Grading Kalen Deboer, Is Quinn Ewers overrated & defending Ryan Day

Chris Marler was back again on the Paul Finebaum Show talking all things college football giving early grades for Kalen Deboer's 1st 6 months at Alabama, explaining why Texas and Quinn Ewers may not be that good in year one of the SEC, and defending Ryan Day from the lazy takes and slander about him not being a good coach.
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Alabama & Kalen Deboer | 1:45 - 6:15
Texas & Quinn Ewers Hot Take | 6:20 - 8:05
Defending Ryan Day | 8:13 - 9:35

[@chrisrecord5625]

What's Ewer's career moment? He and UT beat Alabama at home by double digits. Duh

[@edblake181]

Thank you

[@curtisoeser5133]

And set records while destroying Okie lite in the B12 Championship game

[@toddcagle4245]

A lot of Bama sacks was on Milroe for holding the ball too long

[@TXHORNS210]

Since when did Paul start interviewing janitors lol this dude is a joke

[@RushFanatic87]

Paul lifted the restraining order against Marler 😂

[@chrisrecord5625]

Ill advised

[@ranrodriguezlfc4278]

Ok , so going to Tuscaloosa and beating Alabama by 10 isn’t a big enough win, what does a kid like ewers got to do to get a little credit

[@FourthAndWrongCFB]

Ok when you say it like that it makes me realize I was being unreasonable

[@bnjmnwst]

Alabama played like garbage that day & the next game. I think the way to phrase that is, "With how Alabama was playing at that point, Texas only beat them by 10 points."

[@brianroyster7510]

Stay healthy, play every game, don't lose to an outmatched team.

[@saquanknox2888]

WHO IS THIS GUY

[@youknowme1701]

Just another Bama hater😂

[@matthewtrujillo3309]

What we’re doing here is pointing out Ryan Day just beats Maryland, Rutgers, and Illinois every year

[@mr.cannon8231]

Didn’t Ohio State lose to Missouri by double digits last year?

[@johnmandock56]

Who cares about that game do you really think they cared about being there and playing Missouri. After they lost to Michigan they were mentally shot. And they didn't have their starting quarterback or anything they weren't in it at all. Look what happened to Florida State against Georgia when they didn't make the playoff they didn't give a crap half the team set out and they didn't want to be there. Don't use that as justification.

[@stephendecostanzo3533]

@@johnmandock56So you’re saying they quit.

[@johnmandock56]

@@stephendecostanzo3533 yes

[@patricktrotter4750]

Obviously this Marlo guy, whatever his name is, hasn’t done any kind of analysis on who Alabama brought in what transfer people they brought in the fact that Deboer takes average teams and makes them better and amazing. You have Jaylen Milroe coming back - one of the top two quarterbacks in the nation. The running back room is off the charts top five in the nation. They’re offensive line is top three in the nation. So I guess we’ll just have to see. Once again Finebaum always loves to bring the hate.

[@FourthAndWrongCFB]

Did a full deep dive on every player lost vs gained in this year's cycle on twitter 2 weeks ago. Also love you saying I didn't do any kind of analysis while spelling Jalen Milroe's name wrong.

[@timothycunningham3983]

Your Industry is all in on SEC only. ESPN isn’t going to put down Deboer and Alabama or any SEC team. The SEC is their only money maker in college football.

[@texasrocks8428]

“What was Quinn’s big moment…I mean…other than his biggest moment…”. This guy’s a tool.

[@FourthAndWrongCFB]

In hindsight that was egregious on my end and a bad take

[@texasrocks8428]

@@FourthAndWrongCFB Well at least you owned it. Still if you need another example, I dunno I thought breaking Baker Mayfield’s Big12CG passing record was pretty big…maybe?

[@7wpollard]

He probably would have beat Alabama twice, if he didn't get hurt.

[@sstewart44]

These people want Bama to lose so bad! BAMA didn't lose a lot to the portal, what's he talking about

[@elric4620]

I hate that everybody's holding Ryan Day's hand like he's a little school kid.

[@user-sn1se8kh7z]

Most of the people lost in the portal were leaving anyway. Most of the players picked up by FSU weren’t going to start.

[@7wpollard]

Besides the Bama game? If you beat Bama at their house, it's a big moment.

[@anthonymorris2856]

Alot of the sacks were on Milroe. The o line is going to have to be better but Milroe is going to have to have more awareness in the pocket. He also needs to improve on his short to mid range throws. If he can do that, he will be the best qb in the country.

