re: How damn good was Stetson Bennett?

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Stet transcending and breaking the drought. Twice. Was the peak. What an exciting time to have lived through

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Instead of watching, with their eyes, exactly what's happening in front of their face, men have become like women and believe what they hear, especially if it feeds their pre-existing fears.

The jt dainiels hype was overrated based on him playing well against lowly teams. He was a statue and looked like shite vs clemson and was a pussy that wouldn't play even though courson cleared him

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He was a statue and looked like shite vs clemson

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Thats the general trend for 99% of QBs when facing a dominant defense.

Stetson would have looked worse at that point. See Stetson's performance against South Carolina in week 3.

I agree that JT protected his "brand" by not playing hurt. And that he never lived up to the hype.
But JT did lead huge drives to win games. Just like Stetson. Just like Stafford.
Stats aside, that is what you want from your QB.

There is a revisionist history on Stetson that everyone here had his back.

I literally had his back. I thought we could win with Stetson. But reality is that the majority of the fan base equated Kirby Smart playing Bennett to Kirby Smart throwing out a lawnmower over a 5 star recruit. That is a quote from Disney Dawg the last time I clicked on his podcast in 2021.

JT was a pussy. Total California stereotype. What career was he trying to save?......

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JT was a pussy. Total California stereotype. What career was he trying to save?......

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^ is a lot different of a response than

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He had the ability, extremely accurate arm and quick process and release but was made of glass.

If he had of played more, he may have had a high NFL grade based on measuables short of reliability.

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Its not that big of a point that I am making. But I do think the revisionist stuff is true.

I always had faith in Stetson.
But it wasn't until I saw how much better our running attack was with the threat of Bennett's legs before I gave up on JT as the starter. Maybe week 6 or 7. I don't remember.

Stetson never sucked from day one. The two losses that fans hold against him are the Florida loss where he suffered an injured shoulder on the play that put us up 14 to zip and an Alabama loss in Tuscaloosa. Stetson had the movement, the passing ability, the mind and fierce determination. We won't see anyone better.

holy hell there is some revisionist history and utterly shite takes in this thread. Same as there were in 2021 and 2022. Geez. I don't understand how some people can't praise stetson without shitting on JT. The biggest problem JT had, similar to Eason, was the monumental expectations placed on him by our fanbase. So when both careers went south due to injury people just default to hating on them, for some reason.

Stetson was a phenomenal QB for us. Similar to Murray's trajectory he took some lumps young but matured into an amazing asset for us. His 2022 season is one of the best by anyone wearing a Dawg uniform. He was a heisman finalist for goodness sakes! But to act like people knew he was "the guy" from the jump or that JT always sucked is simply flat out wrong. Below is not my opinion, but objective, inarguable, black and white FACT:

-Stetson was a walkon under Kirby in 2017. Kirby and Chaney decided he wasn't worth taking a single snap that year
-He transferred out to JUCO in 2018.
-He returned in 2019. Kirby and a second OC (schott) decided not to give him any meaningful snaps on purpose and only saw light mopup duty. The excpetion to this was when Fromm got hurt and he was forced to play briefly.
-In 2020 Kirby and yet a 3rd OC had a look at stet all offseason and in August he was 4th on the depth chart. The OC that most of you still have wet dreams about told stet he wasn't good enough to ever start here. The starter quit before the season began and JT had health issues so by deafult stetson was then 2nd string entering hte season. Mathis sucked beyond belief so we had no choice but to play stetson and he stepped up big time. He looked really damn good in those first 3 starts and went from a nobody to being an extrremely, very capable backup, or even emergency starter if needed.
-Our first gigantic test was against bama and there is absolutely zero blame to be placed on stet for losing the game. And consiering how good that bama team was, it doesn't matter who we would've played at QB we'd still lose. However, going 18/40 with 3 INT didn't help much. Our other loss on the year he was injured whihc isn't his fault. The next week is when JT was finally healthy enough to get the start.

-In his first ever start JTD threw for over 400 yards and 4 TDs in a game we needed all of them since the defense didn't feel like stopping leach at all. Was about as fine of a debut as you'll ever see. He was immaculate.
-2 weeks later at a place that people typically struggle with he threw for 300 yards and 3 TDs

At this point we have 2 really outstanding QBs that are both more than capable of playing well. I don't see how anyone could argue that. We went through spring of 2021, all summer of 2021, and fall camp 2021, and yet AGAIN our best coach ever and our best OC both decided that JT Daniels gave us a better chance to win than stetson.

-Rough game in the opener against an always stout clemson defense. Pitiful stats but the same could be said for almost everyone.
-Sat out game 2 against an overmatched scrub while stetson played like a video game
-JT back to start in game 3 against SC and throws for 300 yards on 74% with 3 TDs
-The next week he starts again and throws for 90% with 2 TDs right out of the gates before exiting and letting stetson finishes out


At this point in time, stetson has only proven that he is maybe the best backup QB around and more than capable of playing at a high level but JT has also proven that he's our starter and has backed it up on the field. Anyone saying at THIS POINT in time that stetson shoudl be starting, simply based on the UAB game, is ridiculous and illogical.

Little did we know that JT would end up being out for quite a while. And when stetson was finally handed the starting reigns "for good", he performed better than expected. And really the only knock on him towards the end was that he underperformed in the biggets games, and clearly the 2021 SECCG did nothing to disspell that. Honestly neither did the first half of the natty. It wasn't until the 2nd half that he finally broke through the ceiling, proved that YES, he CAN win the biggest game and come through in the clutch, that he elevated himself into all-time lore. And then of course 2022 was even on another higher level than that.

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Biggest problem JT had was he was a pussy

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were you in teh room during his exams doctor? Not sure how you are aware of the severity of his injuries.

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he sucked against good teams

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In 2020 we only played what I'd call 3 good to really good teams. Stetson faced 2 of them and sucked on ice (both losses) while JT faced the other in a victory.

JT has a very limited sample size to go off of and to be honest only faced 2 teams that would even qualify as being relaly good/great. Stetson faced many more of them, and honestly looked pretty pedestrian most of the time as well (until 2022).

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Went on to have an amazing career at WBU and Rice i think. A legend.

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I don't give a rats arse what people do when not at UGA so that couldn't possibly factor less into the discussion.

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Had nothing to do with expectations lol

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It has absolutely everythign to do with expectations, if you read any of my facts posted above. Entering the vanderbilt game in 2021 if you thought JT sucked and stetson was the man and should be starting you were either stupid, or you're currently lying. People think taht because JT was a 5* in high school that he shoudl be some mythical otherwordly talent and then got pissed when he didn't pan out.

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If he was such a superstar,

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I want you to show me anywhere, even once, where I called him a superstar. If you can do that, I'll indulge the rest of your concerns