One of the things that makes a great football team a champion is the ability to make adjustments on the fly and revise their gameplan and not be afraid to give up failing techniques and try new things when it's obvious something isn't working. And the really great teams can do this on the fly with halftime readjustments and after a tough loss that they learn from and then suddenly come back and win every game thereafter. They not only learn what they need to do from their mistakes, they actually go out and get it done.
Georgia is not that kind of program. Hasn't been in recent memory. That's always something that's gnawed at me about them. I can be fairly confident that by game 2 or 3, we've seen the same Dawgs we're gonna see all season and the same mistakes they made in early losses you can bet will be the same ones they make in big games towards the end of the season. It's like this team is incapable of growth and evolution during the season. That's why I'm more than confident to predict how the season will go based on seeing the first half of the season.
A great team will have problems with penalties, pass protection, special teams, what have you in the first game or two, and then will work on them and go on a tear and not be the same team at season's end that they were when they began. With the Dawgs, whatcha see earily is watcha get. We rack up a ton of penalties in game 1 or our secondary gets burned in game 2 and we fumble alot in game 3, you can rest assured we're going to be getting penalized alot, fumbling alot, and getting our defense scorched in games 9, 10, 11, and 12. All of this teams growth and maturation takes place during the off season, but once the first whistle blows and they put a finished product on the field, that's what they've got to work with until the end.
Either it's obvious we're great from the get go, or it's obvious we suck from the get go. But there's never been a time I can remember where it looked like we were gonna suck but then made some changes and did great things and went to a BCS bowl game. And that happens all the time at schools like Florida, LSU, Oklahoma, Michigan, etc. I really wish this team could soak up knowledge like a sponge and EVOLVE on the fly.