The TRUTH About ALABAMA Quarterbacks (Are They A QB Bust Factory?) 

Bama had never recruited top QB talent up until recent years.

I loved Blake Sims' attitude and work ethic. Anytime something didn't pan out when the offense was on the field, he'd accept responsibility for it even if he did what he was supposed to do. If he received praise, he always credited his teammates for the success.

AJ McCarron technically has more rings (3) than Auburn’s entire program lol.

until most recently, bama had a running game and great D with game manager at qb. this has changed for sure.

I think a recent streak of talent is breaking the Bama QB curse

Y’all only gave Tua like 8 games and honestly I don’t think he preformed as bad as people are saying he did

Pretty good video overall. Can't expect you to know as much as die hard Bama fans. 😆

Scott love the content keep it up my G

Love and appreciate the content. If your still doing more QB video's, could you do a UGA one? Stafford would of course be our most successful QB, but we've produced some back ups lol. Also Florida State!

Bart Starr and Joe Willie Namath went to Alabama. They are in the HoF

Good vid!

Mac Jones finna break the bust tradition at Tuscaloosa

Keep up the good work, Scott!

Saban knows if he puts talent around a QB, it doesn’t matter who takes the snaps. Top WR, OLine and Defense. Now, kids know if they want a legit chance of getting ring, they’ll come. Top qb or not.

Great work.

Good job bro

Been a Bama fan since before I was born. Honestly, how many of these guys were thought of as projected starters in the NFL? Does that factor into boom or bust? I always thought so, and I never thought of any of the guys you showed early on as being the ones expected to do so.

Blake Sims is still my favorite quarterback because at of his great attitude and team first attitude

Phillip Sims definitely deserves a mention here considering how highly rated he was as a recruit but didn't pan out.

Since Saban started coaching at bama. Have any of his quarterbacks been able to start for and keep a nfl QB job?

AJ McCarron is from my hometown, I remember playing against him during park league

If you’re doing more QB videos, do Oregon. They have had a good string of quarterbacks. Joey Harrington, Dennis Dixon, Johnathan Masoli, Marcus Mariota. Some interesting names out of Eugene

Please do a story on Ryan perriloux from LSU, Johnson from Kentucky, booty from USC, hackney from UAB, or pickney from east Carolina. Thanks!!!!.

How many schools can say that they have 3 hall of fame QB’s in the NFL. Stabler, Starr & Namath 🤷🏾‍♂️

Great video. There were a couple of 'Tide' QB's that weren't bad (albeit ancient) Stabler and Namath, both who one this game called the Super Bowl. I'd still like to see one on Wisconsin RB's. From Ron Dayne (NFL bust) , Terrell Fletcher, Anthony Davis, John Clay P.J. Hill, Montee Ball, Corey Clement, Melvin Taylor and Jonathan Taylor

My dude you should try another genre seeing how Alabama has 2 starting QB'S in the NFL right now with a 3rd to be starting sometime during the this upcoming season (M.Jones) Hurts, Tua! Not bad that out of 32 teams BAMA will have 3 quarterbacks starting this season! Sad that people can't just appreciate what Coach SABAN and Alabama is doing because it will NEVER happen again in our lifetimes! Bryce Young will be a starting QB in the NFL as well in the next 2 or 3 years! ROLL TIDE ROLL! 🐘🏈🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆

Andrew Zow seems to have a knack for coaching he's not just a highschool coach. He joined Dabo's coaching staff at Clemson in January. Gotta put some respect on his name.

As an Auburn fan, I can confidently say Tua has the best chance of breaking this curse. The man was an absolute fucking stud at Alabama and lit it up. I have full belief that Tua is good enough to be able make multiple pro bowls and even possibly win some awards

I’ll comment every time you mention my boy JPW. Bust or not, my favorite Alabama player of all time and was the start of the Saban Dynasty.

Great vid

Excellent video! I thot the same but you proved me wrong.

