It's Fromm, right? Kirby's not really thinking of a change? Nawww, he couldn't ...
He can’t do it, right?
He won’t do it, right?
He’s proven much smarter than to do more than just tease the possibility for strategic purposes, correct?
Granted, it’s Vanderbilt week, so how much posturing BS is necessary is quite debatable.
But Kirby Smart isn’t starting a quarterback controversy on his own, is he? Voluntarily?
Vandy head coach Derek Mason is on the money when he said that Smart’s dance was just that.
“I mean he’s not fooling me, if that’s what we think we’re doing here,” Mason said Tuesday at his weekly media gathering. “That young man, Fromm’s won ballgames. He just came off a [41-0] win.”
Smart is acquiescing – some might use another description – to Jacob Eason a little bit, since he was the incumbent since getting hurt, has to be.
Doesn’t he?
Smart did, in fact, keep dancing Tuesday, saying the players have been talked to and they understand the situation and they're fine with it.
A) Right, they're fine with it, if in fact, no decision yet is the situation;
B) We'd know if somebody wasn't. No, we probably wouldn't.
Mason isn't at practice, Smart said. Mason doesn't see practice tape, Smart said.
There is a reason to give Eason increased snaps: allow him to get better so, first, Georgia can make its backup quarterback better and, second, allow Eason to strengthen his pre-transfer resume.
No doubt Fromm had a subpar passing game against Tennessee, 7 for 15 for 84 yards. Those are, yes, backup numbers.
They're also similar to four games all last season for Eason, against Mississippi, South Carolina, Florida and Georgia Tech. Three of those were losses.
Fromm had a rough game, and still was hugely positive in a 41-0 win on the road. Again: 41-0 win on the road.
Fromm will finish this season with - you can almost bet on it now that Georgia has a solid No. 2 and can use more of his skills - 100 yards rushing or more.
Note: the NCAA counts sack yardage as rushing yardage, while the NFL counts it as passing yardage, thus making it a little misleading on the college level.
That said, Eason had 87 positive yards last year and 132 yards in lost sack yardaage for a season net of minus-45, with one rushing touchdown.
In 13 games, he had negative yardage in all but four, on 33 "carries."
Fromm has 24 yards on 18 tries with two touchdowns. And my first thought – shared on the phone at the time – when Fromm took off Saturday was the Eason must be healthy because Fromm was given a green light to go.
Even when he's off, Fromm makes Georgia's offense better. That's not homering - and nobody will accuse me of that - but simple reality. One needn't see practice or practice tapes to see that.
For the sake of the sanity of an insane group of people - fans - here's hoping this is just a silly and see-through ploy. Why? Don't know.
It's not like you spend a lot of time with your defense worrying about which pocket quarterback will start. And starting doesn't matter much if you get pulled.
But if Smart is seriously tossing and turning on this topic and that converts into action and a game plan, he may be a candidate for a forced lobotomy.
Things are just going way too smoothly - even when they weren't, as the passing game wasn't on Saturday, they were - to have a debate.
LOUGHDMOUTHINGS
The timing of the off week is overall good for Georgia Tech, but it'll delay the Yellow Jackets entry to top 25s.
They're tied with Texas Tech for 28th - one spot behind Florida State - in the AP poll and 28th alone in the coaches poll.
Tech will need some losses, fairly bad losses, by the final ranked five to squeeze in while off, and hope not to get jump (by Navy, Texas A&M in coaches poll and Navy and Stanford in AP).
Considering they're basically an undefeated team with a loss - work with me - they're very rankable. ...
Things are so stinky around Louisville right now, it might affect that region's air quality ratings with the EPA. ...
Sad to see the sudden retirement of USC Upstate men's basketball coach Eddie Payne.
It was abruptly announced Tuesday, for health reasons, which is disconcerting.
The mid-majors lost a pretty good one. He was 236-270 overall, and spent 14 years at Upstate. He led the Spartans in the transition from Division II to Division, after having been head coach at NAIA Truett-McConnell and Belmont Abbey, Division I East Carolina and Oregon State, and Division III Greensboro. ...
Dear ESPN, am begginbegginbeggin to cease & destroy all the Rex Ryan commercials. They're brutally bad. Alas and sadly, the norm in Bristol. ...
Nov. 18, LSU at Tennessee. O at Butch. The Sadist Bowl. One could say, "winner keeps his job", but amend it to "till end of the season"? ...
And from Dwight Perry of the Seattle Times:
"While Floyd Mayweather was pounding Conor McGregor in Las Vegas, UFC fighters Ronda Rousey and Travis Browne were tying the knot in Hawaii.
"And there wasn’t a dry eye in the house when it got to the 'till death do we tap out' part.
Loughdmouthings: Born in 1988 at the Alexandria (La.) Daily Town Talk, continued at the Morgantown, (W.Va.) Dominion Post, and then to the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph - and still getting the occasional inquiry from Alexandria and Morgantown and Macon - it has been absent in print since late 2007.
It's a home for information, observations, consternation and humor. The last name rhymes with Wow, and the author can be loud with the written word, and it's a play on the name and personality.
And it has been reborn for the first time in a mainstream home for the first time in a decade.