Quick question: what’s the thing from 2024 you hope to see change the most in 2025?
My hope: no more slow offensive starts. The clip above reminded me of a slow start with Tennessee, and the slowest of all was in the Tech game to end the year. Painfully waiting for competency to kick in while the defense gets gassed was not a fun aspect of the 2024 campaign.
How about you? What change do you hope to see the most?
Let’s see more aggression and possession for contested balls (don’t be lewd) on both offense and defense.
I’m sitting here trying to come up with a lewd comment about contested balls and I got… nothing. Maybe a ball contest? Size, prettiest, most uniquely shaped? Paint scheme? Somebody help me out.
Where’s the fucking Ranger when you need him. *sigh*
In Heaven, chatting it up with Bluto about the state of UGA football…GO DAWGS!!
He said not lewd. Would that exclude our favorite Ranger 😏
“Contested Ball” was the name of my Lance Armstrong documentary.
Attaboy!
It’s the best I could do. Pouring one out for RR.
Lane Armstrong didn’t have the ball to show up to last year’s Tejas game with his Girlfriend Matt McConAlrightAlrightAlright
I saw Contested Balls open for Aerosmith in the mid 80s.
I want to see them contest balls like Andrew Zimmern and a third world Mami fighting over a boiled testicle…
Being able to RTDB, especially in the late 4th quarter to close out games and keep the opponent off the field.
Correcting the slow starts and the lack of a consistent run game are the biggest things from 24. I miss the old build a lead then death march the opponent for the remainder. The receivers dropping passes is right up there but if you can start fast and can bulldoze your opponent into oblivion you aren’t passing to catch up or keep the pace with opponents as much.
consistent O-Line & WR play
Play the game like the outcome matters. No more being out prepared or being out executed or out efforted.
I want to see our opponents experiencing 60 minutes of misery.
Grab ‘em by the nose and kick ‘em in the ass!
I don’t care whether we go 6-6 or 12-0. What I care about is playing a smart, disciplined, tough brand of football.
Change the offensive coordinator.
Humiliating bama. WRs who catch. OL power run blocking. DL front imposing their will. Team unity. Bobo deserving praise. Kirby planning for last 2 minutes of the half. Better ESPN announcing.
FPD,
Your list cures about everything that’s on my inner Munson list. Good luck on that ESPN part.
I’ll add with the best home schedule I can remember. It would be amazing to keep that home win streak going.
Dropped passes. I never saw a statistic and don’t know if anyone even catalogs this but we certainly must have led the nation in the number of dropped passes. Catch the damn ball.
Yep. Catch the f#@king ball!
Good timing– I’ve got SEC channel on in the background this morning, and right after #11 dropped another one in the 2nd qrtr, they put the stat up”37th dropped pass, worst in FBS”
That’s what I was about to say.
+4
What you said in the opening comments.
The offense has to come off the bus kicking ass.
Slow offensive starts need to be a thing of the past.
Pretty much what you said– I’m beating my own dead horse here, but that ho-hum lackadaisical attitude that they’re going to win because they got off the bus.
My first thought was to get more pressure on the QB. Outside of the Texas games, I don’t remember us doing much. However, if the offense can come out of the gates firing, get a lead, and not get complacent, then maybe the D-line doesn’t have to GATA.
Tennessee game we got after Nico (5 sacks)
Dammit. If I had said “outside of the UT games”, you couldn’t have nailed me.
I wasn’t trying to nail you, but good comment. Post of the day!!
sorry Coach Smart what I meant to say was… bring a fuck ton of Fire, Passion, & Energy…
or as Le Sack would say, «le feu, la passion, et l’ènergie » allez!
Run the ball and stop the run better. Everything else flows from these 2 things. I know it’s not sexy, but the game still comes down to these 2 things.
ee- RTDB becomes even more important when our WR’s couldn’t catch a social disease in a Philippine house of ill repute. Line Dominance (both sides) for the win.
We rarely set the edge last season. Our inability to do so kept our defense on the field way too often. Set the damn edge.
We have to get back to dominating the line of scrimmage…offensively and defensively. It’s in the trenches where we buckled last season. The big uglies need to be mean and vicious and eat consistently…with that you’ll give Gunner time to develop plays and on the other side dirty up some wannabe SEC QBs
You guys pretty much nailed the improvements already. I think that moving on from Carson Beck is going to help our offense from a standpoint of being cohesive. The more I hear about his character, the more I’m figuring out that team chemistry could use a bit of improvement.
Like others have mentioned it re-establishing a productive run game. I’m sure all the drops from the WRs allowed defenses to load up to stop the run until Georgia proved it could catch the ball consistently, but being able to establish the run game regardless of that should help the offense greatly. I don’t see the drops being as big an issue this season with a new batch of receivers for the most part.
Dejected Vols fans never get old!
We had slow starts against every defense with a pulse last year. So yeah, good call JP. We cannot continue to spot good teams 10-14 points out of the gate and expect to win it in the 2nd half. Bobo has to deliver early or else.
Coach Bobo’s game plan coloring book can and will be successful, “old lady luck” needs to smile on UGA football plus a dash of bad intent towards the opposition…GO DAWGS!!
How about the receivers just catching passes. Think about what a difference cutting down on dropped balls will make.
But but but…Heupel is the better coach!
Why couldn’t we had Chaz blocking for Etienne when he was hit and fumbled in the SB????
Because we don’t run 2 back sets. When you have an undersized WR trying to crack a lineman, bad stuff happens.
Tackling.
I’m not a Bobo hater but it does seem he sometimes likes to test the waters in the first several series of the game. Once he sees what works he is off and running (so to speak). I’m not sure he or his offensive Menion’s just don’t watch enough film to game plan or that’s just the way Bobo works. All I know is it ain’t working when we are up against a team that can score fast (Alabama, Ole Piss etc). Our defense needs as many points of a cushion they can get then do their python act.
The problem is most teams script the first series of plays. Maybe they ought to throw the damn script away after the first play.
Dominate on OL
Run game, run game, run game. I am confident we will see a significant uptick in the passing i.e drops game, but we could use a strong boost from the RB room. The last couple of years have been bizarre to see such a drop off. I am upbeat about Nate, the transfer from up naw-th, and Bo Walker and co.
Hopefully that Illinois transfer pans out. Guess he was absent for P1. Not sure.