OT: How important is the QB?

[18IsTheMan]

Pretty good article looking at Alabama's current situation. They are, talent-wise, the deepest team in modern football history, becoming the first team in modern recruiting history to achieve a 90% blue-chip ratio.

But they don't have a QB.

Alabama football has a problem not even Nick Saban can solve

Even the greatest coach of all time can't solve the issue of not having a top-level quarterback to run his offense.

theathletic.com

 

[Prestonyte]

Saban open for a trade? - one good QB for 4 good OLinemen!!!

 

[KingWard]

Tommy Rees is getting much of the blame for their futility on offense.

 

[Prestonyte]

Tommy Rees is getting much of the blame for their futility on offense.

Saban's claim to fame has been good assistant coaches.

 

[18IsTheMan]

Saban's claim to fame has been good assistant coaches.

Thus far he has shown a knack to remain at the top in spite of incredible staff turnover. It's been a veritable revolving door at OC for him, but I think he's won titles with at least 4 different OC's. It's a credit to him as a head coach that he's been so consistently capable of plugging in new OC's with success. All good things eventually come to an end though.

 

[Carolina Doc]

Personally, I believe that QB makes all the difference in the world.

 

[18IsTheMan]

Personally, I believe that QB makes all the difference in the world.

When is the last time a team won the national title without an elite QB?

Bama won with AJ McCarron in 2011 and 2012, but they had a spectacularly good run game those years.

 

[Uscg1984]

When is the last time a team won the national title without an elite QB?

Bama won with AJ McCarron in 2011 and 2012, but they had a spectacularly good run game those years.

If you have all of the other pieces, I'm not sure you need an "elite" QB but you do need a QB who can be a "game manager," whatever that may be. We hear that term to describe guys like McCarron and, going back a ways, Jay Barker, who QBed Alabama's 1992 championship team. I'm not sure exactly what the definition of a "game manager," is, but I suspect it's a guy who knows exactly what his own physical limitations are and plays the game right up to, but does not try to exceed, those limitations while letting the talented cast around him perform at their highest level.

 

[Gradstudent]

When is the last time a team won the national title without an elite QB?

Bama won with AJ McCarron in 2011 and 2012, but they had a spectacularly good run game those years.

Last time, a team won without a elite QB probably was Jake Coker at Alabama in 2015?

Cardale Jones the year before with Ohio State, was not elite either.

 

[Irvin Snibbley]

I don't think Stetson Bennett qualifies as an elite QB.Very few Elite QB's and he's not at that level.