The folks at SportSourceAnalytics paint an interesting statistical portrait of Georgia’s offense.
That’s about field position, a little bit of Isaiah McKenzie… oh, and one other thing.
Impressive. How impressive? Impressive enough to carry the defense.
And here’s one bonus stat, for kicks.
Bobo’s best season? Or is it too soon to judge?
Get The Picture 
This season AND last season have been pretty remarkable (overall, of course) considering the injuries all across the O.
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Noodles al dente
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“Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can make a man insane.”
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I think I’m a pretty good example of that. I totally lost my mind during the last cocktail party.
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Judging from the expressions of unhappiness here I would say you were not alone, Paul.
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The crayon seems to have turned into a Mont Blanc pen if you ask me.
I BLAME BOBO!
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It amazes me that somehow we’re averaging MORE points this year than we did last year or in 2012 WITHOUT the SEC record-setting quarterback in Aaron Murray OR Todd Gurley for 4 games.
I know the special teams turnaround has contributed, but dang Bobo has done a good job to go with it.
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If you don’t mind, logic and stats aren’t welcomed in the same breath with Bobo.
Bobo has painstakingly built this team from the great recruiting jobs of the last two years. He has also made some silk purses out of sows’ ears, fashioned the best O in college ball and hones it’s athleticism in the SEC. There is nothing better out there. And some take a great coor like him for granted while others have never stopped pulling out their hair concerning his O calls. Some of the fan base just won’t let their misplaced egos be adjudged wrong and look at accomplishments even though we are on the same fan team.
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I’d love to see what Bobo can do with a few all-SEC picks on the OLine. At that point we could see some real video game-type numbers.
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Mike Bobo he’s not the hero the Dawgventers want, but he’s the one they’ve needed.
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Batbobo?
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Haha, instead of the batwing emblem the light shines up into the sky and its the silhouette of 7 kids.
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Now 8
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wait no 9.
Bobo doesnt just score touchdowns every time he gets a turn.
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(Hurriedly changes the new model drawing of the Bobo Family’s new Fing Scooter presented as a growing bonus each year.) This year’s Fing Scooter, dubbed the Bonerus, has four tires, two steering columns (front and rear), children’s seats on handlebars and a caboose. Bobo rides in the caboose which doubles as a tailgate. Since he doesn’t have time to set up a tailgate for games, I’ll leave it to you why it’s called a tailgate.
Sometimes his agent borrows it and rides alone in a circle around B-M as a contract reminder for the mouths that need to be fed. So far he has worn out last year’s model. B-M has shaded all it’s windows so they don’t have to see him begging.
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Does he really have 9 kids now? I guessI stopped counting when he hit 5.
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Well at least we know he’s good at something.
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Sihouettes have been spotted all over the Bobo compound
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“Why do we soldiers have to dig through local landfills for pieces of scrap metal and compromised ballistic glass to uparmor our vehicles?”
As you know, you go to war with the Bobo you have—not the Bobo you might want or wish to have at a later time.—You can have all the armor in the world on a tank and it can still be blown up… (h/t Brandon 1.0 and The Donald)
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Bodes very well for the future! With CJP now coaching the defense and the great recruiting classes being signed, there should be very little for Dawg fans to bitch about.
As for the remainder of this season…the sky is the limit if this team can find a little bit more defense.
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…there should be very little for Dawg fans to bitch about.
Methinks you underestimate the tenacity of the Eeyore Dawg crowd. However, I have noticed that one of the Boo-Bird-Blogs has slowed down to a post every 6 weeks pace. Their recent post has nothing to do with sports at all but is instead health related. Something to do with the dangers of alcohol consumption. Someone is making their AA meetings I guess. Bobo’s success has driven them to drink? Yikes!
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I almost admitted that I was getting pretty close to trolling with that remark.:)
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If we scored a TD every play, and didn’t allow a first down on D, there are still places we could complain. Like, we didn’t we go for 2 each time vs. Tech, Auburn, and Florida? Or why couldn’t we force a turnover on first down against every team? Or question if our punting isn’t getting enough practice.
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Those stats are great and should add money to Bobo’s contract. But if you add 2 L’s so far this season and the 5 L’s from 2013 that should get you a hot cup of coffee and 2 gold stars.
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Is your entire existence predicated on sucking all the joy out of the rooms you go into?
