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A deeper dive into the two biggest plays that delivered Georgia’s win over Texas
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A deeper dive into the two biggest plays that delivered Georgia’s win over Texas
ATHENS — For as overwhelming as the Georgia defense was on Saturday night, it wasn’t the unit that made the single biggest play of the game.
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Yeah, I keep kind of going back and forth between wringing my hands about Beck and settling in with "but he keeps doing what he needs to do in those clutch moments, and Coach definitely knows better than I do." I wish there weren't such a need for clutch moments, but it's kind of like I said on some other article: if we look at the whole picture, it seems like the bad plays just completely overshadow all of the good. While our D definitely gifted us with some short fields with turnovers, the offense still had to generate all of those points, and thirty points is nothing to turn our noses up at, particularly in that environment.
This is by Wescott Eberts who covers Texas football -
Lined up in 11 personnel with the running back and H-back to the field, Georgia offensive coordinator Mike Bobo dialed up a play design that worked perfectly against the Texas defense.
In a change from the typical two-deep shell used by Longhorns defensive coordinator Pete Kwiatkowski, Mukuba crashed towards the line of scrimmage to defend the possibility of a swing pass to the running back with the H-back serving as a lead blocker, leaving redshirt junior safety Michael Taaffe rotating into the single-high safety in a middle-field closed concept.
Georgia was able to occupy Taaffe by running a go route from the slot, exactly the type of route that the coverage is designed to take away.
As a result, Texas sophomore cornerback Manny Muhammad was one-on-one with Georgia wide receiver Arian Smith on the outside. With Muhammad playing bail technique facing the sideline, Smith hit him with an outside move and then broke his route inside, beating Muhammad with no chance of help from Taaffe, who was bracketing the go route.
The gain went for 21 yards, ultimately tied for the second-longest passing play of the game for the Dawgs after the ensuing play.
With better play-calling instincts than Bobo is generally credited for, the Georgia coordinator dialed up a trick play to follow up the 21-yard completion to Smith — a reverse flea flicker similar to the one that Texas called earlier in the game. Taaffe and senior cornerback Gavin Holmes covered the deep target well, but someone busted the coverage on tight end Oscar Delp, who did a good job of selling his block climbing to the second level against Texas junior nickel back Jaylon Guilbeau.
Asked about the play, Jahdae Barron took responsibility for busting the coverage as he and Guilbeau both bit on the reverse, allowing Delp to run free into the secondary and gain 43 yards on the play.
Interesting. It'd be nice if DN would bring on an Xs and Os person to routinely break down key plays like that.
Referring to Stiffneck's post. For some reason the quote function didn't work.