Odd re-occurring theme, we end the first half great, start the second half poorly

I agree with this. I get the impression that Grubb has this almost uncontrollable urge to go ultra conservative and play "not to lose" at times, which is usually a recipe for losing.

I'm not saying he should be calling all kinds of crazy assed plays all the time but you CANNOT let off the gas on anyone unless it's late in the 4th and you have a big lead (e.g. up by 4 TDs).

Sidenote-I hope he doesn't try giving the ball to Proctor again unless it's 1 yard or less for the TD. 3 yards out is simply too far. If anything, maybe line him up in the backfield and then run a play action pass maybe to Cuevas.

I mean if he passes on first down the run the Dm ball crowd will go crazy.
Losing 2 yards on every first down running play is ridiculous though. That’s either poor coaching or poor linemen and running backs.

When Proctor is in the game everyone assumes he's going to be involved in the play.

Using him as a decoy would be a good change of pace. Pretend like you're going to him and then go somewhere else

I said it elsewhere but I think it comes down to our offense being so pass dependent. We know teams are going to adjust their coverage/rush plan after seeing what we did in the first half and it will take a bit of time to get a read on what those changes are going to be. Accordingly, I think Grubb would prefer to Establish It a bit at the start of the 2nd half while they work out the coverage and pass rush adjustments. I don't really fault that because you can bet on there being something to create a big play on defense in their back pocket. However, the results are dog shite because our offensive line simply is not very good.

Ultimately, our offensive line is just flat out failing way too often in our games. At some point, you need to have trust that your OL can move bodies and not make huge mental gaffs. You can't expect that with this 8 man rotation we're rolling out every week. When you only feel confident that 2 of your starters are locked in at their position, this is the sort of offense you can expect each week.

This is just me, but better consistency at LG seems like all we'd need to at least make "run left" a strong tendency to set everything else up. I think we need to consider playing 6OL formations more often in standard downs. Do a sort of "tackle-over" look where Proctor lines up at TE, Formby at LT, and Carroll at RT. The fact that we have shown the tendency to use Proctor in the pass and run game will likely lead to a trick play alert from the defense too.

If there isn't dramatic improvement out of the final bye week, I think Chris Kapilovic's performance would be poor enough for DeBoer to consider termination after the end of the season. I understand that we don't have ideal fits for a zone and counter heavy run scheme, but it has been two offseason conditioning programs and Spring+Fall camps with most of these linemen now.

I’d say we were more in the 3-4 yards per tailback run at UGA by my recollection but your point stands. We were turning 1st down runs into 2nd and on schedule and 2nd down runs into 3rd and on schedule. We couldn’t convert 3rd and short runs consistently but we kept the defense in “anything could be coming” mode on 1st and 2nd down.

Whenever we have a chance to score and bury a team for some reason Grubb goes super conservative and it annoys the frick out of me.

One possession game tho and he is outstanding

We usually start the half with two runs up the gut with jam. Then pass short or incomplete. Then punt.