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Georgia stock report: Trevor Etienne, Nazir Stackhouse lead Bulldogs on the rise
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Georgia stock report: Trevor Etienne, Nazir Stackhouse lead Bulldogs on the rise
ATHENS — Georgia football stock is back on the rise, ever so steadily, as Kirby Smart would prefer.
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That's a bad take on Dan Jackson, honestly. He's been one of our more consistent tacklers. If you're gonna dig at a player, Everette should be on this list. He's constantly caught out of place. Does not handle comeback routes or out routes very well, always running towards the wide receiver and never looking back at the ball.
I'd rather take someone who can tackle than the problem that happened last week. Guys were right there, and just let him shake and go.
While several UGA podasters on YT are lauding Jackson's play saying he's climbing up the draft board., his stock is even on here. Don't know what tape or game you're watching but the guy flies to the ball consistently making plays. Wish we had 10 more like him with his heart and leaving everything out there on the field. The blocked field goal alone should have been noteworthy.
Eh, I guess it all depends on whether you are considering their stock in a long term or right after Kentucky. Overall, I think it was a "mid" and forgettable game so that kinda puts everyone more into a more neutral stock position. I'm not going to say that Smart's stock was "soaring" as it wasn't like this was a 41-3 beatdown, but definitely up. Beck & Etinenne had great games as did Frazier. 7/13 on 3rd downs is okay, not spectacular. 7 penalties not fantastic. Both teams had pretty similar stats which is not necessarily a good thing.
Did you seriously say Dan Jackson stock was down? That is such a ridiculous take. The kid is leading in tackles, has an interception this year and blocked a field goal this weekend. I have not seen him beat on any pass and he is on every stop beyond the line of scrimmage. And he is hitting HARD.
What games have you been watching?
What about Tyrion Ingrams Dawkins - didn't he have two sacks. He's becoming a force to be reckoned with.
DAN JACKSON STOCK DOWN?
Very few players can do it all when it comes to their position, so I prioritize. Tackling and delivering a lick rank at the top or near the top for me. If a player is doing his job, that's all you can ask for. I feel confident that no Dawg has ever been coached to be out of position, miss a tackle, drop a pass, or any of the other crap we have been seeing. Dan Jackson is the type of player we need.
@kylenmeg10 I agree, nobody plays softer coverage than Everette. He's 4 of 5 yards off the receiver and it's almost a guaranteed completion underneath for a first down. It was that way last year and I was hoping he would tighten up his coverage this year but that hasn't happened.
GO DAWGS!
About the only thing I agree with is the fans during the game on Saturday. I was at the game. Not noisy at all. Sounded more like a game vs a non power 4 team than one of Georgia’s top 3 rivals. Most of the time I stand up to see over the crowd in front of me because they’re standing, but not Saturday. The band didn’t play tunes consistently with game situations. The loud speaker music was awful and it played when the ref was talking. I know we mainly don’t agree with what the refs call, but I do want to hear what he says. And who’s in charge of the out of town scoreboard? It only showed 5 game scores throughout most of the game and only 2 of those had kicked off before or during our game. It finally started showing top 25, but still left other games off.
I keep wondering why Luckie and Humphreys are targeted more. Frankly, I’d bench Smith.
As for Jackson. He plays hard. He hits hard. I like the kid. However, I do agree with Mike on his observation that he is about a step late getting there on the deep sideline passes. Not necessarily his fault. He’s running as fast as he can.
Everette plays way too soft at corner and even then he’ll get beat on deep coverage. Weird. Too soft on short stuff and behind on deep stuff. Surely, we have somebody that can cover better than that.
Saying DJackson is one of the better tacklers in the secondary is not saying much. Watching Humphey and DHarris try to tackle makes you appreciate how good KLassiter was. I am not sure JHumphrey can play at all. His coverage hasn't been starting caliber and he let the AU RB run right by him on the long TD.
The reason Dan Jackson has tackles is because the other team is singling him out and going after him. They know the guy he is is supposed to cover will be open. As for his draft prospects mark it down now; UFA. I doubt he even gets a combine invite. When the rest of your D has elite players you can afford to play guys like Jackson and Chambliss. When the D doesn't have elite difference makers you are in trouble having to give those guys major playing time. As we are seeing this season.
Time for LHumphrey to take ASmith's spot. Seen enough there to see if Humphrey can do better.
MG no mention of TID? Didn't he have 2 sacks?
Kind of an off topic (Bobo playcalling). Vandy showed you the value of having a mobile QB. He seemed to be constantly on the move against AL. CBeck is not the most mobile guy but I don't recall Bobo moving the pocket at all vs AL last week. Might have helped. Beck is 0-2 vs AL leaving him in the pocket.
The UGA team went to Tuscaloosa unprepared. In a couple weeks UGA goes to Austin. It is a must win game.
Agree in general with the stock report here, with obvious exception of Dan Jackson, as noted by several.
The big stock position missing from this assessment, IMHO? Arian Smith... a stock that was already mediocre and then tanked these last two games. Without exaggeration, if he catches that early pass vs Bama, the Tide juggernaut gets disrupted. Missing it, as well as similar in Auburn game, had a huge negative on UGA momentum.
II I were Carson, I'd have a hard time prioritizing throws to Arian after the last few games... 🤔🫤
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The part with beck is, he's playing scared this year, and I'm still trying to figure out why. It was exemplified on the one run he tried to pull against alabama. 2 yards from the 1st down and he starts running east-west. An actual mobile qb, would've went north-south and took his lumps. Lost a lot of respect in beck when he pulled that. Bennett, way smaller, would've went head 1st in that situation and apologized later, after getting the 1st down.
Thanks for bringing some reasonableness to the conversation regarding Dan Jackson. While he maybe shouldn't be on the Stock Down list, he's no All-SEC candidate, either. But, as you fairly point out, he plays hard and he's running as fast as you can. All a guy can give is his best. But I'm disappointed in our secondary as a whole. I hold my breath on every pass play because I'm scared our corners are going to get blown up. Aguero really is wasting his opportunity. His missed tackle on Auburn's TD run was downright embarrassing. Bolden is playing well, but still makes freshman mistakes. And Starks is making mistakes that a player of his caliber shouldn't make (out of position at times, bad angles to the ball carrier).
And don't even start on Arian Smith. Agreed. Just bench him. He's playing because he's supposed to be our "deep threat" who can "stretch the field." But he can't catch a cold, and more and more he's missing his blocks. Saturday he had one (1) catch for four — count 'em, FOUR — yards and zero TDs. What kind of deep threat is that?