For the last THREE years, we have had the worst QB play in the league and it isn't close. Sure JG was talented physically, but my god the sheer number of catastrophic, untimely mistakes was debilitating for our program. I really don't want to bash him, as that's been done over and over and I know I'm guilty but you can't talk about improvement for our program and not recognize how much we have been shooting ourselves in the foot here at QB.
This lowlight, trash can highlights video below demonstrates this fact very clearly. First, take note of the time in the game, the score and Tennessee's field position in each highlight. Second, ask yourself, if JG just doesn't do what he does -- he either throws it in the dirt, throws it away, anything else but what he does -- how much improved would our tactical situation have been? Finally, ask yourself how in 2020, we still trotted this dude out there and what that says about Jeremy Pruitt's ability to manage a football team.
I have my own answers to each of these questions, and for that reason, I'm pretty damn optimistic about this season. I can live with turnovers at QB, I can, but I've never in my life seen such unlucky crap happen over and over and over again and no one do anything different other than hope a kid gets beyond his shell shock.
If Milton, Bailey or Hooker can just be somewhat stable, we'll win 7-9 games with this schedule and with our talent. And I think that's what upsets me the most about JG's tenure. We get dogged as not having playmakers and this and that, but we do -- we just haven't had a playmaker at the most important spot.
We've got 3 good options here, and I'm willing to bet they can perform better in these moments than this:
That's why I'm optimistic and believe we can turn the corner under Heupel. Marginally better QB play is a 2-3 game swing, IMO.
This lowlight, trash can highlights video below demonstrates this fact very clearly. First, take note of the time in the game, the score and Tennessee's field position in each highlight. Second, ask yourself, if JG just doesn't do what he does -- he either throws it in the dirt, throws it away, anything else but what he does -- how much improved would our tactical situation have been? Finally, ask yourself how in 2020, we still trotted this dude out there and what that says about Jeremy Pruitt's ability to manage a football team.
I have my own answers to each of these questions, and for that reason, I'm pretty damn optimistic about this season. I can live with turnovers at QB, I can, but I've never in my life seen such unlucky crap happen over and over and over again and no one do anything different other than hope a kid gets beyond his shell shock.
If Milton, Bailey or Hooker can just be somewhat stable, we'll win 7-9 games with this schedule and with our talent. And I think that's what upsets me the most about JG's tenure. We get dogged as not having playmakers and this and that, but we do -- we just haven't had a playmaker at the most important spot.
We've got 3 good options here, and I'm willing to bet they can perform better in these moments than this:
That's why I'm optimistic and believe we can turn the corner under Heupel. Marginally better QB play is a 2-3 game swing, IMO.
