There were a lot of little things that led to the big win over Florida. Sure, the playcalling was improved, as was the execution, but for me, the crucial thing on offense was illustrated by this quote from Florida’s Jonathan Greenard ($$):
“They didn’t have to max protect,” Greenard said. “They blocked us with just five O-linemen. That’s why I said I gotta be better. I was terrible.”
When’s the last time somebody said that about Georgia’s offensive line scheme? All season, it’s seemed like the tight ends have been used primarily in blocking support for the line, with pass catching, especially in Woerner’s case, almost an afterthought.
On Saturday it was apparent early on that Coley was going to employ his tight ends downfield more than he had all year. The o-line responded with a terrific, zero-sack effort, aided in no small effect by Georgia’s running backs when they stayed in to block. Woerner and Wolf both contributed significant catches for big yardage.
All of that against the conference sack leader, a remarkable transformation from the issues in pass protection we saw against South Carolina. If they can only do that again facing Auburn’s formidable front…
Get The Picture 
Beat Mizzou with the same mentality.
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Yep, one at a time. Keep the main thing the main thing.
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mizzou’s hc is a defensive guy at heart…he’s seen the game tape from saturday plus the week off to prepare, just as UGA prepared for FU, mizzou will bring different angles to the los…but that was good stuff to see with UGA’s o-lines blocking tactics
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I guess Cousin Eddy’s blind squirrels couldn’t find their nuts against our 5 O’s.
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The difference against SCeast was their best linemen are interior, just like at Aubrun. UF’s interior linemen aren’t much, its their ends that typically get pressure. Our tackles are elite. Our guards and center are very good, but against elite d-tackles we lose some.
Do not let our awesome showing against Florida give confidence going into Aubrun. DIfferet match up, different quality of interior linemen than UF had.
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And…while we did release our TE’s downfield to prevent their blocking failings to hurt us, the RB’s balled out big time picking up blitzers. Herrian and Swift repeatedly stuffed a fifth or sixth rusher to give Fromm time.
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Correct – the backs did a great job picking up and either blocking or chipping the rushers all game. Fromm also did a good job a couple of 3 or 4 times when he was under pressure of stepping up and then tucking and running it for modest (but positive!) yardage…
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We should put Mays in as an H-Back and just position him right behind one of the guards to help with Auburn’s elite interior lineman.
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Anyone else surprised it took until the bye week before Smart/Coley asked Pittman if the OL still needed the TEs and RBs kept in to help the OL out in pass blocking? I understand some situations make that is a wise move, but we are in the 8th game of the year, and against the best defensive front we have seen. I may be misreading Seth’ story, Smart’s question, and/or Pittman’s response (to his credit he said basically, “hell no, we can stand on our own”) but not using our TEs, and all of our weapons for 7 games to lend a hand to the ‘best OL in the nation’ doesn’t seem logical to me.
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By “lending a hand” it just made the O lines job harder. All it did was draw more in to the box. When those guys only have to block one defender each, they are pretty damn good. When 5 wind up having to block 7 or 8, it is amazing how average they look.
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What happens to the team if Fromm is sacked and suffers a season-ending injury? Maybe coaches have been considering this when game-planning…
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Oh I think it is always a consideration,but you cannot tank/weaken the offense under the assumption all of those 4 and 5 star OL guys cannot do their job. So 2 of the 3 toughest tests we face this season we should play with handcuffs on? If you lose those conference games, what have you gained? Just like trusting Jake, we have trust hose guys and Pittman/Coley to do thei jobs.
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Going into this game I felt like 3rd down conversion percentage would be critically important for our offense. That proved to be the difference maker. We dominated the number of offensive plays compared to Florida and controlled the clock. We still have to do a better job of converting drives into 7 points. We continue to shoot ourselves in the foot on successful opening drives.
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The fact of the matter is, UGA did most of things many of us here, including myself, had been complaining about for weeks. They ran outside, they threw crossing routes and they schemed guys open. They got the ‘W.’ Personally, I didn’t complain about not throwing to the tight ends because I had already given up on that. It was a good win for a program that needed just exactly that to propel them into the last few weeks of the season. Way to go Dawgs! I’ll be interested to see what happens next.
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I guess since Greenard is a transfer, he hasn’t learned to be a total prick yet and actually gave some props.
I’m guessing Cousin Eddie runs him til he pukes today.
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The line played so well that even when Florida DID manage to get to Fromm, he had enough room to escape and pick up yardage with his legs. He isn’t exactly Mike Vick, either.
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”’a remarkable transformation from the issues in pass protection we saw against South Carolina.”
Watching the UT-SC game last week, my wife and I kept remarking something along the lines of ‘how did we lose to these guys?’ After the game Saturday, those feelings are only magnified. The loss was truly an epic bedwetting.
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