Well our defense played well

Im expecting Georgia to exploit outside runs as well. Sideline to Sideline seems like an atrocious thing for the 4-2-5 to cover with wider hashes

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Im expecting Georgia to exploit outside runs as well. Sideline to Sideline seems like an atrocious thing for the 4-2-5 to cover with wider hashes

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Looked like we were running a 3 man front in most of their successful outside runs early on. I could be wrong, I’ll have to go back and watch it again

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They only gave up 103 yards passing all night. I’ll take it and I don’t care who we’re playing, that’s good

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I don't disagree, but the qb for USF wasn't very accurate tonight. Other qbs BAMA face will be. That's all I was saying.

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Im expecting Georgia to exploit outside runs as well. Sideline to Sideline seems like an atrocious thing for the 4-2-5 to cover with wider hashes

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Offense is the best defense against the Dawgs. I think UGA is going to attack the secondary.
I'm interested to see how DeBoer game plans against UGA's defense. It's going to be a good game I think. A winnable game for BAMA. UGA isn't better at every position than BAMA like they were in 2023. Their receivers aren't better. Their running backs aren't better. Their linebackers aren't better. But their secondary is. Their o-line is (better than the line that started for BAMA tonight anyway).

It should be a very revealing game. All the pressure is still on them, because best believe Kirby doesn't want to lose to a first year coach at BAMA. Because he thinks it was Saban that was his daddy when it's really BAMA. That's what a win by BAMA reveals. A win by UGA reveals much less. It reveals either BAMA played poorly, or that UGA executed better. A win by UGA doesn't make Kirby Deboer's daddy. But a loss to Deboer means that Kirby is BAMA's bitch.

Justin Jefferson played a heck of a game. 10 tackles (8 solo) and a sack. Sucks that he has to sit the first half next week at Wisconsin.

I think our defense is not as good as they've looked against WKU and USF but I think they have a higher floor than I could pessimistically imagined as worst-case in the offseason. They rally to the ball well. Backers like Campbell get sideline to sideline much better on short and wide passes. The secondary has largely done well at tackling. Effort has been exceptional.

My big concern is how does this team generate pressure against better teams if the DC wants to avoid sending more than 4 rushers all that often to protect the young and/or inexperienced corners. I've said it before: this defense is going to need Robinson, Russaw, and Overton to be elite rushers or I fear we're going to see too many big passes completed over the top of the defense. I'm also a bit concern how they hold up to teams that still commit to playing power run because the scheme is really built to cope with the modern RPO spread.

Fair to say that the defense seems a bit more put together right now than the offense. I see some things better teams will exploit but playing defense starts with effort and they got that in spades.

Hesitant to say that other teams can replicate USF. Yes, they will undoubtedly have better throwing QBs, but they also don't have the QB run threat. That makes a big difference, especially when USF was that committed to it last night.

Not to happy with the defense. South Florida cannot pass at all.

Honestly not terribly concerned with yardage. That's going to happen, especially against teams that run that kind of tempo when you're not used to it. It's easy to get a little out of position at times. For the most part the defense stood up when it needed to, notwithstanding the TD on a short field following one of the fumbles.

Back end is so new and lots of youth. Some of those corners were getting beat. Hopefully we will keep getting better there.