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3 takeaways from Georgia's 21-0 win, some reminders for booing fans
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3 takeaways from Georgia's 21-0 win, some reminders for booing fans
Georgia football is playing defense at a championship level, but some fans are booing too much to take note or realize he offense is being called accordingly
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Thanks, Mike. While you can be a bit pollyanna-ish, you are far more on point than all the doom and gloom loonies who've crawled out of their caves in the past few weeks.
Finally, some perspective!!! I'll back away from the cliff now!
All those booing "fans" were ecstatic when UGA signed those massive lineman to open holes for the Running Backs..
I agree with most of what you said. However, I cannot wrap my mind around the fact that our big bruising team with "arguably the best offensive line in the country" cant, ever, in any circumstance make a fourth and one. That is pathetic.
Rumor has it that Fromm has a bad case of tendinitis and can't throw downfield. This is supposedly a "secret", so mums the word.
Also, another rumor has it that Pittman had to step in and "assist" with playcalling late in the 2nd half, and that's when we started to see the outside runs that actually worked.
Oh, and Mike Bobo supposedly already has one foot in the door as our next OC after Colorado State cans him.
Great article @MikeGriffith. It was very much needed.
The boos were directed at the predictable play calling of Coley and his run up the middle, rinse and repeat. The boos were towards the endless lip service from Kirby and empty promises of how the offense is going to stretch the field more, and become more creative .
every reasonable fan can feel the anxiety building up for the cocktail party in 2 weeks because FL defense has the personal even more so than the chickens to expose our predictable offense...and for the first time Grantham may actually stop us.
so as much as the boos can be misleading towards the players.....and I can see why that would be frustrating and feeling not supported by the fans....the natives are getting restless with coley’s run, run, pass playbook. It’s been simmering since Vandy
Please prove us wrong in Jax!
When we Dawg fans and alum invest our money ,, heart and souls in the Dawgs year after year, we have every right to boo a subpar performance. To the ones making wise cracks about fans having never played football , most of us never played a musical instrument either but we do recognize good music when we hear it .
Save the Boo's for Dan Quinn and the Atlanta "Beakless" Falcons. With two weeks to get ready for the swamp lizards & Nov, the Dawgs will be fine. Not quite sure what everyone was expecting Sat night in Athens, but with 25-30 mph winds & 2+ inches of rain during the game, it was nice to get in the locker room with a win and no new injuries.
With the exception of the first two scoring drives, the Dawgs avg series started around their own 15 & with Fromm having to wait for receivers to make their move, any attempt to open it up could have been disastrous. Even KY opted to leave their passing QB on the bench. Also that last 92 yard scoring drive was a thing of beauty that allowed the Dawgs to basically run out the clock & put the game on ice. It's the exact type of drive Georgia will need to make several times the remainder of the season.
GO DAWGS!!!!
That playcalling deserved to be booed. We hadn't run the ball off-tackle all year until halfway through the third quarter vs Kentucky. As soon as we started going off-tackle, lo and behold, we started marching the ball downfield. Go figure.
THe game I watched I saw fans standing in a deluge cheering their hearts out for their team only to see the coaches decide to run the ball and give up on a 3rd and 10. Even the announcers mentioned it. NOt even going to attempt a pass. And that was after two runs up the middle for no yardage. Hey it worked out in the end, no thanks to the offense who couldn't cross the 50 until Kentucky shanked a punt. THink about that one. Fans booing decision makers not the players and anyone who says otherwise is just trying to gain hits on their column.
The takeaway? The Dawgs are in trouble....The Florida, A&M and Auburn games will tell the story.....Because of their D I think the Dawgs can win all of these games...But they could very easily lose all of them.......Georgia made the Kentucky defense look top ten...In any case what if Georgia wins all of these games and goes into the playoffs...Right now they simply can't compete against Alabama....Just a word on the booing.....Some of these people pay five figures just for the opportunity to buy season tickets. they have the right to do what they want....I will say that I see a higher level of stupidity among the Georgia fan base....On the first drive Georgia had 4th down on their own 34 and the crowd was booing because they would not go for it....I mean really? I thought these people were suppose to know football...it sounds like they have more money then sense
Excellent points Mike. It is disappointing to read doom and gloom comments from those who think they have all the answers.
It's simple. If we can't throw the ball down the field we are not going to like the rest of the season very much. The fans know this. Even the ones that won't admit to it.
Regarding Pittman, I saw him with the headset on and fully engaged with the players.
Maybe it was the rain, but I don't remember ever seeing him on the SL like that.
Mike Bobo is really taking a lot of criticism right now, so it wouldn't surprise me if he is gone at CSU.
I guess the tendinitis is as good of an explanation as any...with the QBs going to the NFL after this season, I just don't see Fromm leaving until after his senior season.
I find it interesting that the author says Georgia doesn't have the talent on the perimeter to win a track meet with Bama or LSU when all we heard before the season was all that 4 and 5 star talent stacked up like cordwood and how Georgia had more 5 stars than all the other east teams combined. And they couldn't win the perimeter against an unranked 2-3 South Carolina. Excuses are a poor substitute for results but that seems to be all the media and coaches have.
Do more. LOL! What a joke. Florida is going to abuse Georgia next week, the difference in the coaching staff is as bad as it was when Spurrier was spanking Goff year after year.
