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Georgia football podcast: Justin Fields addresses UGA's offensive woes
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Georgia football podcast: Justin Fields addresses UGA's offensive woes
Georgia football is the No. 1 topic every day on DawgNation Daily — the daily podcast for Georgia Bulldogs fans. Catch up on everything happening with UGA athletics with host Brandon Adams and the DawgNation experts as they break down the latest Georgia football recruiting news and discuss coach Kirby Smart’s quest
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Justin Fields is an excellent QB and he is all the better for the season he spent in Athens. Think about all the film he watched, workouts he did, reps he got in practice (and some in games) that made him the QB he is today. He studied how to be a QB under Chaney and Fromm and unfortunately, Ohio State is getting the benefit of that education.
Is he better than Fromm right now, no question. Was he better last fall when he came in as a true freshman, probably. Here’s the thing, he didn’t know the offense as well as Fromm and he wasn’t as complete a QB as he is now. Also, Kirby was deathly afraid of having a QB Controversy because he knows it can tear at the fabric of the team. So he never really gave Fields a chance to run the offense except in mop up duty, where he turned around and handed off. Kirby was scared he would divide the team between a Fromm faction and a Fields faction.
It is what it is now though. The 2021 draft will be an interesting referendum on who is the better QB, as they will probably both be coming out, Fromm as a Senior and Fields as a Junior.
This is about as honest a post I have read from about the Fields/Fromm situation, I respect that highly. However, I have to digress on the draft comparison, there will be none. At this point, Fromm will become UDFA.
Why are we still talking about Fields , Eason , or Batu for that matter ?
Maybe dedicate a whole show to how CMR might should have kept Metlenburg over Murray
Yawn
I thought this was about UGA football not about past QB transfers
Might wanna throw Eassons name in the mix also
I am betting Fromm is the last of the three taken
I really don't have a feel for how the NFL sizes up Fromm? Jake is not useful in wet conditions...NFL quite aware. This year completed under 50% of his passes... I think that stat was....in three or more games. They may draft their potential in him. I just don't know. IMO..he is at UGA another season.
Follow-up: What does anyone think of UGA QB Commit Carson Beck? They say he is a pro style QB..pocket quarter back. Hummm? We need a scrambler!
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" Kirby was deathly afraid of having a QB Controversy...........So he never really gave Fields a chance to run the offense......."
The irony is the "controversy" increased. The specter of Justin Fields is still lingering over Kirby Smart.
I think Carson Beck is more of the Jake Fromm model, I agree that at least bring in a Bo Nix level athlete back there, or that QB at Texas that ran all over us last year in Sugar Bowl. Kirby best hope that LSU or Clemson wins it all, but next year will be even worse when Fields has more experience against whatever we plan to do next year, which is more of Fromm, I assume.
Greg Ward Jr. would be ideal if Kirby were to actually promise him a shot at the starting job.
I wonder why didn't CKS allow Justin to split snaps in the first 4 games like Swinney did with Kelly Bryant and Trevor Lawrence in 2018? After 4 games, Trevor Lawrence took the decision out of Swinney's hand by outplaying Bryant. No controversy, no conjecture, no question about who the best QB was. This route may have been a better way to put the Fromm/Fields issue to rest.