Here’s a short quote from Bobo that illustrates the importance of Hutson Mason’s role in the SEC’s leading scoring offense:
“We haven’t thrown it a lot and when we throw it, we’ve made the plays,” Bobo said. “It’s like I told the guys in the quarterback room (Tuesday), we didn’t complete some of those balls, but I think us throwing the ball downfield did a lot for us. (We were) able to run the ball in the second half. It kept the secondary back, the safeties back. They weren’t as fast to fill the hole.”
Georgia is built to run the ball this year. Everybody knows that, including opposing defensive coordinators. So Bobo has to have enough of a legitimate threat of a downfield passing game to make DCs respect it and keep from crowding the box with eight defenders or more for the entirety of a game. When Mason can sell that, even if his receivers aren’t hanging on to the ball as much as we’d like, it makes life a lot easier for his line, his backs and his coach.
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I have no problems at all with Mason. He was a little tentative for a short stretch but worked through that.
How bad would we have beaten the cheaters if the receivers had held onto the ball? I’m think two more TDs probably.
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Mason has also done a great job getting us in good plays.
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I am not sure it is him getting them into plays any more. The offense sets, looks forward…then to the sideline to get the play. This isn’t like the early Richt Era when they lined up with 2 or 3 plays and checked into the right one. I think they stopped doing that when all the DC’s in the league figured out those checks.
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Dropped balls meant one or possibly two TD’s last week and at least 125 more passing yards. Mason surprised me and he was getting high praise from the TV crew for his accuracy. Those balls were dropped right in there for 5 easy completions. Well done Hutson.
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even if his receivers aren’t hanging on to the ball as much as we’d like
Our receivers have had the dropsies in rainy, windy and now cold weather.
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Funny how that bugged me in games past, but now, with Mason, not so much. I just wait confidently for his next pass and he doesn’t disappoint. Wonder why we strain to say classy remarks about a championship caliber all Dawg QB who has proven himself on the field and made his critics look like a bunch of over-bloviating numbnuts?
If we get there, I have confidence in his abilities in championship games as well.
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Posted this earlier about Mason’s play against AU. He was in the zone. He had 2 bullets to Mitchell, who can catch. Defenders were there but Mitchell, a Valdosta High product, made the plays…one for a TD [opening one]. Bennett can catch them, too. These 2 receivers are clutch. Just need to get Conley back. But I thought Conley was hacked before the ball reached him one time. Their blocking downfield was solid thru the game.
RBs. If Marshall is physically cleared to play, I say play him this year. Turman, who knows other than the staff. But with 2 games the RB position must be filled back. Long season for Chubb, a true freshman. Georgia has had some very good RBs over the years. For some reason none of them impress me as much as he…including Walker. He is just a gifted back and it is fun to watch his play. Other guys in the backfield. Thought the fullbacks were the least credited players Saturday night. Their play was off the charts in my book.
But Mason looked like a SEC QB Saturday. Just keep it going guys.
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I understand and agree (mostly) with this post 😉
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Good post WT, and excellent observation on the FBs’ efforts on Saturday night. The “jumbo package” with two fullbacks in on the 4th and 1 TD play was one of my favorite plays of the years. Also, the replay seemed to clearly show Conley’s left arm was held to his side on he TD pass. Didn’t look like a drop to me, seemed to be a call where the ref was blocked from the back side and no other made the call. The other drop was on him but he is usually reliable for us, no major concern, imo.
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Make it three posters agreeing with your post, Will. It’s nice to see appreciation voiced for those not getting the headlines. We have only three more games to appreciate several players that you mentioned. We need to let them know how we feel often.
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That’s two more than he ever got when posting under the other nom de guerre of Will Trane
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“Mason is not an SEC Quarterback”
“Mason can’t make the throws”
“Mason needs to step it up”
“Mason has a funny throwing motion” (actually I agree with this – it’s very truncated)
“We can’t win with Mason, bring on Ramsey”
I love nothing more than watching these kids to keep proving hacks wrong.
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did you watch games early in the season?
Most of the criticism was warranted…he looked terrible. He threw a couple of the worst interceptions I have ever seen and his back shoulder throw was very bad. He has certainly improved as the season went on, but he was not very good early on.
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Then you weren’t watching or you never read what other players have said about him in preseason and season practices. Sorry you missed that.
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Not only that, the way the players/coaches were attacked from the cheap seats, far away from the action of games and practice was disgusting. Expressing concern about our deep passing threat is far different from the condemnation of then as worthy athletes. Some of our “fans” aren’t a plus for our program, our players, or our staff. Seems they have been made to look beyond dumb and over reactive. Sadly, some credit themselves for being knowledgeable even when they were made to look like the village idiots. Things will never be perfect and nothing will ever please some.
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Are you suggesting that his greatness in practice should matter more than his play in real games?
Are you ever going to pass or is just puff puff pass out at the cojones casa?
see what I did there?
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Nah. I’m saying that he came into the lineup this year with those qualities that you only view now. It started last year when he came in during the Ky game and his come-from-behind game to beat Tech’s butt. If you didn’t stuff those into your pipe, you didn’t get to enjoy the smoke like most of us have.
See what I did back?
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Oh…he choose to look like that…I get it…keep everything close to the vest.
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Why does it take 1st round draft potential for us to appreciate the guy that’s getting us there and who deserves full loyalty from us all? I try to set the accolades to the same extreme that others blog unappreciatively at Hutson. The coaches are hired to see that potential before placing him in charge of our team’s future. Just because Mason (or any player) reinforces the correctness of their decision-making is no cause to gripe at any player’s ability.
