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re: Since 2000, What SEC Team Has Overachieved & Underachieved Most?
Posted on 6/29/20 at 4:58 pm to djsdawg
Posted on 6/29/20 at 4:58 pm to djsdawg
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3. Most exaggerated performance and injury of recent memory. Auburn didn’t smash us because of him and didn’t get smashed because of him.
He had 34 touches that game for 233 yards. The next closest player had 4 touches. He was their entire offense and in typical Gustav fashion, he had no idea how to adapt when Kerryon got hurt.
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Posted on 6/29/20 at 5:43 pm to sand mountainDvalues
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had 34 touches that game for 233 yards. The next closest player had 4 touches. He was their entire offense and in typical Gustav fashion, he had no idea how to adapt when Kerryon got hurt.
Auburn went on a 21-0 run in the middle of the game, but it wasn’t KJ who made it happen. Instead, it was stidham with 3 tds, and each came after huge uga ST mistakes. Then, After the game was out of hand, KJ produced most of his yards.
We didn’t make those stupid ST mistakes in game 2. We also dominated the LOS in game 2. KJ had no room to run. A shoulder doesn’t change that.
Posted on 6/30/20 at 7:52 am to sand mountainDvalues
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He had 34 touches that game for 233 yards. The next closest player had 4 touches. He was their entire offense and in typical Gustav fashion, he had no idea how to adapt when Kerryon got hurt.
I've never thought of an injured player as a reason for a loss who played the entire game.
In the national championship game, UGA lost our best wide receiver and our best pass rusher. Hurt. Out for the remainder of the game. It happens and it is a reason why depth is so important.
Kerryon had more rush attempts than Sony or Chubb in the SECCG.
I'm not a Bama fan... but in your "if only player X hadn't gotten hurt..." questions, did player X continue to play? Nobody does that except Auburn because they cant rationalize anything else. Kerryons effectiveness was from that awesome jump cut. Every Auburn fan said that the shoulder wouldn't affect the jump cut leading into the game. A running backs legs are more important (i.e. Herschel with the dislocated shoulder in the national championship game).
Posted on 6/30/20 at 2:38 pm to sand mountainDvalues
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He was their entire offense and in typical Gustav fashion, he had no idea how to adapt when Kerryon got hurt.
That’s called strategy and personnel. That literally is the opposite of luck. It’s not luck that your offense was based around 1 player and you didn’t recruit well enough at RB of all positions at a school like Auburn that you lost. An injury to 1 player is never an excuse when you are allegedly an SEC powerhouse.
Ohio State won a championship with their 3rd string QB. It’s called roster management. It’s a central part of the game.
Posted on 6/30/20 at 5:08 pm to sand mountainDvalues
quote:Yeah, that was a hilariously bad take.
He had 34 touches that game for 233 yards. The next closest player had 4 touches.
KJ was an absolute force of nature in that game. His playmaking ability opened up the entire rest of the offense, and Kirby and Co had zero answers. Best thing that happened to UGa in 2017 took place in the Iron Bowl when Johnson went down.
As for 'luck', we had two critical unforced fumbles and an uncharacteristic blocked FG. Despite this, were still only trailing by 6 going into the 4th quarter before the wheels came off.
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