Shot.
Chaser.
I’ve gotten a fair number of queries from folks in the last day or so asking if I know why Jamie Newman decided to drop out of the 2020 college football season. All I’ve got is speculation. I know nothing definitive.
And I strongly doubt, outside of a very few number of folks, none of whom have been quoted on the record, that anyone else giving their take on the situation does, either.
All I’m saying is make sure you take anything you read or hear about Newman with a very large grain of salt.
Get The Picture 
He’s not here by his choice regardless of the circumstances. Next man up.
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Because the move doesn’t make a ton of sense and there was no explanation, there’s going to be rampant speculation.
Wouldn’t shock me to learn that Newman concluded that Monken preferred Daniels.
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If there had been spring ball, I’m assuming Newman would have had such a head start that Daniels couldn’t catch him. Without it, they were pretty much starting at the same place with the staff.
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Exactly.
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Newman was signed before Monken was on campus, and Daniels was signed after. We know Monken approved of Daniels.
However, that observation can not be used as end all be all reasoning. The situation is filled with what ifs and well why did X happen? The Senator is correct, we don’t know at this time and I am not sure the general public will know for some time if ever.
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Are you thinking Monken might be thinking more pocket QB versus running QB? I also wouldn’t be surprised if the starting QB is someone other than Daniels.
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Mathis wouldn’t surprise me
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#15 wouldn’t surprise me
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Also, it wouldn’t shock me if he really had a foot injury and it wasn’t getting better so he decided to completely rest it for a few months.
It wouldn’t shock me if he had a close family member/friend die from COVID and he decided to be cautious.
He always seemed like a smart young man, so I have to assume he had a well thought out reason.
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It wouldn’t shock me if he took on a QB coach while at home from Covid who Kirby didn’t approve of and who pumped Jamie full of “Me” first crap.
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NFL rarely drafts 2nd team guys…
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This is petty, I know, but are we supposed to take seriously a writer that doesn’t know the difference between “paired down” and “pared down?” I mean, he is a writer, correct? I get the occasional auto correct typo, but come on, man.
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Thought about reading more of this beat writers BS was the last time i took a “large grain of salt” with a shot of tequila…and a little lick o lime…dude is dead from the neck up…
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I really don’t have room to talk so I’ll bare with it.
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I see what you did their. Is this homophone day?
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I don’t have a problem with same sex relationships but what’s that got to do with it?
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Say, any of you boys word smithies? Or, if not smithies per se, were you otherwise trained in the vocabulary arts before straitened circumstances forced you into a life of aimless wanderin’?
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Oh brother where art thou ?
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Yes. Just messed with the words. The word smith exchange just got me to thinking of the train scene.
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…Just a second hand emotion!”
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I have an old Browning A5 12 gauge 28” modified choke in a safe gathering dust. I reckon my candied ass will allow it to gather another dove season’s worth of dust.
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Your correct sir
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Their’s no there, they’re.
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We better stop before the Senator shuts down this thread due too two many homophones.
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What’s your problem with homophones? Sounds like a personal problem to me, Gurkha!
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Geebus H Cripes! I’m gone for a few weeks and this place turns into an Animal House of malapropisms, puns, parody, assonance and absurdity. Y’all are the folks my parents warned me about.
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Hey man! We heard you were dealing with some real world shit.
I hope you and your family are alright. And welcome back! You’ve been missed.
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I’m responding to a following post here. Thanks for the kind words Corch. I appreciate your, Cowdog, Gurkhadawg and Rabe76’s concern. Simply been very busy with work and too tired to deal with the vagaries of Windstream and my own ineptitude with WordPress. Rabe76, I trust your children have fully recovered. I thank mg4life0331 for the avatar.
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Semper Fi, Army Dog.
Ooo-Rah!
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RLTW!
Hey man. So I’m sipping on 22 year old Speyside single malt scotch, sherry cask finish on the label. A gift from ol Hans who got it from Costco. Excellent whiskey. Wife calls to ask what are our plans for the weekend and I have no answer. For forty years we’ve planned Labor Day weekend around GEORGIA Football. This year I got nothing. It’s very odd and I don’t have to limit my alcohol intake as I have nowhere to go.
