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I find it interesting that the author says Georgia doesn't have the talent on the perimeter to win a track meet with Bama or LSU when all we heard before the season was all that 4 and 5 star talent stacked up like cordwood and how Georgia had more 5 stars than all the other east teams combined. And they couldn't win the perimeter against an unranked 2-3 South Carolina. Excuses are a poor substitute for results but that seems to be all the media and coaches have.
Do more. LOL! What a joke. Florida is going to abuse Georgia next week, the difference in the coaching staff is as bad as it was when Spurrier was spanking Goff year after year.
This is a pretty accurate portrayal. I wasn't at the game but I suspect that the booing was not directed at the players but the playcalling. We love our players and wouldn't trade them for the world!
The things this fan doesn't understand is the lack of creativity in the play calling. Nothing to loosen up the defense, can't understand why the TE's aren't utilized on slant routes, our medium range pass game doesn't exist. Fromm has missed easy targets at times . A toss sweep or two per game even if it didn't work would show some effort to do some things different, and the running game with Swift appears to be more effective running outside.
I don't have the answer or I would be coaching, but I know enough to be able to see that our OC doesn't seem to have an answer for the defense stacking the box. This is why we are hearing fans boo, the old saying about the definition of insanity applies here and the fans see it. I can't blame it all on the wide receivers nor do I buy them not being able to get separation as a lot of pundits think. We have four and five star athletes at those positions.
The Florida game will tell the tale, I believe we have superior athletes at most positions. As much as I don't care for Dan Mullen personally I respect his coaching ability and believe he will have an offensive game plan to keep our defense off balance, something Coley and Company can't seem to do. This game really gives me reason to doubt, at this point, our coaching so far as game planning and adjustments offensively. I hope I'm wrong and we have a breakout game, one of those where everything goes right and works. It's time to put up or shut up.
Many listened to the pre-season hype from local and national media level ...National Championship or Bust! You dont loose your top 5 receivers and replace with freshmen/transfers. Yes they are 4-5* but must learn system and get strong.
Good points, Mike. I'm as big and as loyal Dawg fan as anyone. I've been a Dawg fan since seeing my first UGA-Florida game in 1976 as a high school senior, hailing from Gainesville, FL, no less. Since then, I've been a loyal and devoted supporter of UGA as a student, alum and fan, regularly contributing my money AND my time to the school and generally doing whatever they've asked of me. I am all in with UGA no matter what and anyone who knows me, knows that.
All of that said, my loyalty is not a blind loyalty. I see what I see. And what I see is a team that is not performing to the so-called "standard" (Kirby's term, not mine) that has been set. For UGA, that standard is not the SEC East Division Championship or even the SEC Championship, it is making the CFP playoffs and (strongly) contending for a National Championship. I think coming into this season, everyone connected with UGA's football program expected no less. So it is more than concerning to many fans that we now find even winning our division (supposedly a foregone conclusion back on Aug. 31) in doubt.
Breaking things down a little, we knew before the season started that our WR were young and inexperienced and would be challenged. But what bothers me more is that after seven games, they have shown zero improvement. And I think it is really telling that our three best receivers are two freshmen and a graduate transfer, all kids who were not in our program last year. Yes we worry when we see that they couldn't get open against SC on a dry field at home, yet a week later, in the rain on the road against SC, the Florida was scoring three (3) touchdowns in the fourth quarter. That's troubling -- and scary. What has happened to senior Tyler Simmons? Before the season started, CKS said he was the one guy assured of a starting position? Would he still say that? Would anyone? He's got speed but you wouldn't know it. And his hands? Questionable at best. And what of D-Rob? He's supposed to be "taking the top off" opposing defenses. If he has, I've yet to see it. He runs routes but is rarely wide open. So what is that speed doing for us?
I love Jake Fromm. I'm not one of these fans still pining for Justin Fields. Fields had his chance and whether it was because of inexperience, poor coaching, better SEC defenses than what he's seeing in the Big 10, he just didn't perform well. Period. But I also believe that the SC game shook Fromm's confidence in himself. And it carried over to the Kentucky game. I think that, not the rain, is why he didn't try more passes; his confidence was down and after the SC fiasco, he didn't want to take any chances. And if he wasn't confident of himself on the field, there's no way the coaches could be confident in him from the sidelines. Hence, 25 straight running plays at one point. The past two seasons, though, Fromm has risen to the occasion against Florida -- once when their D-backs trash talked his ability to pass and last year after everyone trashed talked him after we lost to LSU. So if he can bounce back against them like he's done before, we may be OK.
