G-Day comin’.

Jake Rowe has a list of ten players to watch this Saturday.  Of those, Truss is the one I’m most interested in seeing play.

Honestly, I’ve been to enough G-Day games at this point to expect not much more than to be entertained.  The playbook is restricted.  Ultimately, it’s a scrimmage and the coaches are there to watch players play under certain conditions.  That’s why I expect to see a lot of passing, way more than we’ll see come September.  There’s the matter of sorting who can play defensive back.  There’s a legitimate fight to figure out the pecking order behind Daniels at quarterback.

So, QBR aside, there really isn’t much drama to be seen, with perhaps one exception:  mechanics.  Are the players who have kinks to work out, based on last season’s work, being coached to do so?  Here’s what Rowe said about Truss, for example:

The last time we saw Truss in action he was struggling with Cincinnati’s pass rush. He seemed to abandon his technique and patience in pass protection in his first start. With that said, he has gotten better this spring. The mammoth lineman had an up-and-down first scrimmage followed by a strong second one. Can he keep things going in the right direction? Truss is a forgotten man amongst fans when it comes to the left tackle job. Most want Broderick Jones or Amarius Mims, two guys we’ll also be watching, to win the job but Truss has gotten most of the first-team reps thus far. A good G-Day showing will go a long way toward helping him hold on to that.

He had a poor bowl game.  And right now, he’s more of a default option at left tackle than anything else.  Georgia needs more than that.  Either Truss finds that, Jones or Mims steps forward, or we’ll be looking at Salyer back at the spot against Clemson.  So I want to see where Truss is at after a full spring practice.

But he’s not my number one center of attention, mainly because Salyer can play the position if that’s how things pan out.  What I want to see Saturday, more than anything else, is how much progress has been made with Daniels’ fundamentals throwing the long ball.  Has he fully recovered from his surgeries?  Has he eliminated — okay, consistently eliminated — that awkward hop so that he’s able to get just a little more velocity on those throws that were caught, but not in a way that allowed his receivers to gain more yardage after the catch?

What are y’all wanting to see?