re: Myles Brennan coming for that #1 spot again Like Nelly

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Its stupid to take a side one way or the other. Let it play out.

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agreed

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Brennan is a veteran as far as time in the program, game prep etc, learning new playbooks etc but even after all these years, he's light on actual relevant snaps as a starter.

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While this is obviously true, there is an advantage to simply being an older, more mature human being. Our starting QBs during our 5 SEC Championship seasons the past 20 years, including the 3 NCs, obviously:

2001–Rohan Davey—5th-year SR

2003–Matt Mauck—4th-year JR (but was 23 or 24 after playing minor league baseball)

2007–Matt Flynn—5th-year SR

2011–Jordan Jefferson—4th-year SR/Jarrett Lee—5th-year SR

2019–Joe Burrow—5th-year SR

Now, I’m not saying we concede every season we don’t have a 22+-year-old QB or that we automatically give the job to Myles this season. Just that maturity is an attribute, and though you can certainly be mature at an early age, there’s still a big difference between 19 and 22. And I’m sure Myles will have a lot less schoolwork in the fall and will be able to spend more time “in the building” studying football. To be clear, I am not saying this alone should make Brennan the starter—or that he should be the starter at all—just that it should help him.