Searels and Monken

Graham Coffey posted a long Twitter thread about the Searels hire.  There’s plenty there to rebut some of the online concerns I’ve seen about it, but he points out something in particular I wanted to highlight:

Monken has always had a pull-heavy scheme in the run game, and as you can see in this clip, Searels has plenty of experience coaching to that philosophy. Expect UGA to continue trending towards active OL play with its line getting downfield and pullinghttps://t.co/FuBOsoxu8l

— Graham Coffey (@DawgOutWest) March 5, 2022

At this point, I think we need to put the “Smart needs to keep his hands off the offense” narrative.  It’s pretty clear from this and other things that Monken’s been handed the keys to the car.

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Here’s an interesting data point Chip Towers unearthed:

College teams with a returning starter at quarterback typically improve their win percentage by 2.4% since 2013, according to the New York Post. That number rises to 12.2% when returning eight other starters on offense.

I guess we know what that means.

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These two things can be simultaneously true:  The term “freak” is overused when it comes to athletes.  Jordan Davis is a freak.