Alabama and Kalen DeBoer officially got that monkey off their back after winning back-to-back football games against top 15 ranked programs like Georgia and Vanderbilt. Kalen DeBoer flipped the hot-seat talk after their week 1 loss against FSU. Right now, things are looking like 2021 at Tuscaloosa. All thanks to Ty Simpson and the clutch genes in his body. The Tennessee native waited for his stride and finally took off in his senior year. Ty Simpson is now playing like the 5-star he was supposed to be. In first 5 outings, Ty Simpson threw double digits tds and only threw one pick and called it ‘Ridiculous’. Despite throwing a pick, Kalen DeBoer rightfully defends Ty Simpson by putting the TE and WR under the bus to justify Ty’s pick against Vandy.

On October 8th, Kalen DeBoer hopped onto the podium and justified Ty Simpson’s only pick of the season so far came in their 30-14 dub against Clark Lea’s Vanderbilt. The Alabama insider Mike Rodak took it to X: “Kalen DeBoer said on “Hey Coach” that on Ty Simpson’s interception against Vanderbilt, the receivers (Josh Cuevas and Isaiah Horton) should not have been “that close together that far down the field.” DeBoer: “We should be walking into the end zone, honestly.””

Ty Simpson threw his first interception in college during a fourth-down play (when the team really needed to convert rather than turn the ball over). He was supposed to throw a pass that would stretch the defense (a “flood concept”), but he misread what the defenders were doing, the cornerback took the deep route and Simpson threw right to the safety instead.

But according to DeBoer, it’s a different story. The mistake happened because two receivers, Josh Cuevas (TE) and Isaiah Horton (WR), ran too close to each other down the field. That made it easy for the defenders to stop the play and catch the ball. DeBoer said that if the receivers had run the right routes and been spaced out correctly, the play should have worked for an easy touchdown. However, that didn’t stop Ty Simpson from putting Heisman voters on notice. Ty Simpson bounced back and out-balled Diego Pavia and the Vandy defense with 340 yards and 2 touchdowns, completing a sweet 74.2% of his passes.

The man’s making all kinds of throws that Jalen Milroe used to struggle with. After patiently waiting his turn for three years behind Jalen Milroe and Mac Jones, he finally let it rip. He’s been insanely accurate, throwing for over 1,400 yards and 13 touchdowns with only one interception through Week 6. Heading into week 7, Ty Simpson is in everybody’s favourite top 3 candidates for Heisman and CBS got him the No.1 QB heading into week 7.

Kalen DeBoer praises Ty Simpson.

Nobody’s happier with his quarterback’s progression than Kalen DeBoer is with Ty Simpson’s. Earlier this week, DeBoer appeared on Bussin’ With The Boys and gave props to Simpson’s growth and development through their first five games.

“I think every week there’s been a lot of growth and learning from him. He’s really taken everything on. Our coaches continue to coach him hard, and he’s great with it now because he understands that we’re doing it out of trust. We’re asking a lot of him, and he’s capable of it — and he knows we believe that,” and added that Ty Simpson exceed far beyond their expectation when it came to the big-time plays.”  Simpson’s heroics caught the eyes of oddsmakers. According to BetMGM, Ty Simpson holds got +800 odds to win the Heisman, which is the third best. Only behind Dante Moore and Carson Beck. With Eli Drinkwitz’s Mizzou next, Ty Simpson gets another day to run it up on the Heisman ladder.