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‘Realistic’ Kirby Smart: No apologies for 42-10 win, but plenty of criticism
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‘Realistic’ Kirby Smart: No apologies for 42-10 win, but plenty of criticism
ATHENS — Kirby Smart isn’t the walking, talking contradiction he might seem to be when he praises his Georgia football team one moment only to deal out harsh criticism the next.
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The defense played to our standard yesterday. Still not perfect but the line was in the backfield all day, LB’s and secondary good in coverage.
O-line was much improved and imposed their will. Edwards and Robinson were physical downhill runners hitting that gap with aome speed. Robinson will be special once he becomes a better blocker.
Main criticism is Stetson…until he can hit some deep(er) passes (and earlier in the game) defenses are going to creep Nd take away the swing passes. He overthrew McConkey and Bowers when they were wide open and he was high on the majority of his 1st half passes. I don’t see how AD will fix that when he is back b/c your timing will be off with him. Whatever is up with him he needs to right his head…he is capable and we have all seen it.
All in all a great day to be a Dawg when you win against a huge rival by 32!
I'm not making excuses, because since the Oregon game Bennett hasn't been as good as needed on deep passes, but it looked like he may have been having some issues with his shoulder. Maybe he was tight from all the hits he got last week?
The receivers need to do a little better job, also. McConkey is our best receiver at this point. but he let a great deep ball go through his hands yesterday. He's still young and he will likely get it right next time.
It was good to see the O-line and the run game have a great day. Branson Robinson looks like he's starting to become a good power back who will punish the defense.
It's great to see the D-line coming together. Even more impressive is how good they've been without Jalin Carter.
For those of us watching the game on CBS, I am thankful we got the genuine charm of Rick Neuheisel instead of the grating criticism of Gary Danielson.
“Some quarterbacks can put a team on their shoulders, but that’s not how Smart’s Georgia offenses have been designed.”
Is there a performance by one of the top quarterbacks on one of the top teams that has done that this year? I guess one could argue Young sorta did so at the end of the Texas game—thanks to a missed sack blunder by a Texas player… 🤷🏻♂️
Great comment, Woodstock.
I'll say it again, SBIV is the consummate competitor. He is best when he is fighting to get to the top/be the best. I would have given Beck a lot more snaps last night for no other reason than to fire up the competition....the long passing game would have reaped the benefit of more explosive receptions and that would have loosened up the blossoming run game.
@WoodstockDawg ...I think one reason we haven't been able to get sacks is constantly being held with no flags. Mizzou held a good bit that I saw, and Auburn for sure did (NavyDawg mentioned this to in another thread).
Alabama held aTm from what I saw too...I couldn't believe the penalties that WERE called against Alabama...just amazing that the refs called them.
To your point, the D really did play well and I was so proud of them for the response to Council's bulletin board material.
Go Dawgs!
CJ Stroud had 6 TD passes against Michigan State yesterday. (By comparison, SB IV had 5 TD passes the entire season.) And unlike Bennett, whom UGA kept in the game until 5 minutes were left against an exhausted team for the sole purpose of padding his stats, Stroud sat the entire 4th quarter. Otherwise he likely has 8 TD passes and 450 yards. Stroud has 24 TD passes this season through 6 games, and this is without his 3 best WRs from last year (2 of them were 1st round picks that are both starting in the NFL as rookies and the third is injured, though he will return after the bye week).
A better example is Clemson's QB DJ Uiagalelei: 1400 yards and 14 TDs passing. Clemson does not have the talent on offense that they did during the Tajh Boyd/Deshaun Watson/Trevor Lawrence eras ... no 1st round picks at WR or RB. Instead, Uiagalelei has had to "throw guys open" or use roll-outs and RPOs to get guys open that are having trouble getting separation. And while Will Shipley leads Clemson in rushing yards - though not by a whole lot - and rushing TDs, Uiagalelei is Clemson's most effective runner especially in goal line and short yardage situations. He isn't as good as the All-Americans that preceded him (even accounting for their superior supporting casts) but he is still 3 times better than last year. He absolutely did have to put his team on his shoulders in the 51-45 game against Wake Forest: a road game against Sam Hartman, who will likely finish #2 all time in ACC passing yards (behind Philip Rivers) and will definitely be an NFL draft pick.
Gary Danielson stoop to call a lowly Georgia game? I cheered for aTm all the more if only to upset Daniels.
I thought aTm played well enough to win in the hostile environment, with a few things going their way (all things being equal), they could have won.
Stuff like this is bush league.
Please. No more "he must be injured." No more "the other guys need to step up" when they aren't even getting balls thrown their way in the first place. Instead, I said that this was going to happen early on. Kirby Smart had Monken put in a very unusual offense that centered around SB IV's strengths and weaknesses. It caught their initial opponents Oregon, Samford and South Carolina off guard because no one runs an offense like that (for a reason) but by game 4 everyone had tape of what UGA was doing on offense and had adapted to try to stop it. Auburn for example gameplanned to stop the passing to the RBs.
I remember when Dawgnation was mocking Florida because Anthony Richardson was being hyped as a Heisman candidate and future NFL 1st round pick despite having no TD passes in the first 3 games. Well look who should be laughing now: Richardson now has as many TD passes as Bennett does (despite much less experience and in particular far less talent around him ... at most 2 of the guys on offense in Gainesville would get regular playing time in Athens). The offense that Smart had Monken put in to maximize SB IV's stats to get the kid a Heisman and an NFL draft spot isn't working anymore. (Also, no one outside Athens believes that a QB with only 5 TD passes in 6 games is a Heisman candidate to begin with.) Time to ditch it and go back to the legitimate offense of last season.
You are spewing hot takes this morning! lmao!
@thadec Yeah, no one realistically believes SB has any chance at the Heisman so let’s put that to bed right now after week 6 because it isn’t happening.
Secondly, what needs to be addressed is the fact that this is currently 3 football games in a row, 2 at home and 2 versus SEC cellar dweller competition, that he has zero touchdown passes.
That, IMO, is a terrible sign that SB is not growing at the position and should be sending 5 star alarm bells ringing to the offensive coaching staff considering our team is basically at the halfway point of the 2022 season.
The offense is clearly one-dimensional and the weakest link thru the last 3+ weeks is the leader of that offense.
I also think the Natty from last season is being used as a cudgel to not say anything negative about SB and that is wrong in every way. SB made the decision to not ride off into the sunset; He made the decision to come back and therefor he is responsible if his performance is not up to par with expectations. NOT the UGA defense; NOT the Offensive line; NOT the UGA wide receivers.
there is more than enough talent on the offensive side of the football that are healthy to go around. Stetson is not living up to his part of the bargain for the last 3 weeks and his numbers/stats as well as the eye tests clearly demonstrates that.
It would have been nice if Neuheisel and the other guy would have taken the time to learn the names of the players. I stopped counting the number of times they said “Saintjack”! At least Danielson knows who he’s watching.