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It’s awesome that Bobo and the offense are scoring points in bunches. He is due a raise as I mentioned prior. However, as evidence by 2 incredibly bad losses this year, they are not scoring enough points. This team has two bad losses this season that Bobo and the offense had a hand in. The offense is not without fault in either game. Are they to be blamed for either loss? To so degree, yes. Score from the 4 yard line vs Carolina and that’s a W. Take advantage of the1st quarter mojo, punch in a second TD and potentially take the wind and hope out of the Gators sails. Instead, both games proved to be awful stumbling blocks due in part to the offense falling short. The offense has one purpose…to score enough points to win. Sometimes that will be 24 points, 31 points or 45 points. In short, Bobo does his job extremely well some of the time.
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Agree on Florida but disagree on USCe. Was the 1st down call bad? Yes. Should 35 have been enough to win? Yes, and Pruitt acknowledged that as well.
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To some degree Florida is on the D also. How many times should they have gotten us off the field on 3rd down? There’s plenty of blame to go around for that debacle, between not having the team in a Munson/Dooley mindset and just not matching their energy. And don’t EVEN get me started on field position…
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Agree, our D rarely has had our offense’s back in the last 6-7 years. If our offense sputters, which against a completely legit Florida defense it could be expected to some, it finds itself down by three touchdowns, that changes your whole game plan and makes you one dimensional. Most of the embarrassments of the post Van Gorder era have been a result of our defense doing its swiss cheese impression in the first half and then our offense having to throw every down to try to catch up. Sometimes we’ve been able to come back and make a game of it at the end like the West Virginia Sugar Bowl game and sometimes not but when we get so far behind we have to throw our offensive gameplan out mid-way through the second quarter that’s really not fair to throw on the offense either.
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“…our D rarely has had our offense’s back in the last 6-7 years.” You are 100% correct and this is where I find fault with our offense and the stats. Knowing full well that the D has shortcomings, it is the job of the O to take up the slack. Score, score and score some more. By whatever means required. That is just not happening. Does the D deserve a pass? Not at all. However, they came up with the turnover to help the O vs Carolina yet the O failed. Early in the Florida game the D was coming up with stops yet the O failed to put up a 2nd TD that could have closed the door on that fragile squad. The offense and their failures in the 1st quarter are what gave the Gators hope. But hey, let’s pat everyone on the back and hand out trophies. I grow increasingly tired of the same old excuses for the 2-4 losses that this program suffers on a yearly basis. I want improvement across the board. I just don’t see that happening any time soon. So our 12 weeks of college football will continue to be an exercise of frustration. Sit back, enjoy the wins and tolerate the unexplainable, unavoidable losses that are certain to come.
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No Skeptic, the losses are avoidable, not unavoidable. Certainly the South Carolina loss was avoidable–just hand the ball to Gurley on 1st and goal from the 4. But that’s Bobo’s weakness–he has a brain cramp occasionally and loses a game at the end with a bad decision. That said, Bobo has done a really good job overall. You get your panties in a wad every time UGA has a loss, no matter how small, and want to blame Bobo for it. How many teams in NCAA D-IA are undefeated this season? Two, and the season’s only 2/3 over! This team averages the most points scored per game in the SEC. Scoring isn’t the problem. Grantham left the D in bad shape, plus all those DBs were getting kicked off/transferring. IMHO Pruitt has done a remarkable job with what he had to work with. Are there legitimate things to gripe about? Yes, but the overall O isn’t one of them.
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Plus we had two field goals miss and a phantom holding call that called back a touchdown in Columbia. Our offense was not the issue against USCe.
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Mayor, the avoidable losses are the reason for my frustration. I have no issue with getting beat by better teams. That’s gonna happen from time to time. But this annual faceplant to lesser teams is what kills me. This season we have seen two faceplants. Georgia is a better team than both Carolina and Florida this season. Lose to one of those and everything goal is still obtainable for the Dawgs. Two losses and this team finds itself looking up at friggin’ Mizzou. That’s what I find frustrating. And yes, the D carries it share of the blame in both games. But as I said earlier, when you know that the D will struggle the O has to pick up the slack. And that has not happened far too many times, SC and UF as specific examples this year.
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You say “pick up the slack” like it’s the easiest thing to do. At some point, you have to think Bobo wonders, “just how many points do I have to score?” I would say all three phases contribute to the losses. Why are we still picking on CMB?
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@bulldogbry November 10, 2014 at 1:44 PM
“Why are we still picking on CMB?”
Because he’s not as scary as Todd
and can’t arch an eyebrow like Jeremy
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I’m with Skeptic. Is being the highest scoring team in the SEC good enough? Hells naw!!1!1! We should be the highest scoring team in the history of the world!!!
Should we ever lose to an inferior team? Again, no. We should bring over Corch, who certainly didn’t lose to an inferior VA Tech team this year. Or Malzahn, who certainly didn’t lose to an inferior TAMU team. I mean, if you give Malzahn the ball first and goal, he’s certainly going to punch it in 100% of the time, no?
