This may be the best story of the SECCG:
Even if Fromm doesn’t have to throw 30 passes a game, he has to be able to run the offense. Swift, whose 64-yard touchdown run down the left side in the fourth quarter iced the victory over Auburn, said, “Every time I’m in the backfield, he tells me what I got, whether I know it or not.”
And whether Swift listens or not.
“He was supposed to go to the right,” Fromm said. “I take the ball, I get the handoff to him, and he starts taking off to the left. In my mind, I’m like, ‘What are you doing?’ That joker takes off. I look, there’s a huge hole, and he makes a move on a guy and takes off. He didn’t run it in the right spot. It doesn’t matter. The guy makes a play.”
That’s when you know you’re having your way in a game.
Get The Picture 
Chemistry.
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Physicality
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Strategery
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Vision
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Swanson
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Just a football-playin’ Jesse.
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Freshman….
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Samsonite!! I was way off.
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Is this really not a word? It might as well be because it’s used so often now. Besides, worse options have been granted the title of “word” by Miriam Webster over the last several years.
Did our HC really sound like a bumpkin? Lol! Not that I care too much if he does. My grandmother was one of the most intelligent people I’ve ever known and she was a bumpkin.
I think I’m gonna rewatch when I get him to hear Kirby go “com-po-sure” again. He really put emphasis on the syllables.
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CKS is no more rube than any of the studio analysts that toss “physicality” about like it is gospel. (And you know what? Upon typing the word into this comment I received no squiggly red underline, so it has been verified)/.
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And since I’m obsessive, this from the Oxford English Dictionary people:
The noun “physicality” entered English in 1592, when it was another word for medicine or medical practice, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. In 1827, it was first used to mean “the fact, state, or condition of being physical (as opposed to mental, spiritual, etc.),
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Well there you go! I’ll admit, I was being lazy.
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I was with you Jabo. It sounds made up.
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My wife hates that word and claimed it wasn’t a real word so I looked it up last year.
I tell the only way you overcome physicality is by trickeration. Luckily she has patience with me.
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Haha!
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I’ve always been pro-bumpkin.
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Oh, same here. I’ve had projects around the country. Lol!
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Oh, same here. I’ve had projects around the country. Lol! I still laughed when I heard Kirby say that during the post-game.
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I think the SEC Championship game was a watershed moment for our UGA program. Beat down by yourself, and to come back and deliver an ass kickin’, shows the prep, toughness, process, and PHYSICALITY we have been waiting for.
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It’s nice to be able to hear from our quarterback finally.
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I may be more excited about Swift than Gurley, Chubb & Sony, and Knowshon. That spin move!
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That’s saying a lot.
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Easy big guy. He is exciting and promising, but there are game day guys, and career guys. Those other three are proven to be both, let’s home Swift carries on for 3-4 years. Very happy to get Swift and his cousin out of Philly, love to open new doors and spread the brand. One day, maybe even Montana rocks the Red and Black! But yeah, that burst, and that spin move, spells optimism to me.
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I enjoy his supple hands — kid can catch the rock.
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You take what they give you. Sometimes the plan is the right spot, sometimes the deviation from the plan is the right spot.
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Don’t know how many remember but right before the Swift TD run, we were in a different formation and play…Fromm was under center and right before the snap Smart called timeout. Came back from timeout in the shotgun and Swift broke the 64 yd TD run…literally a half-second from that play not happening.
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That play was something, but the fake toss and pass to Nauta was my favorite of the night, especially since it upset Matthews so much.
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if you watch the play again, Jackson Harris was also wide open. he ran an out to the corner; and every LB bit on the play action. So, Harris and Nauta were both wide open. Great Play!
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I noticed that as well. He was more open than Nauta.
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+1k
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My favorite was the 2 point conversion. Show one formation. Motion everyone to the left. Throw to the right.
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The sound of the train horn going off at the Benz as soon as he crossed the goal line on that run will never get old. Hope we get to hear it some. More this year and plenty more in the future
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The way Gaillard and Cleveland pancaked the two Auburn defenders up the middle, I don’t think it matters which way Swift went.
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Wims brought the wood, too.
