Why Milroe was a GREAT pick!!

He might be my adopt a rookie after hearing his interview. Sounds humble and intelligent with a good head on his shoulders. Two parents in the military, Dad was a marine. No clue why there's any talk about being locker room cancer, he sounds legit

Sounds like he completely understands how this is the best situation for him. I think he will work on his shortcomings and be a top QB in a couple years.

SoulfishHawk said:

Why would you hate the pick? Honest question.

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Fair my man….

I would hate the pick because I do not consider him NFL ready. He would be doomed to fail and risk being a complete waste. I’d much rather have got the center from Georgia. However, knowing he is going to sit behind a competent player for at least a year or two, allowing him to work to on his known weaknesses gives me hope he can eventually become an NFL starter.

Again, I don’t mind the pick at all. He has a ton of gifts and will hopefully be special. I just don’t think it would work out if he were forced to start this year.

rjdriver said:

Fair my man….

I would hate the pick because I do not consider him NFL ready. He would be doomed to fail and risk being a complete waste. I’d much rather have got the center from Georgia. However, knowing he is going to sit behind a competent player for at least a year or two, allowing him to work to on his known weaknesses gives me hope he can eventually become an NFL starter.

Again, I don’t mind the pick at all. He has a ton of gifts and will hopefully be special. I just don’t think it would work out if he were forced to start this year.

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Very fair assessment. Reminds me of Richardson being thrown to the wolves in Indy.

rjdriver said:

Fair my man….

I would hate the pick because I do not consider him NFL ready. He would be doomed to fail and risk being a complete waste. I’d much rather have got the center from Georgia. However, knowing he is going to sit behind a competent player for at least a year or two, allowing him to work to on his known weaknesses gives me hope he can eventually become an NFL starter.

Again, I don’t mind the pick at all. He has a ton of gifts and will hopefully be special. I just don’t think it would work out if he were forced to start this year.

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The coaches know he isn't NFL ready, he's not being forced to start this year and the center from Georgia played in a completely different scheme.

Milroe is in the perfect situation

He has speed and height going for him at this point
and has four years to show something.
It's really up to him to hire a QB trainer to fix the feet
and arm mechanics, then we may have something.

rjdriver said:

Fair my man….

I would hate the pick because I do not consider him NFL ready. He would be doomed to fail and risk being a complete waste. I’d much rather have got the center from Georgia. However, knowing he is going to sit behind a competent player for at least a year or two, allowing him to work to on his known weaknesses gives me hope he can eventually become an NFL starter.

Again, I don’t mind the pick at all. He has a ton of gifts and will hopefully be special. I just don’t think it would work out if he were forced to start this year.

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At no point.. did ANYONE seeing this draft think the Seahawks were going to start him this year.... EVER.... not even Pundits... so not sure why this was a concern for you to not like the pick?

The bottom line is, you can't teach what he has. You can teach everything else, but you can't teach someone to be an athletic freak.

Question is, can he learn the other stuff now?

IndyHawk said:

He has speed and height going for him at this point
and has four years to show something.
It's really up to him to hire a QB trainer to fix the feet
and arm mechanics, then we may have something.

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He should totally not be hiring a QB trainer. The team already has one of those.

Let's not ask him to be Russell Wilson. First it's a personal QB trainer, then he wants his own office....

I don't quite understand the negativity on Jalen Milroe, particularly from people who think he wasn't even worth a third-round pick.

We're such captives of whatever the trending word is on a player that we stop seeing the reality of the situation.

Jalen Milroe is not Anthony Richardson, who completed 50% of his passes in college, and was selected purely on his athleticism. We also shouldn't over-react because Richardson has been a flop so far.

Let me take you back to 2023. After the 2023 college football season, Milroe was projected by some to be a top-10 pick in the 2025 draft. In 2023, Milroe completed 65% of his passes, passed for 2800 yards with 23 TDs and only 6 INTs. He finished 6th in the Heisman voting that year.

In 2025, he had a similar year in terms of completion percentage and yards, but threw only 16 TDs vs. 11 INTs. He did have 20 rushing TDs as opposed to 11 the year before. Based on this fairly minor change in his stats, his draft projection changed. (And btw, he had to go through a change in coaches from '23 to '24.)

Still, there were plenty of prognosticators who saw him going late in the first round. So getting him at 92 was not a reach.

Jalen MilNOOOO???

Oops my bad….
Not trying to start anything

MontanaHawk05 said:

Not even remotely.

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Milroe=Lamar Vick

cymatica said:

He might be my adopt a rookie after hearing his interview. Sounds humble and intelligent with a good head on his shoulders. Two parents in the military, Dad was a marine. No clue why there's any talk about being locker room cancer, he sounds legit

Sounds like he completely understands how this is the best situation for him. I think he will work on his shortcomings and be a top QB in a couple years.

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The players at Bama loved him! They supported him on the field and off, I don't remember there ever being a lockroom issue.

I am going to be completely honest about where a lot of the hate come from for him. There is a ton of sidewalk fans, fans who didn’t attend Alabama and are just a bunch of redneck Alabama residents. Milroe is a black guy and some people even to this day have issues with a black man. The Alabama board was just toxic the years he played due to these God-awful people, they hijacked every thread, insulted his intelligence even after he won the Academic Heisman, and even went so far to attack and insult his parents at the games.