This is a pretty accurate portrayal. I wasn't at the game but I suspect that the booing was not directed at the players but the playcalling. We love our players and wouldn't trade them for the world!
The things this fan doesn't understand is the lack of creativity in the play calling. Nothing to loosen up the defense, can't understand why the TE's aren't utilized on slant routes, our medium range pass game doesn't exist. Fromm has missed easy targets at times . A toss sweep or two per game even if it didn't work would show some effort to do some things different, and the running game with Swift appears to be more effective running outside.
I don't have the answer or I would be coaching, but I know enough to be able to see that our OC doesn't seem to have an answer for the defense stacking the box. This is why we are hearing fans boo, the old saying about the definition of insanity applies here and the fans see it. I can't blame it all on the wide receivers nor do I buy them not being able to get separation as a lot of pundits think. We have four and five star athletes at those positions.
The Florida game will tell the tale, I believe we have superior athletes at most positions. As much as I don't care for Dan Mullen personally I respect his coaching ability and believe he will have an offensive game plan to keep our defense off balance, something Coley and Company can't seem to do. This game really gives me reason to doubt, at this point, our coaching so far as game planning and adjustments offensively. I hope I'm wrong and we have a breakout game, one of those where everything goes right and works. It's time to put up or shut up.
Many listened to the pre-season hype from local and national media level ...National Championship or Bust! You dont loose your top 5 receivers and replace with freshmen/transfers. Yes they are 4-5* but must learn system and get strong.
Good points, Mike. I'm as big and as loyal Dawg fan as anyone. I've been a Dawg fan since seeing my first UGA-Florida game in 1976 as a high school senior, hailing from Gainesville, FL, no less. Since then, I've been a loyal and devoted supporter of UGA as a student, alum and fan, regularly contributing my money AND my time to the school and generally doing whatever they've asked of me. I am all in with UGA no matter what and anyone who knows me, knows that.
All of that said, my loyalty is not a blind loyalty. I see what I see. And what I see is a team that is not performing to the so-called "standard" (Kirby's term, not mine) that has been set. For UGA, that standard is not the SEC East Division Championship or even the SEC Championship, it is making the CFP playoffs and (strongly) contending for a National Championship. I think coming into this season, everyone connected with UGA's football program expected no less. So it is more than concerning to many fans that we now find even winning our division (supposedly a foregone conclusion back on Aug. 31) in doubt.
Breaking things down a little, we knew before the season started that our WR were young and inexperienced and would be challenged. But what bothers me more is that after seven games, they have shown zero improvement. And I think it is really telling that our three best receivers are two freshmen and a graduate transfer, all kids who were not in our program last year. Yes we worry when we see that they couldn't get open against SC on a dry field at home, yet a week later, in the rain on the road against SC, the Florida was scoring three (3) touchdowns in the fourth quarter. That's troubling -- and scary. What has happened to senior Tyler Simmons? Before the season started, CKS said he was the one guy assured of a starting position? Would he still say that? Would anyone? He's got speed but you wouldn't know it. And his hands? Questionable at best. And what of D-Rob? He's supposed to be "taking the top off" opposing defenses. If he has, I've yet to see it. He runs routes but is rarely wide open. So what is that speed doing for us?
I love Jake Fromm. I'm not one of these fans still pining for Justin Fields. Fields had his chance and whether it was because of inexperience, poor coaching, better SEC defenses than what he's seeing in the Big 10, he just didn't perform well. Period. But I also believe that the SC game shook Fromm's confidence in himself. And it carried over to the Kentucky game. I think that, not the rain, is why he didn't try more passes; his confidence was down and after the SC fiasco, he didn't want to take any chances. And if he wasn't confident of himself on the field, there's no way the coaches could be confident in him from the sidelines. Hence, 25 straight running plays at one point. The past two seasons, though, Fromm has risen to the occasion against Florida -- once when their D-backs trash talked his ability to pass and last year after everyone trashed talked him after we lost to LSU. So if he can bounce back against them like he's done before, we may be OK.
Mike you say our O-Line is "arguably" the best in college football. I'll take that argument. By what standard or measure are they the best in your eyes? Do you mean the biggest? Ask anyone they've played against if they fear that O-Line. I don't think any do? And even CKS admitted they were manhandled by SC. Would anyone have thought that going into that game? I would argue that our O-Line is not even the best in the SEC, or at least they aren't playing like it. I've seen both Alabama's and UGA's line in person and 'Bama's boys are far superior to us right now. Again, ask folks in the SEC which line is best.
As for the defense, you mention how J. R. Reed and Richard LeCounte finally stepped up to play their best games. I agree they looked good -- playing against a wide-receiver-turned-quarterback playing in his second game at the position in a driving rainstorm on the road at night. But what will they look like against quarterbacks who actually know what they're doing? The fact that the Kentucky game was their best game of they year ought to be cause for concern, and that was only good for them because of the hitting they did, not because of PBU's or interceptions.
The stats for our defense overall are great, and they are to be commended for that. You can only do what you do and play who you play. But I would argue that the next four teams on our schedule will be tougher than any of our previous seven opponents, with the notable exception of Notre Dame. The question I have for you, Mike, and my fellow Dawg fans is, based on what we've seen to date, do you think this UGA team is good enough to run the table against those teams and play itself back into the SEC Championship game and the CFP playoff picture? Because again, that's the "standard" now at the University of Georgia. Go Dawgs!