[@skipgumphrey9579]

Those would certainly be good improvements for Milroe. If he doesn’t have to constantly pick the ball up off his shoelaces or the ground it might be helpful as well ;) RTR

[@bnjmnwst]

I came here to say this. The O-line AND Milroe will be much improved this year. That's scary. Seeing what they accomplished last year with all of the issues, this year should be quite interesting.

[@BamaKing-he2gd]

Yea, but most of it was still on the oline. You must've forgotten about John Parker Wilson before he became a better qb. He could be atrocious often times and even that Bama oline didn't allow as many sacks, despite not being as good. Things ofc changed once Saban turned things around in 2008, but yea, the oline last year were too big. There's a reason the NFL didn't have that big of offensive linemen throughout the league

[@anthonymorris2856]

@@BamaKing-he2gd yea, I hear ya man. The difference here that pops into my mind though is that Milroe had the speed to get away from alot of those sacks to help his o line out. He also held the ball way too long. But yeah, I agree that the line was possibly just way too big last year. I remember all the hype. We got the same hype this year but I feel better about this season. RTR

[@brianroyster7510]

​@@skipgumphrey9579having to focus too much on where the snap would be definitely hampered pre snap reads. A consistent center will lead to big improvements from JM.

[@korbinfranks4125]

🚨 HOT TAKE!!!!! Sark scared Sabin into retirement. That’s who Sabin wanted to take over when he was done🤷🏻‍♂️

[@VorlonAngel]

I didn't know Bama lost 41 players in the portal. Was that in the news and I just missed it, OR did they keep a lid on that until now?🤔

[@harrylegge4898]

Great job Chris👊🍺💥

[@JohnGlass-hi1jd]

Deboer is a top 3 coach easily. Roll Tide Roll!!!! Keep the recruites coming, lol 😂😂. Another dynasty in the making bookit

[@7wpollard]

Michigan, Alabama, Georgia, A&M isn't a tough schedule???

[@jdtheguitartist]

Ewers only had one td pass of longer than 20 yards his whole career before the bama game. Mediocre

[@markstewart7312]

Great analysis, I think we had some addition by subtraction in the portal after the retirement. I don’t think we really lost much that was irreplaceable other than Downs

[@morganguffey3519]

Claims to be a Bama fan and always trashes them.

[@FourthAndWrongCFB]

Says they objectively have a very tough schedule and I'm apparently trashing them haha

[@Lothbrook66]

That was Missouri’s super bowl and first appearance in a new years 6 game. Missouri wont ever win the SEC or make the playoffs. Period

[@JTOWN671-hj5kl]

Your guest needs to fix his camera. Looks like he's on a train with all the shaking.

[@FourthAndWrongCFB]

I was nervous

[@bnjmnwst]

​@@FourthAndWrongCFBPut it on its own separate mount, off the floor or the wall. That'll take care of that.

[@JTOWN671-hj5kl]

@@FourthAndWrongCFB Love the show, just wanted you to know. It's hard to watch. I just listened to the interview.

[@scottturner1504]

Lmao, please keep sleeping on Kalen deboar, by all means 😂

[@FourthAndWrongCFB]

Who is sleeping on him?

[@scottturner1504]

@@FourthAndWrongCFB for real? 75% of the nation, especially SEC

[@darnellrtr252]

Chris bro Ryan Day is in the Guinness book of world records for having the most elite talented rosters ever without winning a championship bro. Lol You can’t lose to a less talented team multiple times and be considered a good coach bro. Ryan Day still has to prove he’s a good coach.

[@user-dv3do1od2r]

What are you smoking?

[@darnellrtr252]

@@user-dv3do1od2r nothing look at the talent this joker has had Bro to not win and get beat by a lesser talented Michigan team means the coach is the issue

[@bnjmnwst]

Bro

[@darnellrtr252]

@@bnjmnwst what?

[@bnjmnwst]

@@darnellrtr252 You say bro a lot.

[@jamminj81]

Deboer also beat Sark with less talent

[@FourthAndWrongCFB]

Yup! And damn near everyone else haha

[@AlphaDwg]

and Riley. 7-0 vs those guys

[@ranrodriguezlfc4278]

Pretty sure that Washington team had like 8 or 9 players drafted, and was 23-1 the last 2 years , you guys are acting like it was tcu

[@jamminj81]

@@ranrodriguezlfc4278 correct, but those UW teams have less talent than the Bama team he just inherited. People speak on all the talent at Oregon and Texas, and his coaching overcame that.

