Jake Fromm shares advice, tips for Gunner Stockton in making his first start against Notre Dame

System · December 21

Jake Fromm shares advice, tips for Gunner Stockton in making his first start against Notre Dame

ATHENS — Making your first career start in a College Football Playoff game is far from ideal. Doing so against a formidable Notre Dame defense doesn’t make it any easier.

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navydawg · December 21

navydawg · December 21

I’ve got a good feeling allot of Dawgs fans are gonna be pleasantly surprised with Gunner. And rival fans are gonna be in shock. Go Dawgs !!

truthteller · December 21

I'm excited to see what Stockton brings to this game with weeks of preparation. I think it will be a classic RPO offense with plenty of running plays designed to wear down the Irish defense. I think Stockton will make the throws when he needs to - but the focus will be on staying a head of the chains and avoiding any 3rd and long situations. Beck was not a consistent long ball passer so it's not like we are going to be missing that aspect of the offense. Gunner can chunk the ball anyway, so that is still an option. But the ability to extend plays cannot be underestimated and I think he will be able to do that. Now, if only our defense comes to play and helps out our new QB by creating turnovers and short fields for the offense, we will have this thing cooking. Our D has to avoid what happened to Indiana with the runs from the ND rbs on the outside. Their rb is a speedy one. Dawgs by 2 TDs!

GoodOlDawg · December 21

“I can’t wait to see what (Georgia offensive coordinator Mike) Bobo and the offense cooks up here,” Fromm said.

I’m not sure how Fromm’s NFL career is going, but I believe he has a very bright future as an OC. He would be a great fit for UGA one day!

GO DAWGS!

benzone · December 21

@truthteller After watching that game, Notre Dame has no shot at Georgia. Indiana is a bunch of mid-major transfers plus holdovers from a 3-9 team, yet the difference between them and ND last night was really only about 4-5 plays that ND made and Indiana didn't. And this was with a month off and 3 weeks to prepare. While that 98 yard TD run was fun to watch, I spent most of it thinking that the runner wasn't actually going particularly fast nor was the downfield blocking anything special. Meaning Dan Jackson chases him down from behind from the other side of the field after 20 yards tops. And if Malaki Starks is on the same side of the field he doesn't even get 10 yards. Yes, UGA needs to do a minimum of due diligence for this game, but they can win by keeping things vanilla and while keeping an eye out for who they are likely going to play in the semifinal round. That Georgia Tech was hammered by 3 scores by this same ND team really does show that Tech put all their effort this season into trying to beat Georgia. That same effort would have beaten the ND team that we saw last night.

BornADawg · December 21

I’ve never thought of Beck as a leader simply by his body language when things are not going well. Leaders never hang their heads but rather stay engaged and keep their teammates engaged as well. This is what I expect to see from Gunner. If so, this team is going to rally around him and impose their will on ND. Gunner doesn’t necessarily need to be the man but a leader of men. Go Dawgs!

UGA66 · December 21

Fromm has a good handle on this…RPO the heck out of ND..keep them off balance. Gunner can run! ND knows this and will have to keep this in mind every play! This will open up the pass game. I like Gunner in this situation. He should ball out

UGA66 · December 21

UGA66

Fromm has a good handle on this…RPO the heck out of ND..keep them off balance. Gunner can run! ND knows this and will have to keep this in mind every play! This will open up the pass game. I like Gunner in this situation. He should ball out

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benzone · December 21

@UGA66 Counterpoints.

Notre Dame has been running the RPO and other spread option principles for 15 years themselves while playing against mostly Big 10 and ACC teams that rely heavily on it. Meaning ND knows the RPO like the back of their hands. UGA doing it isn't going to fool ND. It is only going to work consistently against ND if UGA executes it at a high level with personnel that was recruited for it and has been coached up in it. Which UGA doesn’t have.
Notre Dame knows that UGA is going to do this. It is the obvious thing to do with a mobile backup QB getting his first real playing time on a team with no star players at WR, RB or TE. Marcus Freeman was thinking "We are going to see a lot of RPO in the Sugar Bowl" the instant the playoff brackets went live. That they were also playing an RPO QB with Indiana in the first round made things even easier.

Instead of an RPO heavy gameplan that will fool no one and won't be executed well enough to be effective without fooling people, UGA should stick with their regular offense. Notre Dame won't be as effective covering UGA's TEs and WRs as Texas, plus UGA should have some success running the ball. That plus a defense that will generate sacks and turnovers will be more than enough.

reddawg1 · December 21

It's hard to compare the Ga Tech/Notre Dame game with the Tech/UGA game because Haynes King was injured and I don't think he played. However, ND did hold Tech to around 65 yards rushing, we gave up 265! Ga Tech held the ball around 15 more minutes than we did. ND held the ball 9 more minutes than Tech did!

