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In SBIV's last 4 quarters as UGA's QB: (4th against OSU and first 3 against TCU)
28-37 passing
494 yds passing
21 yds rushing (2 sacks against O.State included)
6 TD's passing
2 TD's Rushing
8 total TD's accounted for
Impressive stats for any QB
Correction: The sacks against Ohio State did not come in the 4th quarter as I recall so he may not have had any rushing yds in the 4th quarter against OSU.
I, like I believe most Dawg fans, just want the DAWGS to to win. Just win. I don't care who the starting QB is, if he's winning. THe drama we had as fans was by-in-large due to the drama inside the UGA coaching staff.
Let;s take a step back and remember what happened. Fromm leaves and we were supposed to get this great QB from Wake Forrest, right? THen before the season starts in August he quits. Then the coaching staff says OK well Mathis has been looking the best in practice, I'm talking about practice! CTM I;m sure with CKS's blessing names Dwan the starter. It was a fiasco. It was clear from the get go that he was overwhelmed and unprepared. SB comes in and saves the day. Now everyone is like OK this guy has got some game. He wins the next week , the next and the next, then we play BAMA, things look good for awhile and then not so good. SB winds up throwing 18-40 in passing with 3 ints. Uh-Oh Houston we have a problem. Is he the guy who can take down BAMA? DOesn't appear so. He goes onto start well against FLa but gets injured and on one play we lose SB and Jack Saint.
So, with SB being injured JT Dainiels is now miraculously healthy enough to play and he throws for 400 yards and beats Miss St on a night we ended up with 8 yards rushing. So, now you have dire hard UGA fans divided on who should be the QB. JUst fans who want to win. That's all.
BUt this division among the fans was as I said, by-in-large to the coaching staff, a QB quitting, and injuries. JT beats Cincy in the Peach Bowl leading us to a last second victory throwing for 400 yards. Kirby names him the starter going into the next season.
JT leads us to a victory against Clemson, but he didn't look good and come to find out he had been hurt in that game. I believe. So here we go again with the injury bug at QB. SB steps in and light it up against UAB(but it's UAB) JT comes back for the next game against SC and throws for 300 and leads us to a big win.
THe next game was Vandy and we were up 34-o in the 1st quarter, both QB's played and did OK, but JT must have gotten reinjured or still not over the nagging injury he had becasue SB starts against ARK and then Auburn. Both were wins but SB only average 150 yard passsing in those 2 games. NOt exactly stellar.
So, up until this point it;s perhaps easy to see why DAWGnation fans are split between who they believe is best suited to lead the team. It was never this cut and dried, black and white thing that some people on here are trying to make it out to be. SB beats Fla but it was more about the defense in that game turning things around that weren't going too good. SB just had a so-so day. Barely over 50 % passing. So, the jury is still out on the QB.
THe net game is Missouri and SB starts and does well throwing for a little over 200 yards and comes out early with the game inhand and JT comes in and he deos well also, throwing for a little over100 yards with around a 75% completion rate. So, again, it's still not a clear cut situation to us fans. BUt the next week SB starts at Tenn and we beat them, SB was good, not great, but it's at this point that I believe CKS said SB was our guy.
Starts and wins against Charleston Southern and Ga Tech were good performances. We have our hopes up going into the SECC game against BAMA. Everyone knows what happened there, we got boat raced and while SB performed well overall he had two costly turnovers that factored into the loss. Many devoted fans still questioned if he was the guy. WE beat Michigan SBwas flawless, andthen BAMA with SB looking great late.
THe rest is history as they say. But it was never as black and white as some want to make it. Even after the NC game and SB coming back, KCS still recruited Caleb Williams and it wouldn't have been to ride the bench, either.
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If college stats determined anything then Case Keenum and Timmy Chang - the NCAA career passing yards leaders - would have gotten drafted. Or Bailey Zappe - the NCAA career single season passing leader - would have gone higher than the 4th as would have BJ Symons (7th) and Graham Harrell (undrafted).
In any case, hilarious how you omitted Bryce Young's 2021 stats, which was back when Young had guys with Brock Bowers and Darnell Washington caliber talent catching the ball instead of a tailback Jahmyr Gibbs leading them in catches or Jermaine Burton leading them in yards. Because that was 4870 yards and 47 TDs. Even better? This was with his running for his life behind the sort of bad OL that no UGA QB has had to put up with since poor true freshman Jacob Eason got ruined behind one in 2016. Young got sacked 39 times in 2021 to Bennett's 9 times this season. Young got sacked almost as many times in the 2021 Auburn game alone - 7 times - as Bennett got sacked all 2022.
Yes, Bennett had a better career than Young, but it was very largely due to being on a much better team with better coaching. (Were Jim Chaney Alabama's coordinator this year, Young and Alabama gets back to the title game, and more important Young doesn't miss a game and play hurt 3 more games due to a separated shoulder that occured on yet another hit. Of course they lose the title game - again - but at least they get there. And that doesn't even discuss trying to run a 3-4 defense with 4-3 DTs and MLBs.) Put Bryce Young on UGA, and Brock Bowers' numbers goes through the roof. Even more important, guys with the talent to play in the NFL like Kearis Jackson - who had 500 yards and 3 TDs in 10 games in 2020 - and 5 star recruit Dominick Blaylock have more than 550 yards and only 1 TD reception between them (yes, Blaylock enters the draft this season if he had better numbers). But playing for Alabama the past 2 seasons in Bill O'Brien's pro-style offense and running for his life behind that OL, it is debatable whether Bennett wins 7 games a season. We saw what happened in 2020 when Bennett wasn't surrounded by the talent that UGA has now and wasn't playing a scheme designed around him. Wasn't pretty.
And yes, Bennett was 23 years old back in 2020 when he had 8 TDs to 6 INTs and didn't look like a viable major college starter. By contrast,Young was 20 when he carried that suspect supporting cast to the national title game and is still only 21 years old right now. And yes, that matters whether people want to believe it or not. It is certainly going to matter to NFL scouts and GMs in a few months.
Just an FYI...Eason was injured in the first game of 2017 and Fromm took over. Leading them to a NCG appearance against BAMA...which they lost in OT.
They had a pretty solid offensive line that year (and every year after), Coached by Sam Pittman...then Luke in 2020. So. 2017 is definitely not, a good example.