Georgia football: Overreactions from Saturday’s game vs. Appalachian State
Georgia football defeated Appalachian State 31-10 to open the season. The Bulldog Nation has had a chance to watch and react to what they watched Saturday.
Looking around social media, you’ll see a wide variety of opinions of the 2017 Georgia football team based on what they saw on Saturday. Many of those opinions are warranted, but a lot of them are clearly overreactions. So slow down Georgia fans. Here are few thinks you might be getting carried away on.
Two takes on Jake Fromm
The consensus on Jake Fromm is that he played admirably given the situation. He looked pretty good most of the time and he led a successful offense. But passed that, there’s a camp who’s all doom and gloom on Fromm and the other thinks he’s already beaten Jacob Eason.
First of all, we should all acknowledge that Fromm did not look great. He threw at least five awful passes that better defenses would have intercepted. He was just extra lucky to get good results off of three of them; touchdown, three-yard completion, and defensive pass interference.
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I like that he doesn’t take sacks, that was my biggest criticism of Grayson Lambert, but he has to make careful throws. He also can’t stare down receivers. He ran the no-huddle, run-and-gun offense well, but he also needs to work through progressions if he has time.
However, a quarterbacks first job is to be a game manager. For some reason, that’s used as a derogatory term, but game managing is a quarterbacks primary job. Fromm did that well Saturday. He has great chemistry with his receivers and he runs the hurry-up offense well.
Has he proven himself to be better to Eason so far? No, not at all. Eason is more careful, over-throws are better and easier to fix than under-throws and he has a year of experience over Fromm. But that doesn’t mean our chances of winning games has dwindled too much, if at all.