Dammitman!
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You know what we’d say in the Marine Corps anytime a 72 came around?
Get paid, get drunk, get laid, and everything else will take care of itself.
Might want to prepare the missus. Hah!
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Welcome back RR!
I’m not a Scotch guy but a buddy donated a 14 year old Glenfiddich to the cabinet so I figured to see what all the fuss was about last week. Mighty fine sipping with an ice cube.
No football no problem here, dove season opens tomorrow.
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Damn scotch has me posting dove hunting stuff in the wrong place and most likely the wrong thread. Be safe Cowdog!
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I saw it. I ended up with my Grandfather’s “Light Twelve”, the old humpback with with a 26″ IC. Beautiful shotgun. I use an 1100 20 ga. with the IC Got Sr. gave me for Christmas when I was 10. 42 years later it’s as natural as pointing my finger. My first Grandchild will get that one when I shuffle off into the ether…
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Ranger! Good to hear from you buddy. Glad everything is good. When I saw the picture machine gunner posted I thought it probably favored you. Stay safe.
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Yeah Gurkhadawg, my resemblance to that picture is quite remarkable. Though I do have better grooming habits and wear slightly less Red while strolling through the woods during hunting season. I refuse to wear the orange vest on principle but keep one handy when I’m hunting from that 3,500 sq ft deer stand my Sweetie calls our home.
In regards to Newman, it’s a shame the Dawgs are losing him. However, it’ll allow some other young man to step up and be a hero. The D will keep em in the race until the new QB can gain experience and confidence to propel the Dawgs to win the SEC Championship and more.
I still have my eye on the 25 meter target; but, I’m not forgetting that a year from now is a huge game in Charlotte against the tater trash from Auburn on a lake. Having a QB with a year of SEC grind under his belt will be another advantage over Clemson who will most likely be starting a green play caller.
I plan on being around for that. I’m gonna slow my ass down a bit. Piss on all this work.
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Griffith is a former Army Ranger, 82nd Airborne. I admit that I give him a pass on some spelling errors.
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Please don’t tell him that a simple motor t Marine corrected his grammar. I don’t need my front yard turned into a hot LZ.
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We will keep that just on this board then!
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The AJC is chock full of grammatical and pun arizon errors, at least in their sports stories. It’s present in almost every article I’ve ever read in DawgNation (which is one of many reasons I rarely read it anymore…between GTP and The Athletic, I get pretty much all the Dawg news I need).
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Lol…my post sucked. “Punctuation” was what I was typing but Auto-Correct had other ideas
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I’m thinking “Homophone Friday” would make a pretty good drinking game…
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Isle drink too that!
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Well, in his defense, he was talking about TWO players. . .
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That did cross my mind….
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It actually does make a lot of sense that Newman felt or was told he was losing the QB competition. Time was of the essence in announcing he was opting out. If it became obvious that he was going to be 2nd team, opting out would look like he was a quitter. That would explain the sudden decision. Now he can say it was simply a business decision. ( which it was either way). I would have done the same thing.
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Honestly, it’s useless to spend time thinking about it, other than to make fun of those who “know” why he opted-out. Maybe his feelings were hurt Kirby brought in Daniels. Maybe an agent got in his ear and convinced him his hype would never be higher. Maybe he really is super duper scared about COVID-19.
Who knows? On Newman and a small number of people around him know, and they’ll never be truly honest, so we need to move on.
We’re on to Cincinnati.
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But rampant speculation is so fun Corch.
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Hah! I get it, but…
We’re on to Cincinnati.
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They are all trying to get more clicks to sell more ads.
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Host from “What’s that coming down the podcast” texted me this yesterday.
“So my old fraternity brother used to do the video for Valdosta state football team when Buster Faulkner was there. They are pretty close and still keep in touch. He talked to Buster last Wednesday and when they were talking Buster told him Jamie Newman wasn’t what they thought he was going to be and just wasn’t impressed with him.”
