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Stetson Bennett, Brock Bowers too busy to care about awards flack

On3 imageby:Wes Blankenship•12/09/22
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Georgia tight end Brock Bowers (19) and Georgia quarterback Stetson Bennett (13) during the Bulldogs 42-10 win over Auburn in a game played October 8, 2022, at Sanford Stadium at the University of Georgia in Athens, GA. Photo credit Perry McIntyre.

Some so-called ‘experts’ don’t think Stetson Bennett and Brock Bowers belong on a couple of the nation’s biggest stages. This just in: they don’t care.

Whether you think Stetson Bennett deserves the chance to become the 2022 Heisman winner or not…

Whether you believe Brock Bowers actually deserved to beat out Notre Dame tight end Michael Mayer for the John Mackey Award or not…

Neither one of these guys have the time for your feelings. It isn’t personal. It’s just the Kirby Smart / Henry David Thoreau way of thinking about success:

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”

Bennett even included the line in his statement about becoming a Heisman Trophy candidate.

Will he become the 2022 Heisman winner? I’m sure he’d enjoy it.

But check out what Stetson Bennett said when he found out he would be up for the award

It isn’t about him.

“I don’t even know what to think right now. We have a lot of good players who make me look good. It’s special. This honor is all about my teammates and this team. I wouldn’t be here if we didn’t have the team that we have. This honor is for them. I understand what Coach Smart means when he says that success comes to those who don’t look for it or are too busy working to look for it. I have never thought about the Heisman,” Bennett said, in words that will go down in Dawgs lore.

At least they should. And it only got better from there.

“I just wanted to play quarterback at Georgia. I just wanted to play football. I’m thinking of the players and people who have been in this with me. Regardless of who wins, it’s a huge honor to be in this group. The wideouts, tight ends, running backs, offensive line, defense, coaches – I wouldn’t have this opportunity without them so a ton of gratitude for them.”

While National College football writers and analysts make it all about how Stetson Bennett doesn’t deserve to be there, Bennett just wants to be with all of his Dawgs.

He wants his big Dawgs to win their own award. And he wants to win another championship more than anything.

Other experts (and Notre Dame fans) think Brock Bowers doesn’t deserve the John Mackey award

Much like Bennett, Brock Bowers also got the ‘he doesn’t deserve it’ treatment this week.

Now, Bowers already won his award. But if you ask the internet, then Notre Dame tight end Michael Mayer deserves the Mackey Award for the nation’s most outstanding tight end more than Bowers does.

Mayer had three more touchdown receptions and more yards than Bowers did this season.

But while Bowers’s detractors focus on those numbers, they conveniently omit the highlight reel that shows how outstanding Bowers really is.

A highlight reel that includes rushing yards and touchdowns – stats that Mayer doesn’t even have on the sheet.

Bowers is a straight-up Dawg. The eye test proves it if you watch him.

These awards aren’t about stats. They’re about being the most outstanding at something. Numbers don’t always tell that whole story, qualitatively speaking.

You can’t convince me that Bennett and Bowers stumbled into those spots on accident.

You can’t convince them, either, because it’s just part of the story right now. They didn’t ask to be there.

They ran and threw and caught and trucked and blocked their ways to these podiums and lecterns. For right now, that’s where their feet are.

But they’re ultimately too busy to worry about all of that.

That’s precisely why they made it there.

And it’s the only factor that determines where their team will go from here over the next four weeks.

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