BamaCoast said:
I believe the plays you are talking about were called but JPW just could not deliver. I think the truth is we had an average QB while most really good teams have a very talented QB.
I cannot say it was coaching until I know for sure what plays were called. Everytime we blitzed Utah made our defense pay.
JPW had several chances to make big plays early but could not deliver. I understand he had a lot of pressure all night but you have to make the quick passes that reduces the pressure and it never happened last night.
I just hope the right decision is made on next years qb. We need a gifted qb. One that will rise to the challenge.
Utah was good but in my opinion if we would have had a talented QB we could have won.
I am not bashing JPW. I wish it would have ended differently for him. When Coach Saban said after the game "We did not throw the ball effectively" it was key to our loss.
Pretty much my thoughts.
Wilson cannot be blamed for his lack of top-tier skills, but as Saban is wont to say, "(he) is what (he) is." And, in an effort to help Bill Clinton understand the word, "is" in this case is NOT All-American or even All-SEC level.
In modern day football, it is very, very difficult to compete at championship levels with an average to slightly below average QB whose most glowing praise from his coach is he is a 'good caretaker of the offense.'
Again, Wilson is what he is. Many times over his career there have been times where he needed to be the difference - and he was not (at least in our favor). At some point in time, to win a championship, your QB who has started 38 straight games heading into the SECCG needs to make decisions and plays when not everything goes perfectly. Wilson either never or very, very rarely performs under those conditions.
I know Terry likes to rationalize and offer reasons (thinly veiled excuses in my opinion) about why Wilson has only something like nine TD passes in 14 games this season. But, up to the SECCG Wilson had thrown the ball virtually the same exact number of times as Tebow but was trailing in TD passes something like 27-to-8 (and with more interceptions too). Might be unfair to compare Wilson to Tebow (talent wise), but for a three year starter to only have nine TDs in 14 games is very telling about the limitations we faced at that position (probably says a little about our WRs too).
The days of running a pro-style offense with a QB whose greatest talent is 'managing' or handing the ball off to a RB are past. We need a difference maker at the position. We need a QB that makes the players around him better. We need someone that can make plays when the scheme breaks down. Wilson was none of those. Not really his fault physically, but I do believe he is mentally undisciplined (evidenced by his consistently shaky performance under pressure). But that is what it is.
