our linebackers are just going to have to step up and keep our defensive backs from having to make touchdown saving tackles.
I just do not think so. A lot of us trust in Miles and believe there has been a season full of "the project", enough to make that move so I would think rather this is an opportunity to have them get going on a positive note. They pull this off and Miles sends them on with a swan song. It is all I want for Christmas. :tigereye:
Bond isnt the OC anymore. He was OC in 2007 and Johnson didnt keep him. Johnson is his own OC. Bond is now working for Bill Curry at Georgia State. They start up their program in 2010 and he will be the OC for them.
You mean like Florida St, Miami and Georgia? Fast only helps run yourself out of position faster. It wont make up for lack of discipline. There were very similar quotes after the FSU and Miami games from players saying that some players kept trying to "help each other out". That is the last thing a D can do against the TO. Defenders must trust the other guy to do his job. If you start trying to help out, you get burned. That said, speed helps, but its about 4th on the list of useful things. Discipline, good tackling, DTs that can blow up the GCG are much more important.
They sure tapered off the last few games. Our LBs don't encourage me. I think there will be a lot of tackles from Coleman and McCray.
NFL quarterbacks cannot afford to be hit on play after play running the option. An NFL quarterbacks job is to pass the football.
Nice article. For those who don't know who these guys are, they are all DTs at Georgia: The only reason for the ball to ever move laterally in this offense is for the inside gaps to be unavailable. Flushing things outside allows a fast defense to catch up to the option, and it creates the need for the QB to pitch the ball, and potentially put it on the ground (see number 3 above). This means that Geno Atkins, Kade Weston, Deangelo Tyson, Corvey Irvin and Brandon Wood will be the most important guys on the field Saturday. I'm not saying that's a good or a bad thing. Just an existential reality to which you should accustom yourself. They will spend the day tackling the fullback on the dive whether he has the ball or not, and preventing Tech's mobile offensive line from getting back to the linebackers. Watching this personnel group in the early going should give you a decent idea of how this edition of Clean Old Fashioned Hate is going to go.
That is not what keeps NFL teams form running option offenses. The scheme dictates the personnel. NFL offenses are built around schemes where the QB is primarily a passer. If an NFL team wanted to run an option offense they could find athletes to play QB that were more durable and better suited for carrying the ball each play. They don't do this because it isn't effective at that level. At least it hasn't been in the past.
I hear what your saying and I agree that playing sound discipline football is crucial. I just think that with all this time to prepare for one opponent, they should be able to get their assignments drilled into them. We will see.
Uga had 2 weeks. Miami had 12 days. Didnt help them. Then again, UNC has 2 weeks and it sorta worked. They prevented the big plays and waited for us to shoot ourselves in the foot. That seems to be the one consistent factor in all of GT's losses. VT, UVA and UNC all forced 3 turnovers (as did BC, but we pulled that one out). Like the article at the top of this thread says, to stop the TO you have to accept that you are going to give up yards, just avoid the big play. The 1st half drives from the UNC game show a good example: 3 plays, 2 yards, punt. 9 plays, 35 yards, downs. 6 plays, 22 yards, downs. 13 plays, 64 yards, missed fg. 12 plays, 47 yards, missed fg. That is 170 yards and no points for the first half. In the second half we fumbled twice, threw one INT and had a 80+ yard TD run. 326 yards, 423 total yards, 7 pts and 7 bullets in the foot.