[@christhembones8244]

The 23 yr old Washington QB was a bad matchup for Texas secondary. Doeber also did a nice job with that OL. Curious to see if Doeber does “with less” at the qb position at Bama.

[@RonTDB]

Is this dude's name Mike Jr?😂

[@Stephen_Burton]

Ohio St looses to every ranked team they play! Those wins are against unrated opponents

[@brianroyster7510]

Penn St has been ranked.

[@dealexander4751]

Paul is great at getting guys on the show that dont know a damn thing about football

[@Trifln214]

Paul doesn’t even know ball his damn self, he’s just a glorified phone operator 😂

[@FourthAndWrongCFB]

What did I say that showed I know nothing my man?

[@Trifln214]

@@FourthAndWrongCFB I think you sounded way more knowledgeable than Paul.

[@darnellrtr252]

Only people who’s never coached before think Ryan Day is a good coach. Other coaches including myself looks at the decisions he makes, the mistakes he makes, and the decisions he doesn’t make. Those things to me is the reason he’s not a great coach. One of his downfalls is he still coaches like he’s a coordinator when he’s actually a head coach. Meaning he doesn’t coach other coaches and he just worries about the offensive side of the ball. Against Georgia he just watched his defense be in the wrong defense against certain formations and just didn’t do anything. That’s crazy.

[@FourthAndWrongCFB]

tbf i was the d coordinator for a middle school team in 2008. we were awful.

[@darnellrtr252]

@@FourthAndWrongCFB lol 😂 RTR bro Ryan day is just one of those coaches that is a great OC but a not so good head coach. In the real world he’d be an ok foreman but not a good supervisor.. lol

[@darnellrtr252]

@@FourthAndWrongCFB the way Ryan day coaches you’d think his defensive coordinator wasn’t at the stadium he’s like calling the game from his home or something lol 😂

[@darnellrtr252]

@@FourthAndWrongCFB In all honesty bro if you hear urban Meyer talk about Ryan day you’ll see that even he doesn’t think Ryan is a good coach. Urban talks like Ryan is still a young understudy. He doesn’t talk about Ryan with same conviction he does other established coaches.

[@user-dv3do1od2r]

Lmao....Ohio State is stronger than any program in the Country. Georgia maybe #1. Ohio State is peaking

[@william-ajones3959]

Do you suffer from Texas Derangement Syndrome?? Get help now before it’s too late.

[@brianroyster7510]

The derangement must be in Austin. Win something or STFU.

[@darrylbrown8253]

@@brianroyster7510 still sore that the Eyes of Texas was played on your homefield? It sounds like your team needs to take care of business at home or STFU.

[@Da-Boo33]

🐘 ROLLTIDE

[@NickOnPar]

Another guy brought on TV who only gets attention for his shit takes… just what we need

[@user-us8rv7nf9v]

Bama guy- “What was Quinn Ewers moment other than the Bama game”.

[@bnjmnwst]

And that wasn't really even his moment, or, if it was, that's not saying much. Bama lost that game with poor OL & QB play.

[@SamCenteno-lx2br]

There is no way you can talk about Alabama without at least bringing up their defensive front 7. Yes the secondary has question marks but it’s very talented. Also, I think saying Alabama didn't bring much in is misinformed. They brought in Keon Sabb, Domani Jackson, LT Overton and brought back Proctor….what is this guy talking about….

[@katlynnlamb509]

Germie Bernard, also, who I think is Wr1 and may get 1,000 yards. Brought their All American center, which fixes our biggest weakness, and that's Seth.

[@RonTDB]

He's sounds just like another sec Mike to me.🙄

[@fortheloveoftheburn6031]

We will be okay we have the next Julio Jones in Ryan Williams. We lost a lot whatever dude. Coach deboer can't recruit in the south whatever 😂😂😂😂 me laughing at these fools. Roll tide

[@bradleythomas59]

Marler knows nothing. Another big mouth with zero facts to back up his mouth. Hey Marler! What is Ryan Days record in big games? 1-7

[@user-dv3do1od2r]

Who is better than Ryan Day? Running a program at this moment in time? Seriously? Who has their program in a better position to succeed moving forward? Lmao....no one