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You have lost your mind - this story is a farce and you should be ashamed of posting it.
OK, y'all. Tell me what, besides Mike's headline, says Stetson starts? Kirby said nothing about who starts, but DEFINITELY said Beck is #2. Said Bennett has a bunch of banked reps. Practices are closed to media. No roster released. Mike, you can't go stirring up a hornets nest, like this, unless you got some evidence. My bet is Beck starts with a vanilla play book. But he is given a very short chain. Look for RB's to have a good day.
Whatever it takes to get a comfortable win. There’s too much riding on every game to worry about what the players think about coaching decisions. UAB is too experienced and too well coached to be taken lightly. That being said, the only way they will be able to hang with the Dawg’s talent is turnovers and if that means starting Stetson until we get a comfortable lead, so be it.
Totally lit up Florida? He had the one nice pass to MRJ, and aside from that he was 4-15 for 46 yards. The two-touchdown lead started out with a 75-yard touchdown from White on the first play from scrimmage.
His two second-half interceptions and 45% completion rate didn't do the defense any favors against Bama.
And there was the Kentucky performance. Again, one long completion but otherwise 85 yards, 2 picks and 0 touchdowns.
I don't want this to turn into some bashing session of Bennett himself. He steadied the team when they were out of options. The thing is, THAT'S his role. He's not going to be the guy who leads this team to a championship. The Florida and Alabama games last year made that abundantly clear. Yeah, he came in and helped a struggling offense against Arkansas last year. So why not look to him for that again, should it become necessary?
Man I'm really hoping this is just irresponsible reporting.
Dont call beck the number 2 and not start him. I love kirby and the dawgs, but thats bad leadership. If true, nothing good will come from this.
BEck to start? OK that should ease some of your worried minds. JUst hope he does well, I don't want to see Stetson to the rescue again as in the Arkansas game. "Everybody has a plan til they get hit in the mouth", someone once famously said.
Mike, you should work for MSNBC.
@MontanaDawg your comment about Saban is not accurate. You may want to review the Bama USC game to see how he manages the quarterback position.as it pertains to bringing quarterbacks along.
What your comment says to me is you trust Saban and not Kirby.
You are right about one thing, Saban will do whatever he can to win the game. He will also sort things out later. His position this week is Bama has played only one half of football. He was not happy about the second half of the U game nor how practice was going.
Kirby on the other hand has been all over the place about the quarterback situation for this game. So is it surprising that JT is not going to play,? Is it surprising that Beck is QB2 but Bennett might start? With Kirby, I would not be surprised if Vandergriff started.
Bah. Look, we ALL respect the talent and drive and balls-out philosophy that Bennett has and I'd have no qualms about putting him in a situation when you need a change and need someone who can reliably pass... HOWEVER, a win isn't enough today. We need Beck to get enough playing time to ensure he doesn't consider transferring as well as making sure that Vandagriff "feels the love".
Beck needs to be shown that he is the #2 without question.
Somebody put one over on Mike Griffin. The smart play is to play Beck. UGA can win with either QB so why not get Beck some valuable experience. UGA w/SBIV cannot win the SEC. We saw that last year. Hopefully this isn't CKS trying to avoid a 1 vs 2 QB controversy a la Fromm/Fields. Surprised Mike Griffin isn't calling for Kendell Milton to start at QB.
Doesn't matter who is QB. B level teams don't have the depth to survive 4 qtrs of fresh running backs. Watch UAB start to fade as they face the fresh legs of White, Milton, Mcintosh, and Cook.
@UGADad20 so you think UGA can win the SEC with Beck this year. I guess it is possible.
Why have Carson at number 2 if you're going to play Bennett. Looks like Beck will be the next quarterback that leaves and go on to do great things this makes no sense at all I'm down with Kirby Smart but this is a bad call we got to get this kid game experience come on man.
@Popeyethesailor -- No thanks, that's not my speed. I'll keep writing about SEC football!
@leebonner I just report what I'm told. Georgia announced Stetson Bennett will start on the video board before the game, too.