A few more things about Kines:

bugboy

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There is a perception that he only coaches a passive (read and react) defense. That is not true. He played that type of scheme largely because of the material (lack of speed) that he had at UGA in the mid 90's.
However, whenever Kines felt he had an advantage somewhere, he would turn his guys loose. Here are 2 games as examples:

95 - UGA/USC...USC did not have a very good offensive line and they relied on a shotgun passing attack with Steve Taneyhill. Kines sensed that their pass protection was weak, so be blitzed Kirby SMart off the corner all day and they wound up with 7 or 8 sacks. The completely destroyed USC's offense. Final score, 42-23 (USC got a late meaningless touchdown).

98 - UGA/UVA...UVA scored some early cheap touchdowns off of QC's mistakes and took an early big lead(like, 21-0 or 21-7). At halftime, Kines made an adjustment and decided to blitz a bunch. It worked as UGA's defense swarmed all over UVA and UGA came back to win the game as UVA couldn't score much in the 2nd half. Multiple 3 and outs gave UGA the ball back when they needed it.

I think Kines will use whatever he feels will work the best. He's not gonna force us into a system that doesn't utilize our personnel. And his defenses will play sound, tough, fundamental football.
 
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