Billy Ratliff
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If JG had Maurer’s stat line this year, he’d already be at Rutgers because he would never take another snap here. Completing less than half your passes and throwing more than twice as many interceptions as touchdowns is not a formula for success, true freshman or not.Now pull their stats from the entire season and you'll have your answer
He showed you his accuracy on the pick 6 in the bowl game...i mean for FS. It was 3-5 yards behind the WR...if he even gets it near Jennings its a completion thats how open he was. Lol. Yall are crazyI've seen no evidence that BM has a better or more accurate arm. JG's problem is not accuracy or arm strength. He can make all the throws. The problem with JG is he does not throw the ball at the right time. A good QB will throw the ball before or when the receiver is making his cut. JG is just too late making the read. Mauer does not read the defense at all. He picks a receiver and throws the ball, regardless of coverage. Right now, both are really bad.
If JG had Maurer’s stat line this year, he’d already be at Rutgers because he would never take another snap here. Completing less than half your passes and throwing more than twice as many interceptions as touchdowns is not a formula for success, true freshman or not.
He did win the starting job, as a true freshman over a 4th year player.....became the starter after Guarantano stunk it up through the Florida game. Based off of actual game play rather than just practice. Maurer started the Georgia game and played the best half of football of any Tennessee QB in 2019. Obviously, the injuries led to him losing the job. And remember, even after the injuries, when he was healthy again, he started vs Kentucky as well, played the first half and got into a good rhythm in the 2nd quarter before being pulled at halftime for some reason.Maurer couldnt win the starting job out right. If he could have, he would have been the starter. JG consistently played better in practice. The coaches got to see more from Maurer than any of us. They picked JG as the man for a reason. Its really that simple.
He had no shot last year or next year. JG has something on the coach.
Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. Especially considering that one of JG's interceptions was a pick-6.
Nobody can be a “worse” passer compared to JG. I have not seen all of the bad Qb’s at UT over the years but JG and Dormady are the most inaccurate passers I have seen in my recollections of watching UT football.BM is faster and and a worse passer. I would think he is more likely to be a wr than Hill.
He did win the starting job, as a true freshman over a 4th year player.....became the starter after Guarantano stunk it up through the Florida game. Based off of actual game play rather than just practice. Maurer started the Georgia game and played the best half of football of any Tennessee QB in 2019. Obviously, the injuries led to him losing the job. And remember, even after the injuries, when he was healthy again, he started vs Kentucky as well, played the first half and got into a good rhythm in the 2nd quarter before being pulled at halftime for some reason.
How do you know? He hasn’t hurt his chances. Showed promise.
Pull up a chair and let me tell you about Randy Sanders, Sterling Hinton, Joey Matthews, the 1st year and a half of Jonathan Crompton, Nick Stephens, BJ Coleman, AJ Suggs and Matt Simms.Nobody can be a “worse” passer compared to JG. I have not seen all of the bad Qb’s at UT over the years but JG and Dormady are the most inaccurate passers I have seen in my recollections of watching UT football.
I'll say this... it will be very interesting to see if any of our QBs can take a big leap in the second year under the same OC and an OL that should be solid. I want to compete with UF and GA for the SEC next year, and I don't see that happening with a true freshman QB. I really want to see one of the 4 on the roster take a huge step forward, and I don't care which one.
Not when you're trying to project future results. Those passes were nearly unforgivable even though they luckily hit the ground.
When you are grading a QB what is worse: a throw that hit the WR in the hands but is deflected for an INT or a pass into double coverage that is dropped because the two defenders run into each other?