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All-Richt team people that would start in 2021

Posted on 8/15/22 at 2:41 pm
Posted by WG_Dawg
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Posted on 8/15/22 at 2:41 pm
Was looking for a bookmark and came across a "what is your all-richt team" thread from 10 years ago. With it being 2012 it obviously left off the last few years of his tenure so there's that. I'm going to copy and paste what I originally wrote but edit to include multiple people at each position to include guys that also seemed to get a lot of votes in the thread. I'm also going to throw in guys that hwould be auto-bids if this was done after richt's full tenure (namely adding Gurley since he wouldn't have made this in 2012). Which brings us to the question in the title....how many of these guys that were the best of the best through Richt's first 12 years would have started for our title winning season in 2021?

QB- Shockley/Greene/Stafford/Murray [recent add on]
RB- Knowshon/Gurley [recent add on]
FB- Haynes
TE- Ben Watson/Leonard Pope
WR- AJ Green
WR- Terrence Edwards
OT- Jon Stinchcomb
OT- Trinton Sturdivant
OG- Max Jean-Gilles
OG- Clint Boling
C- Ben Jones/David Andrews [recent add on]

DE- Pollack
DE- Marcus Howard/Charles Johnson
DT- Jonathan Sullivan/Jon Jenkins
DT- Kedrick Golston
OLB- Jarvis/ Leonard Floyd [late add]
OLB- Boss / Justin Houston [late add]
MLB- Odell
CB- Paul Oliver/Tim Jennins
CB- Demario Minter/Brandon Boykin
S- Thomas Davis
S- Sean Jones/Greg Blue


Thoughts:

-Obviously FB isn't used anymore so take that out
-Not to incite a riot but I think Stetson would probably not make the cut considering the other choices
-A Richt RB would start over zamir or kenny. Cook is a wildcard in that we didn't really have that kind of weapon under Richt so Cook would certainly have a place in the offense but not as a #1 back.
-WR gotta go Richt era pretty easily
-TE is probably the biggest "no doubt about it" in the exercise. Obviously for Brock.
-OL is a toughie and honestly I can't really decide. Might have to come back to that
-Defense will be a bit tough up the middle because of the difference in 4-3 vs 3-4
-Pollack has to have a spot, he's just got to. I'm taking the rest of the '21 DL in whatever form or fashion though.
-At ILB Nakobe has gotta be there. So do I take Tindall/Quay or Odell? The game is so wildly different now but I'm probably leaning Odell.
-At OLB I've always had a soft spot for Boss and Jarvis was a monster. I gotta belive Nolan has a spot so are we replacing Adam Anderson with one of those guys? I can't decide.
-At corner it's hard to decide. I'd probably take either Oliver or Jennings over Kendrcik at first glance but then I think Kendrick was nails all year and didn't really falter so I don't want to bench him. Oliver completely and utterly shutting down Calvin Johnson two years in a row has to give him a spot though.
-Thomas Davis is definitely taking a safety spot. Here's the question though. If he takes it from Dan Jackson, do I take Cine or Sean Jones? That's a close one. If TD takes Cine's spot, then Sean Jones definitely takes Dan Jacksons.


It's really a testament to Kirby's recruiting that ~12 years' worth of roster spots is such a close call compared to a single season's roster for kirby. Offense understandably leans more richt while defense probably tends to lean a bit towards kirby since those are their specialties.
Posted by lewis and herschel
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Posted on 8/15/22 at 3:41 pm to
Take the all kirby team as they actually got it done.
Posted by WG_Dawg
Hoover
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Posted on 8/15/22 at 3:52 pm to
quote:

Take the all kirby team as they actually got it done.


you sure love beating that drum dont ya
Posted by lewis and herschel
Member since Nov 2009
11363 posts
Posted on 8/15/22 at 4:04 pm to
Its the main thing, our goal is to keep the main thing, the main thing.

Richt had a lot of superstars for sure.
Posted by deeprig9
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Member since Sep 2012
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Posted on 8/15/22 at 4:07 pm to
Jon Jenkins, just no.

And who on your linebacker list puts Travon Walker, the #1 overall draft pick, on the bench?
Posted by Griffindawg
Member since Oct 2013
6122 posts
Posted on 8/15/22 at 4:19 pm to
I’d say richt had better RBs than Kirby so far bc you left off :
Chubb Sony and pre knee injury Keith Marshall.
Posted by meansonny
ATL
Member since Sep 2012
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Posted on 8/15/22 at 4:20 pm to
quote:

And who on your linebacker list puts Travon Walker, the #1 overall draft pick, on the bench?

