Logan Gray

Tennessee is still a great defensive team. Their problem (up until last weekend) is they couldn’t pass and couldn’t score.

when he was offensive player of the week. The things I was watching for were different. He threw big passes to big receivers and it worked. But he was and is horrible about his progressions, he has no fakes or pumps or looks, he feet are horribly stuck to the ground. Everytime the pocket collapses or he gets pressure – you dont see him roll out or step up (Garcia did this beautifully against UGA), he continually has a deer in the head lights look. He does seem to make proper audibles based on Bobos bad input, i cant fault him for that. But overall, I dont think he gains us that much this year – where as, he hurts us terribly for next year.

Logan Gray may not find himself at QB, that remains to be seen. But I know this is college and guys are only around 3 years if they are good, sometimes 4. For a QB, you are only playing a couple of years in many cases. DJ Shockley’s success game from David Greene’s ball control and putting up enough of a score to get him some playing time. I don’t get to go to the practices or talk to CMR very much, so I dont know all the thinking, but I know starting Cox all year and playing him all game is probably gonig to result in a few more Ls, while really, really screwing up someone for next year. We have to find a way to get back up 1 and or 2 a quarter or more of snaps on a regular basis. This year, people are saying we are young and inexperienced (they said that last year, and many years before that as well), so, what are we going to say next year?

… his flu-ridden performance against Okie State notwithstanding.

But do you know who else has a great defense? Suddenly, I’m not so sure I want to make the trip down to Jax, after all…

But at this point I’m really questioning the decision to start a QB with deteriorating muscles/tendons in the shoulder of his throwing arm.

Coaches say it doesn’t impede his ability to throw.

Hard as it is to believe, I have no formal medical training but to paraphrase John Madden:
When your arm [is rotting from the inside out], the ball is not going to go where you want it to.

I don’t watch practices either, so I have no idea whether Gray would be better than Cox. What if he is way worse? What if he throws tons of picks and the Dawgs lose more games like they did against UT – what if he leads them to a loss against Vandy? Maybe Richt and Bobo are protecting Gray as well as themselves by not playing him.

If you watched Garcia the past couple years, you would have noticed that he was not just “not good,” he was terrible. This is Cox’s first year as a starter and I understand it is his last year as a Dawg, but just maybe he gives UGA the best chance to win right now. Starting lesser guys to “let them get their lumps” doesn’t always result in future improvement – it can also lead to a guy losing his confidence and transferring elsewhere.

If Gray comes in and is terrible – how long before you start calling for Aaron Murray to play? A lot of UGA’s offensive woes right now lie in poor offensive line protection and lack of running game (unheard of at “Halfback U”). Maybe even Sam Bradford would look terrible in that situation?