In all honesty, I have to say I was impressed with Arian Smith’s ability to lay the wood when needed as I looked for Beck’s interceptions from yesterday. Maybe Arian should’ve been a DB?
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In all seriousness, though, I was looking for differences between Florida defensive concepts in the first few drives compared to later, and the most obvious thing they did as an adjustment was to drop the linebackers into the intermediate area and effectively took away the routes that were open earlier. Looking at the ever thinning Dawg backfield, I felt like Florida made a decision to allow the run and take away the explosive pass plays.
Many cases occurred where simply no one was open, and it wasn’t from lack of separation or routes, it’s just that they weren’t there. Oddly, too, was that safety valves weren’t available either as it seemed we opted to keep the RB in as a blocker instead of leaking them out for help. Can’t say that’s Bobo or Beck, it’s just there were a lot of times where there was no clear option on the pass.
Carson has a tendency to play what some have dubbed “hero ball” and tries to force the ball instead of throwing it away or simply tucking and running or taking the sack. When people noticed this about another QB – Shadeur Sanders – it was deemed as selfish and as attempting to pad stats to look better for the draft. I don’t think that Beck is trying to do that by any means, but I know Beck has some wheels on him but he seems reluctant to use them.
Why that is remains a mystery, but, as they say, there are three things that can happen when you pass the ball, and only one of those things is good. Beck needs to remember that, and make some business decisions that might not translate to a great stat line, but a more comfortable line on the scoreboard. Additionally, it became apparent that when Florida dropped everyone into coverage, there wasn’t a would concerned that Beck might run. Film study and tendencies likely lead to that decision making, so Bobo might consider making 15 the ball carrier by design to make the defense respect the possibility.
In that might be the fundamental difference between Bennett and Beck’s offenses. In Bennett, you had to constantly guess as to whether or not it was going to be a run, a pass, or a quarterback keep, and the multiple possibilities between those three scenarios with Bennett, Bowers, and everyone else, definitely makes scheming for the Georgia offense a nightmare endeavor. Beck simply doesn’t have the surrounding cast, from the LOS to the receivers, so defenses don’t have to much to scheme around a game changing player or respect levels of the field and play basic sets, instead. I feel that can be rectified,, to an extent, with some scheme and playcalling, but I likewise understand why a injury-riddled team might give coaches pause before deploying Beck as a runner.
I agree with many of you here…Beck is QB1 and there’s a reason why Kirby hasn’t benched him. We also agree that Beck hasn’t played his best game yet. I trust the Coaches to know what to do…I just hope they can figure it out in short order, because the next two weeks are going to require nearly flawless ball from both sides.
Hero ball = Aaron Murray
Turnover machine!!
Burn it & live for another day!
It’s pretty simple.
Murray has said that a lot of his attitude was “Fuck it. AJ’s down there somewhere…”
Lol! I can see that. We are missing an AJ for sure
Like most, I can not help but wonder how much Beck’s NIL deal is affecting his play. He has been paid millions to put up big stats, make highlight reels, and be in the Heisman mix. Lots of pressure. Knowing this, I don’t see this getting any better any time soon. Hell, he had a week off after Texas to get his mind right and got worse. Three INT’s but it should have been four. If Beck comes out next week playing like this again, and we get behind to Kiffin’s explosive offense, I believe Kirby has no choice but to bench him. I would be shocked if he did not.
If we go score to score with Ole Miss, it’s because our defense didn’t let them score.
Does he have a lingering injury?
Beck has got to figure it out and play better down the stretch if we want to accomplish our goals this season, but a lot of us (myself included) are quick to vilify this young man who is something of a unicorn in this NIL era. Yeah, he’s got the money, the lambo, the influencer girlfriend. But he also sat on the bench for 3 years waiting his turn instead of transferring to play earlier. He came back this year because he felt there was unfinished business to take care of.
I’ve been quick to blame the distractions of money, cars and the gf, but he’s also playing with a supporting cast that lost some all-time UGA greats that are now setting rookie records in the League.
He needs to improve his play, but he’s out there right now because he’s loyal to the G and a Damn Good Dawg. Let’s not lose sight of that.
If he’d stop throwing dimes to wide open defenders, that would help make up for not having Bowers and McConkey.
My uneducated guess is that, apart from the NIL distractions, he has little faith in his WR’s to run the precise routes he was used to with Ladd and Brock. Some of the INT’s were him throwing the ball to a spot, and the WR went too deep, or short, or turned the wrong way. And I put that on the loss of B-Mac as our WR coach.
Same goes for the D: we’re not as sharp without Boom and Fran Brown coaching the DB’s.
Saban had to deal with coaching turnover over the years, and he usually had some hiccups in any given season where we thought Bama’s time had passed, but I think he came out OK. I think (OK, hope) that Kirby will be the same.
Maybe Beck should’ve seen the psychologist too.
Word on the street in Athens is that the staff has figured out that Beck is…..color blind. He’s being fitted with some HotRod type glasses and VOILA…no more picks!!
Or he just needs regular glasses.
Or he needs hearing aids cause he ain’t getting the message not to throw it to the other team.
Or maybe, just maybe, he’s just a rattled QB, who doesn’t trust his coaches or receivers. The look on his face and him shaking his head tells me that he can’t believe what is happening. Well, it is happening, and he’s the one throwing the ball. We can all speculate on what the problem is, but he needs to get his mind right.
I am starting to wonder, with the millionaire players now in college ball.
NFL coaches don’t generally work in college, college coaches generally don’t work out in the NFL. Obviously it’s a completely different coaching style.
I am betting that NFL type coaching will work its way into the college game, dealing with players that have generational wealth, pressures, distractions, and eventually having avenues to “cut” them.
Just a thought I am starting to really get kind of depressed about, lol.
There was a closeup of Beck’s face I think after the picks. I’m sure it’s me reading into it but he looked frustrated, resigned, and dejected all at the same time. Not to mention he had just hit I think it was Smith in the hands on one that should have been a score that Smith, of course, dropped.
There’s a lot of shit going sideways with UGA’s offense right now, and it’s a matter of time before it gets them beat. They need to get their collective shit together and that starts at the top with Kirby himself. You-know-who also needs to step up and get his guys focused.