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Kirby Smart sounds on Georgia football quarterback situation after SEC championship game defeat
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Kirby Smart sounds on Georgia football quarterback situation after SEC championship game defeat
Georgia football coach Kirby Smart shared his thoughts on the Georgia football quarterback situation.
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JT needs to start. Period. We need elite QB play which we don’t have with Stet. I love Stet and I am so glad that we have had him this season, but we need elite play when we play a team with comparable talent. The D needs to play a whole lot better too. Cant have busted coverages like that.
Alabama came to play and was ready. Young is an elite QB, Bennett isn't. Saban had his OL dialed in to our defensive schemes, they picked them up with consistent regularity. In case you missed it, Saban had his OL "dialed" in to our defensive schemes. We got our butts handed to us.
Hopefully we get another shot....
Putting the best spin on this mess, the message is clear. Not elite.
Bennett....be gone......poof! You will Never beat Bama. Kirby either, the way he coaches against them. A superior offense BEATS a superior defense every time. Saban is laughing his hat off now...as I write. He knows UGA will never beat him. Kirby Smart needs to let go of Stetson Bennett...let JT try, Kirby.....just give him a chance... forget this feet do the talking stuff...Bennett miscued when he needed not to miscue the most...poor judgement.....Kirby as well....UGA was not prepared to win. Bama was quicker and slicker in every way. Monken, Luke, etc.....ill prepared this team to beat Bama. I personally do not believe UGA should make the play-offs...that was too bad a beating....UGA is not elite. Not top 5. They proved it today. I see so much of Richt in Kirby still. Great guys but not elite. Saban is elite. He won with an inferior team.....coaching. He has won multiple national titles for a reason.
Forget #JT2NYC...forget it.
With better defense, the QB might not have been an issue. The converse is also true; with better QB play, the defense would have had a better chance as the pressure would have been on Bama instead of UGA. Kirby must truly be open to change, or there will never be any change in the results in these big game. Hard to believe JT not given a chance in the second half. Either he’s aweful in practice, or our coach isn’t being objective. I think it might be the latter.
It wasn't on Bennett. Where was the elite defense? This is on Kirby and his defensive staff. They haven't learned yet to protect the middle of the field against Bama. Nick just have Kirby number. I guess that's what happen when you spend majority of your coaching years with one coach. The defense didn't adjust. Terrible secondary play. Talk about that instead of trying to make Bennett the scape goat. The defense didn't hold up their end. It is all about coaching and Kirby got out coached again.
We don't deserve to be in the playoffs period. Until we start playing better in the secondary and God lovem Bennett but JT is a five star and Stetson is not.
"Georgia fans only have to look on the other sideline to see what having a true difference-maker at the quarterback position looks like. "
Heck, all I had to do is look at our bench where JT Daniels was standing!!!!
I've been a Daniels fan since his first start last season and maybe he does not throw the pick six. Bowers stopped on the route on the first INT. Bennett also threw for 340 yards and 3 TD's. Are we going to talk about how our "generational defense " got dominated or blame Bennett? Again, I'm a Daniels fan but I don't know if he would have made much of a difference with such poor defense.
I’ve been behind Stetson this season. I have to drop out. There is a reason Clemson beat Bama. Not once but twice. Defenses don’t win Nattys anymore. Tonight proved that. Two Wr and a 5 star QB wins every year. I was dead wrong on my score predictions and stunned. I’m not sure why but it’s clear. If we do get in and we want to win two more games. We better be able to put up 50 points each game. We better learn to put the ball in the end zone 9 out of 10 drives. Those teams that beat Bama beat them with elite offenses. More importantly pro QBs. Deshaun Watson, Trevor Lawerence, Joe Burrows. The years Bama won. Jalen Hurts, Tua, Mac Jones. One common theme- Pro QB in the NFL. No one. Not one person has said that Stetson was starting in the NFL. Offense has the coach. We have the receivers. We just don’t have the QB for whatever reason.
No, no, no, no, no!!!! Stetson proved today he is not the guy. Get JT ready even though I'm not convinced he is the guy either, but I'll take my chances. Stet had barely a 60% completion rate and 2 interceptions. We were 3 out of 12 on 3rd downs. Atrocious!!!
