Pruitt explains why Jarrett Guarantano is still Vols' starter

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I think it's really wonderful that JG will be our QB for the remainder of the season. And oh, Sleepy Joe is going to make a terrific president.
 
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The only rational explanation, to me, is that our coaching staff is doing a terrible job developing QBs. JG is what he is. It's on the HC, OC, and QBC to have at least one or more guys ready to roll if QB1 is underperforming (which he obviously is). So, when CJP says the other QBs aren't ready or playing at the level he expects, that's an indictment of the coaches.
 
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dobre_shunka said:
Whatever, that's his reasoning and it's not changing.

My big question is why when games are clearly decided and it's garbage time, Guarantano is still out there? Has any QB this season other than JG gotten more than one series in a game? UK & UGA each provided the opportunity to play the someone else for at least a couple series. The Bama game basically had a full quarter that the other 3 could get experience. Yet by my memory JG got almost all of those snaps. My guess is practice is the same with JG getting almost all the 1st team snaps so it's no surprise no one else is getting better.
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Agreed and this concerns me. Either Pruitt assumes that the backups will be developed in the off-season or is expecting JG back next season. Could be both. I can't see how both Bailey and Maurer don't want to transfer or how Salter stays committed if that's the case. We will see more or less the same offense next season if Pruitt keeps putting all his eggs in the JG basket.
 
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JonGrudensAgent said:
He understands our expectations, and, you know, I feel like he’s had another good week. He’s continuing to do the things that I’m talking about — getting the guys around him to play at a higher level.”


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Yeah it's complete b.s.. We've seen the complete opposite during the last 3 games.
 
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nlovu said:
It isn't hard to figure out. The other upperclassmen have a career completion pct in the 40s(JG is in the 60s) and are not mobile. Bailey isn't ready. Like it or not JG is the best option.
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Do you think these coaches put that much stock into stats like KTown? No. They don’t. It’s not how recruiting works and damn sure not how coaching works. If stats were important in evaluation then JG would’ve been a 2*. BM would’ve been a 5* and there would no doubt that HB would’ve been a 5* on every site. Stats have VERY little to do with evaluation.
 
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nlovu said:
It isn't hard to figure out. The other upperclassmen have a career completion pct in the 40s(JG is in the 60s) and are not mobile. Bailey isn't ready. Like it or not JG is the best option.
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Maurer is extremely mobile and his stats came as a true freshman vs the best defenses in the SEC. The obsession with JG is borderline psychotic at this point.
 
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1vol8 said:
Do you think these coaches put that much stock into stats like KTown? No. They don’t. It’s not how recruiting works and damn sure not how coaching works. If stats were important in evaluation then JG would’ve been a 2*. BM would’ve been a 5* and there would no doubt that HB would’ve been a 5* on every site. Stats have VERY little to do with evaluation.
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He said they're not mobile. Lmao, Maurer has more mobility in his pinky finger than JG could dream of having.
 
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VolArmy74 said:
Maurer is extremely mobile and his stats came as a true freshman vs the best defenses in the SEC. The obsession with JG is borderline psychotic at this point.
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He was actually 54% in the 4 starts he was prepared to play in. Jg was 59%. So he was only 5% worse than JG in completion %. The difference was that BM was throwing downfield and rarely checked down.
 
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1vol8 said:
I think you misspelled “years”.
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You could justifiably make that argument, but no, I left last season's turn-around out. They fought hard those 8 games despite JG's short-comings. I hope I'm wrong, but I think it's finally coming to a head now. This team fully expected to be better this year and had bought into Pruitt. The defense has also now thrown in the towel. The last 3 games speaks volumes.
 
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What really upsets me is Pruitt doesn't seem to care about building for the future. If he did he would get the younger QB in the games this year and get them some game time experience for next year. Instead he keeps playing JG which accomplishes nothing for the future and he sucks in the present.

Pruitt continued playing JG even when we were behind and he was playing like crap which is usual. How much worst would the new guys have done, the games were already lost and the kids may have learned something. The new QB are getting no real game time experience and little practice either.

The wheels are going to come off this wagon very, very soon and a fan revolt is getting very near, and it could be this week if dummy throws a couple of interceptions.
 
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Proud Army Wife said:
You could justifiably make that argument, but no, I left last season's turn-around out. They fought hard those 8 games despite JG's short-comings. I hope I'm wrong, but I think it's finally coming to a head now. This team fully expected to be better this year and had bought into Pruitt. The defense has also now thrown in the towel. The last 3 games speaks volumes.
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I say that because JG is good for about 3 “good” games a year out of 12. However the turn around last year? I don’t think people give enough credit to BM for that because he didn’t play much down the stretch. But it was HIM that ignited that fire to begin with. And imo if he got another chance, he’d do it again
 
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kiddiedoc said:
The only rational explanation, to me, is that our coaching staff is doing a terrible job developing QBs. JG is what he is. It's on the HC, OC, and QBC to have at least one or more guys ready to roll if QB1 is underperforming (which he obviously is). So, when CJP says the other QBs aren't ready or playing at the level he expects, that's an indictment of the coaches.
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By Pruitt's reasoning if JG happened to go down we are beyond screwed. This staff has had 3 recruiting classes and 2 off seasons to get or develop a serviceable QB and the best we have couldn't start anywhere else in the SEC. Says a lot about the coaches.
 
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JonGrudensAgent said:
Yep. It is a repeating pattern with JG going back most of his career.

If this is Pruitts idea of elevating the offense then he is completely delusional.

90th in the country in scoring is atrocious.
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Pruitt ignorantly assumes they'll rally around JG. As if they're going to openly disagree with you coach.
 
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1vol8 said:
I say that because JG is good for about 3 “good” games a year out of 12. However the turn around last year? I don’t think people give enough credit to BM for that because he didn’t play much down the stretch. But it was HIM that ignited that fire to begin with. And imo if he got another chance, he’d do it again
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Oh yeah, I didn't think about that before I commented. In any case I think most of us agree that TN has no chance of improvement with JG under center. The defense giving up is the nail in the coffin.
 
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bigorange6469 said:
I just hope we get a new QB coach because if the backups can’t be #2 for the starting position then he’s the problem.
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There is a clear #2 just as there was last year. He’s just not going to tell anyone who it is to keep competition up. It all depends on the situation when #2 is needed. If it’s just mop up then you’ll see a rotation just like we have. But if we need to win then you’ll see Maurer.
 
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@1vol8 Oh yeah and what's sad is the Mizzou game will prob be his only "good" game of the season. We also played them before they found their QB. Look at them since then. Could you imagine if we played them now? 😬
 
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I will never root for player injury but looks like we have him for 12 more games before he isnt the QB anymore without a career ending injury.
 
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LOL. How hard can it be to develop HB using the same offense we showed against Alabama? He doesn’t know how to hand off 3 times in a row?
 
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