It's quite obvious he doesn't have a laser, rocket arm but like I said earlier I'm anxious to see what happens with JSW and MM come back.

Someone elsewhere pointed out after rewatching eveyr throw HM made against UT that for basically every pass (or hell, it might have been EVERY pass) they were playing man coverage. That's kinda odd in college. Mason is definitely more of a Greene-like precision guy, so not having any pass plays in zone doesn't help. Also, I love bennett and Conley to death but those guys aren't really what you want on teh outside in man coverage beating DBs. You get them in space or throw back shoulder to them. JSW especially, and MM as well, are your outside guys that will beat corners 1v1. Mason has had what, 1.5 game out of 6 1/2 played with 1 of those guys (JSW), and 0 with both of them.

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Posted by Damn Good Dawg

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Posted on 9/30/14 at 11:38 am to WG_Dawg

Great points. Ok here was my text. I know there some mistakes (the 2001 QB) and I typed it at like 11:30 last night so forgive me

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I’ll give you credit, -----. You called Mason’s inadequacy early. You did. I didn’t want to believe it. I didn’t think he was great. I didn’t think he was physically gifted. But i thought he could be like David Greene, another who lacked athleticism and arm strength. His brilliance made him one of the winningest QBs going. And having a defense. What we have discovered is that in addition to having a noodle arm Mason also lacks confidence.

The benefits he provided was experience, maturity, and the fact he wouldn’t lose games for us. Between his “grounding” at USCe, his horrible decisions vs UT, his inability to go beyond 10 yards, his fumbled snaps, his quick feet (despite not being a run threat) has proven that Mason not only isn’t good: he’s becoming a problem. He may be Richt’s worst QB. I think that is still Joe Tereshinski but Mason is just like JT III.

Neither one had the arm to be great and neither had the head to be good. Cox sucked. Was just horrible. But he could stretch a defense. He’d throw an INT every other series but he could get the ball to the WRs. But, hell, ---, you knew all this. You knew it all along. Outsiders saw these issues. But here’s the issue: he wasn’t this bad last year. UK doesn’t count cause Mason came in up 28. GT he started very slow but he brought the team back. Team was low on weapons but he did it. Nebraska he started even worse but showed a ton of heart bringing back a team that had given up on 2013. Only reason we lost was Lynch dropping the 4th down pass. Both games Mason threw it close to 40 times and he hit 300 or just below both times.

We thought we had a decent option. But what we didn’t notice was that it takes Mason 40 passes to get there. UGA had become pretty reliant on the pass toward the end of the year. Mediocre OL, hurt WRs, a hobbled (and 250 lb) Gurley and two freshman RBs. This year Mason hasn’t thrown more than 25. And he has yet to eclipse 200. Some want to point to him losing JSW and MM (both back this weekend) but ATL radio host Matt Chernoff made an excellent point: Georgia has never needed WRs to make the passing game work. We have always relied on a studly QB. So the miracle isn’t coming. Georgia is now entirely reliant on the nation’s best RB, probably best player, for it’s offense. And somehow it’s working. Without Gurley this team is 6-6. So why, you say, not play Ramsey? Others ask why not Bauta? Idiots ask why not Jacob Park?

I’ll tell you several reasons of why he won’t be benched.

1) Mark Richt doesn’t just bench players. Especially if they are 3-1 and the SEC East is on the table. Richt benched Phillips (i think?) for Greene because he sucked arse. 2006 is the only other time he has done it. JT III got hurt vs USCe and he put in Stafford. Stafford won. Stafford the next few weeks was pretty mediocre. UT came to town and JT III came back. What proceeded was a quick start to get up 21-10. Then all hell broke loose. JT III was powerless to score while the georgia defense eroded to a point of no return and we lost 51-33 on the national stage. JT III was benched for Stafford then. Then Stafford played Colorado and was horrid. We were down 13-7 all game. And this is Dan Hawkins Colorado. The worst Colorado. Joe Cox comes off the bench to throw a TD with 30 secs left to win 14-13. Joe Cox then starts vs Ole Miss. He is horrible. Stafford comes in. Last time a QB was benched at Georgia. People wanted to burn Murray’s RS for Cox. Never happened.

Reason 2: Bauta doesn’t run the offense we run or he isn’t really bred to do it. Bauta is more of a Tebow kind of player. Bobo would have to redesign the offense. Bobo won’t do that. Bauta can’t flourish in what we run. His arm isn’t that great. He isn’t athletic enough to justify it. I like Bauta. I really do. He’ll never start at UGA.

Reason #3: Brice Ramsey isn’t ready. I am not even convinced this kid will be good in the future. He was pretty well recruited. Saban wanted him. He was a 4 star. The entire time he got this hype he was actually running the wing T in south GA. Rumor has it that mama ramsey went to the HS HC and told him to start throwing more for little Brice or they were leaving. And they did. I just haven't felt he was ready. And he’s not. Ramsey barely beat out Bauta. He has a cannon but he has incredibly raw mechanics. He guns passes in to double coverage. He stares down guys just like Mason. He has practically no touch. He probably doesn’t even know the full playbook. He’s not just trying to learn Georgia’s offense still he’s still trying to learn how to be a pro style QB.

Reason #4: Neither Bauta nor Ramsey is ready and Georgia is 3-1. We control our destiny in the SEC East. We have Todd Gurley. Is this really the time to look to the future? Why would you waste Gurley on a QB who’s gonna throw 3 ints a game? This defense can’t handle a new starter. The damn is already breaking with an ineffective Mason. If we start hemorrhaging the ball then there is no hope.

Final Reason: The grass isn’t always greener. The most popular player on any team is the back up QB. People wanted Mason to take over for Murray. Now they want Ramsey. In a world where coaches like Les Miles and Dabo Swinney stick to their guys too long it makes sense. Why can’t UGA do that? Well, idk if LSU has their guy but Georgia doesn’t have a Deshaun Watson. We just don’t. UGA fans have been spoiled by QBs. We really have. We expect there is another stud ready at Georgia. Simply put...we don’t have anyone to put in. You think it’s bad now? It can get worse.