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Everyone wants the air raid offense but ...
Mia_Dade06
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Tua got hurt AGAIN and their inability and non commitment to run the ball game plan is going to be tested in the next few weeks without him, depending if he comes back healthy for LSU or not. When Mac jones went in their receivers might as well have been our starting line up. Didn’t look good. Also tells you how special Tua is with that gimmicky RPO offense slinging dimes.
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Could you imagine what an air raid offense would have looked like in last nights rain and wind? Probably get roasted for saying it...but bama may have performed worse against UK given their pass first offense.
Mark me down as one who does not. I prefer football
Just so we're clear, spread /= air raid
That's not really the air raid offense that they run...
But if Tua has a high ankle sprain (that he'll likely try to play through beginning against LSU) that just made LSU even more interesting in a sad way.
You know what I mean ... they are 10th in the conference in rushing attempts
I have not seen or heard of one single person who wants an air raid offense
they just don't want the ball run up the middle on first and second down then a 20+ pass attempt on 3rd and long
#s don’t lie. 30-6. Jakes record. He didn’t forget how to throw. They aren’t calling and running the good plays that got us here. The roll outs, the tight end play, the deep pass back shoulder throws. That tells me we don’t have the personnel- yet.
What we should be taking about are the “defensive” #s....as in 74...total points given up in 7 games. 3....total number of points given up in 2nd half of conference games - and that was an OT FG which required no offense. 0 (as in ZERO), rushing TDs given up this year. Only team in college football that can say that. Defense can win championships as long as you have a running game and a game manager QB. We have all 3.
Let’s face it there is no air raid offense in the dawgs future, not as long as Smart is in charge.
I don’t want us chucking the ball 50 times a game. Too much risk for turnovers and you forget how to grind a game out when you need to.
A quick point though: you know what doesn’t protect a defense? Going 3 and out. So as much talk as there has been about calling plays to protect the defense, that makes no sense to me.
I can care less about air raid, ground and pound or whatever else offense there is. All I’m concerned about is quit coming out lethargic, and slow. Play with intensity, play with emotion early, play to win, play to beat the other team into submission.
This season has just been weird, one game we may use the TE, with success, then for 3 games we decide not to even attempt it.
Defense could win championships 10 years ago but now you have to be able to score. Do you think we would hold the top offenses to less than 10 points? Do you really think we would hold the top tier teams to 0 points in the second half?
It’s like some of y’all haven’t noticed the way the game has transitioned recently. Yeah running the ball is great, but you have to be able to throw it effectively and be explosive. Because as good as our defense is we will not be able to completely stifle the better teams offenses.
I'd take a championship defense any day. Whether we have one is subject to debate, but time will tell. We might.
An overpowering, smothering, domineering, killer defense which can get anybody's offense off the field with consistent three and outs is extremely rare and even more difficult to beat particularly coupled with a strong pounding run game.
I'd be fine with us scoring three points a game and allowing two points if we could do that every game.
I'm not a huge fan of some of our play calling, but the main problem is our personnel isn't really sufficient for the kind of game most fans want to see. We don't have those big, super fast receivers stacked deep on our benches ready to come in and catch Tua's passes.
Jake's either for that matter.
Yes, we need to up our passing game a bit. I'd like to see a bit more emphasis on passing towards the middle of the field (slants) and a bit more emphasis on perimeter runs. Not much of the passing though. We're not built for it. It's not like Kirby & Company haven't heard of slants, guys.
On a good day we can beat, well, we'll see who we can beat with our defense and our current offense.
We are not getting a different offense. I don't understand all the lust to be LSU or Alabama. We are Georgia. We need to be a better Georgia.
Fix it, Kirby!
Lol, the trusty straw man that if you’re not happy with the current offense you’re calling for a switch to a Mike Leach offense.
Combined with the old standards that a guy getting injured is due to scheme and that it’s impossible to have both a good offense and defense so might as well be happy.
I would take the Oklahoma or Ohio State offense which both have very strong run components but still are able to sling the ball all over the field. As an aside, is what Alabama runs the air raid? Their shift in offensive philosophy originated with Lane Kiffin (not from the Hal Mumme/Mike Leach coaching tree) and grew out of that foundation.
It’s not switching to an air rade offense,it’s having a plan B,or C,we know the past 3 years we are faced with a 6,7,8 man front to stop the run,only way to get them out is go to an imaginative passing game,including the TE, backs out the backfield underneath crossing wrs,more come backs, receivers need to break patterns off and come back for help...this is coaching,I’d rather have receivers working on routes than practicing blocking,,,more reps with Fromm the better.....plus Fromm in the hurry up is extremely effective, time to start trusting someone...called coaching,, just being able to recruit suxxs if you do not coach them up to their full potential..thesaurus HC job...haven’t seen it yet..been a dawg for 66 yrs,I’m 77...played under ERK in hs, and tried college.lol..but a true student of the game..long time sufferer