We are now just a week away from the official start of the college football season (this week is considered zero week because most teams aren’t playing this week), and we are also a week away from the Ty Simpson era at Alabama beginning.
Simpson won the starting QB position two weeks ago as most expected, and will start against Florida State next Saturday.
Naturally, anyone starting their first game would be nervous, including Simpson, so former two-time national championship quarterback AJ McCarron offered this little piece of advice for Simpson on his first start.
“My mindset for him would be the same mindset I had going into my first year of starting,” McCarron said. “You have an experienced defense, right? The team is expecting a lot out of the defense. Let them control a lot of the game. Your biggest thing right now, especially in your first start, is come out, take care of the football, just don’t do anything crazy and play out of yourself from a sense of making mistakes and hurting the team.”
He also advised Simpson to just play within himself and take what the defense gives him.
“Let’s take what the defense gives us,” McCarron said on The Dynasty podcast. “Jim McElwain used to say it all the time: ‘Touchdowns, checkdowns, take what the defense gives us, and eventually, they will give us the game.’ And I kind of lived by that my first year because I knew, hey, if you just take care of the ball, whether each possession ends on a kick, whether it’s a field goal or a punt, you’ve done your job for the most part right there because you’re at least giving your team a chance to rebound and bounce back some sort of way.”
Sounds like really good advice for any young quarterback to take.
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