Georgia's offense - a tale of 7 plays

[skrayper77]

If you look at UGA's game against Alabama, it wasn't our play-by-play defense, but giving up some big plays, that was the main issue.

Case in point:

Georgia had 227 yards on the ground and 130 through the air.
131 of those rushing yards came on 6 plays and 60 of the passing yards came on 2 more.

That means that 220 of UGA's 357 yards came on 6 plays; the remaining 137 yards came on 46 plays - a 2.98 ypp average.
Georgia had 11 plays of over 10 yards; our biggest issue is that 7 of those went for over 20. Bowens had two big run plays that accounted for 72 of his 119 yards.

This also meant that on most occasions, the offense wasn't getting enough yards to convert in 3 downs.

The defense's main issue appears to be making tackles at the second level.

This was the opposite of how Alabama's offense attacked, which had more plays than Georgia go over 10 yards (16 to 11) but fewer that went over 20 (4 for Alabama vs 7 for Georgia).

 

[Bamabuzzard]

This goes back to Wommack said in his post game press conference. Too many missed assignments on filling gaps or not filling gaps, not setting the edge, getting out leveraged to the outside, etc. He quoted those same statistics and basically six plays accounted for the majority of their rushing yards. The scary thing is UGA didn't run a lot of misdirection or eye candy to expose our undisciplined defense but I can promise you, Vandy will. That's what concerns me about this game. They are more capable of putting up a lot of points on our defense than UGA.

 

[KrAzY3]

The good news is Alabama will get plenty of chances to fix these sorts of things with the Vanderbilt game and Missouri game coming up. They will absolutely take advantage if Alabama is out of position.

This is a glass half-full type situation. If the yards were more evenly distributed Alabama loses the game. Alabama cleans up the mistakes, they can be very good on defense. Alabama continues the mistakes against a team better equipped to take advantage??? Then Wommack might end up looking for a job.

 

[Bamabuzzard]

The good news is Alabama will get plenty of chances to fix these sorts of things with the Vanderbilt game and Missouri game coming up. They will absolutely take advantage if Alabama is out of position.

This is a glass half-full type situation. If the yards were more evenly distributed Alabama loses the game. Alabama cleans up the mistakes, they can be very good on defense. Alabama continues the mistakes against a team better equipped to take advantage??? Then Wommack might end up looking for a job.

Let's just hope they fix it during these games and not after. Because if we lose both of these games it won't matter what we fix afterwards. We're done wrt to making the playoffs.

 

[Special K]

The big plays we're giving up in the run game - really all season, not just this game - have mostly been the result of poor linebacker play to my eyes. Run fits from our ILBs have often been bad and have allowed what should be 3-5 yard gains turn into 20, 30, 40 yard gains.