State of Georgia, two of the worst DC's in the country??

[TechinItEasy]

meh, I'd still take Wommack. Call me an idiot (not literally...) but I feel like the man MAY have some potential. Obviously CPJ sees something in him we don't... either that or he's trying not to fire him too quickly.

I can DEFINITELY see some potential there. But he needs to tap into it sooner than later.

Hell, it's not like we're asking a lot of our defense like we had to under the Gailey era. Just get some stops, our O will put up the points.

If we can improve by a half a step in pass coverage, I think that will be good enough to win out the season(depending on who we play in a bowl).

 

[beej67]

At least Wommack's worst games have come against good QB's. Martinez just made Jonathan Crompton look like Johnny Unitas. Advantage Wommack.

++

Definitely rather have Wommack. He ain't great, but he could have figured out Tennesse's ONE PLAY this past weekend. Because seriously, I hope yall watched that game, UT had ONE PLAY.

 

[CrackerJacket]

Wommack has done a noticeably better job of adjusting at the half and at least trying different things to overcome a shallow defensive talent pool at critical positions like the DL.

 

[unforgiven108]

Both stink at in game adjustments and both's schemes are getting blown out of the water.

Did you watch the second half against FSU?

1st half
GT @ FSU --
FSU 403 yards of offense 35 points
UGA @ UT --
Tenn 243 yards of offense 21 points

2nd half
GT @ FSU --
FSU 136 yards of offense 9 points
UGA @ UT --
Tenn 226 yards of offense 24 points

I'd say wommack did a good job of adjusting in the second half. Especially if you consider that 6 of those 9 points came when we were playing a 'prevent' defense with 6 minutes left in the 4th up by 11.

Call it 'dropped passes', our offense controlling the ball or whatever else you want, but at the end of the day the defense came up in the second half.

 

[ContactBuzz]

There was some improvement from the 1st half to the 2nd but the defense was still bad in the 2nd half.

Yds/play - 8.5 1st half; 5.5 2nd half (From pathetic to not very good)

Yds/min (TOP) - 18.9 1st half; 16.8 2nd half (TOP for F$U - 20:13 in the first half; 7:34 in the 2nd)

We did a better job of keeping the ball out of their hands; not a better job of defending.

EDIT: Original post didn't adjust for 1st half penalties (but did for 2nd half). Fixed for apples-apples comparison.

 

[gth816f]

Did you watch the second half against FSU?

1st half
GT @ FSU --
FSU 403 yards of offense 35 points
UGA @ UT --
Tenn 243 yards of offense 21 points

2nd half
GT @ FSU --
FSU 136 yards of offense 9 points
UGA @ UT --
Tenn 226 yards of offense 24 points

I'd say wommack did a good job of adjusting in the second half. Especially if you consider that 6 of those 9 points came when we were playing a 'prevent' defense with 6 minutes left in the 4th up by 11.

Call it 'dropped passes', our offense controlling the ball or whatever else you want, but at the end of the day the defense came up in the second half.

Those are good stats but a little bit skewed. Florida State had the ball for 20 minutes and 27 seconds in the first half and only 7 minutes and 30 seconds. Yes, some of that was due to good defensive play, but mainly it was due to our offense putting up drives of 9+ minutes, 4+ minutes, and 3.5+ minutes, as opposed to the first half where we had 3 drives under 1 minute.

By the way, ESPN's drive chart is awful.

 

[unforgiven108]

Those are good stats but a little bit skewed. Florida State had the ball for 20 minutes and 27 seconds in the first half and only 7 minutes and 30 seconds. Yes, some of that was due to good defensive play, but mainly it was due to our offense putting up drives of 9+ minutes, 4+ minutes, and 3.5+ minutes, as opposed to the first half where we had 3 drives under 1 minute.

By the way, ESPN's drive chart is awful.

FSU had the ball 5 times in the first half. They scored 5 touchdowns.

FSU had the ball 5 times in the second half. They scored 1 fg, and 1 TD.

I don't care about TOP, because FSU was controlling their own TOP in the first half. Our defense limited them to shorter TOP's. Do you seriously think the fact that they had it 8 minutes vs 27 minutes is an argument to our defense not being good? It's the complete opposite. They had the ball the SAME amount of times and did less with it. That's defensive adjustment.

 

[unforgiven108]

I should edit...they had 4 'real' possessions. 1 was the fumble recovery that nesbitt took back.

