Originally Posted by abolt300
Originally Posted by CNC
I just hope the offensive line gets better and we have someone step in who can fill Milroe's shoes.......


Anyone remember a guy named Seth McLaughlin. He was supposedly the weak link and Milroe's excuse year before last. Transferred to OSU, won the starting job on the national championship winning team and started every single play until he tore his ACL in practice before the last game of the season. This past season: "Seth McLaughlin of Ohio State won the 2024 Rimington Trophy, which is awarded to the top college football center in the country." Yep, previous year's problems didn't have anything at all to do with Milroe's cadence, timing or anything like that. He just forgot how to snap a football between his JR and SR seasons, then remembered how as a graduate student. Seth had no problem snapping to Bryce and no problem snapping to the OSU QBs. The entire O-line was supposedly the problem this year, yet when Milroe just played with some of the top linemen in the country Saturday, and......he still sucked. The other two QBs did much better with the same rotation of linemen and didn't seem to have problems, yet Milroe struggled and still wasnt successful.

Filling Milroe's shoes wont be too hard. They really are pretty small. Simpson or Mack will both do just fine. Russell might be in the mix, but it is really hard for a true freshman to make the jump from HS to college and start. It's a huge jump in the speed of the game, size, and strength for someone straight out of HS and I'm guessing he will be #3 just because of that. Line will probably look much better next year, now that Milroe is gone. A "bad" QB can make an "average" o-line look absolutely terrible, and that's what Bama has been dealing with for the past two seasons. Line wasnt stellar by any means and definitely could have played better, but it was probably average. Next year, it will prove to be much more adequate for whomever the QB ends up being, than it looked this season, during Milroe's tenure under center. There is a common denominator to these successes and failures and the overall equation, and it is the guy calling for and taking the snaps. Glad to see him gone.


I’m sorry buddy but inaccurate snaps and getting bull rushed has NOTHING to do with the QB. Tell me how it does? Cadence has nothing to do with a snap being inaccurate. False starts? Yes. Inaccurate? No. He either had the in season gips or it was coaching. Plus if I’m not mistaken, they clapped that year. Someone at OSU fixed his issue or he had time to work through it. And it was well reported he had the same issue prior to Milroe, just not at that level.

A bad QB doesn’t make a great offensive line look consistently horrible. You are connecting dots that fans and commentators make that aren’t there. Explain how a bad QB makes the o line not switch off or pass defenders or just get run slap over and pushed into the QB. Or beat off the edge. If you wanna say Milroe was terrible that’s fine. If you are glad he’s gone that’s fine. But don’t blame stuff on him that isn’t his fault. The o line is terrible in the run game too.