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Saturday did little to show us who has the upper hand in Alabama’s quarterback race.

Redshirt sophomore A.J. McCarron and redshirt freshman Phillip Sims carried their intense battle into and through Saturday’s annual Golden Flake A-Day spring game.

With both players splitting first-team reps during practice, each spent a half with the first-team offense Saturday.

McCarron finished with 222 yards with a touchdown and an interception on 21-of-38 passing, while Sims finished with 229 yards and an interception, on 19-of-38 passing.

It made for quite the exciting showing, but even as Alabama’s spring comes to an end, its situation under center is far from figured out.

“I thought both the quarterbacks showed some promise in terms of making good decisions,” coach Nick Saban said. “Both of them got picked, which probably wasn’t a good thing, but all in all, I thought they did a good job managing the game. We didn’t have a lot of issues, and they both showed that they have some ability to play the position and play winning football at the position. We were pleased with that.”

http://espn.go.com/blog/sec/post/_/id/21695/alabamas-qb-race-still-even

I would agree that it is pretty much still even.  I think AJ had an opportunity to pull ahead just a little if they would have been able to complete that last pass and won the game on the final play.

Everything I have read from the so called "experts" have the QB battle even. Even our discussions on this board have it as a toss up. It looks like this could go on right up to the first game. The battle should be a good incentive to stay on campus and work hard this summer. The competition should make them both better. I think we can win with either one of them.

Yes, CNS is a master at this.  Creating competition for every position makes the team stronger.