Don't you have to be drafted with fairly high expectations to be considered a bust? Last I checked, Tua is the first QB under Saban who was expected to be a franchise QB, and I'm going to give him more than one season before I can say he's a bust. If you're talking about busts at the college level, remember that before Hurts came along, our QBs were not needed for much beyond just not losing the game

What’s the name of the song playing in the background throughout the video?

you can’t call them “busts” because the only quarterbacks that have come out that are supposed to be good are tua and mac😂. AJ , Greg , Jake , Blake, none of them were supposed to be NFL franchise QBs as prospects or anything besides tua and mac. That’s why bust isn’t the word. Do we remember what a “bust” is, someone who’s supposed to be franchise changing but isn’t. What bama QB was supposed to be THAT GUY before and mac?? No one , i really need everyone to dead this narrative of busts because none of them was supposed to be amazing

What topic/school should I do next?

I like your videos but one thing I would like to see is more highlights of the players you talk about not just a slideshow of all of them.

Do Oregon! Right before Justin Herbert... pure bust factory. If Herbert takes a step back like Sam Darnold, I'm expecting you to do a video about Oregon.

Will you do Oregon cuz they’ve had some good quarterbacks but none of them have done much

Even tho I’ll cry about the Justin Blackmon story, you gotta do him next. 2 star recruit-best wr in the ncaa 2 years in a row, almost always the best player on the field, senior year beat RG3, Nick Foles, Tannahill, Landry Jones, Texas, Colin Klein, and first big12 title for my pokes and DOMINATED Stanford in fiesta bowl. Top 10 nfl draft pick with no weaknesses. Unfortunately he had his issues with substance usage. Fun fact, some Scouts came undercover to the bar strip to see how often Blackmon went drinking during the week.

USC also seems to be an 'NFL Bust Factory' - great in college, but only a few excel in the NFL

Speaking of QB bust factory when AJ McCarron won a start for the Brngals in 2015 he was the first former Crimson Tide QB to win a NFL start since Jeff Rutledge over 30 years earlier

I think a lot of the reasons why they don’t pan out in the nfl is because of the 4 and 5 star RBs WRs TEs and OL they have at Bama they don’t get that in the league when ur drafted High as a QB teams want u to pull them out of mediocrity and into a contender immediately that’s tuff in the nfl especially learning a whole new offense

It’s kinda weird that Alabama won most of the championships with regular Joe QBs

Are we going off college achievements or pro achievements because there is a difference between doing well in college living up to that hype and doing well in the pros and living up to expectations. I just noticed some double standards between this video and the others in the series

Bart Starr, Joe Namath and Ken Stabler would disagree... Also, I predict Mac Jones will be the most successful QB to come out of Alabama...

Scott, I don't know if I'd say that Bama earned their rematch with LSU in 2011. Many people feel like that was the year when the BCS got it so wrong that a change finally had to be made. Oklahoma State had their best year in the program's history only losing one game, in Double Overtime to Iowa State after OSU's kicker had missed a FG in regulation that would've given them the Win. Many people felt that was forgivable and that Oklahoma State should've played LSU for the National Championship. In fact, this was probably (the ratings were low also) the catalyst that finally made the Playoff that we have today a reality. That season and all of the fallout from it would make an excellent video for you to do all by itself now that I think about it. Love your Channel!!

Greg McElroy kept Tim Tebow on the bench. So how bad was Tebow?

This is going to change, before bama used the qb as a game manager… they used the defense and running game… now they are getting elite qbs….

Honestly it’s not like any program will pump prospect after prospect. Time gap in between is big. Like USC Ron mix - Bruce smith - Matt Khalil - tyrone smith (not by much)

I guarantee Mac is gonna be a solid starter and the best value qb above fields and mills and yes I also like kid from Florida a little. But last year the sleepers were eastin n fromm colts n bills qb very good backup

I'm old enough to remember Joe Namath. His career in the NFL would have better if his knees would not have kept getting injured. His stats compared to 21st-century stats are average but he threw for 4000 yards at a time when football heavily relied on the running game. His prediction about winning the Superbowl has been elevated to the point of being seriously overrated. But at the time I didn't know that and believed in him and the Jets at a time when the NFL assumed they were better than the AFL. Some of those old AFL rivalries were great games. The history since Bear has not been all that for Bama QBs but the recent crop of Saban QBs is changing that. I've never been a Bama fan, but those old Bama PSU games were classics, and I was only a Jet fan for one year and it was because of Broadway Joe at a time when the AFL was disrespected. I love underdogs stories and It would take a creative outside the box of reality type of person to dismiss Bama as a football power. Many decades of 3 yards and a cloud of dust was played back in the day. The jinx seems to be factually true but misunderstood imo.

