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I'm sorry, AM & USC would have a Merry Christmas in 23 but for all the "IF'S & BUTT'S"....to compare Williams to Mahomes...is a stretch, any QB that does his nails in obscene messages for his opponent doesn't have the maturity to be a leader....then combine that with a team made up of TP me first players....USC will not make the play offs. GOOOOO DUCKS!
What about 2019 LSU? They didn't need a defense and no defense on Earth was going to stop them.
I hate to admit it but he has a correct point. If all HAD went perfect for Bama and OSU, no injured receivers, etc UGA may very well have lost those games. They both lost their best offensive weapons in those games that were having great games.
But on the other hand that is football and UGA had players out too and so the "if's". But again hate to admit it, but the offenses also win championships today and you better have one, along with a good defense to win today. Just reality, like it or not.
2019 LSU was an eye-opener. I would have bet the house on that offense and asked the wife "How much money we have on hand because I want to bet it all on LSU to cover over Clemson" She thought I meant a couple hundred bucks. No, I meant every thing we could get our hands on! Because I have been watching college ball for decades and knew a sure thing when I seen it. And that was the first and ONLY sure thing. Defenses didn't matter. You were not going to stop LSU with all of their weapons and Burrow getting them the ball. 5.5 points was an easy cover in my mind.
But UGA will have one of the highest scoring offenses again, even with taking the foot off the gas pedal in the 2nd half of most games, again. Bobo has got this all day with our OL, WR's, TE's and QB's. As long as Carson or Brock do not throw INT's, UGA has a top 5 - 10 offense, at minimum, and a MUCH better defense than USC will have, even with that traitor Alexander.
Bottomline, USC COULD POSSIBLY overtake UGA, but it is not likely. And certainly, no one would bet the house on it.
Aaron, you're a DGD, but you're nuts. USC lost three games, last year, WITH Williams at qb. Who did they lose to? Utah (twice) and Tulane. Puhlease! And let's look at those losses. Utah loss #1, SC gave up 43 points. Utah loss #2, they gave up 47 points. And their bowl game, they gave up 46 points to TULANE! Aaron, football is a team sport. Williams is good, but he can't win, on his own. He might carry a team to a couple wins, where everything else goes bad. But he can't do it, for an entire season. At some point, his defense is going to have to stop SOMEONE. So you're assertion that defenses don't matter is just wrong. Ask Williams, himself who managed 40+ points in two of the three games and STILL lost. Do you think he the Trojans could have hung with Michigan? OSU? UGA? And they couldn't get past Tulane? Whatever. Defense matters, Aaron.
I think Kirby has learned how to coach. Hope he's past fake punts on your own side of the field with a qb in the formation.
Dawg-Nation-STOP hiding these keyboard cowards who down vote- Show their names.
Murray didn't have the benefit of a Kirby Smart or Nick Saban defense, when he played for the Dawgs. So, it's understandable, that he doesn't know..."Great Defense & Depth" win Championships.
High flying offenses like USC, Oklahoma (under Lincoln Riley), OSU, Tennessee & Alabama (of late)...look great on paper, provide a lot of entertainment, Stats...and, so on. Occasionally, they even compete for Championships. That's all fine and good...BUT....
If you want consistency...you develop a ground game and a defense...first. Then you strategically fold in your explosive passing game, which becomes far more effective, due to your "defense & ground attack" keeping the other side off balance and guessing.
It's an effective and reliable strategy for long term success...used by Belichick, Saban...and now, Smart. No one-and-dones for those guys. Can you say that for Riley, Day, Heupel, Fisher, Kiffin...or, Mark Richt...all "Offensive Minded Coaches". And all, still chasing the "Roadrunner". Lol
Aaron Murray would have no way of knowing that. He never saw a good defense...much less a "Great Defense". Well...maybe in 2012, they were "good"...but, not great.
Mike Bobo, also, never had the benefit of a great defense, with the ability to shut the other team's scoring down. He had the likes of "Willie 'Rubberband-Man' Martinez" & "Todd 'E=MC²' Grantham" for support. With Martinez...the defenders had nothing to learn. With Grantham...way too much to learn. Neither, produced a defense worthy of the talent they were afforded. IMO
if if’s and buts were candy and nuts….
common AM…. I thought you were smarter than that.
Aaron highlights a longstanding question...
As Head Coach......Would you rather be a former great DC, looking for a great OC to "create and coach"...on the other side of the LOS...OR...would you rather be a great OC, looking for a great DC to shut down opposing offenses???
IMO...there are far more Great OC's running around than there are, great DC's. That's why, the Ryan Day's, Lincoln Riley's and Jimbo Fisher's of the world, are one-and-done'rs...or none'rs. Lol They are at the mercy of the defense...and the Defensive Coordinator "on-deck".