Grain of salt and all that.
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Who buster Faulkner?
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Offensive Coordinator in waiting IMO.
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Buster put himself in a really sweet holding position. He gets to work with the best in a major program and get the lay of the land for other opportunities
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FYI: https://www.dawgnation.com/football/georgia-football-hires-buster-faulkner-to-offensive-staff
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The timing of it all, especially right after the scrimmage, can’t help but speculate that Newman was either losing the battle – or at least not clearly winning it, and decided it wasn’t worth the risk of actually losing it. However, I will emphasize the word speculate because I sure as heck don’t know anything for sure either.
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And that’s fair. It’s the folks trying to pass off their take as something more than speculation of whom we should be skeptical.
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We’ll I heard from my very reliable source, the custodian’s second cousin, that Newman was looking seriously into a sitcom based on his life, or was that Pawl.
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Oops. Well.
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…and this is another reason to subscribe to the Athletic and read Seth.
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Get your salt shakers out because I have no clue if this is accurate or not, but…last night I was talking with a friend and he says his friend in Athens is tight with Mike Cavan (man wish I had that gig…stays through every regime change) who claims Newman was struggling with the mental part of Monken’s offense. Meaning, he was not doing that well with making the correct reads compared to Daniels.
Who knows how valid that is though.
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Dean Legge said he heard that Daniels started the scrimmage Saturday. That is a major sign.
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So it was a “cerebral” issue…..
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The Handbags in the media down here in Jacksonville are downright giddy about this development, and it reinforces their view that they will win the SEC East and contend for a National Championship. I cannot wait to hear what they have to say after the Cocktail Party!
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The same people laughing about us taking a grad-transfer QB are now saying all hope is lost for us because that same QB opted out. FTMF
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Remember last week when they said Newman was Kelly Bryant 2.0?
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For what ever reason, Newman is not here. We should look at it just like Blaylock’s injury-shit happens. It never helps the team to lose a quality player but there is not a damn thing we can do about it. We have depth, so suck it up and move on.
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Bingo-bango!
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This is exactly how I’m trying to take the news. If he’d come out of the scrimmage with a bum knee, we’d be in exactly the same situation. Next man up, indeed.
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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. – Hunter S. Thompson
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God bless you for the work you’re putting in to show what a lazy beat reporter Griffith is. Hope you’re able to make it stick with a growing portion of the UGA fanbase and eventually that gets back to the folks at the AJC. Maybe it doesn’t matter because his clickbait BS is what pays the bill at newspapers these days, but it wouldn’t hurt if he became a punchline among the folks who don’t want that garbage.
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Is he a beat writer though? Chip is a beat writer. Seth is one.
This guy works for an AJC in-house fan site. I honestly don’t see a difference between them and DawgSports.com on SB Nation.
I would never call this guy a beat writer. He pushes Sunshine Dawg Propaganda. That’s pretty much it.
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Maybe you’re right…but he gets a lot more juice being associated with AJC than just being a random fan publishing on a blog. I’ve never heard anyone on Dawg Sports with a recurring segment on one of the 960 shows, for instance. He ought to conduct himself accordingly.
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Yeah, he gets access because of Cox Media, but it’s still a fan blog.
If we remember that, he’s easier to ignore.
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Seriously, this guy is such a fucking tool.
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This season has all the makings of being a shit show no matter what. At this point I actually like the idea of using any playing time we get to give guys reps for 2021. Newman was always going to be one and done.
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Read from some people I know that are well connected that Newman went AWOL for a couple of weeks earlier this summer. He was incommunicado with the staff and missed at least 2 required Zoom meetings. Apparently he reached out and welcomed back with open arms.
Also, those same folks said Monken was not pleased with the pace at which Newman was picking up the offense and wasn’t shy about letting him know it.
TIFWIW
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Silvercreek, this dovetails with my source close to the team that says he took on a QB coach while home this spring who Kirby disapproved of. Guy pumped Jamie full of crap bad for the team.
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Easily the best thing to come out of this episode is the universal acknowledgment that Mike Griffith sucks at his job and is a clown.
