Georgia Offense overview

[Reese Bennett 3605]

Defense seems easier when the QB is a statue.

[sushihorn 3233]

1 hour ago, JBJ said:

Fromm needs a QB whisperer.  He has the arm and I think the accuracy, he's just not coming around on reading the rush or coverage.

One of the few times he saw the blitz and made the correct throw into it, they scored a big TD.  And we gave him many opportunities.

Exactly.  Bringing pressure on Fromm was a calculated risk but Texas won that bet 90% of the time.  Today he's a very talented passer but not a polished QB.  Clearly he didn't have to make a lot of complex reads in HS and he doesn't seem to have gotten it yet in Athens.  Keep in mind that the SE region produces very few polished QBs  Georgia's last great one came from Highland Park HS in Texas.  Bama and Ole Miss went all the way to HAWAII to get their starting QBs.  In contrast the Great State of Texas produces more HS QBs than the FBS programs in our state and neighboring states have scholarships for.

[HtownHorn 14468]

1 hour ago, Butch Had Not said:

Fromm is Kelly Bryant. Nice player,  is good enough to win 10 games but like Clemson,  they need that player that can provide that something extra and to get them to next level.  Like big arm or freakish athleticism.  Fields could have been that player if he stuck around and if he was thrown into the game (provided his head was in it), I can tell you that I might have said "oh shit, here we go again".

Georgia fans have been pretty adamant that Fields reads defenses worse than Fromm. Fields would have looked like Robinson did against Orlando's schemes.

[Butch Had Not 2940]

15 minutes ago, HtownHorn said:

Georgia fans have been pretty adamant that Fields reads defenses worse than Fromm. Fields would have looked like Robinson did against Orlando's schemes.

That's fair to probably say as I couldn't comment on his performances. The pedigree though itself can be a program changer. 

[Tex Pete 20165]

On ‎12‎/‎22‎/‎2018 at 3:37 PM, So_co said:

Because I was bored and wanted to dig a little deeper, here are all of the WRs from the SEC and then the Big 12 that have earned stats in the NFL this year so far.  The data had Rec and Targets, so I calculated the catch percentage to see if one league or the other caught the ball better in general.  With 62.2% for the SEC and 63.1% for the Big 12 it looks to be pretty much the same.  For those that want to know the total number of WRs it's 41 for the SEC and 22 for the Big 12.

 

Player	College	Rec	Targets	Catch %	Yards	Yards/Catch	TDs
Julio Jones	Alabama	100	152	65.8%	1511	15.11	6
Amari Cooper	Alabama	66	91	72.5%	953	14.44	7
Calvin Ridley	Alabama	56	82	68.3%	699	12.48	8
Robert Foster	Alabama	19	33	57.6%	468	24.63	2
Gehrig Dieter	Alabama	0	1	0.0%	0	0	0
Odell Beckham	LSU	77	124	62.1%	1052	13.66	6
Jarvis Landry	LSU	72	132	54.5%	827	11.49	3
D.J. Chark	LSU	14	30	46.7%	174	12.43	0
Brandon LaFell	LSU	12	16	75.0%	135	11.25	2
Russell Shepard	LSU	10	19	52.6%	188	18.8	2
Russell Gage	LSU	4	6	66.7%	49	12.25	0
Mike Evans	Texas A&M	74	120	61.7%	1328	17.95	5
Christian Kirk	Texas A&M	43	68	63.2%	590	13.72	3
Josh Reynolds	Texas A&M	23	44	52.3%	303	13.17	3
Damion Ratley	Texas A&M	13	20	65.0%	144	11.08	0
A.J. Green	Georgia	46	77	59.7%	694	15.09	6
Chris Conley	Georgia	29	44	65.9%	280	9.66	5
Isaiah McKenzie	Georgia	18	23	78.3%	165	9.17	0
Javon Wims	Georgia	0	1	0.0%	0	0	0
Donte Moncrief	Mississippi	42	83	50.6%	604	14.38	3
Laquon Treadwell	Mississippi	34	51	66.7%	295	8.68	1
Cody Core	Mississippi	11	24	45.8%	124	11.27	1
Mike Wallace	Mississippi	0	3	0.0%	0	0	0
Antonio Callaway	Florida	39	71	54.9%	507	13	4
Demarcus Robinson	Florida	19	28	67.9%	182	9.58	2
Deonte Thompson	Florida	16	28	57.1%	150	9.38	0
Brandon Powell	Florida	4	6	66.7%	17	4.25	0
Alshon Jeffery	South Carolina	57	82	69.5%	702	12.32	5
Bruce Ellington	South Carolina	31	42	73.8%	224	7.23	1
Damiere Byrd	South Carolina	1	2	50.0%	8	8	0
Pharoh Cooper	South Carolina	0	1	0.0%	0	0	0
Cordarrelle Patterson	Tennessee	20	26	76.9%	244	12.2	3
Justin Hunter	Tennessee	3	13	23.1%	21	7	0
Josh Malone	Tennessee	1	4	25.0%	12	12	0
Randall Cobb	Kentucky	37	56	66.1%	356	9.62	2
Jarius Wright	Arkansas	31	43	72.1%	337	10.87	1
Keon Hatcher	Arkansas	1	2	50.0%	8	8	0
Jordan Matthews	Vanderbilt	18	25	72.0%	287	15.94	2
Trent Sherfield	Vanderbilt	11	18	61.1%	125	11.36	1
Jimmie Coates	Auburn	1	2	50.0%	12	12	0
J'Mon Moore	Missouri	1	1	100.0%	10	10	0
		1054	1694	62.2%	13785	10.8	84

