I'd go a little easy on him there. We also have recievers that are injured (Smith, Callaway), an OC that is afraid to throw over the middle or the long ball, and tackles that block the wrong guy and let folks into the backfield a little early. The guy has gotten hammered. Sure - he holds on to it just a tad long - freshman mistake. He can spin it.We have a starting qb that has never thrown a td pass, correct?
Indeed it does. I think he could have a couple more TD passes if they threw the ball a bit more. And I think the end of the SCar game should have been a TD. I mean the WR should have caught it.
27 for 36 (75%) for 344 yards, 0 TD, 0 INT. QBR 155.27
I see him as doing nothing but getting better as time goes on.
JG is very talented. JG is both suffering and benefitting from hyper conservative game plans designed to prevent him from losing games... which also prevents him from winning games. The limit of any and all Vol QB's is more a function of Butch Jones and his system than their talent. Playing in a "good" SEC system... JG would have twice the yardage at least, several TD's, and an INT or two. UT would have scored more points and would have won the USCe and UK games.
Look up how many games Dobbs started before throwing a TD pass.
wow! did he buy you a steak dinner or something? how'd he finally win you over?