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My Summary of the NCG
Posted on 1/9/18 at 9:33 am
Posted on 1/9/18 at 9:33 am
1. Our defense played well enough to win the game in regulation time; our offense did not.
2. Our defense did not play well enough to win the game in OT; we need better defensive backs if we are going to win a NC.
3. Saban is the best coach in college football. It took guts to start the Freshman, Tua, in the 2nd half but it was obviously the difference for their offense; Tua threw 3 TD passes.
4. Alabama has the best defense in college football. They completely dominated the LOS in the 2nd half.
5. Pruitt is obviously a great DC and Tennessee is lucky to have him.
6. Fromm did not play well enough to win the game. Fromm completed just 50% of his passes: 16-32-232 yds with 2 INT's and 1 TD. He was off target on most of his passes; Ridley bailed him out several times on passes that were behind him.
7. Our best receiver, Wims, caught just 1 pass for 16 yards.
8. Our Ridley had the best game of his career catching 6 passes for 82 yards.
9. Our OL got completely owned in the 2nd half. We are going to have to have better OL line play next season to win against teams like Alabama and Clemson. Alabama's front 7 are the best in college football.
10. Statistically the game was as close as the score. We had 2 more first downs than they did and ran 6 more plays than they did. The total offense was very close; they had more rushing yardage but we had more passing yards. The difference was big plays; Tua came in and threw 3 TD passes.
11. Our offense was not managed well in the 2nd half. Chubb had just 25 yards in 18 carries. Michel had 14 carries for 98 yards. The obvious question is: why weren't we using Michel more in the 2nd half in place of Chubb? We had no significant innovation/creativity prepared for the NCG. There were no wrinkles in the Wild Dog in the 2nd half; everyone in the stadium knew what was going to happen when we ran that play. What we needed was a play similar to the play that OU ran against us in which the Wild Dog QB runs wide forcing the defense to come up to stop the run and then drops a pass over their heads to a trailing receiver. But our blocking was so bad on the right side that it probably would not have worked. We should have done 2 TE alignments on the right side to provide more blocking.
12. Some of the missed calls against Alabama were so obvious that you have to wonder if the refs weren't playing bookie-ball; unfortunately Alabama couldn't kick the extra point in OT to cover the point spread.
13. We have a bright future.
2. Our defense did not play well enough to win the game in OT; we need better defensive backs if we are going to win a NC.
3. Saban is the best coach in college football. It took guts to start the Freshman, Tua, in the 2nd half but it was obviously the difference for their offense; Tua threw 3 TD passes.
4. Alabama has the best defense in college football. They completely dominated the LOS in the 2nd half.
5. Pruitt is obviously a great DC and Tennessee is lucky to have him.
6. Fromm did not play well enough to win the game. Fromm completed just 50% of his passes: 16-32-232 yds with 2 INT's and 1 TD. He was off target on most of his passes; Ridley bailed him out several times on passes that were behind him.
7. Our best receiver, Wims, caught just 1 pass for 16 yards.
8. Our Ridley had the best game of his career catching 6 passes for 82 yards.
9. Our OL got completely owned in the 2nd half. We are going to have to have better OL line play next season to win against teams like Alabama and Clemson. Alabama's front 7 are the best in college football.
10. Statistically the game was as close as the score. We had 2 more first downs than they did and ran 6 more plays than they did. The total offense was very close; they had more rushing yardage but we had more passing yards. The difference was big plays; Tua came in and threw 3 TD passes.
11. Our offense was not managed well in the 2nd half. Chubb had just 25 yards in 18 carries. Michel had 14 carries for 98 yards. The obvious question is: why weren't we using Michel more in the 2nd half in place of Chubb? We had no significant innovation/creativity prepared for the NCG. There were no wrinkles in the Wild Dog in the 2nd half; everyone in the stadium knew what was going to happen when we ran that play. What we needed was a play similar to the play that OU ran against us in which the Wild Dog QB runs wide forcing the defense to come up to stop the run and then drops a pass over their heads to a trailing receiver. But our blocking was so bad on the right side that it probably would not have worked. We should have done 2 TE alignments on the right side to provide more blocking.
