Kirby Benchmark Game

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At this point in his career we're finally Alabama's equal in talent. In fact, going by the talent composite we actually have slightly more talent. So, both sides being equal we're going to see if we've improved since 2018. However, I don't actually think this game would be the final word if we lose.

This game is really answering the question of whether Bennett is good enough to lead us to a national championship. We're elite at every other position. If Bennett isn't a true difference maker and we lose then I think the only adjustment Smart should make is bringing in JT against UK to see if he's the guy that can beat BAMA in December.

Nothing else matters with this program right now. Every one of us knows we can win-out the rest of our schedule based solely on run game and defense. What we've been preparing for is BAMA.

It's good we're figuring out whether we're good enough early in the season, so we can make adjustments if it's not good enough. This is a high pressure game but not really. We can still attain all our goals for the season but it'll be interesting to see where we're at as a program and in particular our player development.

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Honestly I think with this post you nailed every aspect of uga vs ua 2020. BAM!

Our overall talent is probably close to most of the previous NC teams with the glaring exception of QB. I love Bennett. He plays with heart and is overachieving considering his lack of size and arm strength. But the truth is we have not had a NFL caliber QB since Matt Stafford.

The characteristics of a NC level QB in college football are pretty clear at this point: tall with a strong arm and athletic with the ability to stretch defenses horizontally and vertically and pick up first downs running the ball in critical situations. Two such QBs came from our state and won NCs for Clemson, Deshaun Watson and Trevor Lawrence. Joe Burrow was the same type of QB for LSU.
We have superior recruiting but we need to focus on these type of quarterbacks: freak athletes who are also accurate passers who can quickly survey the field and make good choices; in other words great QBs who are are on the same level as our great defense and history of great RBs.

First time I am excited to play Bama and not nervous.

I think we come to play this one boys.

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Bama's offense is as good, or better than the last few Bama teams, so that's going to be a huge challenge for the UGA defense. A defense that can be beat with the deep pass.

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Every time a Bama WR runs a deep pattern, we should sub a DB for whoever covered him. Have that DB ready to go in as soon as the play is over so there is no confusion if Bama runs a hurry-up offense. Fresh legs all the time.

Gotta try something. At least the Dawgs have enough depth to try that.

Am I the only one that's skeptical of the BAMA offense? I guess it's impressive putting up points against A&M but I think our offense could score the same amount of points on the teams they've played. I think they're more explosive but I don't think they're unstoppable.

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you hit the nail on the head. I don't really buy into the whole "we are more talented than bama" narrative that people and websites want to claim. Sure our 1-85 overall roster may be slightly more talented on paper, but does it really matter if our 70th guy on teh roster was a high 4* while bama's 70th guy was a mid 4*? That couldn't be more irrelvant. Games liek this are won with your top 15 guys, true game breakers that win you games. The fact is we have MAYBE 1-2 people MAX that would start for bama's offense. The flip side is our defense appears to be much better than theirs whihc you'd think woudl even out. But as we saw last year an elite offense can make even great defenses look subpar.

Our offense is good enough to win a lot of games, but bennett just isn't really a national title caliber QB IMO from what we've seen so far. If you're gonna have a stetson at QB it'd be ideal to have a 2017 OL/run game to go with it, neither of which we have right now.

I don't doubt that we can beat this year's bama team, this is maybe the weakest defense they've had since 2007. But I don't know if we can beat them twice. And if we do lose to them, be it once or twice, it will 100% because of our talent disadvantage.

Since 2000 only about half of the teams to win a National Title had incredible QBs lead them there. Elite defenses is a much more common theme than having a NFL talent at QB.

None of Bamas QBs amounted to much, none of LSUs either, Burrow being an exception.

Even OSUs tend to wash out.

Great nfl qbs tend to come out of lesser programs for some reason.