Posted by strikeout26 on 1/12/2018 8:53:00 AM (view original):
I tend to agree with Mike here. You can be an above average talent QB and still be asked to be a game manager. Tebow and Barrett were the center pieces of their offenses. At Bama, the running backs are the center piece. McCarron was given the largest role of the prior QB's, but Lacy (I think, I can't remember which rb's played with which QB's) was the center piece of the offense.
McCarron threw 33% more times than Lacy rushed during their second title season (314 passing attempts to 204 rushing attempts). McCarron had 30 TD's to Lacy's 17 rushing (Yeldon had 12 backing him up). McCarron had more passing yards than Lacy and Yeldon had rushing yards combined. I think this notion that Alabama didn't throw the ball, is just misremembering by you guys. 30 TD's, 3 INT's on 314 attempts with over 2900 yards is not a game manager (it certainly helped he had Amari Cooper, Kevin Norwood, and Michael Williams (all NFL draftees) to throw to).
Look at a team like Wisconsin this year, Jonathon Taylor had 299 rushing attempts, his back-up had almost 100 more. Hornibrook threw it 318 times for just 2600 yards. That is a team that employs a game manager at the QB position.