UGA is going to run right at us

Should be a great game.

People act like Stockon didn't throw for 300 yards with 75% completion percentage and average a first down per attempt.

Tennessee dared him to beat them and he did...

Agreed. I think they're going to come right at us and try to grind down the defense. Not a bad idea/gameplan for them. They're thinking they can pound the front seven and they may not be wrong.

For Bama to have a chance, we have to have emotional and physical play the entire game. No arm tackling or sloppy tackling. No losing contain over and over.

I think Kirby will not blitz all that much because he has confidence his front four can consistently defeat our O line. Let's face it, our tackles have been shaky at best.

Last year's game plan in the first half was incredible then for some inexpllicable reason, they let off the gas and played not to lose. Hopefully if Bama gets up, there is NO letting up off the gas.

UT ain’t got shite on our secondary.

It all starts with pressure though. We’ve got to affect him.

I just hope UGA doesn't go for it on every 4th down again...

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Tennessee dared him to beat their backup corners and he did. Both of their starters were out.

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Fair point but Alabama's secondary has not done well in man coverage situations at times this year.

Alabama has got to keep Georgia from just ground and pound-ing them into submission. However, I think we should respect Stockton a bit more. He's essentially the archetypical Wommack D killer at QB.

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And? It's either risk him doing that again or letting them bleed the clock and march down the field 5-8 yards at a time. Every competent DC in America is choosing option A. I don't know that we have one of those unfortunately.

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Yep, and at least Georgia doesn’t have a lot eye candy. They run straight ahead.

We have to trust our secondary to do their job.

Yep. We have a slightly undersized DL that has successfully been run on by both FSU and Wisconsin. They are going to play old school run and play action until we force them into something else.

We have to force Stockton to throw the ball. The guy is talented but throws some inaccurate balls. If we force him to throw, that will give us opportunities to create a couple of turnovers. Capitalizing on those opportunities will probably be the difference in the game.

This is a big time game for the DL and ILBs. Having Keenan back is much needed. If they can effectively slow down UGA's run game without having to bring safeties far up into the box, that will allow our safeties to make plays on the back end, like we saw Bray do this week.


On the other side of the ball I don't have a ton of faith in our ability to run the ball on UGA. UGA also has the athletes to limit the "extended run game" elements on the perimeter. But their DBs are not elite in coverage.

Ty is going to have to throw the ball 35+ times, with lots of intermediate and deep throws. If he can do so without turning the ball over we will be in good position.

UGA, like the Saban defenses, can often struggle with a scrambling QB. We will probably also need Ty to pick up 40+ yards on scrambles over the course of the game.

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UGA is going to run right at us

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the right side of our OL at this point practically doesn't exist.

-Started the season with TFr Juan Gaston at RG and Earnest Greene at RT. That was somewhat decent.
-Greene has been banged up and has not been reliably healthy at any point this season.
-We originally played a basketball project next at RT and it was an absolute disaster. Was getting owned by Austin Peay. Next we tried another freshman who might as well be a human turnstile. We ended up finally going with another underclassmen with limited playing time but didn't completley resemble a matador.
-Gaston at RG got hurt in the season opener and played only sparingly this weekend. His replacement is another TFr.

If we don't get healthier over these 2 weeks the DL is going to eat our lunch on that side.

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People act like Stockon didn't throw for 300 yards with 75% completion percentage and average a first down per attempt.

Tennessee dared him to beat them and he did...

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While true, go back and watch the tape. Those were not always a pretty 300 yards.

First throw of the game at 12:30 int he 1st for 30 yards was under thrown to the boundary but DB was beat so bad it didn't matter.

DPI call on a sideline throw at 6:05 in the 2nd was a miss by 5 yards.

Interception called back on a flag at 0:15 in the 2nd was a miserable decision. 25 yard throw to the sideline carried the receiver out of bounds and was under thrown by probably 4 yards.

Sideline throw 20 yards downfield to the boundary at 6:33 in the 4th was 4 yards out of bounds with a wide open receiver standing still.

These are just what I saw from the highlights package. Which doesn't include most incompletions. But the theme is that he's very accurate in short to intermediate range. He made some risky throws on quick outs to the boundary that didn't bite him against Tennessee, but were very close to being pick-6'd. And the real struggles are deeper throws to the boundary. He made a couple beautiful deep passes to the outside, but more often than not they were pretty inaccurate. Those jump balls downfield are what we have to win on.