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Re: Georgia makes it clear Gunner Stockton will, and has to, improve in 2026
I admire Stockton’s moxy, but his ceiling is limited. The fact that the coaching staff feels he provides the team with the best chance of winning says a lot about recruiting and QB development. Let’s have a true competition among the QB’s on the roster and any that come in through the TP. Up till now, it feels like completion only exists for the other positions.
Spdawg
Re: Georgia makes it clear Gunner Stockton will, and has to, improve in 2026
Connor Riley's shot at Carson Beck is hilarious. Beck didn't regress in 2024. The players around him did. Beck went to Miami where he actually has a feature tailback, a #1 WR (which Zachariah Branch isn't and he certainly wasn't at USC) and OTs that don't give up catastrophic injuries when he is trying to throw downfield and guess what? The successful Beck is back again.
Unlike most people, I didn't see much alleged growth between the Stetson Bennett IV who got benched in 2020 and the SB IV who went to New York in 2022. Instead, I saw the players around him get a lot better. 3 future NFL starters at OT. 5 stars Darnell Washington and James Cook got healthy. Ladd McConkey came out of nowhere to become a future NFL Pro Bowler. And Kenny McIntosh sacrificed his feature back potential and draft status to become the ultimate gadget player to fit Bennett's skill set. (Yes, it would have been in McIntosh's personal interests to play in a pro style offense, rush for 1200-1300 yards and enter the NFL as a 2nd or 3rd round pick instead of a 7th round pick). And Brock Bowers was a generational player as a receiving TE.
Put SB IV on the teams that UGA fielded in 2024 and 2025 and he gets benched again. Put Gunner Stockton in an offense where he gets to throw to Bowers, Washington and McConkey - plus AD Mitchell and George Pickens when those guys were healthy - and hand off to Cook and McIntosh and he puts up even better numbers than SB IV did.
randomsportsfan
Re: Georgia makes it clear Gunner Stockton will, and has to, improve in 2026
The QB position has received the majority of praise when a team wins and the majority of blame when a team loses. It has been that way since the advent of the modern passing game of football. Why? Because the QB handles the ball on every play. He is the linchpin and his play is integral to the success of the play on every play.
Probably not completely "fair" but comes with the territory. Say what you want about GS's limitations, team's limitations, coaching limitations….. it was all true. Based on all those limitations this UGA reached its ceiling.
Those that watched it all play out, all season, saw the handwriting on the wall.
As for the QB position, we saw 1 team's QB rise to the occasion and make the plays that won the game. So that QB got praised for making plays. One team's QB did not rise to the occasion and make the game winning plays. Were the plays there to be made? They were there for one of the 2 , pretty evenly matched team's, QB to make. Just the way it is. This UGA team was not good enough, top to bottom, to make the plays it needed to make to win this game.
The question is, with the CKS/UGA "formula", is this achievement level what we can expect from UGA every year going forward?
NIL with free agency (TP) has leveled the playing field in CFB. There is no more Nick Saban's Alabama to guarantee a championship (over 4 years) to every recruiting class and stack high 4* and 5* recruits 3 deep at every position. This is the new norm for CFB.
Within 4 days of the CFBNC game the decision will need to be made on expansion of the CFB PO for the '26 season. Discussions are underway to determine when (not if) the CFB PO field will be expanded ($$$) to 16 teams. Whether it be in '26 or '27.
In addition discussions are underway when (not if) to merge the BIG10 and SEC and add whatever teams that are left that make sense to an NFL Jr model league with salary cap and NFL style playoff format. Not in '26 but probably before '30.