re: SEC East QB's 2014

We'll see how bad he sucks when he is finally in an offense he was recruited to be in. Probably be a nice thread to bump in some months.

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Mizzou's Maty Mauk

As a freshman, Mauk was thrown into the fire as a starting quarterback in the SEC after starter James Franklin separated his shoulder in the Georgia game. As most freshmen do, he struggled. He started against Florida, Carolina, Tenn, and UK. His completion percentages, respectively, were 50, 40, 48, and 60. As soon as Franklin was healthy enough to play, Mauk was put back on the bench. His only good stat is 11 TD's to only 2 INT's.

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lulz. Mauk "struggled" to a 3-1 record as a starter, with a 15-0 4th quarter win off the bench @ Georgia to boot.

You are correct on the potential impact of the loss of Josey and Green-Beckham.

Tennessee's WRs were overhauled last year. This year they should be very, very good. Everybody back+Malone and Pearson.

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SEC East QB's 2014

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Does not really matter who is the QB from the east cause a team from the west will win the sec

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His career has mostly been in mop-up duty for Murray after easy wins have already been sealed, and mostly against FCS and weak OOC FBS opponents.

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That's generally what backup qb's do.

Sort of like Thompson's games against East Carolina and UAB in 2012.

How about Thompson's mop-up duty last year vs Arky and Coastal Carolina?


You can't criticize Mason's experience in backup duty without criticizing Thompson's similar experience as a backup.



ETA- Thompson has only started 3 games. Mason has started 2.

Mason's starts were against quality teams in Tech and Nebraska. Thompson's quality starts were against Mizz and Clemson in 2012.

In other words, they have the same amount of quality starts.... two. Mason's are more recent and his stats were better.

Just sayin'...

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That's generally what backup qb's do.

Sort of like Thompson's games against East Carolina and UAB in 2012.

How about Thompson's mop-up duty last year vs Arky and Coastal Carolina?


You can't criticize Mason's experience in backup duty without criticizing Thompson's similar experience as a backup.



ETA- Thompson has only started 3 games. Mason has started 2.

Mason's starts were against quality teams in Tech and Nebraska. Thompson's quality starts were against Mizz and Clemson in 2012.

In other words, they have the same amount of quality starts.... two. Mason's are more recent and his stats were better.

Just sayin'...

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But it's a bit of a difference for an unproven backup QB to take the field against one of those type opponents when his team is already up by 4-5 tds and there's not a lot of time left on the clock, and the opponent is already pulling their starters as well, like most of Mason's appearances - and starting games versus ECU or coming into the UAB game when your starting QB (Shaw) is injured and can't play, and you're the only true option left at QB (Murray was chilling on the sideline and available for most of Mason's gms)...

USC was up 21-6 on UAB at the half, and Thompson took over the 2nd half. Was there a chance that UAB would come back to tie or lead the game? Not really, but USC didn't have anyone else after Dylan should he have faltered. The game wasn't over at that point however, is the point I'm trying to make: UAB wasn't pulling their starters, and they had to feel better being down by only 15 pts at the half than to be down by 30- 40 pts late in the game, like most of the opponents that Mason took the field against...

And yes Thompson has made appearances in mop-up duty himself, but he's appeared in 11 and 10 gms the past 2 seasons, not 4 and 5 like Mason has. Thompson didn't officially start versus Central Florida on their field last season, but when Shaw went out after only one series, and the team fell behind UCF 10-0 at the half, Thompson had to battle to pull the team to victory, and he did. UCF only lost to one opponent last season...

Mason made his appearances versus:

1) UL-Lafayette in a 55-7 blow-out: late in 3rd qtr. when score was 41-7;

2) Vanderbilt in a 43-0 blow-out: late in 3rd qtr. when score was 43-0;

3) Idaho State in a 55-7 blow-out: early in the 3rd qtr. when score was 38-0;

5) Coastal Carolina in a 59-0 blow-out: early in the 3rd qtr. when score was 38-0;

6) New Mexico State in a 63-16 blow-out: starts the 3rd qtr. when score is 49-3;

9) North Texas in a 45-21 decisive victory: participated but no stats recorded;

10) Appalachian State in a 45-6 blow-out: plays entire 4th qtr. when score is 31-6;

Also participated in:

4) Tough 49-31 loss to Auburn in 2010: took over final possession - handed off to RB, was sacked once for -11 yds;

7) Auburn in a 45-7 blow-out: participated but no stats recorded;

8) LSU in a 42-10 SECCG blow-out loss: came in for final possession, went 4-11 for 55 yds, 0 td 0 int

11) Kentucky in a 59-17 blow-out: comes in for injured Murray when score was 28-10, goes 13-19 for 189 yds, 1 td, 1 int;

Then the 2 starts. That makes up all of Mason's career appearances at UGA. Other than the 2 starts, nothing really substantial to show for him. Thompson as I posted above had to relieve Shaw in the UAB game, hit the winning TD vs Michigan, pull the team from a deficit at UCF, come in for (again) an injured Shaw vs UT (which we lost, but not due to Dylan), in addition to his 3 starts.

Mason's starts were against a 7-4 in-state rival GT and a 8-4 Nebraska. Thompson's starts were against a 1-0 ECU (they would go 8-4), a 10-1 and top-10 ranked in-state rival Clemson, and a 7-0 and top-5 ranked Missouri, the last two on their fields. What Mason has faced in his time at UGA can't possibly compare to what Thompson has at USC....

And it's debatable that Mason's stats for his starts are better than Thompson's: Mason threw for 619 yds in his 2 starts (309.5 ypg) which is more than Thompson's 862 in his 3 (287.3 ypg), but the difference is slight. Mason completed 57.3% compared to Thompson's 56.2% - again a slight improvement. But Dylan threw 6 tds to only 2 ints, compared to Hutson's 3 tds to 2 ints, so Dylan had the better TD-INT ratio. Points count more than yards in games. Dylan was also the better rusher, with 60 yds in 25 atts, compared to -9 yds in 20 atts for Hutson. So that's 912 total yds from scrimmage for Thompson (304 ypg) compared to 610 for Mason (305 ypg). No difference there, despite Thompson having played the far better quality opponents in his starts....

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No difference there, despite Thompson having played the far better quality opponents in his starts....

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OK now you are being a little ridiculous.


Re-do the stats without East Carolina as one of DT's starts.

.... And it won't be ATM. Congrats on living vicariously through Bama, AU, or LSU.

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The only reason Murphy played last yr is because JD got hurt.

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Thanks for the Knowledge Bomb.

Good one.