The Quarterback Situation

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Why are the o's the only letters not capitalized?
 

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Transferring is not the kiss of death. Cam Newton, Eric Kresser, Jacoby Brissett, Tyler Murphy, Jeff Driscoll, Will Grier and even Felipe Franks just to name a few all left this place, played college ball elsewhere, and made it to the NFL at least in some capacity.

The important thing is the make the sure the better guy stays here and the other guy is the one that transfers. Whoever that is will be fine.
EJ's major skillset is running option. AR is bigger, faster, much stronger and has better vision. Had he come in on the 2 pt conversion and a handful of other plays yesterday we very likely win. Pretending we don't know who is the better option running QB is ridiculous at this point. Now if you want to look at passing, it's true that we don't have a very big sample size, but everything we've seen says EJ has poor vision often throwing late leading to 5 INT in 3 games already. AR on the other hand is a complete freak, decisive and able to flick his wrist off balance and to hit a WR 50 yards downfield in stride. I think you and Mullinz are the only two folks in the nation still playing the "not sure who is better" card.
 

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EJ's major skillset is running option. AR is bigger, faster, much stronger and has better vision. Had he come in on the 2 pt conversion and a handful of other plays yesterday we very likely win. Pretending we don't know who is the better option running QB is ridiculous at this point. Now if you want to look at passing, it's true that we don't have a very big sample size, but everything we've seen says EJ has poor vision often throwing late leading to 5 INT in 3 games already. AR on the other hand is a complete freak, decisive and able to flick his wrist off balance and to hit a WR 50 yards downfield in stride. I think you and Mullinz are the only two folks in the nation still playing the "not sure who is better" card.
:lol: GMAFB. First of all, I'm on the record here constantly about how it was a travesty that it took so long for Trask to get on the field playing behind Franks. I think I even said so in this thread. I don't trust by any stretch of the imagination that leaving AR on the bench is the right call. But by the same token, anointing AR as the next Cam Newton because he's gone 6/11 passing with 2 TDs in lunacy. You don't see him practice every day, you don't know WTF he's going to do if he is made the starter. He might very well be awesome, but he might also be a guy that makes mistakes or that the other teams can figure out how to defend. We all hope that he's going to win the Heisman and bring a championship to the school, but acting like we as fans have it all figured out at this point is absurd. My comment about the small sample size is sustained, your motion to dismiss is overruled.
 

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I really don't understand anyone who does not see it this way. I'm sick of everyone thinking you have to be a Jr or sit for 3 years before you can be ready.

Isn't Mullen supposed to be a whisperer? Why is it that the "whisperer" can't have a Qb ready in year 2 but Riley, Saban, Day, Dabo can have Qb winning Heisman candidates and winning in year 2.

Mullen needs to earn his money and make tough decisions that I they eyes of everyone on the planet but him is not tough.
Because they are there to go to college and get a degree. Not play football. If that is not the case, get rid of the sport and let the NFL start a farm league that I won't have to watch and be emotionally invested. Gator sports and football in particular is about making men from boys who later will serve our nation and make us proud. "On the fields of friendly strife are sewn the seeds that on other fields, on other days, will bear the fruit of Victory."
 

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:lol: GMAFB. First of all, I'm on the record here constantly about how it was a travesty that it took so long for Trask to get on the field playing behind Franks. I think I even said so in this thread. I don't trust by any stretch of the imagination that leaving AR on the bench is the right call. But by the same token, anointing AR as the next Cam Newton because he's gone 6/11 passing with 2 TDs in lunacy. You don't see him practice every day, you don't know WTF he's going to do if he is made the starter. He might very well be awesome, but he might also be a guy that makes mistakes or that the other teams can figure out how to defend. We all hope that he's going to win the Heisman and bring a championship to the school, but acting like we as fans have it all figured out at this point is absurd. My comment about the small sample size is sustained, your motion to dismiss is overruled.
You can't teach the stuff AR does better than EJ. EJ looks like a decent SEC caliber dual threat QB with limited passing skills. It's not his fault that he has a complete freak of nature who looks like he was created on Madden setting all sliders to 10 sitting on the bench behind him. If AR hit the Portal there's not a single team in the country that wouldn't give their left nut to land him, so Dooshy Dan better not screw this up, and enough with the "let's let it play out and see who the better QB is".

BTW, I know you are just being level-headed but you should know by now there's no room for that here.
 
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I'm willing to bet there's not a single player on the team who thinks Jones is better than AR, including Jones. Either Mullen is actually trying to save AR and show as little as possible for uga or the SEC championship (kinda like Saban did with Tua) or his ego is getting in the way. I think it's the latter, Mullen has made numerous stupid ass comments about Jones and AR and now he's scared to renig on previous comments.

We beat Alabama by 2 touchdowns Sat if AR played every snap. Hopefully Mullen is playing the long game, but I seriously doubt it.
 

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I think people believe he ends up in the portal because Emory is not good enough to go pro so he will be back next season. If he's already better than Emory and still not starting what makes him think he will start next season.
Richardson will start before season's end.
 

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that's some carpal tunnel bullschit... but yes, you can see that my dork keyboard is far superior with the 3 device functionality... let alone the carpal tunnel bullschit thing... as for my speakers, they are just "ok"... good enough for listening to my russian/euro chick music! Cam tried to steal my laptop speakers. ;)
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:lol: GMAFB. First of all, I'm on the record here constantly about how it was a travesty that it took so long for Trask to get on the field playing behind Franks. I think I even said so in this thread. I don't trust by any stretch of the imagination that leaving AR on the bench is the right call. But by the same token, anointing AR as the next Cam Newton because he's gone 6/11 passing with 2 TDs in lunacy. You don't see him practice every day, you don't know WTF he's going to do if he is made the starter. He might very well be awesome, but he might also be a guy that makes mistakes or that the other teams can figure out how to defend. We all hope that he's going to win the Heisman and bring a championship to the school, but acting like we as fans have it all figured out at this point is absurd. My comment about the small sample size is sustained, your motion to dismiss is overruled.

It's a good post. But I would've preferred seeing it written out on a napkin.
 

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Never, not once in dan mullen's coaching career has he changed starting qb's in the middle of the season without an injury. He's shown zero interest in doing so this year and named EJ the starter very early. There is zero evidence that mullen plans to bring AR in slowly and that EJ is just a bridge guy. EJ is Mullen’s guy! Nothing in Mullen’s past proves otherwise. The question is, will AR be willing to sit for 2 years? I'm not sure. I don't know the kid but I'm sure he's gonna have family members and people close to him telling him to transfer and get to the league sooner. Now if Jones gets injured it'll be a different story. But as of now, Jones is Mullen’s guy and I don't think he could have made that any clearer.
 

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Never, not once in dan mullen's coaching career has he changed starting qb's in the middle of the season without an injury. He's shown zero interest in doing so this year and named EJ the starter very early. There is zero evidence that mullen plans to bring AR in slowly and that EJ is just a bridge guy. EJ is Mullen’s guy! Nothing in Mullen’s past proves otherwise. The question is, will AR be willing to sit for 2 years? I'm not sure. I don't know the kid but I'm sure he's gonna have family members and people close to him telling him to transfer and get to the league sooner. Now if Jones gets injured it'll be a different story. But as of now, Jones is Mullen’s guy and I don't think he could have made that any clearer.

Not completely true. Trask was going to start against Usce until he was hurt that week. I do agree in principle that he wants to space things, but I don't think he's keeping AR on the bench if Jones isn't getting it done. I also will just about guarantee that AR won't transfer. I do envision him supplanting EJ at some point. Just not sure when.
 

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