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#5
#5
I like the guy and I'm not gonna beat him up but him saying that our scheme was correct is worrisome. You can't fix a problem if you don't think it exists. We didn't play our typical game. We were not aggressive with our playcalling. We played ultra safe. We were worried about protecting Hooker so our RB's didn't block then release to be a safety valve. We rarely challenged them downfield. We played to try and mitigate GA's strengths instead of cashing in on ours. Really surprised at us not running screens to shut down that blitz. Maybe behind closed doors they are saying the same thing. GA gave everyone the playbook for beating us if you have the horses to play with us. regardless if anyone else has the horses or not, they are going to have to try the GA gameplan because nothing else has been shown to work. During regular season this won't likely be effective. But post season, this will be our obstacle.
 
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xpsyclonex2002 said:
I like the guy and I'm not gonna beat him up but him saying that our scheme was correct is worrisome. You can't fix a problem if you don't think it exists. We didn't play our typical game. We were not aggressive with our playcalling. We played ultra safe. We were worried about protecting Hooker so our RB's didn't block then release to be a safety valve. We rarely challenged them downfield. We played to try and mitigate GA's strengths instead of cashing in on ours. Really surprised at us not running screens to shut down that blitz. Maybe behind closed doors they are saying the same thing. GA gave everyone the playbook for beating us if you have the horses to play with us. regardless if anyone else has the horses or not, they are going to have to try the GA gameplan because nothing else has been shown to work. During regular season this won't likely be effective. But post season, this will be our obstacle.
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He isnā€™t going to sit there and tell you everything. Anyone can watch these interviews. Thereā€™s a lot more being said behind closed doors about the screw ups.
 
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Such a very, very good coach this man is. And--it's part of being a great coach--an extremely clear communicator.

If you find yourself questioning anything he said, the person you need to be questioning is yourself. Perhaps you don't know football at this level quite as well as you think you do, Xpsyclonex.
 
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Small getting injured and not returning and Hyatt rolling his foot (despite returning) I'm sure didn't impact our offensive gameplan -at all-.

Even Georgia had a massive production gap between their versatile RB (McIntosh) and their run-only RB (Edwards).

McIntosh had 10 carries for 52 yards against us. Edwards only went for 46 on 16. McIntosh caught 2 passes for 57 yards. Edwards only caught 1 for 4 yards.

What if UGA lost McIntosh in the 2nd drive of the game? Would their offense have changed? Yes. Same with us and Small.

Small is by far the best pass catcher of our RB group and he's also by far the best at blitz pickup and releasing. Losing Small hurt.
 
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I am still curious about Hyatt saying there were times the receivers didnā€™t even know the play. Obviously hearing HH was difficult with the crowd, but I would have thought there would be hand signals.
 
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xpsyclonex2002 said:
I like the guy and I'm not gonna beat him up but him saying that our scheme was correct is worrisome. You can't fix a problem if you don't think it exists. We didn't play our typical game. We were not aggressive with our playcalling. We played ultra safe. We were worried about protecting Hooker so our RB's didn't block then release to be a safety valve. We rarely challenged them downfield. We played to try and mitigate GA's strengths instead of cashing in on ours. Really surprised at us not running screens to shut down that blitz. Maybe behind closed doors they are saying the same thing. GA gave everyone the playbook for beating us if you have the horses to play with us. regardless if anyone else has the horses or not, they are going to have to try the GA gameplan because nothing else has been shown to work. During regular season this won't likely be effective. But post season, this will be our obstacle.
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Good lord, donā€™t say that man. Youā€™re gonna have em coming out of the wood work saying you should apply for the job.

Yes, itā€™s very concerning that they donā€™t think scheme was a problem. I didnā€™t see any adjustments. It was like watching Alex Brown in 1999.
 
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Our scheme is meant to beat out zone coverages and tire out the defenses. GA played lots of man to man and was able to stick with our guys. Also, with all the penalties , that allowed GA to sub, and allow the GA defenders to rest. Without all those penalties we would have been in better shape IMO.
 
