re: Revisiting Newman & Daniels before UF

Where is Beck??? Did he really have a .489 completion rate in HS and throw an interception for every TD (not quite but close)??? Jesus it just keeps getting better and better....

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After seeing how Mathis played after taking that hit on the sidelines during the Arkansas game, I'm afraid D'Wan will be thinking about the potential impact of his brain surgery for the rest of his life.

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Obviously he made mistakes, but he played better than Bennet has for the last 6 quarters. And remember: this was the first play for the entire offense after limited prep time.

Don't have time to find a better vid, but here's a quick review of his plays v Arkansas. Take a look.

Wonder if his buddy Fields also engaged an agent while the big was postponed...

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but he played better than Bennet has for the last 6 quarters.

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Seems to be the new tard narrative and makes little sense.

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You can argue it’s too small of a sample size

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Of course it is and if you wanna kill em for the 2nd half of Bama and 1st half of UK I get it but we only threw 13 passes the entire game and obviously fewer than that in 2nd half and the 2nd
pick was on our Freshman WR.

Mathis had 5 possessions which ended with 4 punts and an interception.I have no idea why folks are cherry picking 4 bad guarters for Stetson to a very bad 1st qtr for Mathis and discounting his play vs Arky,UT and AU...makes zero sense but Chill's been defending/pimping Mathis since the change so it doesn't surprise.

If only there were highly paid experts who witness all the practices and whose job it is to make personnel decisions on which players are give his team the best chance to win....

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I have thought the same thing - it will be increasingly more difficult to recruit top talent at QB, if Kirby gets the reputation of playing his favorites and not the best player.

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No, it won't they will look at the talent assembled and think I'm the guy to fix what's wrong. Ego will take over especially on a team winning 11+ games a year.

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But, as I have said before, if Stet is the best of the bunch, Georgia has some problems we don't know about yet. I hope he has the game of his life this weekend.

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I don't want to think about it but it wouldn't be difficult to come to that conclusion. It is definitely a pattern. Fromm became the starter in what used to be a path that was frowned upon....I never really understood why but used to be injury didn't replace a starter. Then Fields was never given any meaningful snaps and when he did get some he took off running most of the time. Then the whole JT, Newman or whatever his name was and Bennett thing now....it could all be dumb luck.

I had an old boy who worked for me for a couple of years and I started missing tools. Left and right. And shop tools, not job site tools. He was around the shop a lot when it started happening. I laid him off in a one man lay off and the tools stopped disappearing. I didn't want to think he would steal from me but it sure stopped when he wasn't around....he came out from the hall about 6 months later and I turned him around....he was mad and said I knew he wouldn't steal from me and I told him I still didn't think he would, but my shite stopped going missing when he left and maybe it was just luck but I went from bad luck to good with him being gone...

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You can argue it’s too small of a sample size for Mathis, but he hasn’t played better this season than Stetson in his last 6 quarters. Mathis is 8/17 for 57 yards, 0 TD, 1 INT this season and 0 points. Again, it’s a small sample size and he could be better going forward, but he hasn’t been so far.

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What's the chances the staff has decided that Mathis playing is too risky??? Not from a football POV but from a player safety POV? That's not something they would advertise because it could impact his ability to transfer but maybe UGA just ain't willing to put him out there with his medical history even if he has been cleared???


He did not look as bad it seems. Penalties were killing us during his 3 - 4 series. His stepping out of bounds prior to the marker and the bad hit aside he didn't look terrible given it was his first start.

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Here's the thing though. Either the staff made a terrible decision to start Mathis in the first place because he doesn't belong on a college field and they couldn't tell or he's better than what Stetson has showed in the past game and a half.

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This is the issue. Its Fromm / Fields all over again, on a far smaller scale talent wise. Could just be dumb luck but it is similar enough to be a concern. I still trust Smart...he has earned it...but it is easy to see where HS QB prospects do not owe him any trust.


There is NO doubt that no coach would have not gone with Fromm over Eason or Fields under similar circumstances....but Fromm stunk up the joint in 2018 against LSU...many coaches would have done to him what this staff did to Mathis against Arkansas under those conditions. For whatever reason this staff did not and here were again....throw in the whole Newman thing, maybe completely unrelated, and it is imperative that Smart not make a mistake. As much trust as he has earned he does not have an unlimited bank account....

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Sure but stop with the "last 6 quarters" narrative. It's flat out silly and you know better.
We ran completely different offenses in those 2 games and I'm assuming what you're implying this is some sort of trend for Bennett...silly conclusion to make.

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You think I'm not rooting for Bennett? Right new he's playing very poorly, and he's earned a spot on the bench.

I promise if his next 4 quarters are good I'll talk about those.