At this point in the season, it is very clear that Georgia football's quarterback Carson Beck has been struggling. The last two games, even though UGA was able to win both, were not some of his best work.
Beck finished both games with three interceptions. And even though Georgia's offense was able to still score at least 30 points, throwing that many interceptions will never be acceptable for a QB at Georgia.
But even thought that is the case, Kirby Smart still isn't worried about his QB. In fact, Smart recently provided a little perspective on Beck that shows that his recent struggles may not be as bad as everyone thinks.
"I think I was more pleased after watching the tape than anything, because I mean, out of 73 snaps, he had 68 winning decisions, really good decisions," Smart said via 247sports.com. "I mean, 68 for 73, pretty good in any sport I'm in, that you're in. I think the concern is the mistakes can't be catastrophic. You've got to make good decisions. And the two plays that he ends up turning the ball over on, they weren't great looks defensively against that call, like we were expecting something else. So when that happens, you've got to play for the next down, right?"
Beck is making a lot of good decisions
In the above quote from Smart, he shared that out of 73 offensive snaps, Beck made "winning decisions" on 68 of those plays. A winning decision does not always mean a big play, a winning decision can mean throwing the ball away on a broken play or picking up a couple yards on the ground when the pass rush is getting to him.
So all in all, 68 good decisions out of 73 plays is pretty good. But it's those five decision that everyone is remembering because they result in very bad plays. Obviously three of those bad decisions resulted in interceptions which is about as bad as it can get. So the thing that Smart thinks Beck needs to work on is limiting those bad decsions in general, but also making sure that the magnitiude of those bad decisions isn't as massive as they've been recently.
Nobody shoud expect Beck to be perfect, that isn't realistic. But if Beck can increase the amount of "winning decisions" that he has while decreasing the magnitude of his bad decisions, then everyone likely will be a lot more pleased with the way he and the offense start playing.