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How Georgia football changes the perception problem with its wide receiver room
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How Georgia football changes the perception problem with its wide receiver room
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When was the last time Georgia had a WR drafted in the 1st Round? AJ Green 15 years ago, and we haven't recruited another since!! Facts are facts. Very misleading comparing Georgia to Ohio State by simply using the total number of drafted receivers. I'm hopeful that these recent recruits develop into legit playmakers.
The bad news about our current environment is that players can be bought. The Good news, we can buy some wide receiver talent. So, why haven't we? Everyone knows this is a huge problem area. It's things like this that make us scratch our head about Bobo and Smart. Everyone's trying to be patient, but come on, it's pretty obvious our recruits haven't lived up to the hype.
we’ve bought some, but now we have to use it. Guys like Zach Branch, Talyn Taylor, and CJ Wiley didn’t just come here bc they liked Georgia.
Let's not compare Georgia and Ohio State when it comes to a passing attack. There is no comparison. Ohio State gets some of the best receivers in the country and usually knows how to use them. Why do you think elite WRs choose OSU over teams like Georgia nine times out of ten?? They also get elite QBs that can complete big play downfield passes as part of their mostly balanced offense. Georgia has never had a true passing attack and consistent vertical threat, even when we had some great wide outs. I don't care how many WRs were drafted on each team. I care about how well they were used while they played at Georgia. Monken got the best usage of our WRs and TEs of any coach in Georgia history. And he did it with a walk-on QB who barely got drafted.
Bobo's conundrum is trying to replicate that success with potentially better WR talent. Wide receiver dinks and screens ad nauseum like Branch was used for all the time ain't gonna cut it. We need vertical downfield playmakers, and a QB that can make the throws. We need much better consistent use of our TEs in the passing game. Remember, Branch did not get picked up until the 3rd Round of the draft. And that was our best WR?
There isn't a preception problem. It's reality. If you want to change the narrative at Georgia, then Kirby will have to first change his offensive approach and show consistent passing success on the field.
bobo has been lulling sec defensive coordinators to sleep with screens and runs up the middle. will totally catch them off guard with a deep pass heavy attack this year
being a five star WR doesn't guarantee success. someone has got to throw to you and you got to get open and catch the ball. Sounds simple but we haven't mastered that yet. We need to throw to multiple receivers TEs and all to prevent double coverage on the hot receiver. I don't put a lot of stock on screen passes being the solution although it might work two or three times a game. We need to be unpredictable just not on whether a pass is going to be caught. So the big question is whether it is playcalling or players that need to be addressedeed.
I will be glad to eat crow in the Fall, but Taylor looks like he may become a bust. Maybe injury prone and one catch in the G-Day game. We finally get a 5 star and no excitement from him so far. For you Bobo naysayers, he is conservative and predictable, but he has no Brock or Ladd to work with. He puts up a lot points with very average talent at WR!
I think Taylor looks like a player. High ceiling. It is CJ Wiley that looks disinterested in playing WR.
None of it matters if you don't have an OC willing to call thoae plays because he doesn't think his QB can see the whole field or make those throws.
Nicely done, but I believe Kirby is less interested in the passing attack than he is in the running game and in winning. I don't mean that as an accolade nor do I mean it as a criticism. Kirby is fairly conservative, but he also values explosive plays, chunk plays, as a means to an end.
I'm not remotely interested in ever seeing Air Georgia, but I'd like to have a better receiver corps or perhaps a better use of the receiver corps meaning better use of both wide receivers and tight end pass catchers. All that said, everybody has to block and do all their assignments in order for the machine to work in a well oiled manner. I care about the machine more than its parts, and so does Kirby.
Go, Dawgs!
@JimWallace…Agreed, but in order to win these days it has to be more than just a solid running game. Like I said, Ohio State is a very balanced offense, and so was Indiana this past season. We still rely too heavily on the running game (as seen many times as Bobo tries to run for a 3rd and long and gets stuffed as the fans scratch their heads in amazement). Like you, I want to win games - however that happens. But, our National Championship seasons recently DEPENDED on a solid, capable passing attack that was respected by the defense. Monken was able to deliver that via Bowers, McConkey, etc. - especially in 2022 when our defense was very good but not as dominant as 2021. Even then though, most teams saw us as Run-first and pass later, so they loaded the box. But our offense had to be more pass-oriented and a bit more wide open during our 2nd Natty season.
We didn't make it past the 1st round of the playoffs the past 2 seasons, and a big part of that is the fact that we have not had a consistent, solid, capable, big-play ability vertical passing game - that a defense will have to respect. When our RBs got hurt & stuffed, we suffered in the WIN column.
I want to be a team that is always a realistic threat downfield and respected for that fact. I want elite WRs looking to Georgia as a great place to go and play/develop as a WR instead of another team. We are not that team at this point.
Joel Quack must have watch a different Georgia team than I did. The play calling is what kept from big plays. Yeah we had a drop against bama in the first game but the play calling lost that game and the lack of a pass rush doomed Georgia in the playoffs. From what I saw we put up as many points as any other team we played. He failed to mention Beck habit of throwing to the other team also.
Georgia was the best in the country with a screen pass behind the line on 3rd and long or any down. Seem to be the bread and butter play like the toss sweep use to be
UGA vs OSU records from 2019 to 2025....Eliminating the 2020 Season for obvious reasons.....
Uga...77 - 9
2 Natty's
3 SEC Titles....3 of the last 4.
Osu...72 - 11
1 Natty
1 BIG10 Title....7 years ago.
I fail to see where the advantage was, in having all those high dollar "playmakers". Lol...maybe...just maybe...Football is about more than one man. Just sayin'.
Go Dawgs!!!
Clatt is another blow hard.
I believe Kirby sees it the same way I do. I believe he wants our offense to be very capable of doing whatever he wants it to do. He wants a strong run game. He wants a strong passing game. He wants to be able to pick any tool out of his tool box and use it successfully, at will, and in the right circumstance.
Like Vince Dooley, Kirby knows bad things can happen when you throw a forward pass. Like most Georgia fans, he also knows games can be won by an offense with a great (or competent for that matter) passing game, and that there are times and situations when having an excellent passing game is vital and mandatory.
Go, Dawgs!