This Saturday, Georgia will start its third different right guard in the last four games. With a new face at center, to boot.
Add in wholesale changes at both tackle spots along with Houston’s move to left guard and there isn’t a single holdover at any position on the offensive line – not just from 2014, but from opening day this season. Not exactly what anyone was expecting.
With Houston and Theus graduating, they’ll be shuffling linemen again next year.
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I noticed Long was in after Pyke’s injury when I re-watched the game. Is Dyshon hurt, or was his performance that bad against UK?
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I’m about ready for Houston to graduate
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^^^^ This in spades!
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True freshman at QB and a rebuilt offensive line next year. Oy Vey!
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Sounds a little like 2006 and 2010…?
I can’t remember much about what was going on with the OL back then, but I know it wasn’t stellar. OL has been a weak spot in most of Richt’s teams.
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Even if the O-line is serviceable and Eason ready, who is he gonna throw to? Mitchell is gone. IMac seems to be injury prone. That leaves Godwin and who?
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Ramsey?
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Hah.
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Well played Mike
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In addition to 5 and 16 they have Michael Chigbu. Jayson Stanley. Shakenneth Williams. Reggie Davis. They’ve got 4 commits and hopefully they’ll get Kyle Davis in who is an EE, I think.
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They apparently also have an underperforming Friend-of-Jeremy Pruitt OL coach, according to the rumor a few weeks ago.
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I don’t know if that’s true. That line lacks size and talent. You can’t make chicken salad out of chicken shit. When Gurley got hurt Chubb, another freak, stepped in to mask the line play. Sadly, there isn’t another freak behind Chubb.
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They managed pretty well last year.
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(and I don’t think it was all masking by the RBs…look at the differences in pass protection.)
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Yes, the only way to have a solid run blocking OL is to load up on 5-stars at all 5 line positions …. or you can always develop 3-4 stars like Arkansas has. Fantasy FB is killing intelligent fan discussion about the sport.
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It remains to be seen whether Sale can coach. Although he’s likely no worse than the last couple OL coaches we’ve hired. But at least he’s going after the type of OL recruits we should’ve been pursuing for the last 15 years. We’re talkin 6-5+, 300 lb+ bulldozers. Not the undersized, need-to-put-on-weight-AND-have-shoulder-surgery-the-day-they-hit-campus ‘projects’ we’ve been signing.
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Correction: Replace “we should’ve been pursuing”, with ‘rarely pursued’. Occasionally, we did sign guys like Jean-Gillis and Cordy Glenn. Why we haven’t signed more OLs like them is a mystery.
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Something tells me his coaching acumen will have a lot to do with whether he lands those bulldozers or not….
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LOL, there was one point point under Callaway that I was convinced that having a prior shoulder injury was a requirement for us to recruit anyone at OL.
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Reggie Davis? Seriously? Anyway, have any of the others you listed caught a pass in anything other than garbage time yet?
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Reggie Davis couldn’tcatch an std in a whore house much less a football.
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Hey! I thought they screened that. Damn!
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Whores throw footballs? We should sign one!
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Yeah, I cringed myself when I typed it. Reggie broke my remote when he was in Knoxville. Straight shattered it into pieces. He would have gotten another one when he went to Jax, but fortunately I was in an airport bar so my remote survived.
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Shaquery Wilson, red shirted
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Hopefully Kyle Davis, Isaac Nauta & Charlie Woerner will be on board and as good as advertised.
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That sounds good to me. I am looking forward to next year.
As to this year,& next year, at least we have the players on campus
to shuffle & to rebuild.
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KD should contribute immediately. Also if we snag either of the 6’4 JUCO kids we just offered, I could see them contributing quickly too.
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yeah, just like Jonathon Rumph and his career 18 catches
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Just because Rumph couldn’t get it together automatically means no JUCO will ever come in and produce? OK….
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I’m starting to think all this rotations stuff at QB, RB, OLine, etc, is an attempt to try and make the starters play harder. I’m not sure it’s working. lol.
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I’ve heard we’ve moved from man on man blocking to more of a zone scheme, can anyone confirm that?
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You can’t tell?
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I believe that we will be as good at least as this year maybe better, Gaillard, Kublanow,
Sims, Allen, Jurovic, Hardin, Edwards, Baker, Madden, Pyke, Wynn, plus the 4 or 5 coming in are upgrade over past recruiting years.
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+1
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I Agree.
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“Topping this year’s line” isn’t that high a bar to clear, especially w/r/t interior run blocking.
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Anyone seen or heard from aj Turman. Hicks as our 3rd string tb does not excite me.
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