Early Georgia -- Auburn Thoughts

If there ever was a game to go conservative and play grind it out football and let Gurley, Green and Douglas run the ball this is it. If we score too fast and give our D no rest or time to adjust the M and M connection (Marshall/Mason) will run us into the ground. This Aubuurn team is very strong up front on the O line and has very very fast skill players. They will challenge our D especially on the edges......

ogredawg wrote: If there ever was a game to go conservative and play grind it out football and let Gurley, Green and Douglas run the ball this is it. If we score too fast and give our D no rest or time to adjust the M and M connection (Marshall/Mason) will run us into the ground. This Aubuurn team is very strong up front on the O line and has very very fast skill players. They will challenge our D especially on the edges......

The "edges" as you say ogredawg, scare the heck out of me. Think I said earlier, would love to see 5 on the defensive line and the other 6 play football.

From what I can see, Malzahn is allowing Marshall to play playground football. Same thing that Newton did. Can do that in college, NFL is different. Grantham does not seem to understand that.

Really looking forward to what Chris Wilson will do with the defensive line. That is if Todd Grantham allows him to run that part of the defense. For sure Wilson has changed the rotation of our defensive line compared to Garner's way.

One thing that I have to say. #54 Kublanow, offensive left guard at this point. Played really well against App State. Believe we will see him often against Auburn. He is all that. Will be all everything when he leaves Athens. Run blocking, he is more than most can handle.

ogredawg wrote: If there ever was a game to go conservative and play grind it out football and let Gurley, Green and Douglas run the ball this is it. If we score too fast and give our D no rest or time to adjust the M and M connection (Marshall/Mason) will run us into the ground. This Aubuurn team is very strong up front on the O line and has very very fast skill players. They will challenge our D especially on the edges......

wlayton and I talked about the Stanford game vs Oregon this past week and how much we enjoyed it..

Watching Stanford deal with Oregon's high powered O by just keeping the ball away from them was a thing of beauty. That's what most people didn't get when talking about an offense. It's not always big stats.... sometimes your best D is played by an O that will just own possession of the ball.

Wartdawg wrote:

ogredawg wrote: If there ever was a game to go conservative and play grind it out football and let Gurley, Green and Douglas run the ball this is it. If we score too fast and give our D no rest or time to adjust the M and M connection (Marshall/Mason) will run us into the ground. This Aubuurn team is very strong up front on the O line and has very very fast skill players. They will challenge our D especially on the edges......

wlayton and I talked about the Stanford game vs Oregon this past week and how much we enjoyed it..

Watching Stanford deal with Oregon's high powered O by just keeping the ball away from them was a thing of beauty. That's what most people didn't get when talking about an offense. It's not always big stats.... sometimes your best D is played by an O that will just own possession of the ball.

Agreed....plus going against the spread offenses, you need to get penetration by the DL....totally disrupts the system. Teams that beat Oregan lately penetrated and lived in their backfield.....LSU, AU and Stanford twice.

Ogre you hit it right on the head. Georgia's best defense in any game right now is their offense,play keep away,but, need to score on each possession to be effective. If Uga can do what they did against the lizards,with scores,it can be a long day for the kittens.

Georgia coaching staff needs first off to realize that football games are won with line play, both sides. Think many of us realize that has not been the case in Athens . . . . CONSISTENTLY.

Listen to and read about how great Johnny Football is, like AJ McCarron does not stack up in conversations about quarterbacks. Same can be said for AM.

AJ McCarron "manages" a game. That is team play. Reminds me a bit of the comparisons between RG3 and Andrew Luck. McCarron plays in a system where he does not have to extend himself like Johnny Football does.

This Saturday, we will "probably" see some of the same played out between Marshall and AM.

The difference between McCarron and AM . . . . Alabama does a better job recruiting offensive and defensive lines. I understand that we have lots of talent in Athens, but folks, it ain't the same talent that lines up every week in Tuscaloosa.

Quite frankly, I never know what our offense or defense will do before the ball is snapped. I know this . . . . if Gurley is ready, Georgia is a different football team. That has been proven more than once this year. We can run and throw against Auburn, I don't fret that too much. As for the other side of the ball, sure hope that we have some answers for a very creative head football coach.

Auburn has to win this football game, if they don't, the Iron Bowl loses much of its appeal, outside of the State of Alabama.

Said earlier, hope the offensive line comes to play, that in my opinion is the key to this game. I also know that Ellis Johnson has coached against AM before, while he was with Spurrier in South Carolina. Ellis Johnson will pull out all stops for this victory, much at stake here.