rockdawg wrote: Amazing to see the offensive drop off after Chubb was hurt. Preseason headlines were all about all the offensive weapons at our disposal. Was it:
1. coaching that could not take advantage of all those weapons?
a. HC?
b. OC?
2. unjustified preseason hype?
3. a QB who got rattled and never got it back together?
Lots of low scoring games in the last half of the season.
In my opinion rockdawg, the greatness of Chubb, Gurley, and Murray masked how unbalanced and weak we were overall during the past few years. Even with those players we would get exposed against good teams and they were totally unable to overcome because really we've never had the line we needed, etc. So when we lost each of these stellar and superlative players, we tanked.
It speaks to their greatness, but at the risk of sounding like I am continuing to bash Richt, having the team performance drop off so much should have never happened. I'm glad we had and still have that sort of individual talent, but we need to have a more balanced and more rounded team where losing one player doesn't totally devastate our performance. That can only be done with more balanced recruiting and an increased emphasis on
our lines, and their depth.... and doing things like making sure we don't "miss" on multiple QB recruits.
