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Game balls and stadium runs

Posted on 9/27/20 at 7:33 am
Posted by meansonny
ATL
Member since Sep 2012
26046 posts
Posted on 9/27/20 at 7:33 am
My game balls would go to:

Mailman. Solid performance. Monken did a good job calling plays that he could execute (stop routes, slants, and curl to pickens). We didn't hit on the deep stuff, but mostly because we were a half step out of bounds. We may be close there needing a little more touch.

Jake Camarda. Beast. 1 touchback. I'm guessing about 4 pinned at or inside the 10? A boomer fair caught at the 20. Great day for Camarda.

Return game averaged 40 on kickoff returns for Mcintosh. Kearis averaged 17 on punt returns (who also had perfect day receiving I think). I was surprised to see Stevenson return one for 23. A big guy like that would be hard for a speedster to take down 1 on 1.

Lecounte/Stokes/ and the 3 defenders who blew up the reverse for a safety.

Players who flashed:
Nolan Smith defending his edge
Jalen Carter running down a sack from behind
Dean and Rice plugging gaps.
Kearis Jackson looking like the guy who won the starting job out of camp fall 2019.
Cleveland. The only lineman who consistently got movement. We are going to be running behind him more. In the 4th down conversion, he pushed 2 defenders back 4 yards.
Fitzpatrick and Washington both looked sharp. Damn if they cant fall forward for 4 more yards. Big and long dudes.

Guys running gassers
Special teams holding pisses me off. Landers hurt us when we needed the momentum.
Mathis didnt seem to make good decisions on the read option. And when he did keep, he didnt seem to make good decisions with the ball (where to run, when to cut upfield, and when to protect his body).

Stadium runs
Trey Hill is finally an upperclassman. He's got to play better. For some nagging reason, I've always hoped he would slide back to guard and a better center would emerge. He may be the best we have available, but I think we could lose games because of his play (no push/movement which is critical in short yardage and inconsistent snapping).

Mathis needs better pocket presence. The edge defenders ran deep arcs. Our tackles arent going to swallow those defenders. They can only ride them deep. Never once did Mathis adjust and step underneath it. He turned into it a few times.
It took a minute, but eventually Monken called some b gap runs to take advantage of all of that vacated space by the defense. Running behind Cleveland should be a regularplaycalling, imo.
This post was edited on 9/27/20 at 7:35 am
Posted by IT_Dawg
Georgia
Member since Oct 2012
26397 posts
Posted on 9/27/20 at 7:38 am to
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Lecounte

He played really well at times and sloppy as shite at others.

Got toasted for the TD in the first half.

He needs to be more consistent and be the leader we all expect him to be. No doubt he will practice hard this week and be ready for Auburn, but he doesn’t deserve to look at a game ball, much less get one
Posted by meansonny
ATL
Member since Sep 2012
26046 posts
Posted on 9/27/20 at 7:42 am to
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No doubt he will practice hard this week and be ready for Auburn, but he doesn’t deserve to look at a game ball, much less get one


I only saw the 1 misread. He was stepping up because of pressure on Franks. If you saw more, feel free to share.

Having Stevenson cover a speedster was a mismatch by our DC. Stokes (and I guess Campbell) will always be holding a jersey. It will work so long as the receiver never trips. The DBs were in position almost every play except for Stevenson on those crossing routes. I think Webb got subbed in to handle those better and it looked like he did.
Posted by Dawgy49
North Georgia
Member since Sep 2015
4957 posts
Posted on 9/27/20 at 7:55 am to
I know I’m spoiled going back for years but, I’m pretty concerned about our running backs.
Posted by dan765
Charleston
Member since Aug 2016
1170 posts
Posted on 9/27/20 at 8:17 am to
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I’m pretty concerned about our running backs.
I’m not. Arkansas was keyed on stopping the run and daring Mathis to beat them through the air, which he was unable to do. When mailman came in and was hitting passes, the running lanes opened up.
Posted by olddawg26
Member since Jan 2013
26316 posts
Posted on 9/27/20 at 8:25 am to
This is a good take. They saw Mathis rattled, throwing miscues and not reading very well, and stacked the box against the run. Got 4-6 more yards per run once they had to start pulling a guy or two off the line to help in air coverage
Posted by IT_Dawg
Georgia
Member since Oct 2012
26397 posts
Posted on 9/27/20 at 8:47 am to
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I only saw the 1 misread. He was stepping up because of pressure on Franks. If you saw more, feel free to share.


He was actually in the wrong position on his pick too. He was up and behind the TE. Worked out because of the bad throw, but should’ve been over the top. Good throw there and it’s a 20 yard gain instead of 5
Posted by chillmonster
Atlanta, GA
Member since Dec 2018
5712 posts
Posted on 9/27/20 at 8:58 am to
LeCounte gets the game ball.

Just rewatched the game and he was in on almost every good play that happened on defense.

He did make one mistake, but it wasn't getting burned. It was a scramble drill where Franks was flushed out of the pocket by Smith, the WR turned up field what was a short route, while LeCounte tried to play the run. It was still a mistake for sure.

If not Richard the game ball goes to the Defense as a whole.
Posted by chillmonster
Atlanta, GA
Member since Dec 2018
5712 posts
Posted on 9/27/20 at 10:31 am to
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He was actually in the wrong position on his pick too.


No he wasn't. They were in cover 2 and the guy came open when Quay Waker bit on the play fake.

Play
This post was edited on 9/27/20 at 10:34 am
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