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Oh, and one more thing: Alabama has no problem being in a "boat race." When you're driving a destroyer, it's not a bad thing.
Sounds to me like Kirby plans on keeping Bennett in the game! We this team currently assembled with be 0-3 VS Bama (If we win our side of the SEC)! I like Bennett but too many wide open passes missed and locking in on Burton!
Smart must be terrible at recognizing talent. There is no way around that statement because either Bennett was terribly ranked coming out of high school and Smart was a jughead for putting him on the scout team and allowing him to transfer or he made monumental mistakes in the signing of Mathis and Daniels. There is no middle ground. He is wrong one way or the other.
Is SB4 a 5 start and Daniels is a 1 or is it the other way around? I've seen auburn, tennessee and arkansas play. Bennett didn't beat elite teams. He got crushed when he saw one.
SB4 is a heck of a kid and I have absolute respect for him. I know he has skill because if he didn't he would not even be at UGA but last week's game was a BIG eye-opener, or it should have been. If it wasn't, maybe Kirby needs to think about stepping back into the DC role.
The thing that strikes me about the Alabama game is that there were throws where our receiver had to slow down to catch the ball. Had the receiver been able to catch it in stride it would have been a touchdown.
Those plays mean we have to be successful for a longer consecutive number of downs. Bama's QB didn't nail every throw. His receivers also dropped balls from time to time. But they made the throws that led to big plays.
We need play designs that allow our QB to hit receivers in stride. If that QB is Bennett, we need designs he can work with. My concern is that if we can't make the top-speed, take-the-top-off-the-defense throws, defenses will cheat up and make all the other plays harder.
I also think we have to be able to score a lot to win. I agree with the posters who say we're already in the boat.
And one final quibble -- "boat raced" is a term that refers to one team jumping out to an early lead and never letting the other side back in it. The term goes back to rowing races where the first team to make it to the center (ie faster) current of the river was generally the winner. Kirby is misusing the phrase when he's talking about not wanting to get into shootouts. That's not the same as being boat raced.
In no way am I saying I want either of these coaches back, but just saying that Goff beat bama once and Richt beat bama 3 times. Come on Kirby, keep beating fla, aub, tenn and tech, but can we beat bama at least one time?
The only thing that troubles me about Kirby’s comments is that it signals to me that he intends to stick with Bennett. This is not good. Either JT is a bust or his knee injury has destroyed his skill set. Bennett’s ceiling is low and he is not going to be able to beat high octane offensive teams. Georgia’s defense will keep most teams point total down low enough that our low octane offense will put up enough points to win. But we will get smoked by teams like Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State and the like. There is a good chance Florida puts up enough points to outscore us. Come on Coach, let Monken run the offense and decide who starts at qb. It’s his system, let him choose the personnel. Monken will be one and done. He is to high profile of a coach in the air raid scheme to be restricted like that.
I said on here after we struggled with Tennessee for a half that Bama would march into Knoxville and beat Tenn by 28. Well they beat them by 31. It was never in question. And BAMA lost their star Waddle on the opening kick-off. BAMA just a better overall team than UGA. Lot better at QB, receivers, RB, and O-Line. We're better on defense but defense can't be on the field all game and you are not just going to line up and run it down BAMA's throat all game. Better properly assess your QB situation. Another throttling awaits us in Atlanta if you don't. And that is if we can get by Florida. They have a really good QB too.
Saban is older than Kirby yet he adjusts his thought process and understands that defense in college football doesn't win games anymore you have to be able to score and still try to limit the other team as much as you can. Saban realizes the top athletes play on the offensive side and the rules favor the offense. I like Kirby but he has to wake up and stop being stubborn you would think Saban was the younger coach. LSU should have been the wake up call last year, but he still doesn't get it.
Please! Some of you offensive geniuses tell everyone how you would have used Mathis or Daniels that would have put up all these points against Bama! Losing to Bama may hurt but losing to Arkansas if we had stuck with Mathis because he has a “higher ceiling” than Bennett would have been miserable and would have put us back into the Richt years of spending November trying to figure out how we could back into the SECCG.
The fact is that the QB position consists of a former walk on, even with his limitations, is better than a RS freshman, true freshman, and a damaged goods transfer.
What is Kirby supposed to say that would make you people happy? “Our fans want to see our other quarterbacks get their chance because the former walk on has limitations, so to make our fans happy, we are not going to play the QB who the coaches believe gives our team the best chance to use the rest of the offensive players to win games. We will play the QBs the fans want to see regardless of their work in practice even if it means throwing away a chance to play in the SECCG and more. Obviously, our fans miss the years of the previous HC when they knew before the season even started that they would be spending the holidays in Orlando at best or maybe Charlotte or even Shreveport.”
Maybe you should apply as HC......i find it amusing that everything is fine as long as the DAWGS are winning. But 1 loss brings out all of the "expert coaches" with opinions on what's wrong, and how to correct it. Thanks for the laugh!
Coach Smart has a big wall and continues to write all over it. When he sat Justin Fields for too long in protection of Jake Fromm, I knew he did not have the cojones (or whatever) to make the needed decision to get his offense over the hump. At this point, I just wonder does he last longer than Richt? This year is a wash, next year Vandagriff is not coming to save them, so it could be 4-5 years before he has that prototypical QB required to win the Natty.
Can anyone point out one or two noteworthy moves/adjustments that he has made since being at UGA? Great recruiter, average coach.
I never said anything about how we would "put up all these points" but I would have recognized my starter was struggling badly and given the other guy a shot. That is what got Bennett in the game in the first place. His throws were short, he badly missed open targets, he was intercepted 3 times and hit the offensive live over and over and over.
Maybe Bennett doesn't deserve to lose his starting role but it was obvious we needed a change-up. Kirby said he would be doing that at the beginning of the year and then when it is actually needed......poof.
Most of us are not complaining about Bennett or any other QB on the team. It’s about how we got into this mess in the first place and how backwards Kirby’s O philosophy is if he even has one. If you’re ok with either of these things, you’re in extreme denial. I don’t know what I would do now, we are stuck. I’m just ticked we are where we are.