RDU VOL#14
I’m a Flawed Character
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No, it pretty much happened on every deep ball.Very few of JGs deeper balls led his receiver, from my perspective. Most required the receiver to pull up, and then win a jump ball 50-50 battle. Did this happen with every deep ball? No. But it happened often enough that I recall being pleasantly surprised when Mauer hit Callaway in the UGA game with his first pass. It was a TD? Sure. But what I loved almost more than that was that IT HIT HIM IN FREAKIN' STRIDE. There was no pull up, reposition, stand like you're waiting on a fair catch, then jump and fight for the ball as was the case with many, many JG passes.
You can throw analytics around all day long. But at the end of the day, JG is simply not a top tier QB that is going to get us to 10 wins. he has a ceiling of 8 wins, I believe, and about 24-27 points a game. That's who he is.
As I have said ad naseum, JG seems like a good kid, and I am proud he represents Tennessee well from a heart and character standpoint. But, in the end, he just doesn't have the innate ability needed for an SEC QB. I don't care how many stats get tossed around.
For this stat to be as meaningful as some imply, UT would have had to have scored lots and lots of points. They didn't.
In fact, JG STILL hasn't led a UT O to more than 30 points against any FBS opponent in his career. UT averaged only 24 ppg this year.
The problem was twofold. As some have mentioned, JG still fails to properly lead/anticipate deep throws. Completions that should be TD's are not. That is further complicated by his ineffectiveness in the red zone.
Here is the SEC ratios for FG's as a % of total scores:
I understand why JG receives criticism, as I’m often times the one to dish it out, but does the SC game not count? Regardless, your point is still valid.In fact, JG STILL hasn't led a UT O to more than 30 points against any FBS opponent in his career.
FWIW, I view JG as a game manager who struggles to manage the game well at times. But he doesn’t turn it over a ton and as a result we are usually a few big plays away from beating good teams. Just ready for a QB to make those big plays.
Shake your head all you want, but the measurement used is clearly fatally flawed when a team who DOESN'T THRIW THE FOOTBALL is in 2nd place. Don’t be thick.
Sounds alot like a good O coordinator playing to his strength and attempting to manipulate the defensive schemes. Working with his best tools. Not intended to call anyone a Tool.Would like to see that broken down by game. I'd bet our UGA, UF, Bama, BYU games were alot more "aggressive", when we're behind two touchdowns, and trying to score quick. We barely threw it at all against MSt, rightfully so, and threw alot of deep balls vs USC, because we had an advantage.
If you want to give him credit for that one I won't throw stones... but without Callaway's punt return TD or Bituli's blocked punt TD... that's a tight game and UT doesn't reach 30 points. I qualify that statement by saying that JG hasn't led a UT "O" to more than 30 points vs an FBS opponent. To my knowledge, he never has.UT scoring behind JG.
Did you even watch our games? Anyone who believes we had the nations most aggressive passing game are stoned out of their minds.That doesn’t make it flawed at all. Most run heavy teams throw deep when they do throw. Most pass heavy teams throw a lot of short crossing routes and screens. We had a very aggressive passing game. The most aggressive in the nation
Lying... doesn't make you more credible.It's not a delusion, it's a factual stat. But, we'll leave it up to you to turn anything that JG has had a hand into to a pile of .
UT was 11th in pass attempts in the SEC.Did you even watch our games? Anyone who believes we had the nations most aggressive passing game are stoned out of their minds.
A lot of wasted Maurer possessions in there. Not to mention red zone penalties plus stuffed run plays on third and fourth and short.For this stat to be as meaningful as some imply, UT would have had to have scored lots and lots of points. They didn't.
In fact, JG STILL hasn't led a UT O to more than 30 points against any FBS opponent in his career. UT averaged only 24 ppg this year.
The problem was twofold. As some have mentioned, JG still fails to properly lead/anticipate deep throws. Completions that should be TD's are not. That is further complicated by his ineffectiveness in the red zone.
Here is the SEC ratios for FG's as a % of total scores:
I’m confused I messed up a quote reply earlier in this thread and may have confused you as well. I don’t remember saying that and I’m not sure what it was a response to, but I’m not a JG advocate. I think he’s holding us back from competing for championships but he’s been our best option so far. JMOIf you want to give him credit for that one I won't throw stones... but without Callaway's punt return TD or Bituli's blocked punt TD... that's a tight game and UT doesn't reach 30 points. I qualify that statement by saying that JG hasn't led a UT "O" to more than 30 points vs an FBS opponent. To my knowledge, he never has.