Alabama football’s starting quarterback, Jalen Milroe received high praise from Mississippi State head football coach Zach Arnett on Saturday night.
Milroe led the Crimson Tide to a win over the Bulldogs with a two-touchdown performance. He threw for 164 yards on ten completions and rushed for 69 yards and two touchdowns. Arnett feels the Alabama quarterback is an impressive athlete, who makes it difficult to establish a pass rush.
“He’s a really good athlete,” Arnett said. “Broken play for a touchdown off a fumbled snap. He’s done that in another game too. He’s a big physical athlete…Being able to extend plays helps. It cannot be feast or famine. You have to be able to contest balls and generate a pass rush. Scramble around the pocket turns into scramble drill and the athlete the caliber of Milroe, usually your underneath coverage is itching to come up on him, because if you sit back and match the routes, pulls it down and runs for a first down. But you can’t pressure the quarterback until he passes the line of scrimmage because he’s still able to throw a pass. That led to some long completions on second-and-long, third-and-long. You’ve got to be tighter on routes.”
Milroe and Alabama will look to continue to make strides when they hit the road again and face Texas A&M on Saturday.
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