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result. Sticking with Stetson in the playoffs is the definition of insanity!!!
I am just convinced that Kirby cannot be Nick
3 or 4 man pass rush will not work against Bama....Auburn demonstrated how to beat them.... Man coverage and Everyone else goes after the QB the ENTIRE game,,,, not just midway through 3rd quarter
How many of us have been saying since JT was cleared to play he needs to be our starting QB or at least given the chance to show what he can do at game speed. There have been numerous of us yet there were still fans who wanted to disparage these thoughts. I’m saying it now, Stetson is not now, never was and never will be an elite QB. When he suits up for his last game with UGA his career is over yet we have an NFL caliber QB standing on the sideline while we’re getting curb stomped. Makes no **** sense!
I am a fan of Stetson Bennett and I believe he has done great things as and for the Dawgs but he has faced one good team this year and he failed. And don't tell me he threw for 300+yards. No, his receivers ran for 300+ yards or made great catches.
Yes, I blame a lot on game planning because when we needed to stretch the field, we would hand off. We had some good runs early but we needed the long ball. Especially at the end. Both prior times alabama has beat us in post season has been AFTER they switched quarterbacks. Why were we afraid to do that? Bennett didn't beat Daniels out in competition. He got the start after Daniels was hurt. He was never better, he was just healthy. I don't need a running quarterback. That is why I have running backs. If running isn't working for them, I needed someone with a quick trigger and a strong, accurate arm,
I do not know that we would have won with a different QB today because our defense was atrocious. Again, this was the first really good team we have played. And alabama was jacked for the game because they knew they HAD to win. According to everything you read, we were in, regardless and we played like it.
But dang it, we had our number one quarterback standing on the sidelines the entire game, and that is inexcusable.
Name an elite defense that beat bama...that’s right it’s been offensive teams that beat bama. Defense was a big letdown for sure but we gotta be able to score and move the ball. Seems like every time we play bama our offense leaves the defense on the field so much of the game against an elite bama offense and idc who you are your not winning like that.
Ugh. Where to begin. It wasn't just Bennett. Blown coverages, MIA pass rush, the sheer absence of mind in failing to recover that fumble. The defense was a big disappointment in this game. It was very similar to last year, including Bennett starting out well before ultimately finishing with a generally poor performance.
The whole quarterback situation is just so baffling. And not just because Daniels isn't the starter. As much as people want to make this about Smart just liking Bennett more, he made Daniels the starter at the beginning of the year, and wasn't even shy about it, which is a little unusual. And that's what's so strange about the lack of reps for Daniels over the past few weeks since he's been healthy. It's not like Smart has some aversion to playing him. I'm at a point now where I'm pretty convinced there's something going on that we're probably never going to know about. I'm not into conspiracy theories, I just don't see any other way to explain it. I mean, if Smart was just straight up man crushing on Bennett, or whatever pejorative people want to give it, as weird as that would be, at least that would explain it. But if it were that simple, he could have just said Bennett won back the job in the off-season.
I've been wanting Daniels to be the starter since he came here. I guess we'll see if there's any hope for seeing what this team can do with him as the established starter in the next few weeks. We know Bennett's ceiling; for all of his improvement, it's pretty much the same as it was last year. I wasn't going to fault a coach for sticking with what was working, as long as it was working. We had something like the nation's #6 scoring offense, so, fine. But we've burned our mulligan. There's no reason not to re-install Daniels at this point.
I've been optimistic about the direction of this program since Smart's arrival. I want to be optimistic. But if we fail to win out from this point on, and Bennett is still running the offense without some sensible explanation, that optimism is going to be much harder to come by in 2022 and beyond.
You got to play quarterbacks during the year and throw the ball in the 4th quarter to build chemistry and give guys confidence and opportunities. Stetson had 11 pass attempts the entire year in the 4th quarter of all 12 games till tonight. You’re not going to hold Bama to 14 points. Will need at least 40 to have a chance. I love Stet as a competitor, but IMO you’re not winning a NC with him. He’s reached his ceiling. Stop being hardheaded CKS
Call it a Mater Dei game. One Mater Dei QB = Heisman Trophy.
The other Mater Dei QB (w/a better resume) = on the UGA sideline.
Oh and I forgot