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ESPN calls out ‘biggest weakness’ for Georgia football
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ESPN calls out ‘biggest weakness’ for Georgia football
Georgia is still unbeaten through the first five games of the regular season. But this team hasn’t been without flaws, as Saturday’s game against Auburn showed.
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When I think of explosive offense, Mike Bobo does not come to mind. Monken's play calling gave us our explosiveness. We've lost it, now. Maybe Bobo can Zoom with in the booth with Air Raid?
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To blame Bobo's play calling on our lack of explosiveness is a bit lazy in my estimation. Take a look at who we no longer have: Kmac, Washington, AD Mitchell. And then throw in the fact McKonkey, Milton and Robinson have all been injured and it becomes fairly obvious the Dawgs do not have the fire power we had the previous two years.
Ok, so lets be realistic in this article, Anyone with an all world play would rely on him when the game is on the line. Point is eh. What really hurt us was the two turnovers that turned into 2 TD's for Auburn. Also, our defense rushing past the QB is an issue as well, both Auburn QB's took advantage of that. We will not have to worry about that with Leary but we will need to pressure him often and get some sacks. If we do that I think we will be fine. On offense we just need to be more deliberate about what we want to do. Stacy Searels needs to get up his Olines but and get them blowing people off the line. Establishing the run will be paramount to us and I can gaurentee you that Kentucky puts 8 in the box and will dare us to beat them with the throw.
Beck doesn't put enough arch on his deep passes. He has such a strong arm, he's gunning everything into receivers, but he needs to let it float a little - it appears he has no touch. That Delp pass was almost straight on him. Stetson went to a passing camp, and they told him that he needed to put more air under the ball. Remember the throw in the national championship on the offsides play, AD Mitch caught in the endzone. Lots of height on that ball. Give the WR a jump ball situation. Because, if you throw it super hard, you'll over throw the WR ever time. Beck isn't hitting these long throws. Too much arm, not enough touch.
Beck is awesome. All you fools who don't realize what you see are the same ones who hated on every qb we've ever had It is old, it gets tiring. Please trust this staff.
Complacency is our biggest problem.
Slow starts=Bobo
Calling 3 strsight running plays at midfield on the first drive against Auburn was infuriating. I think Monkon's best skill was playing toward his players skillset. Last year we had a QB with with below average arm strength so Monkon worked the short passing game. But now we have an offensive coordinator who seems dead set on running up the middle with an injured RB room and an O-line that isn't getting any push. Use the strengths of the available players and stop waiting till the 3td quarter to open up the offense for Beck
Horrific analysis. Awful. You must be bored to type this drivel.
Beck is great. You just can't see it. Just like about 99 percent of the fan base with Stetson. Some people love to hate.
Carson Beck is doing a fine job for his short time being QB1. I do think that what we had with SB when he and Monken got in sync was he knew immediately where to go with the ball and he could let it fly without any hesitation. CB isn't there yet , nor should I guess we expect him to be at this early stage. Hopefully he will get there. But there is no reason to be down on him. He does need to put more air under the ball on thoe long throws and give the receiver a chance to adjust. If you throw it hard on a line then everything has to be perfect. It hasn't.
Bobo's play calling has been as I remember years ago., periods of really good mixed with head scratchers. He's killed more drives in the first half than his players have. He(IMO) gets things rolling with the pass and it looks almost too easy we're marchinng down the field picking up first downs via the pass and then it's like,"Oh wait a minute I just called 5 pass plays in a row, what was I thinking, we have to be balanced, let me call two straight run plays up the gut. " Now it's 3rd and long or field goal time. It makes me want to pull my hair out. It had been growing back in the past two years!
No matter how well we are marching down the field in the 1st 2 quarters, I try not to get excited because I know at some point Bobo is going to pull the plug on the air raid and try to trick them and mix in runs. He's really slow to adjust and hence the lack of 1st half production.
You can't give Bobo credit in the 2nd half and blame it on the players in the 1st half. At least be consistent.
I thought the exact same thing when 15 missed Meeks earlier in the year. Beck is good. He just needs more game experience. He also needs to put a little (not a lot) more air under his deep throws. That gives wr's a view of the ball and time to adjust their route. Beck was better on the long ball that 11 misplayed. He is still developing his deep ball touch. Hard to do when you are taking practice and game reps w/8 different WR's. BTW whatever happened to Morrissette? Haven't seen him in games.
The lack of explosives is on CKS. The fact that we can count the long ball passes and misses on 1 hand tells you CKS has not tried many long passes in the 1st 5 games. He is directing the game plan. Beck is his game manager until his in game decision making proves reliable and safe.
UGA O is doing okay considering a new QB, CKS reining 15 in and the injuries to RB and WR.
I'll stick with my assessment. He seems to find the talent you say we're missing and the plays to exploit it when we have our backs to the wall. Take that last drive to win on Saturday at Auburn and the second half at USC. He needs to open up from the get go. He's got the talent, use it.
Finally someone stated the most damaging thing for us vs. AU. 2 turnovers turned into 14 points. So, without those short field TD’s, our D gave up 6 points. I saw some hard hitting, especially in crunch time. And O responding under pressure. Not saying run D doesn’t need some work and agree on a little more air under CB deep throws. And agree if Bobo (really makes me lose hair too) will let us fling it from beginning we may start seeing some more big runs & ultimately blowouts. But, my belief is this team is finally toughening up & coming together.
Good discussion. But can we all agree to identify our players by their names instead of just throwing around jersey numbers. Good grief. This ain't NASCAR. Go Dawgs!
One thing I’ve wondered even as KS states it often and that concerns a running QB. He states having a running QB is like have an extra man on offense. I love Beck and think he is doing a very fine job but wonder given our problems with the run game - namely a less-than-stellar O line and a very banged up RB room - why there wouldn’t be more scheming to have Brock play some. He adds that very real running threat and would make it more difficult to defend.
Definitely not being critical of Beck, but if having a mobile QB is like having an extra man, it seems with our current running situation, we would be in need of an extra man. Go DAWGS