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Mike Bobo blunt on Georgia offensive mission: âWe gotta finishâ
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Mike Bobo blunt on Georgia offensive mission: âWe gotta finishâ
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One good way to "finish" is to not call mindless multiple plays up the middle that are not working, or to go into the fetal position and just call conservative plays as soon as you have a lead in the game. Bobo could help us all in the "finishing" department.
"Beck never had a chance to play with someone like Zachariah Branch"??
You mean that Beck "never had" the legs to extend plays …and the leadership for his teammates??
Beck has checked out and more than likely did so before the end of last year's regular season - sold the dawgs and his teammates down the river. The Miami Herald may be hiring, better hurry so you can cover him there…that is if you're qualified. If so, you can get your digs in there, plus it's sunny, a win - win.
Glad Beck is gone; I am sure his teammates and the coaching staff are glad he is gone also. I hope Beck does well in life, just glad I don't have to see his pouty face on the sidelines…or his laughing after an interception/turnover.
Know where your feet are - or just continue on, that is if you believe …"if they’re talking, you’re winning".
Define "not working."
According to most knowledgeable football folks, Georgia, having defeated every opponent the team has faced, and having lost only one game, and having earned a bye in the playoffs, has done a good job "finishing" the regular season, and a good job "finishing" the task of becoming SEC Champions.
The goal is not pleasing fans, but winning games.
Go, Dawgs!
That’s called strategy…
@Eastmandawg No, he means that Beck didn't have someone capable of getting open, catching the ball and opening up the field for other players like Zachariah Branch. Jake Fromm wasn't capable of extending plays either. Yet when he had WRs who could get open down the field and 3 future starting NFL tailbacks in 2017, he came one play from winning a national title as a true freshman. In 2019 when he had only 1 effective tailback and no one but injury and mistake prone true freshman George Pickens at WR to stretch the field, UGA didn't do nearly as well. Was Fromm a worse leader in 2019 than he was in 2017? No, the team around him was worse. Also, when Stetson Bennett IV was the QB in 2020, UGA finished 2nd in the SEC East and was benched. When he was the QB in 2021 UGA won a national title. Was Bennett worse at extending plays with his legs in 2020? Was Bennett a worse leader in 2020 than he was in 2021? No, future NFL Pro Bowlers Brock Bowers and Ladd McConkey joined SB IV at WR and TE, plus future NFL rushing leader James Cook was finally healthy. PLUS a bunch of future NFL starters at OL and in the front seven went from underclassmen to upperclassmen. Example: Travon Walker went from 1 sack to the #1 pick in the draft.
Folks, like I told another guy yesterday who was upset at my pointing out that UGA doesn't throw the ball downfield and reminded him about how UGA fans oft mention Bama fans' inability to run the football. Well yes, Bama's leading rusher has 500 yards at 3.9 yards per carry in 14 games of football and that played a huge role in their losing 2 of their 3 games: only 80 yards rushing on 33 carries to Oklahoma and -3 rushing yards in the SEC title game. The games that Bama won this year have been in spite of their running game, not because of it. Such as in their playoff rematch: 25 carries for 28 yards. If we can talk about how bad Bama's running game is this year, we can talk about how Arian Smith and company failed to get separation from defenders, failed to catch well thrown balls and failed to get yards after the catch and often couldn't even get open when covered by nickel DBs and backups last year. Last year everyone wanted Bobo fired. This year Bobo was a Broyles Award finalist. Amazing what having a guy good enough to start WR in the SEC - which UGA didn't have last year - will do for an offense.
And no, Beck didn't abandon UGA or check out. Kirby Smart publicly threw Carson Beck under the bus, blaming him for his own injury that forced him to miss the draft. It was only when Gunner Stockton suffered a turnover on the same play call that Kirby acknowledged that the problem was with the playcall. And to emphasize the point, Kirby and UGA made unusual demands of Beck that they didn't make of other players with season ending injuries and were very equivocal in their efforts to get him to come back. The full court press that UGA went on to get SB IV back, including ponying up big time for NIL, promising him the starting job and a more passing-oriented offense? Beck didn't get any of that. It is like how a coaching staff "slow plays" a committed recruit by stopping communicating with him and not allowing him to take official visits, hoping that he will get the message, decommit and go somewhere else so they won't have to publicly pull the scholarship offer.
Beck isn't the next Dan Marino or anything but he can play. In 2024 he threw for nearly 4000 yards despite almost never having Ladd McConkey and Brock Bowers healthy in the same game and for some of the season having neither of them, leading UGA to a 13-1 record. In 2025 he had 28 TDs and won the SEC East with a bunch of WRs and RBs that wouldn't start for most SEC teams. Folks spent 2024 blaming Beck for Luckie and Delp not putting up Brock Bowers numbers. Well this year Luckie and Delp are putting up even worse numbers and no one is saying a peep. Wonder why that is. Beck transfers to Miami, misses the entire offseason because of injury, learns a new system and supporting cast and leads a Hurricanes program that hasn't done squat in 20 years to a playoff victory, something that the #1 player in the draft failed to do last year despite better players around him on offense. Miami has only one above average tailback - who because of injuries and personal issues has been very inconsistent - and their only real weapon at WR is a 5'11" 185 lb true freshman. Despite this? Almost 75% passing and 26 TDs. Beck can play. If UGA has Zachariah Branch to play in the slot last season instead of Dillon Bell, UGA goes to the national title game and probably wins it.
garbage in, garbage out - you wouldn’t know what football was if it were to hit you upside the head.
you do try though, don’t give up.
@randomsportsfan please provide basis for this take. Maybe I do have me head in the sand. You certainly have one purpose with made up takes like this pathetic statement:
“And no, Beck didn't abandon UGA or check out. Kirby Smart publicly threw Carson Beck under the bus, blaming him for his own injury that forced him to miss the draft.”
I’m starting to feel foolish for defending you. By all means provide the source to support your argument.
For what it’s worth Beck QBR this year is a paltry 79.6 compared to Stocktons 85.7
Against SEC competition this year Beck’s QBR was 51.1 FU and 59.7 aTm. GS average is around 87 QBR against 8 SEC teams in 9 games. After the SMU loss Mario threatened Beck to either start acting like a team leader or pack up his petulant act and hit the road, that they were paying him too much money to not act like a team player. .To his credit he became more engaged, I imagine the prospect of losing a +4M deal hit home I guess, what a self centered head case CB is. I’m so glad he quit us. Georgia football has been a joy to watch this year with the cancer gone…
The offense just needs to play as well in this game as they did the last time these two teams met earlier this year! GO DAWGS!
In Bobo's defense just knowing Kirby's mindset, I imagine he is barking into the headset with that lead…a'ight boys, let's manage, let's bleed clock, let's not turn the ball over and if we have to punt we're good, we have the best punter in the conference. We will knock it down there, reverse field position and out it into the hands of my pride and joy defense to do it's thing.
you know he does - if he is telling his QB to take a knee before he crosses the goal line - then he is getting his but chewed when he didn’t…that’s a good sign he is pulling Biobo’s reigns.”
Felt bad for Gunner in that moment - don’t think you’ll ever see it happen again.
Kirby is old school and I have no issue with that. It worked 100 years ago and it works now.
A win is a win, whether it’s by a point or 220 to 0…they all count the same.
He gets paid for wins, not by how many points.