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Georgia football offseason stays spicy with 3 big mysteries
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Georgia football offseason stays spicy with 3 big mysteries
ATHENS — The football offseason is always filled with unknowns, players pushing themselves to the max, frames filling out with age and maturity.
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If Turnage isn't with the team by now, he'll be so far behind he will never see the field. He's hurting no-one but himself..GoDAWGS!
Bottom line: We've got the easiest SEC schedule in years and the best talent coming together in years for 2021. On to the SEC Championship and playoffs...easy peasy.
Easy peasy?
I doubt that. Even with a line up of opponents which is to some eyes, going into the season, the easiest schedule in years, this is the SEC. A very good Georgia team has lost before to the likes of a mediocre to bad Georgia Tech, or South Carolina.
I hope nobody on the team or in the coaching rooms sees anything through the easy peasy lens.
Go, Dawgs!
Jim, it goes without saying that the SEC is a tough conference. I meant the 'easy peasy' comment just as it relates to how tough the SEC schedule COULD be. Thank gosh we don't play in the much tougher West division, right? We'd probably have never even made it to the SEC Championship game having to play through that gauntlet.
All I'm saying is just like Saban does, Kirby needs to win the games he needs to win to make the playoffs. This year sets up better than any other Kirby Smart season, and we need to take advantage of the talent we have and our SEC schedule.
Boggles my mind that Smart, Luke and the rest of the offensive staff are still trying to figure out who will start come the Clempson game. We have 18 freaking lineman on scholarship and yet UGA doesn't have a solid known starting lineup going into season 6 under Smart.
This Off line room is filled full to the ceiling with All-Americans, All States, All Regions and All County studs and all we have heard since the debacle from the Peach Bowl Off line meltdown... "We don't know who will be the starting 5 off lineman and or where certain players will line up come Clempson".
I'm sure Kirby has a plan to have 5 starters and 3 rotation guys ready come Sept in Charlotte, NC... but should we even be having these huge question marks in year 6 under Kirby? It's a make or break year for Matt Luke to get this off line roster ready to play to win championships not Sugar or Peach bowl wins but SEC and Natty Titles Championships.
UGA will go with experience on the OL (both T's) for game 1. By the end of the season I expect both Mims and Jones to be starting. Blaylock will be fine. He is working diligently on rehab and strengthening and healing . Coming back from an ACL is routine these days. If White can push a pile with his churning legs then Blaylock can make any move needed. He will have a full 12 mo of rehab. He will be fine and not needed to be rushed. UGA has good talent and depth at DB. Barring multiple injuries DB is fine.
Some interesting comments and takes by my fellow Dawg fans here. And I appreciate all of them because each were very insightful and calculated by the person commenting . I saw value and solid meaning in each. Here’s my humble opinion. Yes there are question marks, some of which are pretty substantial. I don’t know how far this Dawgs team will be able to go. But I Believe that this is one of if not The best opportunities Kirby and the Dawgs will have had in his time at UGA. Just looking at the team over all and the schedule I Believe there is huge opportunity to win it all. The main thing I would ask of our beloved Dawgs is to leave their very all on the field each and every game. Like that ole saying “play like your hair is on fire and your bleep is catching” !! Win or lose and like all Dawgs fans I’d much rather win, regardless of the outcome I want to hear “ Man them Dawgs played their hearts out”. So whether I end up with a big smile of happiness from a win or a frown of sorrow from a loss, I can accept either as long as I know in my heart that they left all they had on the field.
You can have a room full of 4 star and even 5 star OL. That doesn't mean there is a very good to great LT in the bunch. At this level of competing for a NC, one wrong or weak link can mean the difference in winning it all and just being a good team. Say we are driving down the field with time running out to try to score a TD to beat BAMA and their defense knows we have to pass, do you want a player best suited to be a guard at LT trying to stop one of their great edge rushers? I didn't think so. So, yeh, it's sort of important. Maybe not against Vanderbilt, but against Clemson? Yeh, probably.
For example, every top program has a room full of QB's that were stars in HS. But at this level of competition, you have to have someone who rises above everyone else in that QB room in order to win the Natty. We could be a very good team this year with Stetson Bennet. Probably win the East with him. I just don't think he beats Clemson or BAMA. So, that would put us at roughly, what 11-2? And that probably would knock us out of the playoffs. Not a bad season, actually pretty good by most standards, just not for what we want to accomplish this year.
However, you replace Stetson with JT and now your realistic hopes for a Natty just improved, by most accounts, substantially.
One player can make such a huge difference, if it's between a player who is great and one who is decent.