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Mike Bobo shares his assessment of Georgia’s skill talent for 2024 season
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Mike Bobo shares his assessment of Georgia’s skill talent for 2024 season
ATHENS — Mike Bobo works closest with the quarterbacks on Georgia’s offense. But seeing as how he is also Georgia’s play-caller and offensive coordinator, he has to have a good idea of what the rest of the offense looks like.
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Bobo is playing Coy. We are fully loaded at every skill position.
Etienne, Robinsons, Frazier, Phillips
Delp, Yurosek, Luckie, Reddell
Lovett, Bell, Smith, Young, Evans, Humphries, White
And most importantly, the offensive line is really talented and can be great.
We have a team of Maulers…Fairchild, Tater, Micah, Greene. Forget it. We are going to injure some opponents. These guys are violent and will hurt you.
On paper, both our offense and our defense should be improved this year.
If things go really, really well, we could be looking at one of those offenses where everything comes together, like Alabama with Mac Jones or — dare I say — LSU with Burrow.
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Good offensive line play demands a high level of skill, intelligence, determination, talent, athleticism, power, stamina. All that, and more, plus rare size. The skill level required is too often not so obvious.
Go, Dawgs!
Because the other rooms (offense and defense), no matter their talent and experience, can't fully shine without this OL balling out. Go Dawgs!
If you listen to CMB. He was asked a question about how he had evolved as an OC or something to that affect, and he said he picks the brains of other coaches elswhere he's friends with etc. etc. but basically, you may call something by a different name or tweak it here and there but football is football and we're going to be physical at the point of attack. I took that to mean there is no magic sauce or re-inventing the wheel or developing something no one's tried or seen before. And he's right.
It all boils down to do you have the talent(players)and are they coached the right way(physicality, toughness, winning mindset, x' and o's etc). I would also add being healthy at the right time with your key players and then especially the OC calling the right plays at the right time in a tight game. And the of course then executing at a high level.
I have no doubt CMB is a great coach in practice. HIs intensity and desire to win is probably unmatched from all accounts. I thought that first drive against BAMA was going to be CMB's coming out party. But that feeling quickly dissipated with some questionable play calling IMO. Maybe it wasn't on him, but on the execution by the players or BAMA's defense was just that much better than our offense but man oh man, it wasn't pretty to watch for most of the game.
IMO the most egregious play calling was when we had 1st down at their 19 after picking up chunk yardage in the passing game, we ran it and got stuffed on 1st down, so what do we do next coach? We run it up the gut again for a loss. We totally went from attack mode, had them reeling, and took the foot off the gas with those two runs. Now we're behind the chains with 3rd and long and BAMA did what good defenses do when you have a QB with 3rd and long. THey sacked CB.
I have relatives that eat, drink, and sleep UGA football, but they don't enjoy CMB's play calling. And while I'm just a hard core UGA fan, and don't know a thimball full as much as CMB, I still found myself(as I'm sure others did ) asking why?
CMB has all the tools in the shed this season to have the best offense we've ever had at UGA. While stats are all well and good., dialing up the right plays at the right time in a tight game is an art. Monken proved he had it. CMB hasn't as of yet. (I still hurt from him not telling Murray to spike the ball). ANd truly CMB wasn't really tested that way til the BAMA game. again last season. I always said before that game that we needed to score 32-33 points to win. I also said I didn't feel like we could beat them by running it, our best chance was through the air. Turns out 28 was the magic number, 24 was never going to beat BAMA, or MIchigan, or Washington or virtually anyone else. We had to throw the ball twice as much in the 2nd half as we did in the 1st half to play catch up and it worked better than the run 1st mentality or being balanced mentality of the 1st half.
Here's hoping, fingers crossed,knock on wood and every other clishe' that when tested this year, we will all have nothing but praise for CMB when the season is over and we hoist up another NC trophy! Go Dawgs!
You are right. I was one who thought the transition from Monken to Bobo would be pretty seamless. But Bobo's game plan vs AL was poor. Or his play calling was poor. In general UGA got outcoached by AL. But Bobo has the most to prove of the coaches on the staff this year.
Yes Bowers and McC were hurt. That's football. But who called the TE jet sweep against VANDERBILT? Dumbest play call since Pete Carroll called a pass from the 1 yard line in the Super Bowl.
UGA will be tested this year like never before. This will be the year of attrition. The team that wins the championship will be the team that can keep the most front line players healthy.
As far as skill positions go, I think that London Humphreys will be the biggest surprise this season. I think he is going to be a great pickup for us, he’s young so I could be wrong about this season. Although, I’m guessing that he makes a big impact this season.
"IF things go really really well" the O and D should be improved this year. True.
Sometimes a team just has a charmed year. That was the '19 LSU team. It seemed like everything Burrow threw was to the right guy in the right spot at the right time. If it wasn't in the right spot Burrow's elite wr's made elite plays. That was the charmed part.
But Burrow was really good. As were his wr's. Chase and Jefferson are now considered 2 of the top 5 wr's in the NFL.
UGA does not have a Chase or Jefferson. It will be difficult to execute like that LSU team with the UGA WR's. But the good news is that '24 UGA doesn't need to be better than '19 LSU. Just better than everyone else's '24 team.
IF '24 UGA can stay healthy, UGA has as good or better chance to win it all as anybody.
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That LSU team may have been the best team ever in NCAA football. They also had that RB that was a 1st rounder I believe. Clemson took them to the woodshed early on and Burrows remained cool as a cucumber with that arrogant spirit of his and amazingly they came back so fast and hard the game was over by halftime for all practical purposes. Never seen such a quick turnaround by a team that was getting throttled in the 1st quarter.
I agree about the health thing. Out of the top 3-4 teams, the one stays the most healthy come the playoffs should win.
We saw that when Harrison got knocked out of the NC game. We also saw it when BAMA's top two receivers got hurt. It's part of the way the ball bounces. Definitely hurt our chances last season.
Is Etienne out for Clemson?
Yeah, maybe, I shouldn't be bringing up LSU as a model. That offense was unreal.
But it's fair to hope for our offense clicking like something on the order the 2020 (Mac Jones) Alabama offense. They had serious star power in DeVonta Smith and Najee Harris, but we have deep talent in all the skill areas. And our OL has the potential to perform somewhat like there's did …. if things break in the right direction of course.