I saw a pretty good defense by ND last night that all but stymied the 2nd scoring team in the nation.

Notre Dame wants to maul you up front. THey averaged 228 yards rushing per game. THey got 190 last night against the best ranked run defense.

We're nowhere near anyone in run defense, pass defense or in scoring, averaging a measly 33 points a game with a 1st or 2nd round NFL draft QB. HUh?

We all know Bobo's propensity for not getting much out of his offense in the 1st half. He will try to bully Notre Dame with alot of running. Lots of sideways passes . But what if Notre Dame is the bully? Is everyone ready to put the game on Gunner's shoulders as what happened with Carson so many times this year when we got down in the first half and had to throw caution to the wind inthe 2nd half?

We better hope and pray that the adage about "well they haven't played anyone" is true.

I'm hoping we show up and can run enough to set up some play action, or that Gunner can move the chains somewhat with his legs. Maybe hitting on enough chunk plays to keep the defense honest.

Certainy wouldn't expect a high scoring affair. Looking to win 21-17.

navydawg · December 21

Last year in the bowl game FSU still had allot of their Defense from regular season it was their O players mainly that hit the TP right before the game.

Gunner was 6 of 10 for 96 yds and had 46 more yards with his legs. But here’s the interesting part Carson had a long pass of 35 yds. Gunner had a long of 31 only five yds less than Carson.

Now I know it’s only HS but go to the UGA official site and read Gunner’s bio. Some of the records he set are Still unbroken !! And I’ll tell you now when you go and look your gonna be pleasantly surprised by what he did with his Arm in addition to his legs. Again I realize it’s only HS but still.

Oh and the INT he threw vs TX Kirby said that was on the Coaches, said they were on the wrong page on that play. Gunner is gonna be severely tested, and Yes he’s probably gonna make mistakes, but I honestly Believe this young man has that “It” factor and he’s gonna make us proud !!

I Also believe ND hasn’t seen a run game like Etienne, Frazier, Cash Jones and Hopefully R. Robinson maybe/hopefully even Branson Robinson will be bringing !! And hopefully Phillips and Bowen will be ready to.
I don’t see the Irish running through our Dawgs like they did the Hoosiers. Lastly we have Woodring our not so secret weapon. Go Dawgs !!

navydawg · December 21

https://forum.dawgnation.com/discussion/comment/782640#Comment_782640

Last night was NDs first top ten opponent. The same top ten team that was utterly exposed by Ohio St. So the Hoosiers made ND look Very good. Perhaps better than they really are ? We’ll see on Jan 1st. Go Dawgs !!

Vetdawg · December 21

if we have a healthy line on both sides of the ball, should be fine.

Frazier for ND will be a problem

SufferinginAtlanta · December 22

Not worried about Gunner at all. Only worried what happens if he takes another brutal hit.

UGADad20 · December 22

Indiana is not UGA. That being said ND is built more like an SEC team. Good size on the OL and DL. The ND QB played well. He played like UGA fans hoped CBeck would've played this year. Accurate passer, dangerous runner. Add in a couple of good RB's.

UGA's offense's problem this year has been getting WR separation. ND's pass D is a top rated pass D in the country. THAT will make GStockton's day even more difficult. UGA running game must be effective. OL must open holes and give GS all the time he needs plus 2 seconds to find his outlets. Time for CKS and CMB to dust off all those TE receiving plays they have been sitting on all year.

EVERYTHING in the UGA O is on the table for this game. Use it all. Anything that moves GS around should be used. RPO, sliding pocket, sprint out, QB runs, scrambles, misdirection throwbacks and TE safety valves should all be incorporated this week. UGA could catch ND off guard with a bomb or 3. GS throws a better deep ball than CBeck.

"not worried about Gunner at all". I am. The winning teams have all had high level QB play in RD 1. ND QB played well. OSU QB had his all time greatest game (I didn't think he had it in him). Ewers solid. Even Klubnik played well and still lost. GS has not done it with consistency on this level. Iameleava was inconsistent with accuracy and couldn't keep his team in the game.

Can CKS reprogram GS in 3 weeks to not force it? It will take a total team effort to advance to the next level. Especially on O with a dominant OL and error free execution. Should be interesting to watch. How GS plays in this game (and any subsequent games) will dictate what type of QB UGA adds from the TP in the off season.

@navydawg 26 players opted out of the FSU/UGA game. This included 10 on defense including Rd 1 DE Jared Verse.

Jake Fromm shares advice, tips for Gunner Stockton in making his first start against Notre Dame

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