“We don’t have that problem now with Stetson, and John Seter, and some other guys, Sam Vaughn,” Smart said. “We have plenty of guys to rep and I think Stetson has done a really good job of honing in, picking up the offense, along with Justin and Jake.
“I think all those guys feed off each other. They have done a tremendous job.”
Smart then took an opportunity to point out that the public usually keys in on the signal callers.
“Everybody wants to talk about the quarterback position,” Smart said. “Nobody says anything the corner, nobody says anything about the competition going on at right tackle, or the competition going on at guard. They just want to talk about the quarterback position.”
Fromm is coming off a freshman season in which he completed 181-of-291 passes for 2,615 yards, 24 touchdowns, and seven interceptions, adding three touchdowns on the ground. Like Fromm a year ago, Fields has enrolled early with the mindset of competing for immediate playing time.
“Both those kids are working extremely hard,” Smart said. “Stetson included to make three. I am very pleased with the progress those guys have made. They are very good leaders, each one in his own right. They are both athletes. People don’t give Jake enough credit, he was able to do things with his feet last year that hurt people.”
Kirby needs a bumper sticker that says, “Ask Me About My Third String Quarterback”.
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I’m kind of curious if Bennett could actually play at a reasonably high level for a major program, but I hope we never have to find out.
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He’s an injury, (or a transfer by one of the others) away from being #2.
He’s at least good enough that he could decide to take a scholarship somewhere else and actually play. This is why Kirby is noticing and stroking the kid..He’s a viable go-to if the worst should happen.
Most teams don’t have that kind of security at QB. Kirby wants to keep it.
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Stetson is from a hard working family that has busted ass and done well for themselves. He’s likely not under the type of financial pressure that causes some kids to have to pursue playing time at all costs to try to make a career of football. I don’t know the kid personally but the family are Georgia Bulldogs through and through and I suspect Stetson is the same and would rather have this role at UGA than a greater one elsewhere even if he is in fact good enough to have that greater role elsewhere. Long story short, man it sounds like we could have used him in 2015.
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well said…..glad he is a dawg.
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But gotta admit, this was funny as hayul:
Kirby needs a bumper sticker that says, “Ask Me About My Third String Quarterback”.
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Was talking to a Nebraska fan yesterday and he mentioned that a QB had gone down, but he wasn’t the #1 or #2 guy so it didn’t matter that much. Mentioned to him that we had the opposite “problem” in that we have a viable #3 and others who may even get some game time this year. He blanched slightly since he is aware of our two biggies already.
Brandon, thanks for the personal info concerning his family. Where else does the fan base have the luxury of discussing and being excited about your #3 QB? He’s a mucho-talented Tereshinski.
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Pharm Dawg agrees.
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Speak for yourself.
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Give Sam a chance! Prepare to be amazed!
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Have we ever had a season (somewhat recent history, not looking to go all the way back to the 40’s or anything) where we only had 2 scholarship QB’s? Definitely a little unnerving. I know it’s rare that you lose your top two QB’s at the same time due to injuries, but it does happen to teams.
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This reminded me of Hines Ward, he certainly looked good to these eyes when he played some qb at UIGA….especially the Georgia Tech game. I know that Terry Godwin played QB at times in HS, always wondered how he would look in an emergency….hope we never have to find out.
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Meco too
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Again, because of Stetson’s family situation, he and his Dad would probably rather Georgia win and have that scholarship for another kid who can help the team and couldn’t be there otherwise. On the subject of QB injuries, 1995 I think it was, we had 3 QB’s have season ending injuries. We had to start Hines Ward at QB in the Peach Bowl, he threw for 400 yards in that game. No shit, any of you youngsters who don’t believe it look it up, the game was against Virginia.
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Would have to look it up, but I believe he also played a little tailback that year also. QB, TB and WR….he was the jack of all trades. One of my all-time favorites.
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One of the best athletes ever to where the Red and Black.
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My understanding is he had a legit offer at Mercer and they were sorry to see him walk-on to UGA. I know it’s FCS and we got 4/5 star QBs on the roster but the kid had options and wants to be here–not a bad thing.
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Yeah, and it sounds like he’s really performed well up there since he got there. Normally, the argument in this situation that “Kirby is just blowing smoke, if he were that good they’d put him on scholarship” would be a weighty one, however in this case I don’t know that I’d read much into him not being on scholarship. I’m not saying they wouldn’t take one, but I doubt it is anything that is continuously being brought up either.
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Well, I remember some interesting comments from Kirby along the lines that UGA should take greater advantage of the HOPE Scholarship for walk-ons so that might be a factor in this case
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Could be, the thing that speaks the most to me about Kirby’s professed confidence in Stetson being real is that we don’t appear to have made a real serious effort to bring in a third guy either in this class or through the JUCO or grad transfer ranks.
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And we lost on a long kickoff return right after uva inexplicably called a pass play and a big d-lineman picked up a fumble and took it into the end zone to take the lead
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A painful exclamation point on the painful Ray Goff era.
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I was at that game and remember it being a fantastic one even though we lost. If I remember right, we came back from a huge deficit, took the lead late on a fumble TD return, and they answered with a TD on the following KO for the win.
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Didn’t see Jim’s post before I posted….
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They don’t nickname somebody “the mailman” for nothing, right ?! Kidding aside, and listening to a few other sources way more knowledgeable than me, it’s actually no joke that the kid has big time game…….only problem is that he’s like 5’9″….
Nevertheless, he would be a much better option than James Banks or whoever it was that Tennessee threw in at QB in 2002 after Casey-I-can-beat-them-with-1-arm lost both of his arms. Seriously, Bennett is pretty damn fun to watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBumNdFcOIo
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I fully agree. Bennett could be a successful D1 quarterback. A positive scenario could be him graduating after 3 or 4 years and then transferring to another D1 school to start for a season or two. Somewhere of the Colorado State caliber perhaps. I’m genuinely excited to see him at GDay and in some mop up duty this year.
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I still say I’d love to see Fields redshirt if possible and Bennett get the mop up duty or if Fromm has to go out for a few plays.
Just because the staff plans to redshirt Fields at the beginning of the season does not mean, he isn’t dressed and coached like he could go in and play the game if needed.
It is a shame at times QB is not like other positions on the field where you can effectively have 2 or more 1st stringers.
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The only way Fields redshirts, is if he gets hurt in the preseason.
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I totally get it that it’s just Kirby’s rhetoric, but he gets asked plenty about the OL (like, the entire off and on season in 2016 – so much he got pissy about it) and he gets asked a lot about the defensive backfield. I think he spent a lot of pre-2017 trying to lower everyone’s expectations of the defense because we had starters back, etc.
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Additional bumper sticker idea: My 3rd String QB Could Beat Up Your 2nd String QB
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