Nice analysis.
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So Saban lost to a “superior” Ole Miss team ? Huh. Would you fire Miles at LSU now? I mean, damn…3 losses in conference! And Skeptic…there are currently only 11 teams in the top 25 that have fewer than 2 losses. Due to schedules, that number has to be reduced before the end of the season. You may not like 2 losses. You may think they happen “only” to inferior teams. But greater parity is rising in CFB within the conferences and the ability for multiple teams to run the gauntlet with no losses is becoming damn near impossible.
Or do we need to have that “is it or isn’t it” about the MNC discussion again? Let the season conclude. See if Richt can get us to the SECCG for the 6th time (more than any other active SEC coach) and see how things shake out there. We were more impressive vs. Kentucky and Arky than Missy St. They squeaked by LSU. Auburn and TAMU are their quality wins, but let’s see how they deal with Bama and Ole Miss before we get all jealous again of yet another SEC team doing better than UGA.
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He doesn’t understand. He doesn’t view the coaches or team as entities with family, friends and well-wishers who know that Bobo is quite the achiever. Bobo builds us a great shiny O Machine and you would think ,the way hardheads keep knocking him, that he is here only to do players’ laundry. Hardheads don’t see the hard work and resultant play we get as anything connected to Bobo. They still think he is dependant on Richt for playcalling and that makes it convenient to call for Richt’s head along with his perceived toadying O Coor. who is attached at the head. You can’t help them see the light. Just let them unenjoy the games.
Conley should remake that old porn movie,The Black Hole, with the subject being some fans’ minds.
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And from the very beginning Bobo has been a better and more productive OC than Richt was when he was HC and OC. The difference is Richt was backed up by Van Gorder and Bobo not so much. If Bobo had Van Gorder level defensive production from 06-09 or 11-13, we’d have at least one if not two crystal balls in our trophy case from that time period.
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1 TD until garbage time in Jax. It isn’t sucking the joy out of the room but harsh truth attempting to aspire to someething better, and what the program is capable of doing.
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No cfb program does what it is capable of doing. Shit happens to every team. Why not post that “shit happens” part to all our rivals’ vents?
Reveling in the unlucky plays demonstrates that you aren’t looking at the good things that this coach and team does each week. How would you like to play in the arena and see what it feels like to most players when they read the spotlighted bad shit posted while your own mostly good play (while injured in many cases) is only seen and rewarded by the coaches? Cynics have a reason to be cynical, neg posters don’t. You don’t help a soul by posting such insensitive and unfounded warmed over crap that we all have seen and understand differently than your myopic darkened takes.
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The current staff regularly does not pull out wins nor adapts to the talent available and what the defense gives them. Why was the calling so varied this week with a team that is better against the pass, but ran it up the gut against the known strength of the Gator defense until the game was effectively over.
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You missed the part where Mason only completed 13 passes this past week. Also, Floyd didn’t have any sacks, and Marshall didn’t make any field goals. I’m not sure, but I think the bus took a wrong turn on the way to the stadium as well.
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Inside every Disney Dog there’s some Bulldog Joe trying to get out and into the arena before monsoon season starts
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Who stars as Darth?Gus or Nick Marshall, Who is Luke? Conley or Hudson Mason because I assume CMR is Obi Wan. Good versus evil this weekend at 7:15. Or was that whole trailer for the purpose of having Admiral Akbar say”It’s a trap”? So many questions…Is it too early to start drinking?
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I still think Adm. Akbar would be a great mascot for Ole Miss. He’s a rebel after all.
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Sure, he’s a rebel but Admiral Akbar would have been landlocked 65 miles east of the Mississippi and a few miles southeast of Lake Sardis without a mosque. I still can’t figure out how and why they missed the obvious choice as a mascot
It could have been a two for one and when they let Hugh go they could find another victor, mammal or amphibian, as a replacement
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If you dig the true essence of the Jedi Way, the characters are obvious.
Here’s a hint, the Jedi Master’s apprentice is a bit shorter and is said by some dipshits to lack breakaway speed.
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I didn’t need to see that last stat with GT converting on 3rd and 10+. Could you imagine what the genius would do against a 3rd and Grantham defense? Shudder.
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Say what you want about Grantham (and trust me I am glad he is gone) but the guy shut the Bugs down every time we played them. The worst of Grantham’s defenses held the Nerd-bone well under it’s season averages every time.
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And the stink bugs have padded their 3rd down conversion rate against a weak schedule. They don’t belong in the conversation.
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Yep, I see the pollsters were impressed mightily by the Nerds whooping of NC State. Went from 23 to 24th. Worst conference in college fooseball.