 

Player	College	Rec	Targets	Catch %	Yards	Yards/Catch	TDs
Dede Westbrook	Oklahoma	57	87	65.5%	669	11.74	6
Sterling Shepard	Oklahoma	56	91	61.5%	692	12.36	4
Kenny Stills	Oklahoma	33	55	60.0%	521	15.79	6
Danny Amendola	Texas Tech	52	71	73.2%	509	9.79	1
Michael Crabtree	Texas Tech	51	94	54.3%	567	11.12	3
Keke Coutee	Texas Tech	28	41	68.3%	287	10.25	1
Jakeem Grant	Texas Tech	21	34	61.8%	268	12.76	2
Cameron Batson	Texas Tech	8	11	72.7%	82	10.25	0
Derrick Willies	Texas Tech	3	5	60.0%	61	20.33	0
Tyler Lockett	Kansas State	51	64	79.7%	800	15.69	9
Jordy Nelson	Kansas State	47	66	71.2%	586	12.47	3
Marquise Goodwin	Texas	20	35	57.1%	366	18.3	4
Marcus Johnson	Texas	6	8	75.0%	102	17	1
Josh Doctson	Texas Christian	39	68	57.4%	469	12.03	2
Jeremy Kerley	Texas Christian	2	4	50.0%	7	3.5	0
Tavon Austin	West Virginia	7	10	70.0%	130	18.57	2
Kevin White	West Virginia	3	5	60.0%	70	23.33	0
Shelton Gibson	West Virginia	1	3	33.3%	48	48	0
Marcell Ateman	Oklahoma State	14	28	50.0%	147	10.5	1
James Washington	Oklahoma State	13	33	39.4%	153	11.77	1
Corey Coleman	Baylor	5	7	71.4%	71	14.2	0
Terrance Williams	Baylor	2	3	66.7%	18	9	0
		519	823	63.1%	6623	14.9	46

 

 

I guess it's good that this game was Texas vs. Georgia and not the Big 12 vs. the SEC. Oops.

[Modessit 5596]

Have any of these Jawja guys come back to recap the game and talk about the aftermath as compared to what their pregame perception was?

[JBJ 3648]

3 minutes ago, Modessit said:

Have any of these Jawja guys come back to recap the game and talk about the aftermath as compared to what their pregame perception was?

Yes and quite graciously.

[Jkwellborn 6653]

Yeah I know I’ve seen So_co come back and be pretty cool.

[sushihorn 3233]

On 12/18/2018 at 3:29 PM, GoldAppleCorps said:

So we'd be fools to play one on one. Let's not do that.

If the Texas defense has anything, it's the ability to bring a lot of really fast players from oddball angles and gaps. We're not going to get one DL to outright beat his man in front, so we'll need to bring two or three. After shifting around the 4i-0-4i set, just have everyone else feint at gaps, jump around, and generally be moving before the snap. When the ball is snapped, make the OL figure out who's blocking whom. Let the QB figure out what the coverage is, and even which players are doing the covering. The object is to have one OL blocking air, two blocking the same guy, and two defenders running free in the backfield. With 5OL plus a TE, that's six chances per play for someone to miss an assignment.

In reality, Georgia's offense is going to score. The object should be to make it take a while, run plays, and hope that the rust from the layoff coughs up holding penalties, the aforementioned missed blocking assignments, or other mistakes to put UGa behind the chains. I'm thinking this game should look like our historical tilts with the Cornhuskers of yore. Score on offense, take advantages of luck on defense, and try to make the Bulldogs play from behind.

I had to quote you on this because you got it right.  Succinct, to the point and on point.

[sushihorn 3233]

The sole exception to the rule really demonstrates the vanilla-ness of Georgia's offense.  The 2nd quarter drive which resulted in their only score in the first 48 minutes of the game was capped by a RB wheel route down the seam. 

That drive generated 2/3rds of Georgia's first half offense after Orlando went pretty much straight 4-2 nickel for most of the drive.  That made the reads a lot easier for Fromm and his OL.  The scoring play was probably the only time UGa tested the LBs coverage skills in space - a known weakness of the defense as repeatedly demonstrated on tape.  It's an indictment of Georgia's play calling that they never went back to it.  It was also a lesson to Orlando and he dialed up the confusion factor again.

[Jkwellborn 6653]

That td came courtesy of a safety blitz from depth. Locke was never going to get there. It almost looked like the back caught the ball where Locke was at the snap.

[sushihorn 3233]

8 minutes ago, Jkwellborn said:

That td came courtesy of a safety blitz from depth. Locke was never going to get there. It almost looked like the back caught the ball where Locke was at the snap.

The blitz creates a window but somebody still has coverage on the RB.  Brandon rotates from the opposite side to cover the TE in the slot and Devante is singled up on the outside.  Both eligibles clear out deep on the playside and the RB route is up the seam behind them.

The logical candidate to cover the back is Wheeler.  He's the playside LB and doesn't commit to the rush.  You can see 45 chasing the play but he's a half second late and a step too slow making the read.  It's the same problem covering in space we saw against OU, WVU, OSU and even Baylor.

[GringoSalado 1651]

As I recall the TE's route kind of screened Wheeler a bit.

[Jkwellborn 6653]

As I recall the TE's route kind of screened Wheeler a bit.

Yeah the announcers were taking about it. Both of the wr ran in.

[Funk Doctor Spock 11920]

@sushihorn was money on his breakdown. Good job, bro.