re: Georgia - pick your poison

That’s because you are having some success.
I think this Kentucky team is probably the best 1 yet. Now go win and shut up the nay sayers

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Leary can pass?

In games against P5 opponents he had 205 yards vs Vandy and 69 yards vs UF. 51% and 47% completions in those two games. 2TD and 2INT.

That doesn't really suggest a competent passer.

I'm pretty sure we'll pick Leary as the lesser threat. I think every other team would do the same.

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Have you ever heard of keeping the pass play from getting out at games that aren't needed against weaker teams and saving the better ones and throw more passes against better teams to throw the other team's defense off.

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UGA has some of the same coaches. Lanning is gone, for one.

The Xs and Os might be the same, but the Jimmys and Joes aren't.

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The Jimmy's and Joe's are not the same for certain but they also ain't a bunch of 2 and 3 stars and prefferred walk ons....UGA is very talented. It will be a dog fight, UK could very well pull off the upset....UGA is due for one based on CFB history in general and UGA history in particular. That being said I doubt seriously if UKs running game from the UF game is typical and I know that UG's running D from the Auburn game is HIGHLY unlikely to be repeated...which means UK will need a passing game and that has been hard to come by. UGA struggles with eliter passing games and mobile QBs. UK is a mirror image of UGA with slightly less talent. They are not what UGA has struggled with in years. They may this week, but odds are not good that they will...

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I'm not saying that the sky is falling or that UGA is overmatched.

What I am saying is that referencing the team from two years ago as an indicator of what will happen in this game is ridiculous.

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You are spot on. This is UGAs biggest test thus far this season and may be the biggest regular season test of all. UK is a very good football team. Well coached, physical and talented. I do not think they are as talented as UGA and are slightly less deep than UGA.

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The Jimmy's and Joe's are not the same for certain but they also ain't a bunch of 2 and 3 stars and prefferred walk ons

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What's funny is we are playing quite a few walk-ons and 3 stars.

Mekhi Mews is a walk on. So is cash jones. Both are getting significant snaps. Walk on Dan Jackson is playing a ton as well. 3-star WR Dillon Bell is having to play tons of snaps at RB. Ladd McConkey was a 3-star. So was Rara Thomas.

Not really arguing your point, but it's funny how many "lesser talent" guys are huge contributors for UGA this year.

Leary has a 57.3% completion rate. He can barely pass.

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We got our best researchers working on a solution to the WR drop problem.

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I don't think they have invented a solution to the problem that the UGA DBs are going to be.
We have the 3 best safeties in college football and what looks to be a legit shut down corner (so far).

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What's funny is we are playing quite a few walk-ons and 3 stars.

Mekhi Mews is a walk on. So is cash jones. Both are getting significant snaps. Walk on Dan Jackson is playing a ton as well. 3-star WR Dillon Bell is having to play tons of snaps at RB. Ladd McConkey was a 3-star. So was Rara Thomas.

Not really arguing your point, but it's funny how many "lesser talent" guys are huge contributors for UGA this year.

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It really is and unfortunately it may well be the reason we have struggled against what would appear to be lesser opponents and not the same reason we struggled last year against a couple of lesser opponents in Mizzooo and to a lesser extent Kent State. Coupled with injuries we are indeed playing a pile of guys who were not highly recruited.

The biggest issue so far is lack of depth at running back and the lack of experience at QB and WR (Dom Lovett and Ra Ra Thomas combined with no McConkey for 4 weeks).

All of that improves with time.
Throw Amarius Mims back out at right tackle and the line depth/familiarity improves.

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Regarding my reference to the past…..

Each year, each team is different. Players graduate, new ones arrive. Hence trying to say your team is “great” because they were last year is ludicrous. Each year a team succeeds or fails on the merits of that particular year. So - drop the ad hominem of past success. It is boring and irrelevant.

As for Kentucky’s passing…. I wonder how many realize that Kentucky’s first touchdown last week was - a pass from Leary. It’s not the quality or the precision or quantity of the pass…..but whether they result in scores.

Georgia is in for a game, just don’t try and convince me that they will destroy Kentucky……based on past years.

To put it another way…….Stenson ain’t walkin’ out that tunnel!

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That's a nice diatribe and everything, but as long as Kirby Smart is the coach at Georgia, then the past is a factor and the past does matter to some extent.


(AWAY) 2022/11/19 Georgia 16 - Kentucky 6 W
(HOME) 2021/10/16 Georgia 30 - Kentucky 13 W
(AWAY) 2020/10/31 Georgia 14 - Kentucky 3 W
(HOME) 2019/10/19 Georgia 21 - Kentucky 0 W
(AWAY) 2018/11/03 Georgia 34 - Kentucky 17 W
(HOME) 2017/11/18 Georgia 42 - Kentucky 13 W
(AWAY) 2016/11/05 Georgia 27 - Kentucky 24 W