Georgia football held the G-Day Game this past Saturday that featured a quarterback battle between Jake Fromm and Justin Fields.
If you watch the Georgia football spring scrimmages, you know that quarterbacks are almost untouchable. Defensive players only need to touch a quarterback with their pinky to record a tackle. This leads to some pretty weak sacks and takes the quarterbacks legs out of the game.
Protecting the quarterbacks is necessary. The last thing Georgia needs is for Jake Fromm or Justin Fields to seriously injure themselves in a scrimmage. But we can at least force the defensive players to put more effort into stopping the QB’s right?
We don’t have pocket passers. Fromm is a balanced quarterback who can leave the pocket and pick up yards when all else fails. Fields is a mobile quarterback who you can build a running game around. And third-stringer Stetson Bennett is an old-fashioned scrambler.
Letting defenses one-hand touch the quarterbacks to record a tackle robs the 80,000-plus fans in attendance of some electrifying plays. And it takes the quarterbacks out of their comfort zone. We saw that numerous times Saturday with Fields taking off for what should have been a good gain, only to get stopped at the line because he grazed a defenders hand.
I propose that Georgia at least make defenders get two hands on the quarterbacks. It would take more than one hand to stop Fromm and Fields in a game, so why not force defenders to get that second-hand around to make the stop?
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It would allow the quarterbacks to be themselves and give fans a better show, while keeping them from getting hurt. I call that a win-win-win scenario. It’s worth a shot. Maybe for pocket passers, they can keep the one-hand rule. But for quarterbacks who are going to run, lets see two hands instead.