JT

Did you know? UGA QB JT Daniels was the 2017 national high school player of the year, beating out Trevor Lawrence and Justin Fields. Then Daniels skipped his senior season of high school football, enrolling at USC and earning the starting job at QB. After suffering a season-ending knee injury in the 2019 season opener, after the season he transferred to UGA. Last Saturday was Daniel’s first game in 14 months.

2017 high school junior

2018 USC’s starting QB

2019 injured in USC’s season opener

2020 UGA 

Daniels said he was cleared to play for UGA’s second game. What took Kirby Smart so long to make the switch, after Stetson Bennett did so poorly against Alabama? Was it an error on Smart’s part? I still say the coaches saw every snap in every practice, saw the QB’s in meetings. Right or wrong, the coaches knew more than the experts on social media. While Daniels is reportedly a football junkie, perhaps Bennett had the support of the other players that Daniels didn’t. Perhaps Kirby knew the players would react unfavorably to a change at QB. It’s possible.

Last week’s ESPN Total QB Rating

1. 97.8 Brock Purdy Iowa State

6. 96.3 Mac Jones Alabama

7. 96.2 JT Daniels UGA

8. 94.0 Kyle Trask Florida

22. 80.6 Justin Fields Ohio State

43. 66.7 Bo Nix Auburn

55. 45.6 Jarrett Guarantano Tennessee

Forgot something that happened during our Sunday School zoom call. During the call we are broken up into pairs to pray, then later during the lesson we are broken into groups of three or four to discuss the Bible verses. The first break went perfectly – we were paired with a young mother we know from Egypt. But later when we were put into a group, there was no one else in our group! We were left by ourselves. 

As I’d said, Monday after work I drove to small group. Grabbed Wendy’s on the way. After group I stopped by the bank and Kroger. Not much on TV.

This morning we packed at left home by nine. Took 85 north. Heavy Stopped in Spartanburg for gas and Chickfila. Then around Charlotte’s southern perimeter to Jefferson. Averaged 32.5 miles per gallon. Washed the car and picked up pecans.