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Our offense is about to get rolling I think/hope.

it’s hard to cut loose when your getting hammered every drop back . It’s not his fault the oline has been injured since the 1st game . Which forces all those screen and quick throws everybody seems to hate lol . Hopefully they can just keep chopping and grind out wins.

There aren't that many options.

1. Game plan
2. Execution
3. Head case/mindset/motivation

These three come to mind.

We could shake up the initial game plan particularly on offense. In particular, our passing game looked pretty darn good in the second half against Auburn as did our quarterback's running ability. Maybe consider utilizing these early in the game, just for a change?

In my view, it's the coaches's main job to ensure players execute. On the other hand, we have a very young, and rather banged up team, but so what?

Team leadership looks good. The team is talented. Are the coaches handicapping the team by being a smidge too conservative? Are the players curtailed a bit in their quest to play football and have fun? Would it help to pretend we're three scores down at the game's kickoff?

I don't have the answers, but, then again, I'm not being paid $10+ million to answer these questions. It may also be the case that Kirby has the answer to the question of why we're starting so slowly, but not the solution. IDK.

Go, Dawgs!

Agree 100%. If you watch some of the detailed breakdowns of the games (the Film Guy, etc), you will see the play calls are there on both defense and offense, but it's execution that is missed. The continued torture of poor Cash Jones and him getting the hand off in the Bama game is the perfect example. He is more than capable of running that play and had the O linemen executed as the play called, he walks in for a TD. I believe the play calling and alignments are good and as soon as the execution becomes a bit more consistent, the results will definitely show.

It’s a strange thing to me to read and hear some of the takes people have. We’ve only lost One game by Three points to as much as I Hate to say it Bama. With the exception of FSU they’ve beat every team they’ve played so far. NO I don’t like that but that’s the reality. And Mizzou in particular seemed to be a pretty good team.

I Know we All wish we could have that game back but it was a Team Loss INCLUDING Kirby Smart.

In my 63 years of Listening to then later being able to Watch Dawgs football or Any football. It’s always appeared that the Slow, Methodical, Efficient Offenses tend to gas the rival Defense much more than a Zoom down the field in just over 2 minutes Offense. Those usually reside on the west coast where the scores resemble basketball games with 70-60 scores.

Now I Know a Beautiful Deep Spiral to a receiver who catches it cleanly and goes in for the TD or is Already in the end zone is a thing of Great Beauty. I get that. Hey I enjoy them to.
But if you Really want to demoralize an opposing Defense have a Running Game with short to intermediate passes mixed in that They Can’t Stop !!

I also Know that YES you have to at least attempt the occasional deep throw to keep the rival Defense from crowding the LOS. I get that to. But you Don’t have to have a Mega number of those to Win football games. The Most important Stat of All is that Win/Loss column !! NO ONE at the end of the season is gonna care very much How you got there, just WIN !!

We have a banged up and patched up O Line that deserve credit for playing their hearts out !! But if KS and Bobo start Forcing Gunner to stay in the pocket and look for not just open but Deep open receivers that O Line could leak. Now he Can, he Has got Many first downs and even TDs that he Rarely gets credit for. Especially by those who Insist on comparing him to a pure pocket passer. But if he’s gonna get Chewed for gaining a critical first down with his FEET by KS and Bobo then Gunner might become Gun Shy. And we might well start losing games as a result. But at least we’ll get to see Allot of deep passes thrown.

I mean what he’s been doing has cost us Allot of games and INTs. Oops that’s right we only have One loss by three points and only One INT. Maybe GUNNER should have told them to kick the chip shot FG to tie the game. But No I’m sure telling Cash to run in it from behind the LOS was a much better decision. 🙄 Credit and Criticism go hand in hand. Sad that Gunner gets much more of the Criticism part from Some folks.