You’re right Devo, but all efforts to defend JG to ANY extent, no matter how balanced and proven your effort may be, will be summarily rejected by a handful of guys on here who have just determined that come hell or high water, that he just sucks, and that’s all there is to it. I know, I’ve tried.
For instance, when I said, “you know, JG was really bad in 2017 when he held the ball way too long and took too many bad sacks.....but he showed glimpses of potential on what should’ve been a game-winning drive vs SCar, vs LSU in the first half before his ankle injury, and vs Kentucky”.....that was met with, “you’re crazy, he sucks”
When I’ve said about JG last year, “he was improved a good bit with not holding the ball as long, as partially evidenced by him taking 6-7 fewer sacks, in 5-6 more starts, behind inarguably the worst OL in college football”.....that’s been met with “the OL and scheme actually wasn’t nearly as bad as you guys say, it was actually pretty, good, JG just held onto the balk too long, way longer than Chryst (which btw was proven completely wrong) and he sucks”.
When people have said “Maurer or Shrout better be the QB this year because we don’t win 3 games with JG at QB this year”, and it’s pointed out that “we won 5 games last year with him”, those same guys typically follow up with, “he sucks”.
And perhaps my favorite, when I say “actually, when you look at his stats from last year, you see that he was great with his TD pass to Int ratio, threw the ball downfield at a good clip, and had a passer rating just under Peyton Manning’s when he was at Tennessee”......and that’s met with “he can’t read defenses, he locks in on every receiver on every throw, he only ever throws short drop off passes most of the time and, of course, he sucks”.
So, I suggest you do what I’ve tried to do more and more here recently,which is step away from arguing about JG with guys who just think he’s horrible no matter what you say. Any proof to any extent to the contrary just isn’t gonna have any impact on these guys. You can’t even say, as I’ve said many times “JG ain’t great, still has some things to improve on, but he’s done some good things in poor circumstances and he’s tough as nails”......you still get, you guessed it....”he sucks”.
