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I agree, regarding the clock management issue.
However, I was actually glad it happened, after I had time to calm down. LOL
It highlights an issue I thought was already resolved. The same thing happened last year, at the end of the half vs Michigan (I think it was Mich), when Smart wanted Bennett to run the 2 minute offense to get them in scoring position and Bennett thought the plan was, 'to run out the clock'. Coach and QB weren't on the same page.
That can and WILL get fixed, I'm sure. Better it happen now, than later. IMO
I think the Dawgs are saving their RBs & WR's legs for the SECCG and CFP.
Lane Kiffin convinced Nick Saban to do that, when he was at BAMA. According to Kiffin, it took some doing, but, Saban went along with it and it paid big dividends with respect to their WRs, speed, stamina and overall health, in the playoffs.
IMO...People are getting wrapped around the axle on STATS. The only statistics that matters, is WINS/LOSSES. Period! At least, that's how the Players and Coaches feel about it.
IMO...When Kirby and his Staff do strategic planning for the season, they don't say we only want to use the RB and QB, in the running game, cause the current paradigm dictates it.
They plan personnel groupings to take advantage of schematic defensive weaknesses. They do it generically prior to the season, to attack certain defensive schemes being used around College Football. Then, in-season, they fine-tune "the plan" for the next team on their schedule, adding in a wrinkle or two.
Kirby's not looking to break stat-line records. He's trying to win Championships...which requires Wins. He's gonna do it, his way. And, we aren't privy to his methods.
If you don't think the Dawgs can pretty much do as they **** well please, against the likes of Missouri or Samford...you don't know Kirby. Those were "training games". LOL
Just wait till the SECCG and CFP....Then, you'll get a whiff of the "Real UGA Bulldogs". I'm not the least bit concerned with Kentucky or GA TECH. And, not really worried about LSU. OSU keeps me up at night, if I had to pick a team for UGA to hunker down for.
Just an opinion. GO DAWGS!
You kind of decontextualized me a bit there, and maybe lost the overall point of what I was getting at, but that's ok. It's that second one that I'm talking about that was on Stetson. Go back and look at that play. He throws that ball pretty low, right over a defender, in a way that he could bat it and grab it. My point, though, was that we shouldn't criticize him, although there are going to be people that do. He had to make a pretty quick decision there, and unfortunately it wasn't the best one. Not every decision will be.
Good point.
If you (not YOU, Lol) care to "nitpick" QBs that aren't UGA Bulldogs, you'll find, "there ain't a swingin' "one-eyed Pete" throwing a football...HS, College or Pro...that hasn't thrown a pick or two, like that. It's a non-issue and not part of the Bennett/QB conversation.
When you evaluate a QB, you don't focus on the wild-points or anomalies, such as Total yds, Attempts, Compls, INTs, SACKs.
You focus on yds/comp, yds /att, TDs/att, INTs/att, Comp % under pressure, etc..
Obviously if one of those metrics exceed the norm, they become a trait to monitor. Bennett doesn't have any of those. What he does have, is Heisman quality ability.
The kid is very talented. I had my eye on him in HS. In 2021, it all came together for him. His body and mind finally caught up with his athletic ability. A lot of work, film study and experience combined with opportunity, have turned him into a QB, that 2 or 3 NFL Teams are salivating over.
You WILL see him playing on Sundays. Most of the talking heads, Kiper & McShay, ESPN, and Dawg Nation have yet to get the memo. LOL
They're still focusing on "NFL prototypes" and numbers or stats, not heart or actual performance. They see a 6'4", 240lb QB with an arm and they think "high ceiling", which may never be reached if he can't hit "the broadside of a barn" with his 90 mph fastball. Young was the exception at 5'9", 190...roughly the same as Bennett, in almost every respect, with the exception of Wins, Natty's, MVP Performances, yds passing, yds/rush, fewer sacks, etc.. Lol.
They are still Nit-picking Bennett, far beyond anything they've ever done to a QB in the Heisman conversation...to include, Young, C. Williams, Stroud, Mayes, whomever.
I have never, in 55 yrs of playing, coaching and observing HS/NCAA/NFL Football, seen the media focus so hard on 1 QB's miscues, which are actually fewer and farther between than the other 4 QBs being touted and virtually ignore his exploits. Yeah, they mention em, but if Young, Stroud or Mayes does something notable, they highlight the hell out of it, while ignoring or downplaying their miscues.
After the solid misses by 99% of the media, in their preseason prognostication...none worse than College GameDay's Desmond Howard (Texas A&M for Natty, Lol), I rank the prognosticators...and this year, we might have to vacate the contest, as nobody is qualifying.
Why are they trying so hard, to minimize the Dawgs and their players? The same **** reason Charlie Trippi didn't win the Heisman. Friggin' Yankee media can't stand to award certain teams any kind of award...but, most particularly, they hate to award a NATTY or a HEISMAN to teams like UGA. They had to **** it up lately, though, cause Natty's are won on the field, now. Not in the ballot box. LOL
MEDIA BIAS...BIAS...BIAS!!!
That's another thing Kirby has been working hard to change...perception and paradigm regarding UGA Football. "Can't win the big one." has been put to bed. He's gotten pretty good at manipulating the media narrative.
Before the Kent St game, the Dawgs were "the most dominant team in College Football and couldn't be beat". Afterward, the media hype shut down. That's exactly what Kirby was trying to do. If the hype train had gone off the rails, UGA would've lost a game, somewhere down the line...guaranteed... probably. Lol
UGA...............NATTY. BOWERS.......MACKEY AWARD. BENNETT......HEISMAN. J. CARTER....OUTLAND, BEDNERICK, etc.