re: UGA fans as we head into the SECCG The King of CFB wants to thank you

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You seem really scared.

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This is so wrong. I would normally agree and I have been critical of the talent at WR but that's not it. It's Milroe. He's still developing as a passing QB and can only make one or two reads. The receivers are/were young and are also developing.

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I would say that... but last year with a first overall pick, Bama's WR's weren't significantly better. Bond replaced Brooks in terms of production, but otherwise it was similar.

The big differences in production are that Bama had Gibbs and Holden in the passing game and they didn't replace either of them with similar production.

It's the same WR talent as last year minus a couple of weapons and it wasn't good last season and it showed then. The fact Milroe has gotten the same level of performance out of those guys is impressive. He's just missing Gibbs and Holden.

They account for 700 of the 800 yards difference in their seasons to date.

Both last season and this season, the issue with Bama is their WR corps. It's not like it was the prior 8 seasons.

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This is just his 2nd year of CFB and he is doing really well and is more well known than any of the UGA WRs

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YOu say this as if being "well known" is a positive.

We are no-name at every position. We have 3-stars chase out 4-stars at WR (yes, I'm talking about your top WR). We have a better rushing offense than Bama, a better passing offense and nobody knows anyone on our team.

It's how we roll.

Receivers have been really good this year and have developed more and more each week.

They were stuck in a 2003 NFL option route scheme with BoB that is extremely difficult for even NFL WRs to master, and all of them were young or new (Bond, Law, Prentice, Burton). It was a disaster, and only Bryce's wizardry allowed us to be somewhat competent on offense.

Rees' scheme has been much better for them and they've all gotten very good at their roles, and we've been deep enough that 5-6 different guys have had nice games at some point over the last 8 weeks (Bond, Benson, Law, Burton, Prentice, Hale).

There aren't any Top 15 picks in there but there are a lot of solid college receivers with different skillsets. By far the nicest surprise in terms of position groups for us this season. And all of them except Burton will be back next year, which is even nicer given the development they've shown to date this year.

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Receivers have been really good this year and have developed more and more each week.

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You can add the QB and OL to this statement as well

I'm still floored a bit that Bama fans think they are deep and have top end talent at WR.

I mean, they know what top end talent is. Metchie/Williams/Jeudy/Waddle/Cooper/Ridley/Smith... they've had a run of some of the best if not the best WR talent we've ever seen at a single school.

Do they really think they have that with Burton and Bond? Really?

Their 3rd WR has less than 300 yards. Their #4 has less than 200. Do they really think they have depth at the position?

I simply can't understand where their belief that their biggest weakness as a team is actually a strength.

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Maybe we'd have more yards too if we played the same schedule?

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Who did you have on your schedule that played tough defense?

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He's not even Ladd McConkey.

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He has twice the receiving yards and TDs despite missing at least one whole game.

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1) We spread the ball around
2) McConkey has missed 5 games.
3) I am sure Alabama has some good receivers and Saturday they will do fine. It should be a good game.

McConkey is awesome. Anyone throwing shade at him is barking up the wrong tree (pun intended).

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If this is the case, why does Bama only have 4 players with over 200 yards receiving? If the talent is there to spread the ball around... why aren't they passing for more yards to spread the ball around? Instead it's mostly just 2 guys with the yards.

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If you truly are curious take a look at the box scores for our SEC + Texas games. Each of those guys has had at least 1-2 games where they made huge plays or had big games where they got targets (for whatever reason). Then other games where they weren't the focal point. Their 200 yards aren't 2 catches each game for 23 yards. They've all had games where they were the guy with the matchup or the trust and they delivered.

Prentice was huge against Texas and Kentucky. Hale was huge against Ole Miss. Bond has been huge the 2nd half of the season. Burton has basically been the only guy who has been steadily targeted each and every week. Benson has finally started getting involved the last 5 weeks. Law the same, both in the run and pass.

We don't have a Calvin Ridley or DeVonta Smith, but we have a lot of young, capable guys who have stepped up at various points in the season when their number has been called to win football games.