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xpsyclonex2002 said:
I like the guy and I'm not gonna beat him up but him saying that our scheme was correct is worrisome. You can't fix a problem if you don't think it exists. We didn't play our typical game. We were not aggressive with our playcalling. We played ultra safe. We were worried about protecting Hooker so our RB's didn't block then release to be a safety valve. We rarely challenged them downfield. We played to try and mitigate GA's strengths instead of cashing in on ours. Really surprised at us not running screens to shut down that blitz. Maybe behind closed doors they are saying the same thing. GA gave everyone the playbook for beating us if you have the horses to play with us. regardless if anyone else has the horses or not, they are going to have to try the GA gameplan because nothing else has been shown to work. During regular season this won't likely be effective. But post season, this will be our obstacle.
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As I have said before, the coaching staff has done an admirable job this season. That said, for anyone on the staff to think the gameplan on offense was correct for that game is worrisome, and that's the nicest word I can put to it. It's not possible for a scheme to be more flawed than ours was for that game - we did nothing well, and we sustained that throughout the game. I kept wondering why we didn't make adjustments at halftime - now we know why. I can't fathom how a coach could have watched that first half and thought to himself, "Yep, perfect plan, just gotta keep doing what we're doing."
 
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xpsyclonex2002 said:
I like the guy and I'm not gonna beat him up but him saying that our scheme was correct is worrisome. You can't fix a problem if you don't think it exists. We didn't play our typical game. We were not aggressive with our playcalling. We played ultra safe. We were worried about protecting Hooker so our RB's didn't block then release to be a safety valve. We rarely challenged them downfield. We played to try and mitigate GA's strengths instead of cashing in on ours. Really surprised at us not running screens to shut down that blitz. Maybe behind closed doors they are saying the same thing. GA gave everyone the playbook for beating us if you have the horses to play with us. regardless if anyone else has the horses or not, they are going to have to try the GA gameplan because nothing else has been shown to work. During regular season this won't likely be effective. But post season, this will be our obstacle.
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I think his point was that Georgia didn't do anything we hadn't seen from previous opponents and our struggles weren't result the being out-schemed. It was more the result of shooting ourselves in the foot with false starts, which is true. Our scheme had players in position to score. TDs were dialed up for Hyatt, McCoy, and Fant despite all the penalties but Hooker overthrew all three. Nobody is questioning the scheme if he connects on those passes. We also had Tillman behind a safety on the final drive when Hooker threw to the wrong side of the field. Were there situations where a better play could have been called? Yeah there always are, but UGA didn't do anything that others haven't tried against us.

I would have liked for us to have had a better answer for the zone blitz that showed up in the 2nd half where they blitzed the nickel, but it's hard to know what was going on behind the scenes. It looked to me like we should have just slid Wright over to that guy's side of the field, but then he wouldn't have been in position to pick up their outside backer if they call a different blitz. Hindsight is 20-20, but the bigger problem than the scheme was the crowd noise. On a neutral field they won't be able to time snap count as effectively as they did.
 
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lifeisdeep said:
As I have said before, the coaching staff has done an admirable job this season. That said, for anyone on the staff to think the gameplan on offense was correct for that game is worrisome, and that's the nicest word I can put to it. It's not possible for a scheme to be more flawed than ours was for that game - we did nothing well, and we sustained that throughout the game. I kept wondering why we didn't make adjustments at halftime - now we know why. I can't fathom how a coach could have watched that first half and thought to himself, "Yep, perfect plan, just gotta keep doing what we're doing."
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I'm sorry guys but this is absurd. I can't take much more of y'all today o_O. A lof of y'all just need to watch the game again and I mean that with all due respect.

We sucked on offense because we played tight and we didn't handle the crowd noise well. That's all. We left a lot of points on the field that we normally take advantage of. I can think of 4 TDs which I mentioned previously and that's just what the camera could see, but for whatever reason Hooker wasn't able to connect on his deep throws and he misread the safety a few times and went to the wrong place with the ball. Maybe it was the spotlight of being #1, maybe it was the crowd noise, or maybe he had a bad burrito for breakfast. Who knows. But it was very uncharacteristic and I suspect that he'll play better in the rematch.

The only thing Golesh said that I don't agree with is that Hooker didn't hold onto the ball too long at times. Maybe he was just protecting Hooker's psyche... but on the first sack Hooker had the ball for 4.5 seconds. That is too long in any offense. On at least two other sacks he ran to escape the pocket and could have avoided the sack and a 5-7 yard loss if he just throws the ball away. Clean those things up and pre-snap penalties and we'll be fine.
 
