UGA's O-Line vs Tech's D-Line

What was mostly a decent article ends with some of the most idiotic drivel they've posted so far this morning.

"But they haven’t seen a challenge like this. For all Tech’s advantage in experience and portfolio on the defensive front, Georgia remains a nine-point favorite, which says something about who is blocking whom."

What the hell does that even mean? Georgia is a nine-point favorite and as a result the battle in the trenches is a whole new ballgame?
 
We do. But...

UGa is going to try to run the ball on us and I worry quite a bit about the matchup between their backs and our linebackers. I would even go as far as saying I'm pretty concerned. I wish Sed was able to play - he tackles like a starving Grizzly Bear whereas I think we have some arm-tacklers in the two-deep at linebacker.

I cannot shake the image of the one blitz play against the U where one of our LBs had a perfect blind-side angle on the QB (1st Qtr, I think). Their QB was able to shake off the high arm tackle. That should never happen but I have seen the high arm tackle from our LBs quite a bit this season and the yards-after-contact in each instance has been substantial.

Arm tackling their RBs will not get the job done Saturday. UGag's RBs are good but they get shaken up easily and we need someone like Sed to drop an anvil on them early. If they get their wheels going, our secondary will be making all the tackles which spells trouble.

I don't think Stafford will do too much passing and expect about a 65-35 rush-to-pass mix from the pups. I don't think they want any part of pass blocking against our DL.
 
The Jacket said:
Georgia is a nine-point favorite and as a result the battle in the trenches is a whole new ballgame?
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The doofus who wrote that needs to talk to a bookie to find out why UGa is 1-6 ATS this season. The nine-point spread is largely a reflection of the fact that UGa fans bet on their own team to cover without regard to the likelihood that they will. Delusional fans who wager a lot are a boon to shrewd, objective gamblers.

Never, ever take UGa to cover and do so consistently.
 
00Burdell said:
The doofus who wrote that needs to talk to a bookie to find out why UGa is 1-6 ATS this season. The nine-point spread is largely a reflection of the fact that UGa fans bet on their own team to cover without regard to the likelihood that they will. Delusional fans who wager a lot are a boon to shrewd, objective gamblers.

Never, ever take UGa to cover and do so consistently.
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I think the spread has moved down due to the number of gamblers more then willing to take Tech with those points. It was something like 12 on Monday, and I'd expect it to get around 7 and 1/2 before noon on Saturday.

This article also fails to point out my big concern, which 00 already mentioned. We can get on Stafford's ass all day long, he probably gets off on it anyways, but we need to tackle Knowshon and that other retard, and we need to tackle them hard. UGA is soft if you pop them in the mouth from the start.
 
The Jacket said:
What was mostly a decent article ends with some of the most idiotic drivel they've posted so far this morning.

"But they haven’t seen a challenge like this. For all Tech’s advantage in experience and portfolio on the defensive front, Georgia remains a nine-point favorite, which says something about who is blocking whom."

What the hell does that even mean? Georgia is a nine-point favorite and as a result the battle in the trenches is a whole new ballgame?
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I saw that too. I was all prepared to say that the article had less than usual uga spin, but that last part threw the credibility off completely.

Bulletin board material.
 
00Burdell said:
I cannot shake the image of the one blitz play against the U where one of our LBs had a perfect blind-side angle on the QB (1st Qtr, I think). Their QB was able to shake off the high arm tackle. That should never happen....
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I know your main point was about the RBs, but Door Matt Stafford is not elusive like Marve (or Harris)...
 
GTWannaBee said:
I saw that too. I was all prepared to say that the article had less than usual uga spin, but that last part threw the credibility off completely.

Bulletin board material.
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Regardless of spin, it just seems like piss-poor writing. It seems like he had an idea to put the spread into the piece but didn't care whether it made any sense at all.

Has the AJC always had horrible writers?
 
The Jacket said:
"But they haven’t seen a challenge like this. For all Tech’s advantage in experience and portfolio on the defensive front, Georgia remains a nine-point favorite, which says something about who is blocking whom."

What the hell does that even mean? Georgia is a nine-point favorite and as a result the battle in the trenches is a whole new ballgame?
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I think it means that most people will pick UGAg over Tech based on reputation. Its not a toxic comment to me.
 
ramblinwise1 said:
I think it means that most people will pick UGAg over Tech based on reputation. Its not a toxic comment to me.
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I'm not saying it's biased. As I said above, it seems completely irrelevant and moronic. He's trying to somehow connect the spread and the idea of the OLine-DLine struggle and he fails miserably. It's just bad writing.
 
Look for Ugay to run the hell out of screens and draws to neutralize our d-line rush/advantage. It will be one hell of a chess match between Bobo and Wommack.
 
I think that our D is not the deciding factor in this game. If we don't turn the ball over, we win. PERIOD.
 
Speaking of turnovers, when is the last time we didn't turn the ball over against the fleabags at least once?

Seems to me we can't get through that game without a TO or two. I know Ugag will be focusing on ball-stripping but it won't work against Diesel. It might against Jones though - he sticks it out there from time to time. I hope we are working on that some.
 
00Burdell said:
Speaking of turnovers, when is the last time we didn't turn the ball over against the fleabags at least once?

Seems to me we can't get through that game without a TO or two. I know Ugag will be focusing on ball-stripping but it won't work against Diesel. It might against Jones though - he sticks it out there from time to time. I hope we are working on that some.
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I'm pretty sure we've at least turned the ball over once against them in every game since 1998. I don't remember if we turned it over that year in Athens, but I think I do remember Godsey's no-INT streak ending in Athens in 2000.
 
Our DL is excellent and our DB is good, but our LB's have played like the FR/SO they are in many games. I love Sed's motor and his speed, but our LB's played much better with Bowen in there last Thursday. That guy flat hits you and wraps up.

It will take excellent LB play to slow down Moreno Saturday, and I don't know they've played that way yet this year. We'll get to Staffy, and we'll handle MoMass and Green fairly well. I don't think they'll go off for 300+ yards, but I wouldn't be surprised to see them go over 200, and Moreno over 100. That should translate into 3-4 TD's.

We will need to score 31 on them to win.
 
Stinger, I think you are right about Bowen. I just wish we were running him, Gladiator, and Sed. I would feel extremely comfortable with that LB corps.
 
I think the key to slowing down Morano (get it?) is to get him outside so we can get him on an angle. We have enough speed to close on him if he goes sideways a little bit and he's easier to tackle from an angle. If, by some miracle, he gets past our DL between the tackes we are in big trouble. You cannot tackle him from straight on.
 
stinger78 said:
We will need to score 31 on them to win.
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I agree. I think this game is going to be a lot like the FSU game. Ugay is going to hit some big plays, but we have to keep those big plays from being TD's. Make them earn it in the redzone.
 
the challenge will be the short passing game, screens and then playing off of that to the deep ball

with Stafford's quick release it will be hard to get to him before he can fire into the flat or the short out routes, they are probably going to try at first to dink us for 7-12 on every play. then they will run some screens and more and more Morano

if we can get our arms up on the end during these short passing plays, we may be able to hold em as long as the corners dont give them 1/2 mile cushions

the good thing is that this offense doesnt really work well in the Gold zone, once the field shortens you can tighten up the coverage
 
We did a great job of containing Moron-o last year. It was the other back (?Brown) that killed us. I'm mostly worried about defending their passing game which could put a lot of points up in a hurry. I think it's going to be a high scoring game and I'd like to get ahead early, because trying to make up points late is always tough on the road. Georgia has been lucky this year winning close games that they should have lost. I hope we aren't going to be another victim.
 
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