^^All those guys played on *much* better teams.
People said the same things about Bray but I doubt anyone hates him now. Both were in similar situations with defenses that couldn't stop a geriatric three-toed sloth from scoring and fans wanting the offense to do more and both had talent but never seemed to be able to close out games albeit for very different reasons.
Bray would give us all the hope in the world but give him any resistance and he'd fold in the second half. JG doesn't offer us that same tantalizing hope. He does a lot of things well but I can't think of a single thing he does that's great. He's not good enough to win a game on his own but not bad enough to bench. He's similar to Jake Bentley on that count and most SC fans are pleased as punch that Bentley is no longer starting.
That all said, a lot of it is simply unfair to JG. He's one player on the team and his performance alone didn't cost us the game. It was 'good enough' not great or even good but 'good enough' to win. If we have a guy like Dobbs on our bench that can carry the entire team then by all means play him but focusing on QB to the degree that we are ignores that we are fundamentally broken in a TON of other areas, including coaching. Back when Bray was on the firing line, I maintained that he was the least of our worries and tbh, I think the same is true of JG. (Doesn't make either great college QBs but both would be winners on better teams with better coaching).
