re: SOG Predictor - #5 Georgia (4-1) vs #8 Florida (3-1)

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Daniels wasn't exactly elite at USC. In fact he was pretty crappy. Admittedly he was a freshman though. In any event I think Bennett is Kirby’s new ride or die now that Fromm is gone anyway so it doesn't matter.

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Yea, at this point, Daniels is either not good or he's still not back to trusting his knee. Either way, it feels too late in the season (especially post-bye week) to see him emerge. I think round 2 any advantage they have via Waddle went is matched by us growing as a defense in the front 7 (and getting guys like Smith/Burroughs on the field more).

I'm probably off but Florida just doesn't scare me because I don't think their offense is terrifying elite level good (like say, Ohio State) and they can't stop us.

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Yeah I agree. I can't stand Kirby and want to see him fail, but objectively I also think a match up with Florida is better for us than a re-match with UGA. Grantham is terrible. Sark would make him look stupid. They'd score more than UGA but I don't see us punting much in that game.

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Yep - Kirby can teach and scheme defense, and if he gets an entire set of film of his defense vs us that he can work from (especially removing Waddle), he will find ways to do some things. Would it be enough? I don't think so, not with their offense, but he'd give us some trouble.

Florida cannot do that on defense. Like you said, Sark would eat him alive. And if you can't stop us, you don't scare me unless you have an all-world offense. And while I think their offense is very good, it's not quite that level.

I’m leaning UF in this game. I think they can score and with UGA missing some key players it seems to favor them.

However, as mentioned. If UGA slow rolls and runs the rock. It could be a W if UF isn’t perfect on offense.

These last 6 quarters of football as a Georgia fan have been extremely frustrating.

I don’t get WTF we are doing with Stetson. In his first 3 games plus the first half of the Bama game, we did a good job of complementing the run with a balance passing attack.

When we came out in the 2nd half, it was like we were down 20. We were running the ball with a pretty high success rate, but it seemed like we had Stetson dropping back 80% of the time, even when we had the lead.

Despite an understandable bad game against Bama, I still was confident he could be a serviceable QB. I only thought 1.5 of the 3 INTs against Bama were really within his control. He had great games against Auburn and Tennessee. I expected us to move to more back to a 50/50 running/passing attack against Kentucky. However, we almost never let him pass the ball, and when we did, it was routes that he struggled with such as the underneath throws and back shoulder ones. Stetson has been borderline incredible this year when throwing intermediate passes in the middle of the field (basically the opposite of Fromm), yet we still focused on underneath and sideline stuff.

Normally, you want a QB prone to turning the ball over to favor underneath and sideline routes, but Stetson is just so much better down the middle.

His 5 INTs this year:

- 2 at LOS
- 2 at sideline
- 1 on tipped ball.

I thought the approach we used in the first 3 games would be perfect for our team this year. Monken called 14 straight quarters perfectly. This last game against Kentucky had Kirby’s fingerprints all over it.

The most frustrating thing is that most of his bad qualities are easily fixable. Obviously not his height, but other things. He has a serious issue with double clutching/hesitating on the deep ball. He can throw it pretty far but he waits so long the receiver is already 60 yards downfield.

He’s basically a one read QB. Maybe two. When his first WR is open he’s extremely accurate and makes good throws (see 80 yard TD to Cook vs Bama). Any sort of hesitation and he’s in trouble. At least he can scramble, but he did very little of that against UK.

That Kentucky game was the most vanilla offensive game Georgia has had since Fromm’s first few games as a starter. Against Bama we let him throw it like he was Patrick Mahomes, against Kentucky it was like he had never played football in his life.

We need to find a balance, because the run-heavy offense we used against Kentucky does not play all that well to his game. I thought we found that balance against Tennessee and Auburn, but apparently the coaches didn’t think so. He’s kind of a streaky QB, and I’ve noticed he does not play well at all during his first possession of the half. He needs to throw it a good bit to start to find his groove, which you definitely saw in the first half against Bama.

Yea - I think it's pretty simple with Bennett: He's gotta be in good situations. That isn't easy, but that's what you sign up for as an OC. Bennett needs to be in 2nd and 6, 3rd and 4 for most of the game. If Georgia can do that, Bennett can be pretty successful (see Auburn, Tennessee, and 1st half of Bama).

When Bennett is in 2nd and 8 and 3rd and 7........he not only doesn't move the ball, he starts trying to force it and makes turnovers.

That was the biggest key to the 1st game for me, and it's a huge key to the game with Florida IMHO.

We sacked dak 9 times in 2015 when we were on the road. They were still good but it wasn't the number 1 ranked team

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Now do the election, SOG.

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SOG is a Kanye supporter if I’ve ever seen one

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SOG is a Kanye supporter if I’ve ever seen one

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