Read this preview of North Carolina’s defense and realize that if Georgia can’t run the ball well against the Heels, it’s probably going to be a longer year than we expect.
Read this preview of North Carolina’s defense and realize that if Georgia can’t run the ball well against the Heels, it’s probably going to be a longer year than we expect.
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“We remember the Sugar Bowl, I think it my junior year of high school, we let Alabama beat us twice,” Brinson said of a team that also lost to the Crimson Tide in the SEC Championship game. “We’re not letting Alabama beat us twice. In the Sugar Bowl in 2018, they… thought they should have been in the playoffs and lost to Texas.” -- AB-H, 12/27/23
If Cheney has shown anything over his career, isn’t it this: He’s not a doctrinaire, “Run/pass in exactly X/Y percentages,” adapt to the talent and the opponent kind of guy. Anyone who can make a serviceable QB out of Nathan Peterson is smart enough to game plan a defense he has all summer to break down, I would think.
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I’m not really referring to his tactics for the opener as much as I am that North Carolina’s run defense appears to be sub-par.
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all the more reason for optimism, then, right???
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This is what I’ve been saying for weeks. Keep it on the ground they have not been known to stop an ACC ground game. UGA needs to slow the game with a punishing ground game, limit UNC possessions give the thin UGA D time to catch their breath, and be coached up.
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Wouldn’t that get Kirby fired if he only wins the game 9 – 6?
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Please… new staff, 2 mediocre at best QBs, and a true Freshman QBs against a top 25 team that took the #2 team in the country to the wire.
If UGA’s D keeps UNC out of the end zone, I’ll be on cloud 9.
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They gave up 608 yards to Clemson in that game.
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That’s my feeling, too.
And the bonus to that is you relieve a little pressure on the QB, whoever that may be.
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Exactly, pray for for Chubb daily.
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Hope he proves me wrong, but Chaney’s resume does just not stand out unless that was the only way to get Pittman. One of the things when interviewing candidates for jobs I always looked at was successes and longevity at previous jobs. Is it curious he has never held one position for more than 4 years and averaging about two per stint? But Pittman has also been sort of a vagabond. Wishing both of those attributes happen here.
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IS an adapt to the talent, etc. kind of guy. Sometimes I hate the no edit feature. 😉
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The answer to this question may lie more in how good is Sam Pittman rather than how good is Chaney. If Pittman gets his guys ready, we should be able to open up holes for Chubb, Michel, Crowder and company to run through.
If we don’t, we may be look at the same slog that we dealt with on offense the 2nd half of the year.
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Yeah but. Look, I don’t disagree, but first game things tend to be outliers more than glimpses into how the season will play out. CFB is way too much between the ears for the detailed analysis stuff, it’s part of why we can’t not watch. UNC could easily play out of their minds and Kirby could easily get his squad so jacked up that they run out of gas.
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Give us September 3rd already!
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