It would be Pollack at 4i and 5 tech.
Posted by meansonny
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Member since Sep 2012
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Posted on 8/15/22 at 4:27 pm to
No Brainers

Gurley over Zeus
AJ Green over AD Mitchell

Jalen Carter at FB over verron Haynes
Warren McClendon over Sturdivant
Jordan Davis at nose over sullivan/Jenkins
Devonte Wyatt at DT over Golston
Jarvis Jones over Anderson/Nolan/Beal
Ringo over Minter/Boykin

There are others that shade 1 direction, but I'm sure strong arguments can be conjured to make it not so obvious.
Posted by BranchDawg
Flowery Branch
Member since Nov 2013
9830 posts
Posted on 8/15/22 at 4:49 pm to
At the risk of coming off as a prick, I did do an all-Richt thread after he stepped down in ‘15:

LINK

May help with your question about an updated list

As to your main question:

Gurley
AJ Green
Stinchcomb
Pollack or Jarvis Jones over Beal
Any of those safeties over Christopher Smith or Dan Jackson
This post was edited on 8/15/22 at 5:05 pm
Posted by DawgGoneDaNcer
Member since Jul 2021
754 posts
Posted on 8/15/22 at 5:12 pm to
Gurley over Zeus
AJ Green over AD Mitchell

Jalen Carter at FB over verron Haynes
Warren McClendon over Sturdivant
Jordan Davis at nose over sullivan/Jenkins
Devonte Wyatt at DT over Golston
Jarvis Jones over Anderson/Nolan/Beal
Ringo over Minter/Boykin



This
Posted by deeprig9
Unincorporated Ozora, Georgia
Member since Sep 2012
63865 posts
Posted on 8/15/22 at 5:23 pm to
People acting like Quayvon Hicks never existed.
Posted by RunLindsayRun
LaGrange | Athens
Member since Sep 2012
2727 posts
Posted on 8/15/22 at 6:22 pm to
quote:

People acting like Quayvon Hicks never existed.


He made some big plays for us but he was absolutely clueless whenever he was the lead blocker.
Posted by Porter Osborne Jr
Member since Sep 2012
39970 posts
Posted on 8/15/22 at 6:27 pm to
He had a bad arse facemask though
Posted by meansonny
ATL
Member since Sep 2012
25551 posts
Posted on 8/15/22 at 6:32 pm to
quote:

Any of those safeties over Christopher Smith or Dan Jackson


Yeah. Cine is good enough to make a case. Not Chris Smith (Dirty Dan was came in on dime/nickel as the safety. I don't consider him a starter at safety even though that was his spot)
Posted by AlaCowboy
North Alabama
Member since Dec 2011
6940 posts
Posted on 8/15/22 at 11:27 pm to
You missed Deandre Baker at DB and Roquan at LB, and Chubb and Michel at RB. Richt brought them in.
Posted by dcbl
Good guys wear white hats.
Member since Sep 2013
29645 posts
Posted on 8/16/22 at 9:36 am to
I love Pollack as well, but I don’t think he’d start - he’d play and rotate a bunch, but probably not start

Stetson is a stud, and a gamer - but I think Greene would be the man followed by Shockley with an injury
Posted by ugastreaker
South Ga
Member since Jun 2015
4105 posts
Posted on 8/20/22 at 11:16 pm to
If we are talking about a legit FB...I'm taking Brannan Southerland or JT Wall over Verron Haynes for Richt's all time list. Southerland was a human battering ram and JT was a bull.

Posted by SneakyWaff1es
Member since Nov 2012
3940 posts
Posted on 8/21/22 at 5:51 am to
For my all Richt team, I’d put Ogletree in at MLB.

I think Murray or Shockley would’ve started over Bennett last season. Both Moreno am Gurley would’ve been in front of White and Cook.
Posted by Kneehigh
Low Country
Member since Nov 2012
13203 posts
Posted on 8/21/22 at 10:56 am to
quote:

Sean Jones

I think people have forgotten how good he was… and that 02 defense was legit AF.
Posted by meansonny
ATL
Member since Sep 2012
25551 posts
Posted on 8/21/22 at 11:22 am to
I could see arguments for Jones and arguments for Cine. That's a tough one.
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