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WATCH: J.R. Reed confident Georgia has the speed to hang with Auburn
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WATCH: J.R. Reed confident Georgia has the speed to hang with Auburn
Georgia is getting cornerback Tyson Campbell back from injury just in time for an Auburn offense that has the self-declared fastest player in college football
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UGA defense has been stout all year long and we should expect the defense to once again perform Saturday.
As far as speed we have plenty of speed on the offensive side and we need to strech the field both vertically and horizontally. We pound and pound up the middle and to my recolection I cannot remember us busting a big play up the middle this year. Most of the time we get 2-4 yards and come up with 3rd and 5 or more. Against Florida what were we 12 out of 18 on 3rd down attempts which was great but we need to stay away from so many 3rd down attempts and start making 1st downs on 2nd down.
It appears that when we decide to strech the run outside our speed comes into play and we have great success so why do we not do it more. Just possibly making the defense play the whole field might just open it up between the tackles and Swift or one of our other backs may bust a big one.
Been listening to the comintators say basically the same thing all year during the games so if a know nothing fan like me and the commentators on the game can see it why can't our offensive coordinator see it.
We come up againt to many 3rd downs and end up with to many field goals. We cannot continue to leave 4 points on the board the majority of our red zone visits. One TD beats Two field goals. We cannot continue to come up short on scoring chances as all that ends up getting you is winning on the stat sheet and losing on the scoreboard.
We need to win the next 3 games and if so I think our defense is much better than LSU and Bamas. Don't think either of those teams puts up 40 on us, but we will probably need to score in the high 20's or even 30's and it is much easier to get there with TD's versus field goals.
UGA has the speed even against Auburn's burner Anthony Schwartz, supposedly fastest college football player...10:07 in 100 meters. Smart says good thing we are not competing in track and field with him...but coach, UGA now has Matthew Boling....US high school record holder in 100 meters.....9:98. However that is on the track. Boling, a big rugged kid, is sticking to track. Three Dawgs run it in under 11 seconds. That should contain Schwartz...Florida did.
Defense:
The good thing is, someone running with a football slows slightly compared to someone without a football.
Offense:
'[Auburn] a [sic] team that knows how to utilize speed and get players in space on the perimeter.'
If only we could substitute 'Georgia' for 'Auburn' in that sentence.
My biggest concern with Auburn is if our offensive line can run block well enough for us to have good success on the ground. I'll give our O-line high marks in the pass blocking protection but run blocking against these better teams has not impressed me at all.
@Tripp we did pretty good of running the ball against Florida, considering how they were stacking the box against us (as most teams do). If not for that holding call against Landers, Swift would have easily surpassed 100 yards. It didn't look like we were doing much because we weren't breaking long runs. And granted, we haven't had the so-called "explosive" play from scrimmage this year, but we've probably done better than average, considering teams practically disregard our passing attack because -- thus far -- our only reliable receiver has been a banged up Lawrence Cager. I think we're like second or third in the SEC in rushing. But it's tough to run when everybody in the building knows you're going to and you don't do anything to throw them off track.