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Then it was just our imagination that Hutson came back from down 20 pts last year?
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Touche’. He did shut them down in 2011-2012 (10 pts/17pts)
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He is also the guy who shut Florida down. Florida had 1 offensive touchdown against us in 2013, 0 offensive touchdowns against us in 2012 and 1 offensive touchdown against us in 2011. UF had 4 offensive TD against us in 2010. So UF got 6 offensive TDs against Grantham in his four games at UGA, and got 4 offensive TDs against Pruitt.
Not saying I prefer Grantham over Pruitt ( I do not) but Grantham was able to match up well with UF.
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That’s true, and I have no doubt he’d do it again. But ignoring the school name, wouldn’t it cause you a little trepidation if you saw a team coming to town that had the best conversion percentage for 3rd and 10+? That just seemed to be Grantham’s blind spot. Willie, too, for that matter. CJP has seemed to fix that.
Tech is decent this year. I want them to come to Athens confident before we put a Kentucky-style whipping on them.
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Well, last year I think that only happened because they had our secondary to throw against.
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I think the 3rd & 10 stat goes to Mark Richt for moving JJ Green to D. Without a small back to run the draw, Bobo’s had to dial-up some different strategies.
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MacKenzie can step in there any time, can’t he?
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DAMMIT!! Bobo’s going to see that now and get to thinking! On the other hand, that might not be such a bad call…???
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There are lies, damned lies and statistics.” – Mark Twain
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+1
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Well, except for wetting the bed and going on Walkabout for the first half of the UF game it’s his best
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“…going on Walkabout….”. That’s funny.
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You do realize that Bobo only calls the plays and it is up to the players to actually execute the calls right? I think people are underestimating how big the loss of Andrews was on the second series of the game. It compromised both the running game and the pass protection. If you can’t protect your QB then those intermediate/long routes don’t work. We also were getting no push on the O line for running either. UF has a good defense as well. We still should have won the game or at least kept it closer than it was. The blame for both of our losses this year goes on our defense.
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This, a hundred times. The offense that Florida has been putting on the field this year had no business running all over us like that. Pruitt’s play calling, players’ underestimation of opponents, whatever…a fair share of that loss goes squarely on the D.
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I posted that right after the game. Immediately after Andrews went down their D blew through the center. The backup did not have any trouble with the snap but blocking suffered.
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I saw the light
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Good insight Rocket Dawg. Most people do not realize how important the center is to an offense. Andrews has been key for us this year and when he was injured it was difficult to recover against a good front 7. I don’t mean to put down his replacement, he tried hard, but losing a starting center mid-game is as serious as losing a starting QB.
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Especially when it’s our center that makes all the line calls. That had a bigger impact than many suspect.
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Statistically, yes, perhaps his best season as a play caller; however, I’m pretty sure that’s cold comfort to him when he thinks about the UF game.
Still, as others have said, it bodes well for the future. No play caller is perfect, and Bobo puts us in a position to win more consistently than just about any OC in college football.
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Y’all know that during the first few seasons of Bobo calling the plays I was on him a bit for what I perceived to be his lack of creativity and predictability. At best, I thought him inconsistent. Brilliant one drive and completely clueless the next. But the last few years Bobo has certainly more than earned his keep. We can complain about a lot of things, and sometimes I do, but I don’t think Bobo is one of them. If we beat Auburn I will bake him a cake.
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I would be perfectly happy if we never had to punt again
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You’d still be in the minority.
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We’re also 4th in turnover margin and top 10 in turnovers gained but we’ve only scored 55 points on 19 turnovers gained. That’s less than 3 points scored per turnover gained. We’re bad at converting opportunities. Gonna have to improve on that if we’re gonna do anything worth a damn. We sucked at converting turnovers against USC and FU and we lost both. Same against Mizzou but we still won.
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Hopefully you won’t get pissed at me for sharing this, Senator. It’s not Dawg related but it should be seen. This was how my old high school team (Central-Carroll) beat Callaway to win their first region title(5 AAA) since we won back to back state titles in ’86 and ’87. They’re been kinda down for a while so I’m proud. This was already a pretty amazing game with 4 TDs scored in the last 5 minutes but the ending was as good as any I’ve ever seen at any level of sport. It’s short and grainy but you get it. Final Play Central vs Callaway 2014 w/B92 Country…: http://youtu.be/B_1adumXOcg
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This also preserved their first 10-0 regular season since ’87.
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Funny thing is the D had given up 30 points all year and Callaway barely topped that in one game. Callaway is also better than anyone else they’ve played this season.
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Statistics are for losers. JUST WIN BABY!!!!
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