It's hard to be a bust if you were never supposed to be any good in the first place. Before Tua the last time they had a first round QB drafted was 1975. Alabama has won with guys who were supposed to just hand it off, throw a few passes, and not wreck the Porsche.

Love how brody croyle slowly just became brody coil

Wait a minute don't forget about Joe Namath, Kenny Stabler, or Bart Starr! Richard Todd had a pretty decent career at the Jets, and there are three quarterbacks from Alabama that are in the NFL right now who could really be something we'll have to wait and see

Tyrone swoopes video!!! On the Washington team and maybe the nfl to tight end. Logan thomas??

Have a great day god love you

They should really thank Lane Kiffin for the qb culture change

Every school is gonna be more bust then boom. It's like trying to find a diamond in the rough, and try and find a franchise NFL quarterback is very rare. It's one of the toughest jobs on the planet

as an alabama fan, i 100% agree that all of our quarterbacks before tua and hurts have been busts, but at the same time i just feel like saban never really recruited top quarterbacks. john parker wilson, greg mcelroy, aj mccarron, blake sims, and jake coker were all game managers who were absolute statues in the pocket who could throw it well enough. hell, aj has three rings but look how he panned out in the nfl (i guess it's better than all the other guys mentioned, but still). early 2010s we were mainly a team with bulldozing running backs (mark ingram, trent richardson, eddie lacy, derrick henry, etc.) and a brick wall of a defense. we had great receivers too obviously, but the focus was mainly on the defense. now that tua and jalen have gone thru, saban's obviously had to rework a lot of stuff. things have kinda flip-flopped. even tho we had one of the best offenses ever this past season, our defense easily was one of the worst so far in the saban era

Jalen, Tua, and Mac have a chance to change to Alabama QB bust label. Before them you could argue that Bama QB were busts besides Aj and Joe.

Is Alabama a bust factory?

Many of the top NFL qb’s were not highly recruited (top 100) and/or did not go to blue chip programs. Rodgers, Mahomes, Allen, and Herbert come to mind. Schools like Alabama and OSU are full of 5-star recruits, so it’s hard to assess qb’s from those schools. Compare that to qb’s who have to do more with less.

There are only 10 starting jobs at most in the NFL for the QB position in any given year. Throw in veterans, unrestricted free agents, contracts already in place, and 25+ QBs available in the draft every year, thus making ALL schools busts at this position.

You don't have to be a good quarterback when you have so much talent around you

If we're talking NFL success compared to NCAA success, could Alabama honestly be considered any more of a QB "bust" factory than Ohio St, Notre Dame, Miami FL, USC, Florida, even Michigan (Except Brady)?

Starr, Namath and Stabler huge busts! 5 NFL Championships, 4 Superbowls and 3 Superbowl MVP. Not to mention 0- Zero Losses in those venues. You know NFL Hall of Fame. We have a long pedigree of losing apparently.

I’ve been saying this for years Alabama does not produce NFL QBS

U should do one on Georgia and Florida qb

"Behind the arm of Hurts" 😆

I understand that the terms "bust" and/or "game manager" are very subjective. However, I disagree that Blake Sims was simply a game manager at Bama...especially when you look at his senior season stats...3487 yds passing with an OK QBR of 157.9. Just my opinion.

It is hard to call any a NFL bust since nothing was expected. Their last three are not done yet.

You can’t count guys who transferred. I don’t think you understand how it works

Missing David Cornwell in the discussion during the "Bateman, Sims, McCarron" era.

