Re: Can understand WF QB Jamie leaving for UGa but was he good enough..

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Sep 8, 2020, 4:46 PM

I dunno. I eyeballed D'Wan Mathis's film. He's raw. He also apparently turned around and threw a couple of back-to-back INT's in the scrimmage on Saturday. Kirby did not sound overly enthused.

https://www.onlineathens.com/sports/20200905/rsquonobody-has-taken-chargersquo-jt-daniels-drsquowan-mathis-and-uga-qb-job-after-jamie-newmanrsquos-opt-out

'Nobody has taken charge:' JT Daniels, D'Wan Mathis and the UGA QB job after Jamie Newman's opt out

This was the weekend that Georgia would have been in final preparations for a season opening game against Virginia in Atlanta on Labor Day, but the pandemic changed that.The delayed start to the season turns out to be needed for the Bulldogs to settle on their quarterback situation.Georgia scrimmaged Saturday four days after its leading contender for the job, Wake Forest graduate transfer Jamie Newman, changed everything by informing coach Kirby Smart on a day off from practices that he was

My guess would be JT Daniels ends up being the guy. He checks all the physical boxes, has a live arm and he's definitely in the dropback mold the Dawgs prefer. (I also think he's a lot more like Nick Eason than he is Jake Fromm and that is maybe not a good thing; he flashed the toolset at Southern Cal, but he also got beat out by a true freshman for a reason.)

My guess would be Newman realized he wasn't more than a makeweight temporary solution because any O he was going to be successful in needed to be tweaked to his skillset and play to his mobility, but the Dawg offense under Kirby has always been stodgy, conservative, and traditional...they like their dropback guys and I suspect that's how it is, period.

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Can understand WF QB Jamie leaving for UGa but was he good enough..