This guy gets it. Aricle about QB situation in Athens from SDS....

Hope he's right...

I was hoping for an article to make me hopeful, but when he starts by comparing the UGA QB situation to a tumor...not so much.

I hope he's right, but he's guessing as much as anyone else. His point was that the QB doesn't need to make unnecessary gambles. Ramsey doesn't exactly fit that MO.

What does he 'get' other than it being Ramsey's to lose?

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His point was that the QB doesn't need to make unnecessary gambles

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To me his whole point was "UGA has questions at QB. They have a good enough RB to help that situation. Ramsey will probably start, and probably do pretty well"

I read it as the media and fans reading too much into the QB competition in regards to whether or not Ramsey is capable. I think that was his main point.

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He might be a different quarterback if he prepares as the starter, but I don't see how it is anything but a coinflip at this point. Luckily we start the season slow.

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Good news is you and I could QB next years team to 7 wins. Certainly he's better than us, right??

The key is risk management, not elimination of risk. If Georgia sends Bauta out there, they'll run it or throw a check down every play, win 9 or so games, but won't be capable of winning the conference. Good teams will be able to roll the safeties up, stop UGA's plan, and UGA won't be able to counter down the field.

Or, you could throw Ramsey or Lambert out there who are willing and able to take more chances down the field. It could go well, and UGA could win the conference. It could also go poorly, they make more mistakes, and UGA wins 8. It would likely be somewhere in the middle.

Give me the second option.

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It could also go poorly, they make more mistakes, and UGA wins 8. It would likely be somewhere in the middle.

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An incomplete pass- or even an interception- 40 to 50 yards downfield will have an affect on safeties. Last year we wouldn't throw downfield when everybody knew it was what had to be done.

No way coaches are building this team like a Stafford/ Murray team. But at some point in the SEC the QB has to win a game for you. I think Ramsey has that ability. Hopefully the coaches can keep him from "losing the game" for us, as the weight simply shouldn't be on his shoulders.

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Bauta doesn't have the arm that Ramsey does, few qb's do. But Bauta is still a Div-I scholarship QB at the University of Georgia. He can still throw the ball downfield. If he makes better decisions than Ramsey and has emerged as "the leader in the locker room" then there's just as good of a case to be made to give him the starting role. Its just as reasonable to say it is his to lose.

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I'm sure he has the arm to do it. Mason did it. I've never seen Bauta show the inclination to do it. He has yet to look more than 15 yards downfield in a game or spring game that I've seen, and you don't hear about him doing it in practice. All you hear is "he makes good decisions."

That, to me, is more concerning than Ramsey making some mistakes as a RS freshman while doing so. Just my opinion.

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I'm sure he has the arm to do it. Mason did it. I've never seen Bauta show the inclination to do it. He has yet to look more than 15 yards downfield in a game or spring game that I've seen, and you don't hear about him doing it in practice. All you hear is "he makes good decisions."

That, to me, is more concerning than Ramsey making some mistakes as a RS freshman while doing so. Just my opinion.

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If I thought Ramsey was the future, I'd agree with you. But because I think Eason is the future, I see the qb this season being a 1-year starter. I would accept the risk of Ramsey having growing pains if I thought Ramsey was the future, I'd be willing to accept a year of growing pains as an investment in the future.

Regardless of who the starter is, the opposing defense isn't going to keep two safeties 30 yards deep. They'll be playing close because of the running game. And I think going into situational scenarios with clock, score, down, distance, is going to be a waste of time. The decision for starting QB shouldn't be based on how another defense might scheme against him.