🏈 Who Do You Consider Bama's Most Under Rated QB Ever?

[psychojoe]

walter lewis:hyper:

he threw the ball out of bounds to stop the clock on 4th down.


OOOHHH you said UNDERrated... my bad..

I don't remember Walter Lewis doing that. Kenny Stabler did do it against Tennesee in his sophomore year.

 

[UAgrad93]

Andrew Zow is one that comes to mind. He held pretty much all of the passing records until Brodie and JPW came along and broke them. He received so much criticism since Tyler Watts was his back up. Everyone loves the backup.

 

[Swamptick]

I love all of these off season, post A-Day game topics.

I am going to have to think of some topic here soon that we will all forget in a few days.

I made one last year but I can't remember what it was.....

 

[BamaFan425]

I will call and raise you....

/Spencer Pennington

I go all in with Brandon Avalos.

 

[bamadezz]

I'm gonna say JPW. He quietly set records, despite some bad decisions from time to time.

 

[Big_Fan]

Honestly, Barker is probably the one.

Sure he is respected in retrospect, but when he was our QB...Brian Burgdorf was the most popular QB on the team among fans. It was only later that people realized all Jay did was win. In terms of stats, with the exception of one night in Athens - he was never a worldbeater.

 

[rolltide1969]

Honestly, Barker is probably the one.

Sure he is respected in retrospect, but when he was our QB...Brian Burgdorf was the most popular QB on the team among fans. It was only later that people realized all Jay did was win. In terms of stats, with the exception of one night in Athens - he was never a worldbeater.

I agree completely!

 

[Kirk Van de Graaff]

Steadman Shealy then Zow and Rutledge. Bart Starr as a Bama QB could be in this also.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

JPW and Zow are the two best choices. Perhaps Barker received abuse as an underclassman, but history has been very kind to him. On the reverse, Don Jacobs was a hell of a QB, but his fumble against State tainted his record. I think he is remembered, unfairly, for that one mistake.

RTR,

Tim

 

[Nate]

Andrew Zow is one that comes to mind. He held pretty much all of the passing records until Brodie and JPW came along and broke them. He received so much criticism since Tyler Watts was his back up. Everyone loves the backup.

Andrew Zow is exactly who I was thinking too.

 

[psychojoe]

Steadman Shealy then Zow and Rutledge. Bart Starr as a Bama QB could be in this also.

Which Rutledge, Gary or Jeff?

 

[BamaHeat]

Richard Todd Hell of an athelete!

Jeff Rutledge

Exactly what I was going to post!

 

[Bo]

I'm going with Freddie Kitchens. If the guy would have had a good O-line, he would have broken all sorts of passing records, IMO.

 

[Kirk Van de Graaff]

Which Rutledge, Gary or Jeff?

Jeff

 

[bama4life]

I think you were being sarcastic or at least I hope you were.

On a side note you can't "call and raise". :headscratch:

Really? Just like you believe that Spencer was a serious answer? You W1n.

 

[Poof]

Bart Starr. He platooned with Albert Elmore. Now you know how old I am.:lol:

 

[UAgrad93]

I still say Zow because he took a bashing his entire career. He held so many QB records until Brodie and JPW came along.

 

[psychojoe]

While I deeply respect what Bart Starr accomplished with the Packers and in life, he played on some very poor Ears Whitworth teams and missed a lot of games due to an injured back. His Bama time to me might be overrated because if his NFL success.

 

[bamafan850]

If JPW was more consistent I would say him, but I still, after all these years, believe the answer is Jay Barker. I can't wait to see who steps up this year. Right now I am kinda worried about the QB situation.

 

[bear facts]

A young man (back then) from Bogalusa, Louisiana, immediately comes to mind: TERRY DAVIS

http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1086766/index.htm

Terry Davis (see cover), the quarterback of unbeaten Alabama, is too small for the pros. His arm and statistics are ungodlike and he has the countenance of a Norman Rockwell boy who thinks he might go cane-pole fishing after a while. But last week in Birmingham, the football capital of the South, Davis passed and ran and pitched and faked and handed off, and just generally executed so thoroughly that hitherto undefeated LSU rarely knew what to expect from him. Alabama won 35-21, which leaves it sitting pretty, bowlwise and pollwise. Saturday night the streets of Birmingham ran red with the school colors and the flushed faces of Crimson Tide enthusiasts yelling "Hooo Lordy" and "Roll, Tide." Those bards who celebrate legendary Confederate quarterbacks must surely have whipped together a "Ballad of Terry Davis" plus an aggressive bumper sticker or two. And after the game Coach Bear Bryant went so far as to say, "I don't know how you get consideration for that Heisman, or whatever it is, but Terry Davis hasn't lost a regular season game."

http://drugcalledtradition.wordpress.com/2008/11/24/5-greatest-iron-bowl-the-biggest-game-of-all/

'Brothers in Arms...and Legs.' Quarterback Terry Davis and his brother Bill, the Tide place kicker, accounted for 19 of Alabama's 31 points in the '71 Iron Bowl.

I particularly like how TD with this TD run broke some hillbilly hearts:
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTBVl2t_MkE[/ame]