Like I said earlier, Jalen does need some work, but he is also so much fun to watch when he is on. No, he is not ready to start in the NFL, but very few rookie QB's are ready to start.

BamaGirl said:

The players at Bama loved him! They supported him on the field and off, I don't remember there ever being a lockroom issue.

I am going to be completely honest about where a lot of the hate come from for him. There is a ton of sidewalk fans, fans who didn’t attend Alabama and are just a bunch of redneck Alabama residents. Milroe is a black guy and some people even to this day have issues with a black man. The Alabama board was just toxic the years he played due to these God-awful people, they hijacked every thread, insulted his intelligence even after he won the Academic Heisman, and even went so far to attack and insult his parents at the games.

Like I said earlier, Jalen does need some work, but he is also so much fun to watch when he is on. No, he is not ready to start in the NFL, but very few rookie QB's are ready to start.

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Sorry but I’m not buying that completely made up theory. His stats the second half of last year were not good. Alabama is a team that is used to competing for the national championship virtually every year over the last decade and last year they were just not the same. Milroe had a great first few games, but really did not play well and made poor decisions many of the games later on. Most of the people making comments about his poor play have nothing to do with Alabama. Sorry, but I absolutely can’t stand when people completely make up something in their mind about race when there are clearly other real reasons as to why folks have a questionable opinion about his play on the field.

seabowl said:

Sorry but I’m not buying that completely made up theory. His stats the second half of last year were not good. Alabama is a team that is used to competing for the national championship virtually every year over the last decade and last year they were just not the same. Milroe had a great first few games, but really did not play well and made poor decisions many of the games later on. Most of the people making comments about his poor play have nothing to do with Alabama. Sorry, but I absolutely can’t stand when people completely make up something in their mind about race when there are clearly other real reasons as to why folks have a questionable opinion about his play on the field.

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I have been honest about him needing work, even saying he made some bone-headed plays, every QB makes mistakes, some more than others, and that he struggled towards the end of the year.

In 2023 Milroe was QB when we won the SEC Championship game and took us to the National Championship Game, only to lose to Michigan in OT due to a horrible snap on the final play of the game on the 2-yard line for the tying TD. Even that year, they were blasting him about the things I mentioned. So, his 1st year we did compete for the National Championship and then Saban retired.
The next year he had a new OC for the 3rd time in his career at Alabama, new HC, and honestly the whole team struggled, not just him. Almost all college teams struggle when a whole new coaching staff takes over. But he was the scapegoat for everything that went wrong last year. Our defense really struggled stopping the run last year, in fact we were ranked 21 overall in defense in the D1, that is not where we had been in prior years.

You don't have to believe me, but it isn't always the best thing to do to call out someone about something you have no first-hand knowledge about! Were you a member of Bama Online? Doubtful, so you really don't have first-hand knowledge of what was going on with these fans.

BamaGirl said:

Our defense really struggled stopping the run last year, in fact we were ranked 21 overall in defense in the D1, that is not where we had been in prior years.

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Oh wow, Bama's defense ranked a dismal 21st out of 134 teams last year? How did they win ANY games??

Rat said:

Oh wow, Bama's defense ranked a dismal 21st out of 134 teams last year? How did they win ANY games??

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I know right! Ohio State was ranked #1 and look how you guys did last year, thanks to Caleb Downs!

BamaGirl said:

I know right! Ohio State was ranked #1 and look how you guys did last year, thanks to Caleb Downs!

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Yeah, they did well. It's unfortunate though, that Milroe needs everything around him to be elite rather than just very good to not go 11/26 for 164 yards and 3 INTs in a critical late-season game against one of the worst teams in their conference.

I guess all we have to do now is make the rest of the team elite. Shouldn't be difficult.

Azvacar said:

At no point.. did ANYONE seeing this draft think the Seahawks were going to start him this year.... EVER.... not even Pundits... so not sure why this was a concern for you to not like the pick?

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I did like the pick…

My original response got lost in a game of replies. I said I liked it because we can sit him and I would have hated it had the expectation been to start right away. All good though brother !

Rat said:

Yeah, they did well. It's unfortunate though, that Milroe needs everything around him to be elite rather than just very good to not go 11/26 for 164 yards and 3 INTs in a critical late-season game against one of the worst teams in their conference.

I guess all we have to do now is make the rest of the team elite. Shouldn't be difficult.

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Alabama always has had elite defenses, especially under Saban when we were ranked in the top 5 for 9 years and top 10 the rest of his years. So being ranked 21 is a big down grade for us, some teams would be happy having a defense ranked 21, not at Alabama.

Defenses win championships! With a great defense your offense has more possessions, they create turnovers, and they wear down the other team. At least that is how we play football in the SEC.

BamaGirl said:

Defenses win championships! With a great defense your offense has more possessions, they create turnovers, and they wear down the other team. At least that is how we play football in the SEC.

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Defense has to win it when your QB is actively sabotaging you. Those back-to-back UGA teams had both. Bama has consistently recruited elite offensive skill positions players too, and OL.