re: Paging Cover1Key: thoughts on UGA?

I agree. I think your score spread is about right. I see a couple busted/explosive plays making the score a tad higher. I’m going

Bama 31
UGA 27

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a defensive unit I know will not be meek

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State is not meek on defense. They got overwhelmed.
They got tired. They got demoralized by injury too. But State is used to playing with a lead. They're used to doing the punching. BAMA punched back. Harder than anyone else.

This is what I'm expecting vs uga.

Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face.

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Looks worse than it is. BAMA was up 35-10 at the half. BAMA even outscored them 14-8 in the 2nd half. Giving up 216 rushing yards to a team you are manhandling isn't that much cause for concern in my opinion. In fact, SC did us a favor running it so much instead of throwing it to their dynamic stud receiver.

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I can see that. Had the game been tighter that could have been bad. The game vs UGA will be tighter. Hopefully that was a one off day.

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This will not be a low scoring game and we're going to win by two or more scores

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I’d agree with this assessment, but weather could have an impact. If we get bad weather, it would probably favor UGA, because it could impact our passing game. That being said, we have the better quarterback, and I’d have a hard time picking against Keelon

The yards came because the score was out of hand. They wouldn't have come had the game been tighter.

No one is “pretending that Ty sucked last year”. He was elite, “NFL like”, in the short and intermediate game. He had good rapport with his teammates, was a good leader. Alabama fans should always be grateful for what Ty brought to the program. But he could not throw the long ball accurately. It was a limiting factor on the offense last year, which was exacerbated by the fact that Alabama could not run the ball. In fact, no long ball contributed some to the poor run game. Keelon has a very good long ball. DeBoer and Grubb performed almost at a genius level to squeeze 11 wins and the playoffs from a team that could not run or throw deep. Also, Ty was amazing in what he did well.

While Ty was elusive in the pocket and a good athlete overall, Keelon is a far better athlete and much faster than Ty. Keelon has great poise and ultimate trust from his teammates. They believe deeply in him to always make the needed play - probably more than any QB Alabama has ever had.

There is not really anything at the QB position that KR cannot do well or at an elite level. Also, his progress this year has been breathtaking even discernible by average people like most of us.

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While Ty was elusive in the pocket and a good athlete overall, Keelon is a far better athlete and much faster than Ty.

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AND he's healthy

One thing Bama is doing a much better job this year is keeping their foot on the gas. The last two regular season matchups had Bama getting a lead and holding on. That was the case for a lot of games. This year we are getting leads and then adding to them.

If I had the time I'd look at how many times Bama got up by 14 or more in the first two KDB seasons and how close the final was vs this year. It seems this year once we get up 14 we add do the lead.

Kirby never figured out Bryce Young , and Keelon Russell is a souped-up version of Bryce. I like Bama's ability to do more damage to Georgia's psyche especially if our top two receivers don't end up with broken wheels!