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Georgia football-Georgia Tech instant observations as Bulldogs win overtime-record game

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edited November 30 in Article commenting
imageGeorgia football-Georgia Tech instant observations as Bulldogs win overtime-record game

ATHENS — Georgia just needed to wait until SAturday to beat Georgia Tech. The Bulldogs used eight overtimes, an SEC record and a late fourth-quarter rally to put away Georgia Tech 44-42.

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  • zonadawg61zonadawg61 ✭✭✭✭ Senior

    Instant observation is UGA is a novelty, not a serious playoff contender. No way to argue around it.

  • KudzuKudzu ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    edited November 30

    PS: can we please end the Arian Smith experiment? So many good young folks who don't seem to have drop-itis 🫤🤯🤬

  • navydawgnavydawg ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    I’ve give Beck allot of grief at times this year. But it would be extremely interesting to see him work with receivers that actually catch the ball much more consistently.

    On a consistency basis and for that matter getting open basis I’d tend to think Bell and Cash are the best two, but Cash is considered a RB. Even Bell has had a couple of drops this year. But he’s easy to forgive because he’s most assuredly helped the Dawgs win games.

    Poor ole Arian Smith, blazing speed and bumbling hands. His hands are more like my near 68 year old hands bless his heart. It’s to late in his career now I’d think but he needed to be a CB or a Safety.

    Any way Beck probably would be a true Heisman candidate if he had more consistent receivers. So glad the Dawgs got the W against a very tough and hard fighting GT team. I might get down voted allot, but for THIS game ( this game only) they earned my respect. Go Dawgs !!

  • navydawgnavydawg ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    I got Hot Mad at our Dawgs tonight on the game thread. But you’re absolutely right, a W is always, always better than an L !! And yep being 10-2 with an opportunity to play in the SECCG and the Playoffs ain’t a bad thing neither !! Go Dawgs !! P.S. I do want to sue them for cardiac stress sometimes !! Just kiddin !! 🤣

  • benzonebenzone ✭✭ Sophomore

    @navydawg I have been calling out the UGA WRs all year. Dawgnation has FINALLY started to acknowledge it a bit. But it isn't really the drops. Instead - and hopefully Dawgnation will finally acknowledge this too - the main problems are they don't get open and don't make plays on the ball. If the WRs consistently got open and made plays on the ball, the drops wouldn't be a big deal. Arian Smith would drop a long pass play on 2nd and 8. A shame, but Lovett would get open on 3rd and 8 to give another set of downs to give Smith another shot downfield. Instead, Smith, Lovett, Humphries, Young, Bell etc. go long stretches without getting separation from defenders so Beck has to force them the ball in traffic all game long. And it is because the WRs can't get open, even against single coverage, that UGA has so many issues running the football. UGA allegedly runs a pro-style offense but the truth is that they run a 3 WR base - meaning no fullback - and the TEs aren't big blocking TEs either. Without Mecole Hardman and Javon Wims down the field or Brock Bowers and Ladd McConkey in the intermediate game to open up the defense, it makes it a lot harder for UGA to run the ball.

    UGA was able to get by Tennessee and Georgia Tech by getting the RBs and TEs more involved in the passing game as part of the designed offense instead of options in progressions and checkdowns. When Etienne gets healthy, maybe that gives them a shot. Either way, I hope NFL scouts were watching the Tennessee and Tech games, because if they did then Beck should be back in the 1st round.

  • DallasDawgDallasDawg ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    1. The issues with this Georgia team started last year, but were hidden because of Bowers and McConkey. Arian Smith has NEVER been even a good pass catcher (and I honestly question just how fast he is). But we didn't need to rely on him much until this year, and now his weaknesses are glaring. Dominic Lovett was inconsistent last year but again, with McConkey and Bowers and even Ra Ra Thomas, we didn't have to rely on him like we have this year. Our O-Line wasn't strong last year but our running backs, as a group, were much better, so we didn't really notice the line didn't get great push. The defensive line was not good against the run last year. It seems even worse this year. Our secondary, with Bullard and Lassiter last year, was pretty good. But the other guys that played weren't that good and have seemingly plateaued this year. (I'm not sure what's happened to Malachi Starks, but he's not playing as well as he did his first two years). So, all the things we're seeing with this group of Dawgs, I saw them last year. But again, whenever Smith would drop a pass, or the line would miss a block, we had enough real stars to bail us out. That ain't the case this year.
    2. Dan Jackson plays hard and we don't beat Tech without him so, I really hate to rain on his parade. But in all honesty, for every tackle he makes, he misses about three. I'm just thankful he made a couple he REALLY needed to make tonight.
    3. I'm so glad @MikeGriffith brought up Kirby's inexplicable decision to go for two. The TV announcers (God, can Joe Tessitore get permanent laryngitis) barely mentioned it when Kirby called it, and then never brought it up again, even as it was obvious that decision loomed large at the end of the game. But I said at the time that it was a horrible call, and I still say it was a horrible call. I'm like, "even if you make it, Kirby, we're still down by 9, still a two-score game. What was the point of doing that with still 10 minutes or so left in the third quarter?
    4. All that said, great comeback victory by the Dawgs. At the end of the day, it's about getting the W. We got it, and the bumble bees didn't. Go Dawgs!

  • navydawgnavydawg ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    You’re absolutely right. They can’t get open and coupled with drops it’s a recipe for losing football. Bell and Cash seem to be the only ones that can get open at least with some consistency.

    Lovett is off and on, sometimes he can get open other times not so much. The rest of the WRs have to have the ball forced to them so it can hit their hands and drop it.

    Your also right about Etienne he offers opportunities to catch the ball out of the backfield and usually makes longer plays than the other RBs catching the ball with the exception of Cash.

    So yeah I agree Beck has had a tough row to hoe no doubt about it. Kirby has Got to get out and get some high quality receivers, through HS or the TP or both for next year. Hoping Tuggle will develop into a go to WR.

  • JackJack ✭✭✭ Junior

    What about getting Jackson 1 more year to play from the NCAA.

  • lucydoglucydog ✭✭✭ Junior

    Our perimeter defense is terrible. The jackets used our DE's like a tool. They looked confused, fooled and were completely dominated by Tech's end game. No wonder they had so many yards and were able to control time of possession. I tip my cap to Haynes King—gutty performance. How about a little "enthusiasm" UGA sideline. Last half of the fourth quarter was the only time I've seen it this year.

  • 1SICemDAWGS11SICemDAWGS1 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    A win is a win..

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