re: Eason already looks like the starter IMO

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So if we go into that game starting Lambert and our only loss had been to Bama, you are "confident" we would still lose that game....because of what you saw out of that game?

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Well, first of all, I have the benefit of seeing how the defense performed in that game to make my assessment. If you ask me to disregard that, then I say we still had a puncher's chance, but that was operating under the assumption that I believed Pruitt had learned his lesson from the previous year in terms of how we played UF against the run with a mobile QB who was less of a passing threat. (Clearly, this was not the case.)

However, with no Chubb, and the performance that we saw from our offense in the two games leading up to it combined with the defensive performance that we actually saw, yes. It took a defensive score and a special teams score in the Tennessee game to keep that close. We failed to score a touchdown at home against a Mizzou team that was not particularly talented. If you dig beyond the raw scores in the other games, you see that outside the South Carolina game, the offense was not particularly efficient even in the lopsided wins against bad competition. As the season wore on, you saw more and more press man coverage with safeties crowding up as well, simply because there was little to no threat of a Lambert deep ball.

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Now I know how to read the rest of your opinions moving forward

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I also know everything I need to know about your reading comprehension skills:

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I feel pretty confident, based on what I saw from that team against the rest of the schedule, that we lose that game regardless

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In no way did I imply that it was simply based on the games up to that point. The offense limped along the remainder of the season. I've already provided a comparison post previously of GL to Josh Rosen in another thread quite some time ago. Generally speaking, if you feel that you can at least get his level of performance, you're in better shape statistically starting Eason over Lambert. It doesn't mean that's guaranteed, but to focus on trying to win the east in 2016 with Lambert at the helm at the expense of not maximizing possible playtime for Eason, you may end up winning the east at the expense of having a worse situation in 17 where you still have a QB who doesn't have a year's worth of starts under his belt. I also just don't blanketly subscribe to the idea that Lambert gives you a better chance to win than Eason. I trust that Kirby and the coaches know what they're doing, so were they to start Lambert in Game 1, it's not like it's the end of the world, I just think that Eason is at his worst roughly equivalent to Lambert (given the relative scoring breakdown provided in my previous post accounting for higher turnover totals but higher TD numbers as well).