re: How leathal will we be next year?

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The Patriots and Ron Gronkowski would disagree.

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I suspect the scheme and Brady have more to do with that than anything. Jimmy Graham would agree with me.

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2016 will see growing pains. We have enough talent to win 7 just by showing up.

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Aren't you the guy that was saying even a mediocre coach should win 10 at UGA? What has changed? The offensive scheme probably won't be much different. The defensive scheme MIGHT be a bit different...we aren't sure, but we do know we have talent there.

I'm a little shocked that everybody that was saying that UGA should win 10 every single year with our talent is now saying we should win 7 or 8.

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Not really. Defensive personnel is solid,

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Reread my post. I was talking about us having talent on the defensive side of the ball. And, I suspect we will continue to pull in top level defensive talent and go a bit lacking on the offensive side of the ball with Smart as the coach. That's not a criticism. Just the way things seem to go.

We actually have decent talent offensively. We just don't have depth....which is what gets us in trouble more often than not. In the SEC there will be injuries. You better have depth or it will kill you.

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Blaezavitch(probably spelled wrong)

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nah man you nailed it

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QB - Basically have all our eggs in the Eason basket.

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True. It can go either way. I think he is the real deal. He has some bad habits, but can work through them with good coaching. It's still the SEC, and even if he is what I think he is, he will have some growing pains. Very high highs and som low lows.

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RB - good, how good depends on Chubb's knee

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Chubb is the key. He brings that big bruising run game we need to be successful. Michel is good. With the right OC he can flourish...and I think he can be more than just a complimentary piece with the right plays. Holyfield? COULD have the toughness to keep a strong inside running game alive.

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FB - serviceable

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Yeah. We never use the fullback position for more than a blocker and occasional "surprise" run anyway.

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WR - 2 returners who have ever made plays (Godwin, McKenzie). They're the only two who defenses will have to gameplan for unless Chigbu, Stanley, etc. get way better

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I think Chigbu will prove to be good and possibly Stanley. The key for our WR's is if we can get the ball to them.

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TE - good

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I REALLY like our TE. Blaze if very underrated...at least on this board from what I am reading.

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OL - just led the nation in tackles for loss allowed without any notable injuries. Lost both tackles. Wynn is the only returning OL who was decent this season. Very little playable depth.

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I think we will see some young guys make some strides this year. Coaching will be a key. And we have some really good kids coming in. We will have the size. Now if the coaches can make them nasty. Really like Wynn and Kublanow.

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Talent doesn't look that good to me.

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Championship talent? no. The key is Chubb. If we could get two bruisers instead of one, I think our Offense would really surprise some people. We keep going for a bruiser and a change of pace guy. I'd like to see us go strictly for 2-3 big bruising running backs with one change of pace guy.

Of course.....you could be exactly right, and I could be dead wrong. I think we will see a BIG improvement on defense this year. (IF we can get a decent DC) Offense will struggle a bit, but could break through. That depends on health and how good Eason really is.

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I REALLY like our TE. Blaze if very underrated...at least on this board from what I am reading.

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guy I know close to the team said Jackson Harris may be the best TE we have on the roster. Not sure why he was such an afterthought.

Wait nvm...schott.

Eason will throw a shite ton of interceptions until he gets the high school mentality knocked out of him then gradually progress like Stafford did

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would think you would want more. I mean...you hated Richt for doing that, right

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First off, I never once said I hated Richt. I was dissatisfied with the job he did in the last 3 years. He sort of gets a pass for 2013 with the injuries (although there is never a good excuse to lose to Vanderbilt). In 2014, he had a great team that didn't always play like it. Great coaches don't let their teams sleepwalk into rivalry games like UGA did against Florida in 2014. Florida was absolutely awful that year yet Richt did not have the team ready to play.

Those three words, "ready to play", are the reason I (and many others) felt it was time for a change. It's fine to not bring it against teams like ULM and Southern U, but if you're gonna be a great coach, you damn sure better have the team ready against Alabama and Florida. There is no excuse whatsoever for what happened in those two games. Once is a fluke, twice is a coincidence, three times is a trend.

Richt had too many inexcusable blowout losses for a veteran coach with the talent he had on the roster.

It's not Richt's win/loss record that was so bad. It was very good overall. But seeing Alabama, Auburn, Florida and LSU have more success while knowing Georgia has higher potential as a program than any of them was disheartening.

We can debate this all day long, and we have more than once. You thought Richt did a good enough job. I didn't.

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First off, I never once said I hated Richt.

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Whoops. You are correct. You just wanted him fired because all he did was win 10 games a year. Now you are suddenly happy with 8-9.