason I can think of to limit Tua to 50% reps during the week is pitch count.

Tua isn't throwing dink and dunk passes... he is driving the ball downfield 20+ yards. Football, baseball, whatever the sport if you throw 600 fastballs a week your damn arm will fall off.

Thats all I got.

Even with that said I really dont understand why Tua doesn't get 50%, and then Mac and Hurts get 25%. You'd have to think if Tua went down Mac would be the next best distributor of the football on the team.

That dead horse dead yet ? Well beat it some MOAR !

 

[TerryP]

Tua isn't throwing dink and dunk passes... he is driving the ball downfield 20+ yards. Football, baseball, whatever the sport if you throw 600 fastballs a week your damn arm will fall off.

What you're seeing isn't a case of him driving the ball 20+ yards downfield on his throws. The vast majority of his passes are 20 yards or less. The thing that is different this season is the yards after the catch. Roughly, we're looking at a 1:1 ratio--for every yard in the air the receivers are getting a yard after the catch. It was broken down in the A&m thread when comparing Mond to Tua. Tua's numbers were a little under 50% (in terms of yards through the air versus total yards gained on a pass.)

Out of Tua's 80 attempts this season we're looking at roughly 10 of those that have been more than 20 yards in the air. CFB Film Room has published graphs on all of his passes this season. It should be too hard to find the graph that breaks it down.

 

[#80]

It's clear to me this is not a two quarterback system. When Hurts comes in the offense bogs down and is much less productive.
I see it as giving him some playing time to keep him involved and happy.