Any Defensive Coordinator worth his salt, is offered a Head Coaching position, in due course. Pruitt, Tucker, Venables(?), Lanning, Muschamp, Strong...and so on. Replacing one of those guys can set a Football Program back to square one...especially if the next "DC Hire" is a "miss"....<see Clemson & Bama>.
While there's no guarantee, a great DC will turn out to be a great HC...finding a compatible Offensive Coordinator is more easily facilitated due to the larger pool of "Competent" OC's, than DC's.
DC's are more valuable, IMO. I haven't seen many "Great" ones over the years. But, the ones I have seen, turned out to be awesome Head Coaches. Like my man...Erk Russell. There would be NO Dooley or '80 Natty...or, Ga Southern Football Program...without Erk. That's a fact. 😁😎
I hear the same thing about USC on a yearly basis. But yet they always seem to lose a game they shouldn't lose. Playing in a weak conference even boosts their odds, but still haven't made the CFP. yet. I'll believe it when I see it, talk is cheap.
I was so hoping UGA would play USC in last years playoff. That game would have been a TCU repeat. They got killed twice by Utah and had 1 score games against Oregon State, Arizona, Cal , UCLA and Notre Dame. They were also beaten and embarrassed by Tulane in the Cotton Bowl. Not exactly an executioner row of teams. Murray's head scratching praise is kinda weird.
"Go Navy" has it right. Murray fails to properly apply his "O-wins-natties" logic to UGA in two important ways: 1) UGA's OFFENSE runs the ball the entire 4th quarter of most games as they are so far ahead. If CKS let them pad their stats and run up the score, the UGA OFFENSE would probably rate a bit higher in Murray's model and 2) Carson Beck. I have a feeling that Beck, if he stays healthy, is going to explode onto the scene and be a total revelation to the so-called pundits. He's got the talent. He's paid his dues. He's bought in and gotten his head/attitude right. With the O-line and skill position players he'll have, STFB, baby.
I have no doubt, Beck can play football...but, can he raise "his game" under pressure??? To me, that's the biggest question mark, with all 3 of the Dawgs prospective QB's. It was one of the traits that made Stetson Bennett "special"...and, Champ.
Which one of UGA's very capable quarterbacks has the intestinal fortitude to go toe-to-toe with the likes of Alabama and OSU....in the 4th quarter...and win?. Maybe, all three. But, we don't KNOW, yet.
I'm with you, though...if Beck has the poise, pocket presence and confidence to operate a Bobo style offense...and, I think he does...he will seriously fly, in 2023. And, possibly wind up being UGA's 1st Heisman winner in over 40 years.
Lol...the "Yankee Press" tends to "throw the Dawgs a bone", every 40 years or so....Sinkwich "'42...Walker '80...
Beck '23??? I'd say, 'We're a little overdue' for a Heisman Winner. But, why bother. It's a Yankee Award for their pet projects...ND, OSU, Oklahoma, Alabama, USC, UCLA, MICH, etc.. You know...the "good ole boys" of the Northern and Midwestern "Sports Media". Every now and again, they actually "get it right". Last year wasn't one of them, IMO.
Caleb Williams is talented. But, from what I observed, watching him play...he is also undisciplined. I'm not sure if it's just him...or USC's team and culture. Guess we'll find out, this year. Either way...Bennett was my Heisman Winner last year, because my opinion isn't weighed down with all the baggage and ignorance that comes with being a "Yankee Sportswriter" or "Bama Fan". Lol
Murray just put a dent in his analysis of football persona. Great quarterback but what I see in USC is a great offense and an undisciplined and mediocre talented defense with a few sprinkles of good players here and there. Even if you fix the talent level what about the piss poor coaching?
Maybe Murray is bucking to do some B1G games and he feels he needs to throw some love that way to get on with FOX. Still love Murray the qb and dang that 2012 SECCG was the championship game that year. Who calls a friggin outpass with the time left on the clock? I hope Bobo has fixed those issues from the past. We don't need anymore heartbreakers.
As for Murray he is a DGD but his take this time is way off base.
IMO...Bobo and Richt had the "perfect play" called, going up to the LOS. Had the Bama DE NOT deflected the ball into the Freshman Receiver's hands...it would have been a back-shoulder completion in the front right corner of the endzone...game over...Georgia wins.
If the Freshman had intentionally dropped or batted the ball down...which he should have...UGA lives to run at least 1, if not 2 more plays.
But...that's not how it went down. "Bad Luck" played a much bigger part in that loss, than "bad play calling", IMO. It happens sometimes.
LOL...If "if's & but's" were "candy & nuts"....well....you get the picture. Bobo wasn't to blame for that loss. In fact, I would go as far as saying..."They wouldn't have been there in the first place...in a position to win that game with a shot at the Natty,...without Bobo.".