Georgia Snowflakes: The Coaching

Because the #1 defense in the country has lots of weaknesses?

Surprised to wake up to the negs. I left the comment as if it were self-explanatory, but apparently it needed a little more explaining.

Both teams knew there'd be pressure. One of them prepped a ton of screens to the boundary in order to mitigate it.

Both teams ought to have expected said screens. The adjustment with Dax to get him in place to knock it down if necessary was too little too late. 

The O-line seemed physically and mentally unprepared.

Ditto for the the guys whose repeated shoulder-tackle attempts made everything that much easier for the GA offense. And for Vincent Gray.

The theme seems to be talent gap in the coverage this morning, but the product on the field suggests that preparation gap was much wider.

/snowflake

i'll miss this team, but i won't be missing snowflakes.

While it is true that Georgia had a Jimmies and Joes advantage in their D front 7, it is also true that Georgia had better game plans on both sides of the ball too. 

Getting blown out that bad was not just a talent gap thing. 

It was more about Georgia (1) having better game plans on both sides of the ball AND (2) Georgia playing near flawless ball (especially in the 1st half) while Michigan had poor tackling, dropped passes, bad angles to the ball, terrible QB decisions and throws, DBs who just stopped running, etc., etc. 

I thought he should've been in from the 2nd drive of the 3rd quarter, if not to start the second half. Cade was shook in the first half. If there isn't a stark change after halftime, you have to move on to somebody who can give you a chance.

You can see the younger players on offense at least have the kind of talent that's needed.  At least at the skill positions, hopefully the line we see the same.  Defensively...we're not there yet.  Need to get much faster, especially at LB.

You realize that they are only allowed to practice a certain number of hours a day. You don’t think the Alabama players take breaks?  Come on man. Going to the beach wasn’t the reason we got killed. Georgia being loaded with insane talent is. 

Harbaugh implemented that strict business trip bowl game strategy  for the previous 6 years. How did that turn out?  Spoiler, they still lost.  Let the players enjoy the experience.

Good grief!  You really think a couple of hours would have made a difference? They are college students, not professionals....and in case you didn't notice we didn't play AL last night.

Can't tell if this is a serious post or what, but I'm pretty sure that was a media appearance. Do you want our players to be holed up 24/7 prepping? Because that's not really rational or sustainable, or even effective. Nobody can be always working, breaks/periods of rest are helpful and necessary in any kind of work. Put another way, do you really think a few extra hours of prep was going to make the difference? 

You can't go swimming before an event it makes your legs weak and tired.  

I think it’s easy for you to say the game plan was bad because it didn’t work. I don’t know what you expected them to do? Michigan tried to do many things tonight, but when you can’t block their pass rush, can’t handle their blitzing, can’t get separation from their secondary, can’t confuse their lb corp, it doesn’t matter what you plan up. On defense, we couldn’t stop their run, setting up 2nd and 3rd downs with like less than 3 yards to go every time. That makes it easy for quick passes down the field, preventing Hutchinson or Ojabo from being effective. The rest of the defense has been vulnerable all year, those two covered up so many defensive deficiencies. 
 

This game wasn’t in coaching. Michigan can’t compete with the best in college football right now from a talent perspective. Period.

They tried occasionally but Cade usually didn't have time to make the throw. 

There were some deep passes called where nobody was open. There were a couple of passes where Cade had a guy that was open, but by the time he could make the throw he was already flushed and the pocket was collapsing. Our pass pro didn't get it done. Again, we're playing an all-time front seven here and it showed. 

It's more than bagmen. It's academic standards, practice time, classroom time. "We ain't come to play school" is real. If you're a 5 star, you know you're going to be making millions in a couple years as long as you put in the time to get better and stronger.

So your choice is to go someplace where you can spend all your focus on that goal, some place where things outside of that are not likely to take you off the field. Or some place where you can probably still reach that goal, but you also have to put a lot of time and effort into other things. Things which might keep you off the field if you can't keep up with them. Which do you choose?

5-stars, Georgia to Michigan: 20 to 3.

>>Not much you can do about that. Nakobe Dean coming from all the way across the field to meet Blake Corum at the LOS on a well-called and well-executed flare pass? You can't outscheme that. 

Oh really?  How about not call that play.  I’m no coach but apparently I’ve watched more UGa football this year than the Broyles Award winner.  I knew that had zero ZERO chance of going anywhere.  Nakobe Dean makes that play ten times out of ten. It’s what he does.  
 

Shame on Gattis for either not studying or not respecting his opponent.