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Georgia football final grades from overtime win against Tennessee
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Georgia football final grades from overtime win against Tennessee
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Lot of highs, a few lows... I was particularly impressed how few procedural issues UGA had in such an intense, ear-shattering environment.
Thats good preparation and execution!
what did we learn yesterday. Our secondary is not what we thought and we have no pass rush, which means a lot of potential shoot outs which means we have to put our trust in Mike Bobo’s play calling, which is scary as heck. I wish the DawgNation staff would ask Kirby during his Tuesday media day why Bobo doesn’t try to run the perimeter more or throw play action passes on first down, bc run run pass has never worked with bobo either with Richt or Kirby. That would be some good questions Conor or Mike than some of the questions asked that Kirby then just makes y’all look silly and it does give me a good chuckle 😂😂
Defensive backs: C-
"This would be an F if it were based on the play of the cornerbacks."
I couldn't figure out what was going on, but there were open UT receivers all over the field, particularly in the first half. If they're going to go with a soft zone coverage scheme, there's going to have to be some serious pressure on the QB, or the secondary will get picked apart. I'm no expert, but it appeared to me that pressure on the QB (blitzing) would help tremendously with some of these coverage issues. It's likely to be a problem against Alabama in 2 weeks if it doesn't get addressed.
GO DAWGS!
Lady Luck: A+
We should give Humphries and Aguero their own categories—-Superb. Can't agree with a B for the defensive line, One of the reasons their receivers were so successful was because their QB had all day to complete passes. Did we ever even touch him? There was just very little penetration into their backfield by our DL—IMO a C-.
Good insights, Connor. No big squabble over position grades, though maybe a little generous on TEs (a few costly missed blocks), and could have noted CJ Allen's team-leading 11 tackles. But suggesting Georgia barely eked out an overall B- is too harsh, given they beat one of the best teams in the country on the road in one of the hardest places in CFB to play with so many questions ahead of time… solid B, in my opinion. Go Dawgs!
True!
Training & conditioning staff- A+. Georgia was better prepared for an overtime game. I saw at least 3 Vols laying on the field with cramps. None for the Dawgs!
As I see it, this was an incredibly hard game to grade. Also, several of the assigned grades are very easy to quibble with, but I think any alternate grade would have the same problem.
To me, the main thing is we won the game even though it was clear Tennessee was very good - athletic, fast, very well coached, extremely explosive, etc. - and even though it was an SEC road game in one of the most hostile, difficult environments. Far from perfect, and very young, our team exhibited resilience, grit, determination, moxie, and shows signs of having a very decided tendency towards improvement as they grow and learn until the tutelage of Kirby & Company.
Maybe there should be a grade for Team Character. I'd suggest an A in that department.
If we're talking luck, let's remember the old saw about making your own.
Go, Dawgs!
I agree with the DB score 100%, and most of the other position scores. Need better CB play from Daniel Harris, and Robinson, Ellis was flagged 2 times in the 1st qtr for PI. 1 led to a long TD catch, even with PI on the play. I think it was Harris that actually had great coverage on another deep pass, but misjudged the ball, and gave up an easy TD (after watching several replays, looks like the WR gave Harris a slight shove to gain separation, and make the catch for a TD though). No doubts Kirby will address those issues, and work to correct them..GoDAWGS!
Overall I agree with the grades. I disagree with your statement about Harris letting the tenn receiver take the ball out of his hands. Harris never had a chance to intercept or knock the ball down because he was interfered with. Their receiver pushed Harris down to keep him from jumping and got separation. I don’t care what the “rules expert” in the booth said. That’s probably why he’s in the booth anyway.
A young team let a pair of cupcake wins give it a false sense of superiority and got a dose of reality Thursday. Thankfully, the coaches had them prepared well enough to hang in there and Lady Luck preferred Bulldog Red to Tennessee Orange.
Now we get a bye week for the coaches to reinforce the lessons learned and a home game for the team to show us whether they paid attention. I'll take it.
The Dawgs won in the hardest SEC environment …..with all due respect to Jordan-Hare…..due to unrelenting, tenacious persistence that refused to give in to successive defensive failures…..that never quit attitude…..with a sprinkle of glorious good fortune won the game, despite the bland watered down vanilla offensive play calls……I give you my sterling example…..compare "Going for Dos" to secure a chance to win……GA Tech/ & our friend Buster utilized the creativity of a speed option reverse to set up an easy pitch and catch in the end zone…..The Dawgs success depended entirely on a busted coverage to allow a left shoulder reception by Z Branch in the corner of the end zone….yep, GREAT throw and a GREAT catch but had the coverage been there it was less than 50%…..sure hope we're bending Buster's ear and pocketbook for when MB retires at the end of the year.
A win at Tennessee is an awesome win no matter how we played. The crowd was in the game the whole time and Georgia never flinched.
THeir receiver pushed off and so did London, glad it wasn't called for one and not the other.
We had two chances to really take the momentum when got the ball on their side of the 50 but Bobo went all conservative and went run, run, and we got jammed up at the line. Came away with just 3 points. Twice the announcers said, it was a win for Tenn, us just getting field goals. We gave the mpmentum back.
Almost cost us the game.