Mike you say our O-Line is "arguably" the best in college football. I'll take that argument. By what standard or measure are they the best in your eyes? Do you mean the biggest? Ask anyone they've played against if they fear that O-Line. I don't think any do? And even CKS admitted they were manhandled by SC. Would anyone have thought that going into that game? I would argue that our O-Line is not even the best in the SEC, or at least they aren't playing like it. I've seen both Alabama's and UGA's line in person and 'Bama's boys are far superior to us right now. Again, ask folks in the SEC which line is best.
As for the defense, you mention how J. R. Reed and Richard LeCounte finally stepped up to play their best games. I agree they looked good -- playing against a wide-receiver-turned-quarterback playing in his second game at the position in a driving rainstorm on the road at night. But what will they look like against quarterbacks who actually know what they're doing? The fact that the Kentucky game was their best game of they year ought to be cause for concern, and that was only good for them because of the hitting they did, not because of PBU's or interceptions.
The stats for our defense overall are great, and they are to be commended for that. You can only do what you do and play who you play. But I would argue that the next four teams on our schedule will be tougher than any of our previous seven opponents, with the notable exception of Notre Dame. The question I have for you, Mike, and my fellow Dawg fans is, based on what we've seen to date, do you think this UGA team is good enough to run the table against those teams and play itself back into the SEC Championship game and the CFP playoff picture? Because again, that's the "standard" now at the University of Georgia. Go Dawgs!
Something for the Dawg fans to think about, there is not many teams including top one who could have pulled this win off. Because our DAWGS know how to HUNKER DOWN
Yea...ok coach....the out is a much tougher throw than down the middle of the field...try again!
Go pull for another team with your hard earned money...give me a break...some fan you are!
@DallasDawg - Very well said. The main thing I take issue with concerning the Dawgs is CKS unwillingness to change his offensive philosophy during the game when it's not working. He's on the verge of being more like Les Miles than Nick Saban. Secondly, how can other teams with less talented receivers somehow get them open every game? Let's stop blaming the receivers and take a look at the high school routes they run. Why not study the passing concepts of teams who put up passing numbers?
Valid points Mike. I wasn't at the game, so I wasn't part of the booing brigade. However, I have definitely been vocal here on my displeasure of how the season has played out thus far.
MY MAIN Issues:
We barely beat Notre Dame and played so conservatively that we almost lost the game in the end. South Carolina stuffed our run game for much of the day, and KY did a good job as well stopping our run game in the 1st half. If every team is going to load the box against our run, then why in the world aren't figuring out better and consistent ways to get our tight ends and other playmakers the ball out in space? We don't have to have the best receivers in the nation if Fromm is such a great passer. But the coaches have to work picks and crossing routes into the play calling much better in order to disrupt the flow of the defense and get those guys to back off the front line. If we don't figure out how to spread out the defense of the better teams coming up, then there's a good chance we may not win those games. We can't rely on keeping opposing offenses off the field if we can't make 1st downs in the 1st place!! (poor 3rd and 4th down conversion rates)
The elite teams don't use excuses like injuries and losing guys to transfer and the draft as the reason why they are struggling. Bama has a revolving door of coaches every single year, loses tons of players to the draft every single year, and I don't see Saban losing a single step on his hold of the Top 1-3 teams in the nation every single year. UGA gets just as good if not better recruits (recently better) than Bama, Clemson, Ohio State, and Oklahoma. We get Top 5 recruiting classes just about every year. We've only made it to the CFP one time. ONCE. That's it. And close just isn't good enough.
And then like we have done SO many times before in previous seasons, we lay an egg like we did against SC.
Sure, the Dawgs get overhyped by the media and are often overrated initially. However, the reason that programs like Georgia's is so hyped up is because of the expectations for fans/alumni that come along with these kind of elite recruiting classes year-after- year and the millions of dollars spent in coach's salaries and facility additions/upgrades. etc.
Some of the criticism is warranted. And yes, some of it is overblown. However, the fans want a Championship. And rightly so.
When uga hired Kirby Smart did anyone know what kind of hc he was going to be? I didn't and it's a heavy price to pay when you hire someone with zero experience and whether you want to believe it or not he is still learning on the job and we as fans will just have to ride it out and hope for the best.
I don't know about you, but so far I've at least gotten a trip to Pasadena out of it.
I'm glad for you Classof98, however, I have to give Sony and Chubb credit for meeting with Kirby and Chaney to express their feelings about how they should be utilized, otherwise, the 2017 season could have been entirely different.
Jaylittle23: I Have been a UGA fan and alum for over 50 years. Season ticket holder and donate to the Athletic Association . Obviously I am an independent thinker and do not follow blind loyalty and faulty judgement like yourself.