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There is also this whole pandemic thing going. That might have played some role.
Also has Daniels been cleared for contact? I thought that he was still rehabbing an injury.
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Cleared for contact doesn’t mean what you think it means. No QB gets “contacted” in practice or scrimmage, so Daniels has been taking snaps this whole time.
Cleared for contact just means cleared to play. He will be, by the first game.
However, we shouldn’t assume he’s the guy. Remember, Corch really wanted Mathis and as much as a piece of subhuman slime as he is, he knows great quarterbacks.
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Does he really? I would say off the cuff he recognizes a type of QB that will work well in his system. Tebow, Haskins, and Fields are a type. All are big kids that had to be accounted for in run defense, and that opens up some passing opportunities. Tebow was a master and getting a linebacker to commit then dumping it over his head. Just my observation…
Have any of his QB’s done much in the NFL?
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You just made the Stephen A. Smith mistake of assuming something wrong about Haskins, who was a relative statue at Ohio State as was Carnell Jones and oh yeah, Joe Burrows.
Corch knows great quarterbacks no matter the system. And since when does NFL have anything to do with who is a great college QB?
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Off the cuff, big guy. My entire knowledge of Urban’s QB’s is a collection of highlight memories and Tebow who I cannot classify as a great QB. TT was a great player in a system that fit him well. YMMV.
Burrows fit the type as well.
And… Nada. Just a question.
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Trust me man, no one reviles Corch more than I do, thus, my nom de plum. He is, and I don’t say this lightly, scum. He is lower than low. He is a garbage human being.
BUT.
That sonavabitch is a hell of a football coach, talent evaluator, and motivator.
I won’t ever make the mistake again of thinking he isn’t, as I did in 2005 when he was hired by Floriduh.
Dude knows great QBs, and not only does he know great QBs, he knows great QBs that have that thing in them to be great leaders in big time games, who can win conference and national titles.
The fact that Corch wanted Mathis to come to tOSU should carry a ton of weight with all of DawgNation.
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Don’t forget Alex smith at utah, led them to a 12-0 season and was the #1 overall pick. Completely agree with your assessment of Meyer as a scum bag who happens to be one of the greatest coaches of all time. I have a theory people have a hard time accepting this because 1) he repeatedly kicked our ass while at Florida and 2) people have a hard time reconciling that a person can be both a horrible human being and incredibly talented. In fact the latter usually helps to foster the former, especially since for some strange reason our society wants to equate character with competence, ie so and so is successful so he must be a good guy (probably due to people wanting to believe life is fair and good people are ultimately rewarded and scumbags punished)
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Corch also recruited Cam Newton.
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I gotcha. And I won’t argue any of that other than to say when I think of great QB’s, I think of Stafford, Manning, Mayfield, Elway, Aikman, that ilk. None of Meyer’s QB’s seem to me to fit that mold except maybe Burrows who I wasn’t counting as one of Urb’s kids having conveniently forgotten where he transferred from.
Mathis does strike me as Irvin’s type of QB. So does Fields, which takes me down the rabbit hole of “Is Kirby trying to adapt the scheme to more of a spread and recruiting as such but his OC’s haven’t quite caught up?”
Random thoughts on a slow Friday…
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Alex Smith has had a pretty good NFL career.
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Just hard to reconcile the confidence with which many quarters asserted Newman as the best QB in the SEC – heck, one of the best 50 players in college football – and the idea he was in danger of losing the competition to a guy who had a good-not-great freshman campaign at USC, didn’t play last year, and is still rehabbing an ACL.
Entire trajectory of the story is just weird.
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I don’t know. Daniels is a full year removed form surgery, 3 more months than Blaylock was. He was #3 QB, one of just 3 5-star QBs that year, along with Fields and Lawrence.
His frosh year at USC was not that bad for a Sr in HS age-wise. 4 of 5 losses by less than a TD, similar to Stafford’s frosh year frankly. He threw for well over 300 in several games including vs. ND.