12. Some of the missed calls against Alabama were so obvious that you have to wonder if the refs weren't playing bookie-ball; unfortunately Alabama couldn't kick the extra point in OT to cover the point spread.
13. We have a bright future.
This post was edited on 1/9/18 at 9:49 am
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Posted on 1/9/18 at 9:46 am to GurleyGirl
Here's mine: well, frick.
Posted on 1/9/18 at 10:14 am to GurleyGirl
This team is hands down a championship caliber team. They can compete with anyone in the country and the outcome does not take any of that away from them.
Posted on 1/9/18 at 10:17 am to GurleyGirl
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Our defense played well enough to win the game in regulation time;
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we need better defensive backs if we are going to win a NC.
So we could've won... but don't have the DBs to win. WTF
Posted on 1/9/18 at 10:18 am to GurleyGirl
Although we shouldn't had to have in the first place, we could've overcome the shitty refs if we'd stuck to the passing game in the 2nd half that was working in the 1st. OR if we didn't abandon runs to the edge. The defense by and large did their job. The tackling was sloppy when we needed it most.
Posted on 1/9/18 at 10:34 am to SneakyWaff1es
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So we could've won...
Yes, we could have won in regulation if our offense had driven down and scored the winning FG or TD with about 3 minutes left in the game.
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but don't have the DBs to win. WTF
Correct. Our DB's and obviously Tua's outstanding play were obviously a factor in allowing Bama to come back and tie the game in regulation but we still could have won in regulation with ample offense. And yea we left a receiver wide-open in OT which cost us the game. And yes, we will need better play in the defensive backfield next season to have a chance of beating teams like Alabama (with Tua) and OU with quarterbacks like Mayfield, etc.
Posted on 1/9/18 at 10:39 am to GurleyGirl
DB's were a known issue going into the last several seasons. They've been helped by the fact we didn't face many great passing teams. I believe Smart is recruiting to fix that problem, but we still need help there, hopefully coming before this signing day.
He's an aggressive play caller on D, but that works best when you have a ton of talent on the front 7 and an NFL secondary. Otherwise you end up getting routinely burned by big plays. Next season will be a big struggle for him at UT. Beyond that, the bigger question is how can he manage a football program. Being a coordinator is far different from running the program, and his time to devote to the defense will be signficantly less than in the past. With unknowns at OC and DC, Pruitt is a long way from proving that he has the temperament or intelligence to be a high level head coach, IMO.
On Chubb, even though his ypc was pretty good this year, I thought he never regained his confidence. Too many cuts in the hole, not enough lower his shoulder and use his power. I really respect NC, hope he does well, but Sony probably should have gotten more carries as the season went on.
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Pruitt is obviously a great DC and Tennessee is lucky to have him.
He's an aggressive play caller on D, but that works best when you have a ton of talent on the front 7 and an NFL secondary. Otherwise you end up getting routinely burned by big plays. Next season will be a big struggle for him at UT. Beyond that, the bigger question is how can he manage a football program. Being a coordinator is far different from running the program, and his time to devote to the defense will be signficantly less than in the past. With unknowns at OC and DC, Pruitt is a long way from proving that he has the temperament or intelligence to be a high level head coach, IMO.
On Chubb, even though his ypc was pretty good this year, I thought he never regained his confidence. Too many cuts in the hole, not enough lower his shoulder and use his power. I really respect NC, hope he does well, but Sony probably should have gotten more carries as the season went on.
This post was edited on 1/9/18 at 10:49 am
Posted on 1/9/18 at 10:48 am to wdhalgren
Agree with everything you said. Yep, it will be interesting to see how Pruitt fairs at UT without the level of recruiting he had at FSU, UGA and Bama but considering the debacle that was the Tennessee recruiting process, I do think UT did well in nabbing Pruitt from Alabama.
Posted on 1/9/18 at 11:07 am to GurleyGirl
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we could have won in regulation if our offense had driven down and scored the winning FG or TD with about 3 minutes left in the game.
If this is true then our DBs were good enough to win. You're contradicting yourself.
