re: Very good blog post on Mason's game last Saturday....

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you're right (about it not being a tough call ) because stafford would have tried to force the ball and had three interceptions.

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I think your emotions have overridden your memory. In his true freshman year, when he admitted he had no idea where his receivers were, Stafford had 13 picks (don't forget Tereshinski trained with the first team in fall camp). In his each of his last two seasons, he had 10 apiece, and he was throwing downfield passes, not short dump offs, which is significant because longer throws have less margin for error. Plus, he never played behind an OL at UGA that was nearly as good as what Hutson Mason has right now. Stafford had probably the worst OL's of the Richt era, with the possible exception of 2003 or 2004, when everybody got hurt and David Greene took a beating.

Aaron Murray averaged about 10 ints per year, 8 in his freshman season. He also threw a lot of downfield passes.

If Mason can make the throws that Stafford and Murray did and throw 10 picks this year, I'll be ecstatic, and our offense will be a juggernaut. But I haven't see that ability from him so far, either last year or this.