Maurer takes over at some point this season

Maurer has potential. He is not better than JG. JG has SEC experience with a road win at auburn where we threw for over 300 and a win against a top 10 KY team. I honestly think Harrison Bailey is the future for the Vols 2020. He may very well come in and win the job next year as a true frosh bc the other qbs won’t have much experience. If that’s the case Maurer will transfer.

Maurer is going to be a great qb, I hope it is here. I agree with others he is not ready right now, but who knows by this fall?
 
If JG is going to take ANY steps forward it will be sort of like Crompton under Kiffin/Chaney...salvageable with solid WRs.
 
I agree, he is as tough as they come, but he took a ton of hits last year. There was a game toward the end of the year, right at the beginning of the game, where the edge rusher blew right around the left tackle and folded him up like a lawn chair. He got up digging the turf out of his facemask.. I think he came out of the game shortly after that. I just don't think he will be able to take that many hits again this year. He will be hearing footsteps and when he does get hit a few more times, he will fold. I hope that doesn't happen but I don't think he will take as many hits this year and continue to get up.
That also happened at the end of the first half of the Ky game and in that one he hit the 50 yard TD.
 
Absolutely, Maurer is from Florida, which is loaded with impressive football players, and had an outstanding Senior year. There’s summer for conditioning, and then fall practice. As little time as Maurer has been on campus, he still took his team to the end zone, where they had him hand off 3 times. They apparently didn’t want the first td scored by the backups. JG had 4/5 sacks yesterday, yet some hope this year and another year he’ll play with quarterback instincts and smarts he has not shown yet. If we’re already conceding certain games are losses, why not work with the players that show the most upside? After all, a Freshman won the National Championship last year.
The sacks thing is a little bogus. On 3 of the sacks he was never touched and took off running but the coaches blew the whistle because it counted as a sack when the OL whiffed. The only time they let the QB scramble count was when they were outside the pocket and there was no DL close to them.
 
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JG does the main thing Pruitt values just 3 interceptions although he did fumble 4 times last year. Pruitt probably doesn't like sacks DUH but he don't see to harp on them, rather take a sack play ball control with the D. Try to manage the game ala Bama hopefully we get there soon. So I say JG is starter until he gets injured.
JG does the main thing Pruitt values just 3 interceptions although he did fumble 4 times last year. Pruitt probably doesn't like sacks DUH but he don't see to harp on them, rather take a sack play ball control with the D. Try to manage the game ala Bama hopefully we get there soon. So I say JG is starter until he gets injured.


JG waits too long to decide to make passes but to his credit, he throws few interceptions
I hate having a game winning drive & QB ends game on interception
At least JG doesn’t cost us games via interceptions
 
I'll go on record and say that he's likely a backup his entire time in Knoxville. I love how the JG haters love the backups no matter how many interceptions they throw or how many snaps they fumble away. If he starts then the Vols are in big trouble both this year and the next.
 
You have Never seen Maurer play against another college.team but yet you say he is way better! Playing against 2nd and 3rd teamers and some walkons against a base defence might be Just a little different .
 
Based on the way he looked sat. Int bad, but that can be fixed, he is just a freshman, I am not saying he should start, but if poor offense is going on give him a chance.

So give Maurer a chance but not JT? I’m so confused lol 😂
 
You have Never seen Maurer play against another college.team but yet you say he is way better! Playing against 2nd and 3rd teamers and some walkons against a base defence might be Just a little different .

The real question is when will Dormady take the job from Dobbs? Then when will Jones take the job from Dormady? I'm hearing he's more mobile than Dormady and is a real competitor.
 
I’m guessing the OP also thought Chryst was going to come out and permanantly displace JG last year until he promptly threw 2 pics in one half, the same amount it took JG to throw in 8 games

I'm not the OP, but I did consider Chryst the better QB. I still think if we had stuck with him we'd have won more games. He was a better decision-maker. For whatever reason, the OL seemed to block better with Chryst at QB. In general, his passes were better thrown and quite accurate. He sold the fake run better. I always felt Pruitt felt a need to appease JG because Chryst was gone after one year. Having a happy (or confident) JG was vital for this year's team so Chryst was yo-yoed. That being said, I return to my pro-JG mode.
 
I'm not the OP, but I did consider Chryst the better QB. I still think if we had stuck with him we'd have won more games. He was a better decision-maker. For whatever reason, the OL seemed to block better with Chryst at QB. In general, his passes were better thrown and quite accurate. He sold the fake run better. I always felt Pruitt felt a need to appease JG because Chryst was gone after one year. Having a happy (or confident) JG was vital for this year's team so Chryst was yo-yoed. That being said, I return to my pro-JG mode.

Nothing you posted is backed up with on the field performance
 
I'm not the OP, but I did consider Chryst the better QB. I still think if we had stuck with him we'd have won more games. He was a better decision-maker. For whatever reason, the OL seemed to block better with Chryst at QB. In general, his passes were better thrown and quite accurate. He sold the fake run better. I always felt Pruitt felt a need to appease JG because Chryst was gone after one year. Having a happy (or confident) JG was vital for this year's team so Chryst was yo-yoed. That being said, I return to my pro-JG mode.
Winning games is not important. Its arm talent..completion %, and low td/int ratio. If those are good everyone else can be blamed for losses
 
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