Story back dated from October 2018.
The biggest problem that I can see with the QB’s at Georgia is just consistency by Head Coach Kirby Smart. Last year the team knew who the guy was, and it was Jake Fromm in which the entire team rallied behind. This season after 7 games the team is 6-1, 4-1 in the SEC East, but the Georgia offense can’t get consistency in their playing because Smart is switching QB’s back and forth from Fromm to freshman Justin Fields. Fields is the runner and Fromm is not, and Fields gives the team that quick spark that they need, but he needs to stay in and build from it and not go in one play and out the next. Fromm has the experience which helped lead the 2017 team to an SEC Championship against Auburn, Rose Bowl win against Oklahoma, and runner-up to the National Championship to the team that unnamed team.
The biggest test this season for Georgia was this past game. Georgia fell behind early to the LSU Tigers in last Saturday’s contest in Baton Rouge mainly because they haven’t had to play catch up, and once that happened Smart wasn’t sure what to do in him switching back and forth with the QB’s. Georgia had trailed only for 15 seconds this entire season before the LSU contest. Smart needs to stick with a QB so he can gel with the offense. To me, this is the only way to grow with the game plan and with the offense. If that QB doesn’t gel, try the other. If the other player doesn’t work, then UGA has a big problem. But 50/50 change one of the QB’s will work. But one play in, one play out just doesn’t work. If Georgia wins out the rest of the season and beats both east rivals Florida and Kentucky, they will still hold the right to represent the east in Atlanta for the SEC Championship, but the quarterback issue has to be corrected if this is to happen. In this week’s AP College Poll, #2 Georgia fell to #8 and #13 LSU jumped up to #5.
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