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agent|orange said:
Small getting injured and not returning and Hyatt rolling his foot (despite returning) I'm sure didn't impact our offensive gameplan -at all-.

Even Georgia had a massive production gap between their versatile RB (McIntosh) and their run-only RB (Edwards).

McIntosh had 10 carries for 52 yards against us. Edwards only went for 46 on 16. McIntosh caught 2 passes for 57 yards. Edwards only caught 1 for 4 yards.

What if UGA lost McIntosh in the 2nd drive of the game? Would their offense have changed? Yes. Same with us and Small.

Small is by far the best pass catcher of our RB group and he's also by far the best at blitz pickup and releasing. Losing Small hurt.
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That's a position where we need a Juco. Small has unfortunately had shoulder problems.
 
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Man, I hope we can hold onto Coach Golesh for a long time...dude is a great coach and great communicator.
He laid it all out right there in that presser why GA beat us - we weren't ready, they got dudes, and we had communication issues...period.

Any else get the vibe that he would like to play that game over, or wants another shot at UGA?
I sure did...
 
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IndianaVol said:
Man, I hope we can hold onto Coach Golesh for a long time...dude is a great coach and great communicator.
He laid it all out right there in that presser why GA beat us - we weren't ready, they got dudes, and we had communication issues...period.

Any else get the vibe that he would like to play that game over, or wants another shot at UGA?
I sure did...
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I think everyone wants to play them again in the playoffs.
 
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volfan_28 said:
I'm sorry guys but this is absurd. I can't take much more of y'all today o_O. A lof of y'all just need to watch the game again and I mean that with all due respect.

We sucked on offense because we played tight and we didn't handle the crowd noise well. That's all. We left a lot of points on the field that we normally take advantage of. I can think of 4 TDs which I mentioned previously and that's just what the camera could see, but for whatever reason Hooker wasn't able to connect on his deep throws and he misread the safety a few times and went to the wrong place with the ball. Maybe it was the spotlight of being #1, maybe it was the crowd noise, or maybe he had a bad burrito for breakfast. Who knows. But it was very uncharacteristic and I suspect that he'll play better in the rematch.

The only thing Golesh said that I don't agree with is that Hooker didn't hold onto the ball too long at times. Maybe he was just protecting Hooker's psyche... but on the first sack Hooker had the ball for 4.5 seconds. That is too long in any offense. On at least two other sacks he ran to escape the pocket and could have avoided the sack and a 5-7 yard loss if he just throws the ball away. Clean those things up and pre-snap penalties and we'll be fine.
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Yep, on the holding ball too long I think he was protecting Hooker, especially since the reporter stated Hooker said he didnā€™t think he held the ball to long.
Some of sacks where due to receivers not getting any separation, some due to with crowd noise & the D started timing the snap. The pre snap penalties not only got us behind the chains but gave UGA time to make key subs for down/distance. That and how the #1 ranking and a lot of media picking UT. All this & more was a perfect storm & they just had better players on D to sub in certain situations than we had seen so far. Thatā€™s why recruiting 4&5* on 2 deep is a luxury. I would love to play them again on a neutral field.
 
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xpsyclonex2002 said:
I like the guy and I'm not gonna beat him up but him saying that our scheme was correct is worrisome. You can't fix a problem if you don't think it exists. We didn't play our typical game. We were not aggressive with our playcalling. We played ultra safe. We were worried about protecting Hooker so our RB's didn't block then release to be a safety valve. We rarely challenged them downfield. We played to try and mitigate GA's strengths instead of cashing in on ours. Really surprised at us not running screens to shut down that blitz. Maybe behind closed doors they are saying the same thing. GA gave everyone the playbook for beating us if you have the horses to play with us. regardless if anyone else has the horses or not, they are going to have to try the GA gameplan because nothing else has been shown to work. During regular season this won't likely be effective. But post season, this will be our obstacle.
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We did move the ball successfully when we werenā€™t continually shooting ourselves in the foot. Maybe thatā€™s what he means.
 
#25
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This guy seems destined to be a head coach. Hope UT locks him in with money and a great work environment. Well spoken, high football IQ
 
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