 

[CrackerJacket]

Good point about the second half stat differences.

It was obvious that CPJ was calling an offense tailored to grind out the clock and keep Ponder on the bench.

The best defense is a good offense IMHO. We'll have to take the same approach against VT this coming weekend.

 

[cajunjacket]

It was obvious that CPJ was calling an offense tailored to grind out the clock and keep Ponder on the bench.

I disagree. We ran the same stuff. CPJ even says it in the post game conference. Someone asked him if it was any different, and he said it was the exact same stuff. I don't know why people keep thinking that you can call plays that will go for less yards. Why would you want to do that in the first place?

 

[Allen Koholic]

I disagree. We ran the same stuff. CPJ even says it in the post game conference. Someone asked him if it was any different, and he said it was the exact same stuff. I don't know why people keep thinking that you can call plays that will go for less yards. Why would you want to do that in the first place?

I think I saw noticeably more mid-line options run in the 2nd half, but I assume that was a result of taking what FSU's defense was giving us. Johnson has kept plays in his back pocket before for when they are needed, but I don't think he would intentionally call low yardage plays. Most of our stuff is run on the fly. There's no way to know if a veer will net 5 yards or 50 when the play is called.

 

[unforgiven108]

I think I saw noticeably more mid-line options run in the 2nd half, but I assume that was a result of taking what FSU's defense was giving us. Johnson has kept plays in his back pocket before for when they are needed, but I don't think he would intentionally call low yardage plays. Most of our stuff is run on the fly. There's no way to know if a veer will net 5 yards or 50 when the play is called.

This might have also been to control the ball better. Nesbitt was getting a little shaky on his pitches, and we couldn't afford to turn the ball over.

 

[texstinger]

no offense to anyone, but **** this thread. Wommack is our guy for 6-8 more games. I'm not comparing our guy to some hack at uga just yet. Wommack gets his chance to turn the defense around. He has my support at least until the end of the year.

+1000

 

[GTLiebs]

This might have also been to control the ball better. Nesbitt was getting a little shaky on his pitches, and we couldn't afford to turn the ball over.

I think another factor was that the A-backs were tired and a step slower than the time of the usual pitches.

 

[unforgiven108]

I think another factor was that the A-backs were tired and a step slower than the time of the usual pitches.

Could be. I'm not really sure of the angles and what not and where exactly the A-Backs should be on the pitch.

I just assumed Nesbitt was getting tired as he was looking at where the back was when he pitched, but it could have been the A-Back slow to get up to where he should have.

 

[Allen Koholic]

Could be. I'm not really sure of the angles and what not and where exactly the A-Backs should be on the pitch.

I just assumed Nesbitt was getting tired as he was looking at where the back was when he pitched, but it could have been the A-Back slow to get up to where he should have.

Wasn't Wright the pitch on the second fumble? I assumed that it was a result of Nesbitt expecting him to be a step ahead of where he actually was. And the third fumble, that looked like a play I'm not even close to familiar with, and that may have been the cause. Either way, that one worked out pretty well.

 

[Ish]

We basically only ran 2 plays the entire game: the midline, and the triple option. I don't have any stats, but I'd be willing to wager that we ran more triple option in this game than in any other game we've ever played.

 

[GT to AZ]

I'd say wommack did a good job of adjusting in the second half.

As much as I'd like to believe this is true I can't say I saw this happen. Twice FSU missed wide open passes that ended drives. I remember thinking how lucky we got when I watched each of those plays. If they caught those passes I'm affraid they would have scored.

What I kept asking myself is how the heck their WR's could be so wide open when we're only bringing 4 guys and they are double teaming Morgan. I realize Ponder had some time to throw, but he was finding guys who were all alone.

 

[Ish]

As much as I'd like to believe this is true I can't say I saw this happen. Twice FSU missed wide open passes that ended drives. I remember thinking how lucky we got when I watched each of those plays. If they caught those passes I'm affraid they would have scored.

What I kept asking myself is how the heck their WR's could be so wide open when we're only bringing 4 guys and they are double teaming Morgan. I realize Ponder had some time to throw, but he was finding guys who were all alone.

Plus, we had the ball for 22 minutes in the 2nd half. I'd say our offense did a better job of stopping Christian Ponder than our defense did.

 

[stinger78]

Sounds like just the time for bbuzzoff to get things back together to harass another coach out of town.