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Mathis did more than his share to make the offense look sloppy. I'm happy that Mathis is healthy after his serious medical issues but I saw nothing that indicated he is ready to lead a championship caliber team. Eason's first meaningful snaps after high school were against SEC defenses which resulted in a five loss season. That is exactly where these Dawgs are headed if Mathis remains the starter.
Obviously, the coaching staff will decide who starts against Auburn. I appreciate Bennett bringing the "juice." He was poised, smart and made great decisions. Does that remind you of anyone? Mathis is a lot more than a great story. The kid is long, has a great arm, and can flat-out fly. Does that remind you of anyone? He was making his first start in an SEC road game after a long layoff, in a new system, along with everyone else. While we don't know yet what Carson Beck has, clearly each of the other three have different skill sets, which means the offense will look different when each is in, playing to their strengths. Mathis has much more speed than the other three, and an arm that is close to Daniels' equal. Daniels has the most experience at the P5 level, has a cannon, and has played in similar offenses. He won't run as much, but can escape--or at least he could before the injury. Bennett is athletic, but not overly fast. The weakest arm of the three, it will be difficult to take the kind of frequent shots Moncken likes. Admittedly, Mathis made mistakes in the first half, but nobody was particularly good on offense. I'm reminded of John McKay's presser following an particularly **** Tampa Bay loss. The reporter asked what he thought of his offense's execution. McKay replied, "I'd be in favor of it." I think it's a bit early to form a firing squad. We should all look forward to the usual large leap forward that teams make between Games 1 and 2, regardless of who is under center. Go Dawgs!
Mathis hasn't played in a live game since high school, and it showed, remember, Mathis is a red shirt freshman that has went through major surgery, I wish he could have had a year to play behind Jake, and gotten some in game experience, but he couldn't, so here we are with Bennett, or possibly JT, if he ever gets released, those are the only two that we have that have had in game college game experience, so were going to have to play with what we have for the time being, and maybe one of them can get us through the season, and into the playoffs. Hopefully
Seeing too much we aren't going to be any good and this is going to be a rough season. To that I point to CKS history of improvement from game 1 to 2 (as most teams do), but more specifically the adjustments made at half to clean up penalties and correct the offensive line (very sloppy 1st half). Time in the film room and a week of practice having that film and we will be fine. Thankful we had Camarda to help us through early struggles as well.
I just wonder how good our offense is after watching those two completely different halves. At halftime, my daughter and I went to grab some dinner, to-go, and upon our semi-hasty return, saw the score and had to rewind the game to see what the heck happened. We were up 27-whatever with the guy we all thought a month ago was going to be the 4th string QB. We scored almost at will once things clicked(they usually don’t unclick) and kudos to the coaching staff, for many reasons, for pulling Mathis when they did. No need to ruin the kid’s psyche over Arkansas. Given what Stetson did with the O, I believe JT will be the guy, as soon as he’s cleared and Stetson loses the job. JT’s got the same skill set, but better skills. Mathis will be used like our last dual threat QB, though with a better end.
Bennet showed that he's a capable backup and a gamer who has a good grasp of this offense. However, if this team wants to get to Atlanta in December and beyond they are going to have to develop either Mathis or Daniels. This will be a test of whether Kirby and his staff can develop a QB, something we haven't seen at UGA. After three years Fromm left UGA no better than when he arrived, in fact he may have regressed his junior year.