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Reason for Jake Fromm’s regression???

jtdawg2020

Just saw Instagram post with Jake From and apparent girlfriend. Can’t help but wonder if great town of Athens and all it has to offer (including potential girlfriends) has distracted Jake and got him a bit off his game this year. This might seem a little far fetched initially but we all know how women can get us off our game (especially in the beginning dating phase). This may not make a difference for an O-Lineman but with QB position being so cerebral and Jake being a qb that so heavily relies on that as opposed to his athleticism, I think this is a true possibility. Thoughts?

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706Dawg

Pretty sure Jake Fromm has been big man on campus for a long time. Highly doubt a lil poontang now has him distracted. The numerous videos of him putting in extra work during the summer support that. Nothing to see here imo.

mattmd2

Could just be that there’s some truth to the notion of a sophomore slump. Or it could be in our heads.

Kasey

Step away from the computer! College kids are allowed to have bad games. Does your boss fire you when you have a bad day at work and check your social media excessively looking for clues?

Sheesh...if Jake has a career day against Florida some of y’all need to come back here and apologize

Kasey

Also this

WCDawg

@mattmd2 said:
Could just be that there’s some truth to the notion of a sophomore slump. Or it could be in our heads.

His downfield passing numbers and how long he holds on to the ball are facts and are worse than last season. Other descriptive terms like ''tentative'' are subjective, but observable.
I think there have been regressions in important areas and I think it's about coaching errors.
Changing QB and WR coaches, making every day a fight for survival, etc are not nurturing moves.

oldon42

If their has been any regression and I am not sure there is. I would blame it on the loss of Wims and no receiver stepping up to fill his place along with Godwin's injury. before the start of the season I had hopes that Matt Landers or Tommy Bush Jr. would fill the role of a big receiver.

WCDawg

@oldon42 said:
If their has been any regression and I am not sure there is. I would blame it on the loss of Wims and no receiver stepping up to fill his place along with Godwin's injury. before the start of the season I had hopes that Matt Landers or Tommy Bush Jr. would fill the role of a big receiver.

I think we have TEs who can do 90% of what Wims gave us.
Losing him doesn't account for most of what is going on.
COACHING changes are where the lines intersect.

dawgnms

Guess Jake needs to be celibate until he moves on......reaching for excuses for a bad game.......blame it on the girl

WCDawg

@Kasey said:
Step away from the computer! College kids are allowed to have bad games. Does your boss fire you when you have a bad day at work and check your social media excessively looking for clues?

Sheesh...if Jake has a career day against Florida some of y’all need to come back here and apologize

Grown men monitoring a teenager's social media postings is just plain creepy.

WCDawg

@dawgnms said:
Guess Jake needs to be celibate until he moves on......reaching for excuses for a bad game.......blame it on the girl

Jake has been THE man in his somewhat privileged world for a long time. He hasn't lost perspective all of a sudden.

JayDog

I don't think Jake has regressed. He has a lot more to deal with this year over last. Not every QB goes through the sophomore jinx, but there is something to it. Jake is dealing with timing different receivers, zoned in and disguised defenses, more of the offensive playbook and an OL with too many freshmen on it.

This is not a coaching problem or a distraction problem. There are a lot of other variables that are impacting his overall performance.

WCDawg

@JayDog said:
I don't think Jake has regressed. He has a lot more to deal with this year over last. Not every QB goes through the sophomore jinx, but there is something to it. Jake is dealing with timing different receivers, zoned in and disguised defenses, more of the offensive playbook and an OL with too many freshmen on it.

This is not a coaching problem or a distraction problem. There are a lot of other variables that are impacting his overall performance.

I disagree, I think coaching changes and Kirby's approach to the QB competition has at best caused short term problems.

Casanova_Flatulence

Jake's performance against LSU has nothing to do with Athens or women and everything to do with Justin Fields. Game reps are critically important to a QB. When you're being pulled in the middle of a drives, not playing for long stretches during the game or not playing in the 4th Qtr., it's very difficult to establish a rhythm.

LowcountryDawg21

Good looking, charismatic young man who is the starting QB for a major college football program...think I’d be more concerned if he DIDN’T have a girlfriend.

He had a bad game. From some of the things Kirby’s said during the week, sounds like some of the receivers did too (running wrong routes, etc.). It was a bad game, from start to finish, in all aspects. There are some personnel issues that aren’t going away (D-line), but I’ve come to believe that this was just a bad game.

WCDawg

@LowcountryDawg21 said:
Good looking, charismatic young man who is the starting QB for a major college football program...think I’d be more concerned if he DIDN’T have a girlfriend.

He had a bad game. From some of the things Kirby’s said during the week, sounds like some of the receivers did too (running wrong routes, etc.). It was a bad game, from start to finish, in all aspects. There are some personnel issues that aren’t going away (D-line), but I’ve come to believe that this was just a bad game.

The regression is the entire advanced areas of the passing game, and started long before The LSU game,it's both QBs and receivers. A lack of communication, wrong routes, poor timing, etc,etc. I keep coming back to the 2 critical coaching reassignments and how both QBs are being handled.