Posted on 1/9/18 at 11:16 am to GurleyGirl
Agree with your summary. These are my initial thoughts:
- Fromm played poorly throughout the majority of the game and made some huge mistakes but he is a true freshman and held his own against the best defense in the country. It didn't help that Wims got hurt.
- My biggest issue was with the conservative play-calling in the second half...I felt like we needed to stick with the passing game a bit more with better passing schemes that could have made things easier for Jake. Tight ends?
- Defense played well for the majority of the game but Tua was the difference maker. We had them on a 3rd and 7 with 3 defenders ready to sack him...he evades everyone and escapes to get a first down. They went on to score a TD. That was a critical missed opportunity for the defense.
- The officiating was really frustrating and definitely favored Bama but at the end of the day we had an opportunity to win the game and we came up short.
- This was truly the best season of UGA football I have ever seen and was filled with so many amazing moments from Terry's catch at ND to Sony's run at the Rose Bowl. Although we came up short, I will never ever forget this season and the players that sacrificed to make this a special year.
- We are here to stay and with consistent elite recruiting will be back in this game in no time.
Go dawgs
- Fromm played poorly throughout the majority of the game and made some huge mistakes but he is a true freshman and held his own against the best defense in the country. It didn't help that Wims got hurt.
- My biggest issue was with the conservative play-calling in the second half...I felt like we needed to stick with the passing game a bit more with better passing schemes that could have made things easier for Jake. Tight ends?
- Defense played well for the majority of the game but Tua was the difference maker. We had them on a 3rd and 7 with 3 defenders ready to sack him...he evades everyone and escapes to get a first down. They went on to score a TD. That was a critical missed opportunity for the defense.
- The officiating was really frustrating and definitely favored Bama but at the end of the day we had an opportunity to win the game and we came up short.
- This was truly the best season of UGA football I have ever seen and was filled with so many amazing moments from Terry's catch at ND to Sony's run at the Rose Bowl. Although we came up short, I will never ever forget this season and the players that sacrificed to make this a special year.
- We are here to stay and with consistent elite recruiting will be back in this game in no time.
Go dawgs
This post was edited on 1/9/18 at 11:17 am
Posted on 1/9/18 at 11:26 am to Red&Black
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- Defense played well for the majority of the game but Tua was the difference maker. We had them on a 3rd and 7 with 3 defenders ready to sack him...he evades everyone and escapes to get a first down. They went on to score a TD. That was a critical missed opportunity for the defense.
I consider that play as the turning point in the game. Sack Tua there and force them to punt and they might have come up short on the scoreboard even with our paltry offense in the 2nd half. How we missed tackling Tua during that play is an exercise in mental gymnastics.
And yes, I agree with your summary as well.
Posted on 1/9/18 at 11:31 am to SneakyWaff1es
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If this is true then our DBs were good enough to win. You're contradicting yourself.
Sometimes a team is able to overcome a weakness in their team. Unfortunately we weren't able to overcome too many weaknesses including: insufficient secondary coverage, Fromm not throwing accurately, OL getting owned in the 2nd half and poor play-calling in the 2nd half.
Posted on 1/9/18 at 12:11 pm to GurleyGirl
Fromm was shaky in the 2nd half. Had some bad misses and made a horrible decision on the 2nd INT. That cost us points as we were already in Bama territory and almost in FG range.
Chaney was awful. Absolutely awful in the 2nd half. Why didn't Michel get more carries. Why go to the Wild Dawg, over and over again, deep in our own territory against the best rush defense in the nation when they know you will never throw the ball out of that formation. Did we throw to the TE once?
The Officiating was awful in the 2nd half and the fact that all the blown calls went against Georgia and really helped Alabama really does make you wonder.
Chaney was awful. Absolutely awful in the 2nd half. Why didn't Michel get more carries. Why go to the Wild Dawg, over and over again, deep in our own territory against the best rush defense in the nation when they know you will never throw the ball out of that formation. Did we throw to the TE once?
The Officiating was awful in the 2nd half and the fact that all the blown calls went against Georgia and really helped Alabama really does make you wonder.
