Pathetic, really. Hard to assign that strong of a word to a team that won.
We won on a prayer and a miracle pass that even Dobbs himself said he did not think would be completed.
D on the last score was weak but the second half we were pretty good as well.
Our D had 2 really bad series in the 2nd half....both resulted in TDs that should've beaten us.
I do not know why we are so slow to start in the first half of games but conditioning and depth are more than likely the culprits.
I don't think it is a matter of conditioning in the first half. We have NOT looked fatigued in any game so far. I don't think it's any single thing--but I do think it's a lack of URGENCY mixed in with a little big of overconfidence that is borderline cockiness....exhibit A = Hurd's carelessness in "trotting" into the end zone.
I also think our opponent's have prepared well to stop our vanilla and generic offensive scheme--as well as poor performances by our OL early on in the game. Conditioning has actually HELPED us in the 2nd half.
Georgia offensively had a bad game against OM, but they did beat NC didn't they? Who did they beat, FSU who beat OM?
This line of reasoning is NEVER VALID...sorry....
Your knowledge of football may be extraordinary
I just have a basic knowledge of the fundamentals of the game because I played for some very good coaches. And I watch a lot of COACHES who explain a lot of stuff as they break down film. Lots of stuff out there on the internet to learn from if you take the time to seek it out.
but you do realize that each game is one of matchups and we have some players that coordinators are going to expose.
This statement is one that I take issue with because it is the most misleading statement made in the press--but it ALWAYS sounds good.
Football in the SEC--and everywhere else--is a game that is won in the trenches. If you lose that battle, it will not matter what happens in the match-ups between the WRs and the DBs--even if you have a match-up advantage out there!
Did you watch last Friday night's game between Stanford and Washington? That's a GREAT example of what I am talking about. Washington DOMINATED Stanford in a shocking display of a VERY DOMINANT Defensive line.
They got PRESSURE and contained Stanford's QB with only 4 DL rushing him--and they honestly rattled his cage so bad that he never recovered over the course of that entire game. He held the ball too long even when he had wide open receivers because of it.
The matchups Stanford could win in that game never materialized because of Washington's DL....
On the other hand--Washington DID take advantage of their matchups with Stanford's substitute DBs because their OL dominated Stanford's DL....and protected their QB. That Washington QB had the game of his life!
I was WRONG and picked Stanford to win...but honestly--after watching the game....it would NOT have mattered if Stanford BOTH of their CBs healthy for that game because Washington was DOMINATING the LOS!!!
To be sure--UGA took advantage of their TE against our sub LB in #20 McDowell to get a TD in the 3rd QTR that was a poor match-up--So, we did have a poor match-up with our LB against their TE....BUT---
IT ALSO happened because we kept running a COVER 2 man under scheme all day with both Safeties providing over the top coverage on the outside. This SCHEME ALWAYS leaves the middle of the field WIDE open for the TE or the slot receiver to exploit our LBs.
Shoop got out-coached here by Chaney in his recognition of Shoop's scheme and called a play to exploit it. Good football on UGA's part, but POOR performance by our alleged GENIUS DC!
You don't have to stay in Cover 2 man under to expose ourselves to this play--You may run Cover 1 man under or even Cover 3 to prevent that play from happening. But we did--and we even continued to run it and gave up ANOTHER TD that should've beaten us!!
And THAT IS WHY I SAY what I have seen from SHOOP so far has not been PRETTY.
I enjoy the conversation--and sometimes go overboard in my statements....but I'm just being honest about what I see out there.
And I capitalize words not to yell, but to emphasize.
We're just not getting it done so far on D--and I firmly believe that aTm is gonna expose us in a very bad way this Saturday. :salute:
GO VOLS!
