Bloody Tuesday: Transfers, QBs and Jalen Carter
The Bloody Tuesday after Georgia’s spring game is predictable in some ways, & unpredictable in others. Plus, I get to revisit a certain take about Jalen Carter.
Bloody Tuesday can get ya hurt if you’re a Georgia Bulldogs football player.
It’s the toughest practice of the week during the football season.
At DawgsHQ, it’s the toughest column of the week for all of your hot takes.
No one holds anyone accountable on social media or in ‘the media biz’ when it comes to hot-take dissemination.
But I do.
Let’s start Bloody Tuesday with the biggest news that came out of Georgia’s spring game:
The take: Bear Alexander was a bad teammate
This is one that shot out of the echo chamber with a vengeance on Saturday, just after Alexander entered the transfer portal.
That is to say, just after we learned that Bear Alexander was in the transfer portal.
This happens any time a player enters the portal these days.
Fans immediately go into ‘well I’m glad he’s gone because’ mode.
And the narrative around Alexander went from ‘oh it’s just NIL-related,’ to ‘that guy just didn’t fit in at Georgia’ in a hurry.
Well, it seems like this smoke has some fire to it.
I don’t write this because I have any personal issue with Alexander. But I am sharing what I heard from people around the program.
There is no love lost between Bear and his soon-to-be-former Bulldogs teammates once his portal destination becomes official.
That isn’t an indictment on Alexander as a person. To me, it just shows how difficult it is to succeed at Georgia.
You may be a talented individual. But individuals alone don’t succeed in Athens. Talented individuals who live that whole ‘team’ thing succeed in Athens.
Remember all those ‘culture’ concerns at Georgia a few weeks ago?
What better indication do you have about the health of Georgia’s culture than to see transfer portal moves like this?
Not all transfers are the same. Some guys need more playing time. Some guys want to go back home and some guys just don’t fit.
It’s probably a good thing that Georgia football leaders helped Alexander learn the last option with some tough accountability, if he didn’t figure it out on his own.
The take: Georgia’s quarterback race is over.
Spring game quick decisions are the hottest College Football takes this time of year.
Just like stars, the hottest ones tend to burn out the quickest.
I think that’s a fact. I think I remember learning that in Astronomy 101 my freshman year. Don’t hold me to it.
Look, Carson Beck has the lead over Brock Vandagriff right now. He 100% does. The spring game showed that, and if you don’t think it’s the case, then you watched a different ball game.
But how often do we see the best Georgia quarterback play the best at G-Day?
I’m not saying that Beck is a fraud.
I just want to remind you that the clear number-one at G-Day isn’t always the clear number-one by the season opener or the season finale.
Let it breathe. We haven’t heard anything about Brock Vandagriff or Gunner Stockton hitting the portal just yet.
We got all summer to let this thing ride and see workout clips of these dudes stir the internet’s collective pot.
The take: Jalen Carter won’t escape the top ten of the NFL Draft
No one likes a know-it-all.
But I don’t write these things so you will like me.
And look what we have here, despite what all the prisoners of the moment said after Jalen Carter’s legal issues back in March:
And here’s what I said on March 7th:
*Shoulder-shrug emoji*
Sometimes things are ambiguous. Sometimes things are just too easy to spot. Unless there is another unsavory update about Jalen Carter between now and the NFL Draft, do you really expect him to be outside of the top 10?
Of course not. Because you are a genius who subscribes to DawgsHQ, that’s why.
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