Do Florida we had some pretty good quality quarterbacks over the years

I think Mac Jones will break this trend and saban will recruit Pocket Passing QBs more because dual threat guys don’t necessarily translate and light it up based on recent history

Lol, they most definitely were. Saban adapted and its starting to show. Also didn’t realize you were going so far back.... before Saban it was a shock to see ANY former player in the nfl, let alone a QB

Every QB on this list have excelled from HS through college. Each has played elite level of football for Bama winning Championship, Conference, or just meaningful games. Therefore to call into question a players career after achieving sustain success at high levels is deceiving.

everyone was on tea's nutz a few years ago what happened?

Try doing one on Wisconsin

And Ohio state only has 2 qbs who had expectations

This isn’t fair. We JUST NOW have started to get QBs with any pro potential. Your video proves it. It’s been a running joke here in Alabama for DECADES that we “recruit first round linebackers and 7th round QBs” Lol... Like how can you call undrafted and 7th round players busts? There’s no real expectations! I guess you could call Cooper Bateman a bust but I think people were always skeptical about the level of competition he played against in Utah HS football. Blake Barnett was a pure bust though. Lol

QB by committee never works in the next level, if anything it's a testament to Saban and his offense, literal plug n play

Brodie Croyle really did have every opportunity to be the guy in KC, Herm Edwards seemed to really like him as did the organization. He had physical skills if you go back to the NFL in 2007 he was on alot of list for players who could really break-out for there team he had tons of hype. But it wasn't meant to be and I'm sorry if you can't play for a coach like Herm Edwards who is in my opinion one of the most passionate men in the history of football, it really means that pro football wasn't meant to work out for you. Fair Play to Brodie though his wife was hot as hell.🔥

Alabama is now the QB factory something it hasn’t been since Broadway Joe and the Snake ! It’s the new era of bama football !

Alabama was never about slinging the ball all over field until Tua and Jones so they never recruited heavily those QB’s that rely on offensive schemes that do to flourish. Until a few years ago they were more run oriented and passed out of necessity.

Can you do a video on Cooper Kupp please!??!!????

When a school can recruit so many incredible players they don’t need as much from the QB. They don’t have to play fast behind a porous line v

The whole reason I play the QB position was because of tua, he’s like my dad for football, I would love to meet him one day

Can’t be bust if they’re haven’t been expectations. Andrew Zow ? Tyler watts? Croyle? Aj? Tua and Jones are the only ones that can be considered a bust if they don’t succeed

Sadly like a lot of great sec QBs. The nfl do not know how to develop and properly draft them. Tebow is one of the best exsamples.

Update Mac Jones might possibly be a NFL HOF QB he's showing promise, I think Tua will improve and Jalen Hurts was developed more in BAMA than joklahoma btw BAMA does have 3 NFL HOF QBs nobody has more, there's only a couple more programs that has 3 RTR

Well considering they are likely about to have 3 starting QB's in the NFL I'd say nah lol. And yes I'm gonna count Hurts

It’s because all the good players go there and that’s not bad but they be come them best and in some cases it not for all but most don’t live up to the hype and can transition that to he nfl because the do the most in college

Zow is on the Alabama staff. Blake Sims and Jske Coker should be playing in the NFL right now.

I’ve talked to AJ McCarron many times. Very nice guy.

Which QB can you even begin to ooint to as a bust? Tua and Jalen just completed their rookie years. Mac is a rookie. Coker was a transfer and a 3 star guy. Sims was an athlete playing QB and wasn't drafted. McCarron is still in the league and was a fifth rounder.

Can you do a video on Brandon burlsworth? Please

Nice belch 19 seconds into the video 😆

Ole miss?? They’ve had some boom or bust. Would make a good video

Bama QB's always have a good O-line, defense, and running backs to rely on. They're starters for now, but we'll see how they fare in the NFL. I only see Tua, and maybe Jones being starters for awhile. Hurts can't read defenses very well, and he relies too much on his running. And his passing needs work badly.