Well, when you’re coming off a national title, it’s unreasonable to expect a whole lot of anonymous criticism from opposing coaches about Georgia, as Athlon finds. Still, if you put your mind to it…
“The quarterback is back, but one of the worst things that can happen after a successful season or a title run is when a good-but-not-great QB comes back,” the coach said. “Everyone is expecting an advancement that might not be possible. Remember, there were times last season when they won in spite of this offense.”
“Times”, as in plural? Outside of the Clemson game — in which Bennett didn’t play — what other wins came in spite of the offense?
“They’re loaded with elite young guys coming in, but they aren’t going to have the luxury of that defense from last season. So eventually, they’re going to have to open the offense up and push Stetson Bennett,” the coach said. “They won a national title in the most comfortable way possible for their head coach: The best defensive players in the country doing their thing and then playing a safe offensive game. That will have to change some.”
“They have to open the offense up” is the new “you can’t win championships playing defense”. I’m waiting for somebody to ask why Georgia is paying Todd Monken so much when all he does is call a safe offensive game.
Get The Picture 
“Eventually” cometh and that right soon.
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I believe we’ve already seen Stetson’s (R)edemption!!!
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Oh, BTW, that oughtta be a movie!
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“Eventually” is doing a shit ton of heavy lifting, as we’re fond of saying around here.
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Sounds to me like someone anonymously has a case of the butt-hurts. Fuck whoever the anonymous asshat is that’s throwing off on our QB.
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I’m fine with opposing coaches believing lazy takes about our offense. May it continue for the whole season.
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Shane Beamer?
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I could see it being Billy Napier and Brian Kelly. Kelly because he probably thinks that he would have beaten UGA twice if Georgia and Notre Dame recruited on the same level, and Napier because he didn’t have to play UGA last year and probably hasn’t done the film study enough to know what really happened.
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That’s probably right.
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Should the anonymous coach desire the UGA football “OC” open up the offense, said coach better not be on this seasons schedule, Coach Monken has schemes that will short circuit opposing dc’s game plans indefinitely…GO DAWGS!
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In Todd we trust.
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Yeah, those Athlon quotes scream Brian Kelly. He’s an asshole. I give him 3 years in Red Stick, tops.
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If Arkansas beats them twice I’ll take the under.
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To me it sounds like someone close to CKS – Saban or Laner AND if it isn’t one of them – it’s Brian Kelly.
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Ask Michigan how it works when you challenge Georgia to beat you through the air.
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Man, I just SMH. We ran them out of the stadium. B1G Champs and all.
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We ran, passed, kicked, and hit them out of the Stadium as if they were South Carolina.
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This had to b aa coach that did not play Georgia last year. How could you possibly draw some of these conclusions, unless your just that dumb. Could be any of those guys; but did feel a little bit ‘Lane Kiffinish’ – little bit of snark and a little bit of lazy… Guess that could have been Jimbo too.
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Ahh.. cynical me doesn’t even believe these are quotes from other “real” coaches. I think the writer(s) just made this bullshit up.
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That’s a very real probab…I mean possibility.
“Anonymous” is a red flag.
Coaches should refuse to participate in such a bottom dragging journalistic ploy.
But if it is real, it probably is Brain Kelly or Billy Napier (as Dawgfan1995 said in his post). Or possibly Beamer. Some coach that’s made a title run or had a successful season. Maybe Fischer: Bobby’s good at running off at the mouth.
But in the big scheme of things, coaches running their mouths doesn’t change the reality that CKS has built a monster and while they’re all analyzing and pretending the monster isn’t real, Kirby is quietly tweaking it to eat them all up.
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If it was Jimbo,
he’s a bigger dumbass than I thought. We beat his ass in a Kirby manball game in Athens when a$m had the “much superior, much popular, dual threat quarterback” in Monds.
You are correct, uglydawg, it’s a Kirby/Monken tweaking that will be a sight to behold!!
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I love the smell of a good Conspiracy Theory first thing in the morning!!!
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The offense in the natty was pretty much awful for 3 quarters and 5 minutes. You had one good run by Cook and a long pass to Pickens and otherwise 5 of our 7 possessions over the first 50 minutes of the game were 3 and outs.
I say that counts as a win in spite of an offense.
The second quote is pretty much what I’ve been saying all off season. If we’re to win the conference OR repeat, the offense is going to have to perform better especially against elite competition.
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Cool. Now do the last ten minutes of the game.
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It got better for sure. However, that late arriving offense only had a chance to make a difference because of Nakobe Dean and Co.’s extraordinary efforts. Without that once in a lifetime defense, the failure of the offense over the first 50 minutes likely would have proven fatal to any chances at getting a win.
Therefore, if that 2021 defense is gone and now replaced with a somewhat lesser defensive unit, it is highly likely that we’ll need to play better offense, over the entire course of the games, if we want to win any prizes at the end of the season.
