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Damon Wilson âa menaceâ for Missouri, as Georgia tries to piece pass rush together
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Damon Wilson âa menaceâ for Missouri, as Georgia tries to piece pass rush together
Teams donât have as much experienced depth as they used to. You have to worry about keeping players happy in their role, while also fending off other teams from poaching away talent.
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It was a mystery that he was allowed to leave that easily. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but why wasn’t he compensated to stay? There had to be something more to his decision to leave.
This defense problem as a whole is directly at Kirby's feet. If I were him I would be doing everything I could to get Boom back.
A mysterious exit, indeed. I agree there had to be more there because Wilson would be playing large minutes for us if he were still in Athens. Also, I don't know how much I follow that Smart's intimation that Modozie is behind because he wasn't with UGA last spring. I mean, I'm sure there are some things he may need to pick up, but at the end of the day, I can't believe the art of rushing the passer is all that drastically different at Army than it is at Georgia. I just think the competition level is different, which is why I believe Wilson is doing well at Mizzou. He transferred from one SEC school to another, so he was already used to this level of competition. Modozie is still trying to figure it out. Let's hope that he does. And soon!
wanted to rush the passer. Here he has to help set the edge first and help in the run game instead of just going to get the passer.
Folks… you better prepare yourselves for a possible year where Kirby and his once vaunted teams were feared, and they hunted the opponent into submission. Well… the 2025 team is the hunted now!!!..
Kirby better get his Defense playing a whole hell of a lot better with consistent QB pressure and or sacks, or every team is going to follow the BAMA Offensive playbook that cost UGA the game last week. Every opponent has watched that tape and will have a similar offensive game plan, licking their chops to hunt and kill Kirby's sliding backword program.
Keep it up, Kirby, and your program will find itself not just out of the playoffs but playing in the Birmingham Bowl on December 29th. Currently, the way we are playing, this team gets beaten by Ole Miss, Texas, Tech, and Mississippi State in StarkVegas at noon.
Is a 7-5 or 6-6 dsymal season in hand… Kirby keeps playing 2-quarter football and awful defense; he and his program will find out.
2 of his saxks were against an fcs opponent in garbage time up a million where he got to pin his ears back and rush all out. Not saying the added depth would not help, but he would not just solve everything. Uga in fact tried their best to keep him. Offering an equal offer, but it qas not about money and about being able to play in a system that allowed him to play a certain way and solely be focused on sack numbers and run defense be damned.
He was not allowed to leave easy. Every effort was made to keep him including money incentives. He simply wanted to play somewhere else that allowes him to sell out up field and play for sack numbers. It was said on a podcast from very credible sources that they did not just let him get away and made every effort to keep him.
I think the offensive line is slowly jelling with QB Gunner and the two are now communicating better. The defense is okay but needs that quick explosion into the backfield of opponents to hassle the QB much more. Solve that mystery and UGA should be fine. Glenn Schumann is well aware he must solve this one major defensive challenge.
Billy this has got to be the dumbest thing i ever heard. Lets think about this, if every team follows bama's offensive footprint, then CKS and staff has it already figured out. They had it figured out after the first half and only allowed 3 points. So your logic is way off and you need to come back to earth. This is the most inexperienced Defense CKS has had in a while. This bama loss is just the jumpstart they needed, just like bama losing to FSU. We will be fine, and i hope the rest of the teams follow bama's offensive scheme, because CKS has it figured out. Therefore, bama better hope they don't see us in the SEC or National Championship because these Dawgs will be well improved by season's end.
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Damon Wilson is a 250 lb. junior who wants to enter the upcoming draft. NFL teams won't look at how he set the edge against the run at UGA because he won't have that job in the NFL: he is too small. They are only going to consider him a 1st round prospect if he gets double digit sacks. That's always going to be an issue at UGA because of their scheme. UGA will play one guy a year who is free to either roam in space like Roquan Smith or pin his ears back, but the other guys in the front 7 are going to be rotation guys with a lot of responsibilities, including DLs that have to play both gaps and OLBs who have to set the edge. Some guys just don't have the size, strength or technique to handle it. This is what happened with another guy a few years back, Brenton Cox. He also didn't have either the bulk to play DE or the speed to play OLB in UGA's scheme. He struggled at UGA, then went to UF where he was a star … until Napier decided to scapegoat him for a loss and kicked him off the team. (UF won the next game … only to suffer a meltdown on defense and go winless the rest of the season.) Cox still made the NFL anyway, where he will still be playing after the Gators finally fire Napier.
With UGA it is always a gamble that the smaller kids who played 4-3 DE or OLB in high school can put on weight while retaining their speed/quickness/change of direction and learn UGA's technique. And that if they can't, they'll stick around until they are redshirt juniors and seniors and be role players who use their size, strength and experience - and playing next to the guys who do pan out - to beat linemen that are 2 or 3 years younger than they are. These days, you honestly are more likely to find a 3 star kid who turns out to have NFL ability than you are going to have a 5 star kid stick around 5 years trying to make a scheme mismatch work for him rather than just go to another program where he fits the scheme.
No one knows why he left. All have made good points. In our current environment, kids can leave for any reason. Loyalty is out the window. At 250 lbs, I find it hard to believe he would be a high draft choice. We are all irritated because we can't get sacks. About the time you train someone up to a high level, they can run off to another team. Kirby has become the best 1st stop for a lot of players. They can say, yeah, I played for Kirby and put it on their resume, but go where they get more playing time. This new world is totally player focused. Didn't work for Bear Alexander at USC, but it is for Wilson…
bili2131. You left UF off your list. They’ve got a good d; we’ll see how their offense improves this week. Here’s a really “out there” idea. There’s really only one doormat team in the sec this year, Ky. We could all beat up on each other to such an extent that the seccg may pit two 3-loss teams against each other, as “any given Saturday” could happen every week.
lol
Same thing happened with Jermaine Johnson:
UGA: 21 GAMES: 20 tackles, 8 tackles for loss. 6.5 sacks
FSU: 12 GAMES: 70 tackles, 18 tackles for loss, 12 sacks, 2 forced fumbles, 1 fumble return for YD.
ACC Defensive Player of the year. Drafted 1st round at number 26 with Jets.