re: Man our 2024 season sure was wild

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It's not their fault we LED THE NATION on dropped passes

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This is a coaching issue with the WR's and Bobo is head of the Offense, then who gets the blame for not fixing it within 15 games + offseason workouts + fall camp?

I see a lot of "not their fault", I know being a homer is all well and good, but accountability should be part of your critique as well.

For the objective observer, there is a lot of coaching fault in your write up.

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e difference is when stet was throwing to him he was like the 4th or 5th option.

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Lol no. That's not the difference in number/percentage of drops. Had it not been for Bowers/Ladd insane catches, his numbers would have been worse that year. Nice try, though.

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Becks odd release and timing made his passes tough to catch.

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why didn't we have the same issue in 2023 then?

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Stetson always put touch on the ball and while he may not have hit them Instride, the ball was caught for enormous gains not 5 yards over thrown.

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having brock/ladd/MRJ/pickens probably helped too

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This is a coaching issue with the WR's

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This was a QUALITY issue with the WRs….not coaching. At that level you shouldn’t have to coach a receiver at how to catch. Maybe timing between QB and WRs due to not enough reps could be coaching but when it hits you in the damn hands…that’s on the WR not being good enough.

Blame recruiting maybe?

ETA: I haven’t been paying much attention but just looked at our 2025 receiving core and we are going to have some natural WRs that are proven this year. Let’s see if this changes things.

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This was a QUALITY issue with the WRs….not coaching. At that level you shouldn’t have to coach a receiver at how to catch. Maybe timing between QB and WRs due to not enough reps could be coaching but when it hits you in the damn hands…that’s on the WR not being good enough.

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So, Dylan Dell suddenly forgot how to catch the ball and Lovette forgot how to catch? And Arian forgot how to catch?

All of these guys had 2 to 4 years of playing at the highest level already and they accounted for the majority of the drops. So, if its not coaching and QB, I do not know what is.

And if its not coaching, then why would you have those guys playing and not give the other guys a chance? Instead, they rode with the WR's that couldn't catch a cold, your guys phrase.

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We thoroughly dominated on both sides the entire gmae. One of the more signature wins in UGA football history, if we're being honest. Now things are lookin back up again

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Watched the first half the other day.

One of Kirby's best games along with Bobo.Could've easily been up 30-0 at half if not for Beck's screwups.
UT was thoroughly confused on both sides of the ball.
Their OL was completely overmatched.

In no way did this team resemble a CMR coached team.

Was watching some older games yestrday and had another thought. Here is a list of some of our third (3rd) string RBs over the last 10 seasons:

Sony Michel, Deandre Swift, elijah holifield, brian herrien, kenny mcintosh, james cook, zamir white, kendall milton, aijuan edwards

I mean, damn. That's a list of all SEC caliber guys, some which are AA caliber guys that have gone on to excel in the NFL. Our 3rd string RB last year was a white walkon in cash jones. Granted there were injuries galore at the position which is nobody's fault. I'm simply illustrating, along with previous discussions about WR and TE, that is is an indisputable fact that we simply were not nearly as talented last year as we've been in many of the preceding years. If you can't see that and ONLY want to blame bobo/beck then you very clearly have a personal agenda and can't be reasoned with using logic or common sense.

I’ll get hate for this but I’ll call out the obvious. 2024 was a good example of what happens when you have mediocre position coaches. Beck regressed, made terrible reads that lead to interceptions(coaching). The wide receivers struggled all year(first year under coley). Run game struggled(lost Dell McGee). And multiple games the o line looked absolutely lost. Couldn’t score any points in the first half of most games, WR couldn’t catch a cold. And if you don’t want to blame the coaching and put it on players, who is responsible for developing the players?!? The coaches….

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So, Dylan Dell suddenly forgot how to catch the ball and Lovette forgot how to catch? And Arian forgot how to catch?

All of these guys had 2 to 4 years of playing at the highest level already and they accounted for the majority of the drops. So, if its not coaching and QB, I do not know what is.

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At most maybe play design…or Becks ball\timing. Who knows? We’ve seen before where guys with strong arms (Eason) try to out throw coverage.

But I think it’s lazy thinking to go straight to coaching for WRs that were otherwise productive dropping catchable passes.

Early in the Alabama game, first game against Texas. He threw 3 picks against 3 different teams. Let me guess it was all of those were the recievers fault? You can’t blame a 2:1 td to int ratio all on the receivers