Well, they certainly can. But, Saban has always tried to take away what you do best and what UGA does best is run the ball. If stopping that one thing happens to be what Bama is really good at then you got big problems. Kirby of course knows this so he will be working on throwing the ball all week. I suspect he'll be throwing it on 1st down a lot.

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Posted by meansonny

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Posted on 1/4/18 at 9:27 am to bama1959

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I suspect he'll be throwing it on 1st down a lot.

Our offense has really opened up since we started calling a balanced 1st down (50/50 run/pass).

It started about halfway through the 2nd quarter against Kentucky (11 straight runs on first down had net 7 points. The next first down was a TD throw. In a span of 9 minutes of gametime, we had 3 TDs).

In the SECCG, UGA converted first downs against Auburn on 6 out of 7 first down opportunities by throwing on 1st down (tray Matthews sacked Fromm on one pass opportunity, and UGA failed to pickup a 1st down).

In the Rose Bowl, a pass play on 1st down net a 1st down or score in 11 out of 14 opportunities.

Prior to the Rose Bowl, our yards per play since that drive against Kentucky was over 10! (And that includes salting away wins by running the ball against UK, GT, etc..)

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