Brooks Austin Film Breakdown- UGA loss to Ole Miss

Lot of guys playing our of position.

Can't watch it Rig... too depressing.

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Oh, there's a shocker.
And of course Bobo and Beck will bear no responsibility.

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fans can play the chicken and egg argument all day. We could have todd monken and tom brady but would it really matter if our ragtag collection of underachieving OL can only block for 1 second before the pass rush is in the backfield? That's not even touching on the fact there's a 50/50 chance our WR would drop the ball anyway if it even arrived to them.

The last sevearl games have really highlighted major major deficiencies at every level of our offense, both players and coaches. We need to make some serious moves this offseason.

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If the line isn't blocking, even the perfect play isn't going to work.

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Obviously I agree but their performance in the rain vs an excellent Ole Miss DL has not been typical.
Typically they pass block well but the run blocking hasn't been good in most games which is why we have probably 3 to 1 passing yardage for the season.
But assuming the the OL is the main issue for the offense, who is responsible for recruiting and coaching the OL?
And knowing that you have OL issues, who is responsible for play calling and play execution on the field that at least attempt to mitigate the OL problems?
And here's what I don't get. If you cite the thread with OL recruiting in 2022 and 2023, we have recruited 4 four stars and 6 three star OL.
Georgia has won 2 out of the last 3 national championships.
Why in the world are we not able to recruit better than that on the OL?

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Why in the world are we not able to recruit better than that on the OL?

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1) The NIL era has changed everything
2) Our coaching staff (ie, Kirby) has a specific philosophy on how to allocate our NIL money and clearly it wasn't on OL this cycle.
3) We have a shitty OL coach caompred to the 2 guys before him

The championships we won in 2021/2022 were before NIL really sunk its ugly claws into the sport. I'm not in the recrutinng room but I HAVE to think that there's plenty of high profile elite Ol that we've been in the final 2 or 3 for over the last couple cycles that we've missed out on due to money, which may have come here in a pre-NIL world.

Also sometimes occam's razor holds true. Perhaps it's really jsut as simple as HS OL recruits don't like searels and don't want to come play for him. Someone on another message board said that in his entire coaching career he has only signed 1 five star...ever. I have no idea if that's true or not but if so, yikes.

People talk shite about bobo non stop but it is objective, undebatable, and undeniable that he had some ELITE seasons here his first go around under richt. the opposite is true for searels. He stunk under richt, then went a couple more places that didn't seem upset to lose him, and now he's sucking it up agian. No clue how a guy like that continues to bounce around CFB staffs for this long.

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Tennessee is going to do exactly what Ole Miss did, defensively. And if the OL does this again, expect another loss.

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Thanks Rig, needed that...

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Someone needs to have a heart to heart with Kirby and remind him that his mentor, Nick Saban, evolved as the game changed by recruiting dual-threat QBs, etc. and in like manner it is time for Kirby to set up

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Saban evolved when the game "changed" from a run the ball and play D mindset to a wide open spread offense. That's a massive difference in the change brought on by NIL. In fact that change was so silly that is drove saban into an early retirement.

I don't know how mcuh evolving you can do at this point other than alter how you're going to spend your NIL money. And that's assumign you have a good bit of it to begin with (whihc I believe we do, for now). There's only so long that the school can continue to beg the fans to pitch in to buy our players lambos before people get tired of that and spend their money elsewhere.

Again, I agree with your perspective but regarding what more we can do:
GT is a good example of what can be done with less and obviously our apparent slump in recruiting is much better than GT.
Of course they play in the ACC with less competition but I think if Kirby could:
1. find an innovative OC who knows how to run a run/pass option offense
2. recruit a fast dual-threat QB who has been running the run/pass offense in high school
3. and get a OL coach who knows how to teach players to block at the point of attack the way GT does
4. and recruit OL who are more athletic and can be taught to block at the point of attack

We could evolve our offense into something formidable and with Kirby's defenses, we could become a championship team again.

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9 games in and all of a sudden our o line is just trash? I know they played awful this past weekend but they did just fine against Texas and Bama

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Film don't lie.

I hope you are correct and that it was just an outlier bad game but it's starting to look like more than than.
The OL has not looked good in other games even vs lesser teams like Kentucky.
They looked completely over matched vs a very good Ole Miss DL.
And when you can't at least hold your own somewhat vs a good DL, then you know you've got problems.
It will be interesting to see how that perform vs Tennessee who also has a good DL.
I'm hoping for the best in Athens.
Goooooo Dawgs!!