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huh?
he didnt look good at times early in the season. He looks much better recently. He is still no Murray.
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Of course not, he’s Hutson Mason, the iconic QB of our 2014 team.
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I don’t know what Hutson Mason looked like in person against Auburn but he sure looked like an All-Southeastern Conference Quarterback on ESPN.
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Wow…Fire Mike Bobo I guess. He’s too stupid to see that Mason’s rag-arm and cement feet are going to make us keep losing. He failed to develop an All SEC QB for his offense who has no chance of being drafted which evidently should be CMB’s top priority. Or so I’ve been told by those more knowledgeable in debating X’s and O’s than me.
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They’ve been talking to me too.
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And unconvincingly at that. I like the nickname Scorp has given him – “Noodles”. It’s a sarcastic putdown that the Negative Nancys need to hear often. So much for their idiotic opinions.
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Quarterback throws ball, receiver catches ball…seems simple, especially from the stands or the armchair, but it ain’t simple….there is a lot of communication, trust and understanding that go into a completion, especially a long completion.
And this is just out there on an empty field with no defensive backs waving arms, grabbing jerseys, jumping into the throwing lane.
And with a play like the one to Ike McKenzie there is also the metaphysical element to contend with.
Frankly, that any quarterback has a high completion percentage borders on the miraculous, requires endless repetition and work.
That’s why the only pass I am really comfortable with is the toss sweep.
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You bet it’s complicated to the point that some appear to be miraculous happenings that support the midflight prayers.
Wonder what religion Noodles professes?
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I hope, Cojo, he and the receivers have been gathered in a circle after practice discussing readings from the book of “Catch the Damn Ball, Dude” that’s the one right after the book of “Don’t fumble”
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For years we’ve heard these coaches talk about “balance.” For years I’ve heard/read criticism of “balance” both as a goal and as a concept. Bobo tells the world once again why balance is so important to offensive football and nobody notices that issue but rather twists the statement into an endorsement of Hutson Mason’s abilities.
Let’s deconstruct this statement. We aren’t balanced although you’d have to agree that these coaches want balance. They’ve talked about it for over decade. One reason we aren’t balanced is because we CAN run the ball. What about the other side of the equation? Are we saying that we’ve abandoned “balance” as a goal or rather do we realize that we CANNOT be balanced because the other type of play available isn’t as effective for some unknown reason that we’d just hate to speculate on because it might hurt some one’s fee fees?
Are we saying that if Matt Stafford were playing his fourth year on this team that we’d abandon “balance?” Would we say let’s just get barely enough out of our passing game to keep the safeties honest and no more as we are doing this year?
Our offensive coordinator just told the world what the football world already knows: our QB ain’t no great shakes. What did y’all hear? Our QB is awesome! As the man once said: no one will ever go broke betting on the stupidity of the American people. It is indeed a limitless resource.
In fact, I think what Bobo said was that Hutson is so awesome that we really don’t want to throw 50 times a game and beat people 100-0, although he could because he’s so tremendous. His greatness as a passer is so dynamic that limiting his opportunities is crucial to keeping our games competitive enough to be enjoyable.
The truth is that everybody with a functioning cerebral cortex and one good eye knows that we can’t be a dynamic passing team and why. That’s why the goals for the passing game are set so low. Bobo says, “hell, I’ll take a deep incompletion if it keeps the box free of extra guys, cause I want to run.” That’s called low expectations for your passing game. Its the equivalent of a coach saying “yes we are only getting 2.7 yards a rush, but they aren’t throwing 6 DBs at us so the threat of a run (measly as it might be) is enough to give us a chance to throw when we want.” You guys say “Man that 2.7 per carry guy is awesome cause he gets his job done. If we was to play a team that controlled our run game with 5 and beat the fuck out of us, it would be stupider than hell to say, get a new TB. Hell the QB’s the one that threw 48 times and 2 ints, what the TB got to do with it?” Stupid, stupid, stupid, with extra stupid.
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Yep. No doubt about it. Our coaches are playing him because he is so shitty we can fake the other team out no matter the % completions and long laser-accurate throws he makes on opposing stupid psyches.
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Here is a life lesson I think you might have missed:
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Which one are you?
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I am the teacher of simple life lessons.
One of those lessons is that if your QB is 36 of 58 with 3 td’s and 4 picks, you either have a dumb OC, no running game or the other team was scoring so fast you were chasing to try and keep up.
Another is that if your QB averages less than 200 yards a game and you aren’t undefeated, you could probably use a better QB.
Another is that your redshirt freshman may be more talented but less ready than your 5th year rag arm sloth.
I could go on, but starting with distinguishing between shit and shinola may be as advanced as we can go right now. I don’t want to lose anybody in the complexities and nuance..
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Oh for fuck sake. We get it. You’re a dedicated Dingle berry and you want your say. Alrite. You’ve had it…x3. Listen short pants. There is a naysayer blog that is on their third team writer to post negative stuff . They need a boost and you could zoom up that site with your outstandingly well phrased pee pee posts. No kidding. Hey …they might hook you up with that Florida gig. I know talent when I see it.
just sayin’
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I must be losing my conflagration touch. It takes me longer to get the numbnuts flushed out than it useta’.
My stats say 150 completions from 222 passes thus far this year(68%). Numbnuts suffers reading comprehension worse than I do.
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By the way, you’re 12:23 post uses “we” and “our” while your 2:21 post uses “you” and “your”. You change teams in under 2 hrs?
“You” probably didn’t notice that while “you” were busy patting “your” little back with both “your” little hands.
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I see the Dawg Vent is leaking again.
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