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You’re right about this. But what the others outside of our little chatroom are right that we have still never won a game in the Smart era with the offense outgunning another offense. It’s as simple as that. I don’t want to sound like a skeptic, though; I’m not. I think we could have done that last season had it been necessary.
I expect to see the offense as dynamic this coming year as it has ever been.
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https://www.espn.com/college-football/game/_/gameId/400868998
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Welcome to the new and improved “We’ll never win a natty without a 5-star quarterback!!”:
Now it’s “We’ll never win ANOTHER natty without a 5-star quarterback!!”.
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As for me, I think we can repeat with an improved Stet.
I’m pretty sure our chances are greatly diminished if we see a lot of the same shit we saw for the first 110 minutes over two games vs. Alabama.
He’s the guy now. He’s getting all the reps and all the coaching. Let’s just see some results from that and we’ll be ok.
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Well, I do too, and my opinion about what others see from our offense is independent of my opinion about whether or how we win games.
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Against Ms State. JT balling out in his first game. If that wasn’t a shootout, I don’t know what is.
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A game where 25 points would have won it. C’mon, man.
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Yes we struggled. You could say the same thing about Bama’s offense that game. We gifted them a TD with Bennett’s “turnover.” They were a fairly overrated unit last year, struggling against UT, Auburn(!), Arkansas, Florida – all teams we blew out. Yet ask most lazy pundits about last season and they give Bama’s offensive unit otherworldly status while ours was simply good enough, which is bullshit. Our offense was much more explosive than given credit, especially considering how comically injury-plagued we were for most of the season.
That being said, I believe you’re right and Kirby seems to agree with you. He’s said as much several times this offseason that we need more 4-quarter production out of the offense. I think we’ll see it.
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Fuck around and find out, Coach! Suit your boys up and see us on Saturday
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Confuscius say “The more you talk shit, the bigger pile you stand in”…
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DIW…so true, which reminds me of the greatest of all Eastern philosophies, found on my favorite fortune cookie message :”Man who go to sleep with itchy butt, wake up with stinky finger.”
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The like to throw easy slants. Anybody can throw slants.
So, our D will be mediocre and we’ll have to quit winning in spite of our safe, simple offense? Cool, cool.
FTMF.
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Efficient-“ achieving maximum productivity with minimum wasted effort or expense.” Sounds pretty Smart to me.
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I’m betting that’s Napier and Heupel talking shit they know is shit merely for the sake of recruiting.
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Someone remind that idiot, that before last season, all those so-called experts at the mag preseason publications named one….ONE player on our D to be an All-SEC player, not an All-American…just a measily All-SEC. That was Nakobe Dean if my memory serves me. Nolan Smith and Walker and maybe one more got some 2nd and 3rd string mentions. So, no one…NO ONE thought we were going to have our super-duper D last season. This season, we got at least 4 people getting preseason love; Carter, Nolan Smith, Ringo and some are giving Beal the credit he deserves. So…my point; maybe just maybe, our D turns out to be even BETTER. Has any of our opposing coaches considered that? Then poor ol Stetson can just go on being that mediocre, barely-scraping-by QB that he is….(yawn).
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I’ll take Stetson. There’s a long list of “great” quarterbacks who aren’t national champions. He has earned their respect. If they are determined not to give it to him it’s just because they’re ass mad.
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Stetson has a ring and Justin Fields doesn’t.
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Jackson Muschamp has a natty ring and Tom Brady doesn’t.
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Fields and Stetson both played Bama in the natty.
Stetson made one of the biggest throws in school history.
Fields made a bunch of checkdowns.
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Good. Let them keep doubting us. Right up until we kick that ass.
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Looking at the whole game, the defense bailed us out with all those red zone stops, a blocked field goal (btw, it’s a 5 point game in the last minute w/o that) and includes a well underthrown ball to AD where he made a play. I”m stoked we won, but know we could have lost that game. Even with that last 10 minutes, and the underthrown bomb to Mitchell, we still only threw for 224 yards.
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Sorry, I couldn’t read that from the glare coming off this national championship trophy.
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I am willing to admit that there might be some truth to the snide remarks, but what’s different for me is that I recognize that football is a team game. So what if a defense can control a game? Don’t their contributions add to the whole? I don’t ever want my team to be one-dimensional. I want us to have excellent offense, excellent defense, excellent special teams, and excellent depth. Okay anonymous coaches, compare what you think we have in comparison with other teams. And by the way, I’m not a Stetson hater, but he has been a bit of a Jekyll/Hyde player, and the last game is great example of that. If he can play 4 quarters like he played the 4th quarter of the natty other teams don’t have a prayer.
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Just slide the d & o points scale from last year over to the right
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