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Wims’s block is even better when you consider that he goes into the play believing he is blocking the corner furthest away from the play direction. His block is designed to be the least important part of that whole play, but his dominance broke it wide open. That’s why you beat your man every single time.
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Blazevich made the outside block perfectly on that play. It was replayed several times for it’s text-book look for moving a defender and keeping him to the side. But Swift’s move decided that play.
I’ll bet it already is in our repertoire.
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I believe they call that “vision”.
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Yes.
That’s why Kirby happily pointed at his eyes after the TD.
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I loved the quick RPO seam pass to Mecole in the 2nd quarter. Fromm loves those sideline out routes, but when we slip it down the seam with those quick passes, they’re always are big plays.
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he throws seam routes. I get it. 😉
Loved the sidearm sling on the RPO to Mecole, by the way. Kind of Favre-ian. Told my buddy in South Bend that Fromm reminded me a little of a young Buck Belue in that he seemed comfortable at all times in the midst of chaos. Thought it was a little early, perhaps, to make the comparison, but maybe now, not too early. Natural leader, 2 sport star, can handle the spotlight and the pressure that goes with it…..not bad, Jake, not bad at all.
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I’d take Fromm every day of the week and twice on Saturdays.
Belue’s best TD:INT ratio was 12:9, his TD:INT ratio as a freshman was 1:3. Fromm’s freshman season is better than anything Belue ever did.
I get giving the man props for the national championship, but respectfully, Belue isn’t fit to be mentioned in the same breath as Fromm.
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Belue needed to exist for the 2 seconds it took to give the ball to Herschel.
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I’ll always remember him replacing Pyburn in 78 when we best Tech at the wire. Buck was clutch.
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beat, not best.
Man, I ducking hate autocorrect!
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The offense Dooley ran in the era he ran it, makes what Herschel did all the more impressive. It was a time of playing defense and field position while running the backs into the teeth of the defense with no threat of passing the ball. The RBs this day and time benefit from spread formations and air-raids.
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Relax, dude. I was comparing Jake’s COMPOSURE to Buck’s, not his stats. Jake clearly has much better stats, I wouldn’t take Buck over him, either. Buck has to be pushing 60 now.
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That was one of those plays where as soon as he hit the hole you knew he was gone. Pretty tight game up until that point. Afterward, we could finally exhale. Sweet.
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I’d forgotten it was a TD game until the 4th quarter. I also didn’t realize how bad Danielson has become. He was setting up the excuses early. That was one of the worst called games by unbiased commentators I’ve seen in a long time. I’m glad I was at the game and didn’t have to hear his shit bring me down.
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I more got the feeling that Nessler was a step slow describing everything.
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At the beginning of the fourth quarter it was still a 13-7 game. I don’t know about you but I was not what one would call relaxed.
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I wasn’t fully relaxed, no, but I felt the game was turning in our favor. Especially in light of us pushing through the BS with the refs.
What’s it say about this staff and the team’s senior leadership that they turned real, in-game adversity into a good thing?? Kirby raged and raged on the refs but never lost his composure as leader of the team. My dad was STILL bitching about the roughing the passer walking out of MBS. lol! It was honestly hard to enjoy a very good and physical first half because I’m expecting a call every play and for every call to go against us.
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This is a variation of the old saying…Jimmys and Joes are better than Xs and Os
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One thing I’m not laughing at: all of our assistants that are about to be poached: Coley to be OC at A&M and Mel Tucker to head coach for Tennessee?
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I watched that play a dozen times, marveling at how well it was blocked. Maybe he was supposed to run to the right, but holy crap! The hole on the left was cavernous. Wims made a hell of a block out there as well. Swift only had to make one guy miss, and he made him miss badly. If that play was supposed to go to the right, I can only assume it was blocked incorrectly in the best way possible.
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As AuditDawg correctly pointed out Gaillard and Cleveland pancaked their guys on the right side as well. We pretty much blew up the entire line of scrimmage on that play. A thing of beauty indeed.
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Unintentional misdirection. Everyone on O going right and the D pursues in that direction. Cut back against the grain– nobody on D home.
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