🏈 Grantland: Alabama QB Assembly Line

[planomateo]

Interesting read, I don't agree with many of his points, but thought there was enough nuggets in here that some of you might find this worth a read. This is apparently his first piece for Grantland.

 

[TerryP]

As with any piece from Grantland, prepare yourself to sit down and read for a few minutes. I appreciate the depth but could do without some of the flowery prose.

Curious Matt. You mention several points you disagree with. What stuck out to you?

 

[planomateo]

I'll start with a few areas.

* Alabama has landed many top QB recruits, yet he states "Alabama has never attracted the crème de la crème of high school passers, especially relative to the uniformly blue-chip talent it brings in at other positions."
* Suggesting that we only have game managers, I'm getting tired of seeing this as a "negative"

 

[alabama mike]

@planomateo I am not seeing a link about the article anywhere.

 

[planomateo]

Its in the tweet above (or here > http://t.co/RL0Kx4RlMs)

 

[TerryP]

I'll start with a few areas.

* Alabama has landed many top QB recruits, yet he states "Alabama has never attracted the crème de la crème of high school passers, especially relative to the uniformly blue-chip talent it brings in at other positions."
* Suggesting that we only have game managers, I'm getting tired of seeing this as a "negative"

I read that about the recruits and interpreted it differently. By rankings, we have. By results, we haven't.

I may reach the point of it being tiresome hearing game managers. At this point, I'm still amused at how people say it's a bad thing. Fact is, what we need this season is precisely that.

 

[riz]

As with any piece from Grantland, prepare yourself to sit down and read for a few minutes. I appreciate the depth but could do without some of the flowery prose.

Curious Matt. You mention several points you disagree with. What stuck out to you?

Like the rest of us, they graduate to a life in polo shirts, not pads.

What are these polo shirts they speak of?

 

[psychojoe]

Of all the Bama QBs I have seen over the years, only Namath and Stabler would not be considered game managers. It is still all about the wins. Twenty years from now, if Greg McElroy's name comes up in conversation, it will be in 'he was the qb in 2009 when we ran the table', not 'he was just a game manager'. I don't think that NFL success whould be the criteria we use to measure how good our quarterbacks were.