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Georgia football winners and losers following Week 2 win over Ball State
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Georgia football winners and losers following Week 2 win over Ball State
Winner: Malaki Starks
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Arian smith needs blocking practice from Hines ward all this week
Winner: Dawg's defense
Kinda loser: Dawg's offense.
386 yards of offense isn't great, but it will do. What concerns me more is a 50% 3rd down efficiency rate (6/12). That stinks against any calibre team.
Not sure what to make of this Dawg's team yet. Time will tell, but we appear further behind than I anticipated. Injuries are part of that.
Overall loser: SEC
The SEC is having an extremely un-SEC start to the season. We’re used to seeing its teams not just win but dominate these big early season nonconference games. This year, it’s been the total opposite. Utah 24, Florida. North Carolina 31, South Carolina 17. Florida State 45, LSU 24. Miami 48, Texas A&M 33. Texas 34, Alabama 24.
Bama only manages 63 yards of rushing against Texas. Good grief. Bama is unraveling quickly losing half its last 6 games against P5 opponents.
Looks like the plan by Bobo early on this year is to explore his WR options and to some degree get them some catches and try to divert some of the double teams in the secondary away from BB. Give the opposing coaches more to think about in future games than just "hey we need to cover #19." It certainly can't be that the game plan is to use your All-American less. Could it?
Hopefully getting multiple WR's some early looks will bode well for BB on down the road, and make CB feel like he's got more options than just look for BB. If that's Bobo's plan then I'm good with it, but if not......
“He looks like a real player for Georgia on the defensive line, which took two more hits after it lost Tyrion Ingram-Dawkins to an injury for the foreseeable future.”
TWO hits? Is it bc he has a hyphenated last name?
His blocking **** and it cost us big time.
Bobo need to do a better job scheming him open. Something Monken excelled at. Not impressed with Bobo so far. I give him a C- with the talent we have. We should be doing much better at this point. How do you only get 1 catch for 3 yards with the best offensive player in college football. He gets an F for utilizing talented BB.
Dawgnation could definitely benefit from investing in an exterior mic for the camera (or phone) they are using, the Starks interview is hard to hear what he is saying.
What's wrong with the offensive line? I'm not sure they could push grandma out of the way.
@BigDawg888
Well you said what I was thinking. I was just trying to put some positive spin on it. I was just thinking surely Bobo isn't that incapable of scheming him open. THere has to be something else going on!
Is Bobo shifting away from using the TE's like Monken did? IF so, expect some transfers. I mean even if he just called some of the same plays for BB that Monken drew up, and they worked, then Bobo's still a genuis,right? Pride? Hope not. Maybe just a oneoff. Maybe the Ball St coach just said #19 isn't going to beat us! I don't want to believe Bobo is that stubborn or deficient. He's just instilling confidence in the new guys. Crossing my fingers.
Pretty sure Bowers is playing through an injury, which would explain the lack of production. He certainly hasn't looked like himself even when he has gotten the ball. Two games in, he already has a fumble and a dropped pass - each of which, I'm not sure, might be the first of his career here.
With how much Georgia uses screens and RPOs, the quick passing game is an extension of the running game. Georgia needs its players on the outside to pull their weight.
A better idea: how about UGA just ditches that nonsense? Enough with the spread stuff that is ruining football. It only "kinda" works when you have a QB who is as big a threat to run for 1000 yards as throw for 4000, and as Florida found out post-Tebow, Auburn found out post-Newton and now Clemson is finding out after their string of Georgia high school QBs with NFL talent ran out, those don't grow on trees. Instead:
You want to run the football, then you need the personnel to do it. If you are going to recruit spread personnel with glorified WRs at TE, scatbacks and halfbacks at tailback and choose to carry 14 scholarship WRs but no fullbacks then don't complain about not having a dominant running game.
I always thought Kenny McIntosh got most of his own yardage but he had to go full comando mode to do it. (Mindset) CKS-"he got piessed off"see Missouri game. WE have had over the past 2-4 years just too many 4th and 1 or 3rd and 1's get stuffed for no gain to have a "great O-line". Even putting in the jumbo package at the goalline with Carter and Davis didn't always achieve a good result. THeyhave done well in pass protection but haven't been road graders per say. Idon't see this years O-line being special, not yet anyways. Milton is a liabilty if he has to create his own yardage.
@reddawg1
Difficult to say really. Under Monken, UGA didn't run the ball a whole lot and when he did carries were split up between like 4 guys. Meaning no one RB ever got enough carries to get into a rhythm and dominate. The actual number of running plays wasn't that diverse either unless you want to count misdirections and reverses (which I don't). As far away from "everyone knows they are going to run the ball but they still can't stop it" as you can imagine, largely because - if you see my rant below - no one recruits the personnel that you need to dominate running the football anymore. "Pro style" these days means 3 WRs and a receiving TE. The only difference between it and the spread is whether you line up under center or in the shotgun more often than not. And putting two backs in the I-formation where the FB can see where he needs to run to block and the RB follows him? Gone the way of the dodo. But it is amazing. No one cares about the running game until it is a tight game in the 4th quarter and they need to milk the clock, convert a critical third and short or punch it in on the goal line and can't do it. In every other scenario: pass pass pass or - these days - RPO and then get mad and scream for a targeting flag when the defense does the logical thing and tries to take the QB out on it.
But it really is a simple concept: build a team that is capable of running the ball whenever you want to and that team will be able to run it when you need them to. But if your team can't run it when you want to then don't expect to be able when you need to.
I would just point out @MontanaDawg that the first-team offense was 6 of 9 (66%) on third down, which IS pretty good against any level, and they didn't even play the fourth quarter. Also, didn't one of our fourth-down conversions (a touchdown, no less) get called back on a dubious (and I'm being nice) PI call? So, maybe offense didn't do quite as poorly as it might seem. And I agree with whoever on this thread said that something appears to be physically wrong with Bowers, or it was on Saturday. Watching the game, I was saying to myself that he seems to lack his normal focus and intensity. We'll see how he does against the Gamecocks. Go Dawgs!