re: Georgia fans, what are your expectations for the Dawgs this season?

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We have a NC QB

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I thought he was from GA? But that aside sub 65%, averaged under 20 passes a game… a game manager at best.

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arguably the best overall receiving corps in the country

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1,300ish yards spread over every returning WR through 15 games….
Or 87ish yards a game. That’s a stretch to suggest “best in the country much less the conference or even division. Add in Bowers and you add 880 yards which gets you to 140ish a games.

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I also think our running game will be the surprise to many teams

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Milton and McIntosh are in new roles and everyone’s else is untested.



Thanks for the honest answer. Nice to see some insight into the reasoning behind the statement.

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Milton and McIntosh are in new roles and everyone’s else is untested

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KMac isn’t in a new role at all. He’s just gonna get more touches. I will say that I have no clue why UGA fans are counting Milton as a great RB. He’s had very poor YPC at UGA, has ball security issues, and is not a receiving threat. Maybe he turns it around but he’s not shown anything yet.

He clearly has a detailed opinion about them that he had no problem sharing repeatedly. Shouldn't be difficult to give some predictions on their performance.

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He clearly has a detailed opinion about them that he had no problem sharing repeatedly. Shouldn't be difficult to give some predictions on their performance.

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I haven’t really been reading his posts, but I’m pretty sure he said our offense will regress. I’m not really sure how he can come to that conclusion.

Stetson most likely will be slightly better. Hard to imagine you can win a national championship without learning a thing or two.

RBs will probably be slightly worse, but Cook is really the only one that’s tough to replace.

OL is definitely better or the same. Bringing back 3 starters + Ratledge who was supposed to start at RG before he got injured vs Clemson.

WR should be better. Lost Burton, but Mitchell and McConkey were the key contributors in big games, and they were both freshmen. Not to mention Blaylock and Smith getting back in the fold.

TE is better. Everyone back + Gilbert & Delp

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Stetson most likely will be slightly better. Hard to imagine you can win a national championship without learning a thing or two.

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He has about 20 starts under his belt AND he now has an offseason to work with the #1s and build better rapport. This is his third season with Monken and Monken's first offseason to design the playbook around stetsons strengths

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RBs will probably be slightly worse, but Cook is really the only one that’s tough to replace.

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McIntosh has better hands than Cook.
And 2021 Cook was significantly better than the 2020/2019/2018 version (there were UGA fans predicting prior to 2021 that he wouldn't be drafted).
It isn't that far of a reach to see McIntosh being better than Cook in several areas (at first thought, everywhere but pass protection).

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OL is definitely better or the same. Bringing back 3 starters + Ratledge who was supposed to start at RG before he got injured vs Clemson.

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We should be better. But one of UGAs strengths under Kirby has been depth on OL. We lose versatility in Salyer and we will hope our 6th and 7th man are better off the bench.

I agree with everything else.

UGA Points per Game (conference games only):

2020 - 33.2 ppg
2021 - 37.8 ppg
2022 - ???

'20 was Monken's first year with no offseason prep due to COVID shutdowns and three starting QBs through the year

'21 was Monken's second year but the first with a full offseason of prep, but the guy doing the prep didn't end up being the starter for the majority of the season

'22 will be Monken's thrid year as OC and his first being able to prep the starting QB for a full off-season (as long as Bennett stays healthy of course)



Couple that with what is looking to be UGA's best OL in a long time and tons of returning experience and depth at WR and RB, and you get the makings of a really potent offense.

THEY WILL GO 0-1 TO START, and perhaps go on a winning streak afterwards!

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I blame Coley for that.

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It's sickening how bad him and schottenheimer (they both seem to be cut from the same cloth) were for us. Just disgraceful. it didin't REALLY matter in 2019 since LSu was going to win it all regardless, so I guess the only real difference is we would've beaten SC which was completely irrelevant to our season anyway. But just seeing the buttload of talent get wasted under him is sad. Watching an OC who knows what he's doing utilize guys like cook and bowers appropriately is such a joy compared to coley's buffoonery. I still can't believe kirby let him be OC.

He really did. Think abotu this though- if we had MOnken in 2019 (or even kept chaney, doens't matter) and Fromm had a much better season he likely returns for 2020. We probably do better in 2020 but still probably not a playoff team. So that would mean we go into 2021 with Carson beck at the helm since stetson probably doesn't transfer back. And we have no national title. So now that I think about it, I guess we ultimately benefitted with how utterly shitty coley was.

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usually a mega sunshine pumper but cmon. Ladd, Rosemy, Kearis, Mitchell are all solid but none have proven to be elite. Arian has never been healthy. Brock is elite as a TE though.


He’s lumping in the TEs in overall “receiving corps.” Which it should be when talking about passing weapons

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Thank you. TE's are part of a receiving corps, as are RB's on occasion. Mitchell, Blaylock, Gilbert, Bowers, Jacksaint, McConkey, Washington, Smith and Meeks, who average 3.9 recruiting stars between them, are overall a dynamic roster of pass catchers. And Mitchell and McConkey bring the average down at 3 stars each. I don't put all of my eggs in the star basket, but this group has potential to be very special, given the QB and o-line that we have. I've always favored an overall good lunch pail group over one with a singular superstar.