Started at powerhouse Mater Dei all 3 years if I recall. And he’s a film rat.
He is a good one.
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Have y’all seen JT Daniels photo? He Mfing Doc Holliday.
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Well that seals the deal he is our QB of the present and future 🙂
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I’ll be your huckleberry.
You’re a daisy if you do.
In vino veritas.
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Reminds me of….me.
No, I’m sure of it. I hate him.
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If there’s even an award given for the most underrated movie ever, Tombstone would need to be in the running. That movie should’ve been a giant hit, and while people found it later at Blockbuster and on TNT, it’s one of those films that deserved so much more.
Also on that list? Zoolander, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, The Grey, American History X, and both The Office and Idiocracy. Man, I swear, Mike Judge is an unappreciated comic genius.
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Shit… Office Space. Not The Office.
I’ll go cancel myself now.
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I enjoyed The Office series
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Yeah, that’s Greg Daniels, who did work with Mike Judge on King of the Hill, still, not Mike Judge. Hah!
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Doesn’t matter, the theory that it’s a career / draft hedge makes the most sense. And it just might be the least of 2 undesirable choices (the other being scouts’ last image of you holding a clipboard behind a sophomore who is also a transfer).
Covid is the perfect out, but in Newman’s defense would he have stayed in college as a grad transfer if he (a) knew what 2020 would entail with Covid or (b) even go to Georgia if he thought his 1 reason for staying behind might not manifest because the seat might not be open. At the end of the day, the QB spot (a 1 man show more often than not) is even more delicate when assessing whether you will even have the stage you think you need. This is only magnified for a guy with 1 year of eligibility left.
The interesting question I have is how are you supposed to manage a QB roster in the modern age. Georgia can get away with the fish culling approach more than 99% of other teams. But the argument for a cleaner pipeline of succession is not without its merits…..until you get one that doesn’t work out. Still though, it’s not like you can’t miss on the shotgun approach either……and I do worry it leaves us in a predicament of oscillating between an over-full cupboard only to have no depth the next year when you have an exodus.
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Nope, because when you try to do it that way, you end up with what happened to TAMU post-Manziel and what happened at Georgia when all we were left with in certain seasons were Joe Cox or JoeT3.
Kirby’s way is the best way. You load-up on talent and let that talent shake itself out by giving everyone their shot in practices before the season starts to win the job, regardless of position.
This is why the “Fields never got a shot,” people are making ridiculous, emotional arguments instead of being rational about it. You don’t get a shot in games, you get your shot in practices. That’s how it works.
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My only question is when can we start the man crush for Daniels or Mathis? I’m cool with both, but I need some BS QBR, Projected Something rate, and Probable Positive effect Gantt Chart.
Lets all root for both, and if I had to pick a favorite I’m going with Doc Holliday. Only because I kinda like the USC fight song and he used to be there. But I like the heart Mathis has, I’m pulling for him too.
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Mathis was the undisputed QBR Champ of the 2019 G-Day Game.
Do with that what you will.
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This is an entertaining blog.Newman’s “inherent” lead came from being on campus since January and, as the next line in the story explained, JT Daniels not being completely cleared. Daniels has 5 years of experience in the Air Raid offense (granted, last year was mental reps), and I’ve said several times since he arrived it was a matter of time before he took over —
I told the Jax radio show host Daniels was going to be starter by the time UGA played Florida, anyway. Daniels was essentially Monken’s choice after Newman opened the door via a Zoom disconnect (See story link). Mathis has big upside, but no one is close to operating in the offense like Daniels. I will keep reading this blog, I like it, even if the author likes to pick and choose his favorites (and take shots, haha). That’s normal, we all do the same. Makes this blog no less fun. https://www.dawgnation.com/football/georgia-uga-jamie-newman-offseason-kibry-smart-newman-bust-competition-daniels
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Thanks for showing up here, Mike.
I wasn’t taking a shot at you with this post — at least that wasn’t my intention — so much as trying to point out to the readers here that there’s been a ton of contradictory information about Newman’s departure and, as such, we should all be cautious drawing conclusions about what went down.
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