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Posted on 1/9/18 at 12:21 pm to GurleyGirl
I agree about the DBs. We had been burned time and time again all season where a QB couldn't connect. The weakness didn't cost us in those times, and we just think that the opposing offense failed on a low percentage throw.
But luck is not the same as good defensive technique and play. Heck... Bama threw over the top about 6 times and missed prior to the OT. We might have been in good position in 1 or 2 of those.
But luck is not the same as good defensive technique and play. Heck... Bama threw over the top about 6 times and missed prior to the OT. We might have been in good position in 1 or 2 of those.
Posted on 1/9/18 at 12:30 pm to meansonny
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I agree about the DBs. We had been burned time and time again all season where a QB couldn't connect. The weakness didn't cost us in those times, and we just think that the opposing offense failed on a low percentage throw.
But luck is not the same as good defensive technique and play. Heck... Bama threw over the top about 6 times and missed prior to the OT. We might have been in good position in 1 or 2 of those.
Yep, being more lucky than good might get you by on occasion but sooner than later it's going to catch up with you as we saw last night in OT.
Posted on 1/9/18 at 12:47 pm to GurleyGirl
They missed because they were tackled by 77!!!
Posted on 1/9/18 at 12:53 pm to NCdawgfan34
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Defense played well for the majority of the game but Tua was the difference maker. We had them on a 3rd and 7 with 3 defenders ready to sack him...he evades everyone and escapes to get a first down. They went on to score a TD. That was a critical missed opportunity for the defense.
There was a blantant hold that went uncalled on that play. One of our guys was literally tackled.
Posted on 1/9/18 at 12:55 pm to MacDawg
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There was a blantant hold that went uncalled on that play. One of our guys was literally tackled.
Posted on 1/9/18 at 1:21 pm to FooManChoo
Fromm played exceptionally well. He was off in the 2H because Chaney took him out of his rhythm. Both of his picks were flukey, though the first pick was definitely underthrown but I put that pick more on Wims.
Chubb isn't the style of back to succeed against Bama's D. They're sure-tacklers, big, and fast. Nick can chew up defenses who are smaller and rely on arm tackling. Sony, with his speed, was the obvious choice in crunch time but apparently our OC didn't see it.
That 3rd and 7 where Tua escaped the sack was definitely the turning point in the game. Couldn't believe it when it happened.
As mentioned, tackling went to shite in the 2nd half. I also was left questioning why Mel didn't approach Tua the same way he approached Mayfield. Tua hadn't faced any defense worth a shite all season yet we just sat back, rushed 4, and played zone coverage most of the time. When we were able to apply pressure, Tua looked nervous and made mistakes. Should have kept pressure on him and made him make plays.
I thought the OLine did pretty well all game, especially in pass protect. Jake got hit/hurried a couple times but, overall, I thought he had a nice pocket to throw from. Run blocking was another matter, especially sending Chubb up the gut. Fortunately we have a stable of behemoths ready to make that OLine one of the best in the country.
Chubb isn't the style of back to succeed against Bama's D. They're sure-tacklers, big, and fast. Nick can chew up defenses who are smaller and rely on arm tackling. Sony, with his speed, was the obvious choice in crunch time but apparently our OC didn't see it.
That 3rd and 7 where Tua escaped the sack was definitely the turning point in the game. Couldn't believe it when it happened.
As mentioned, tackling went to shite in the 2nd half. I also was left questioning why Mel didn't approach Tua the same way he approached Mayfield. Tua hadn't faced any defense worth a shite all season yet we just sat back, rushed 4, and played zone coverage most of the time. When we were able to apply pressure, Tua looked nervous and made mistakes. Should have kept pressure on him and made him make plays.
I thought the OLine did pretty well all game, especially in pass protect. Jake got hit/hurried a couple times but, overall, I thought he had a nice pocket to throw from. Run blocking was another matter, especially sending Chubb up the gut. Fortunately we have a stable of behemoths ready to make that OLine one of the best in the country.
Posted on 1/9/18 at 3:07 pm to mmmmmbeeer
If we take the dive up the middle out of our playbook forever, it'll be too soon, after what we saw last night.
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