Tashard Choice is quite good.
Impressive performance overall by the Jackets tonight. Well, with the gross and unbeelievable exception of playing an alleged felon who is waiting on a trial involving 100 lbs of dope, who had only practiced for 4 days, great performance by the Jackets.
Saturday will be fun.
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I gotta say, on behalf of my Virginia Tech alum aunt who'd already bought tickets to the ACC title game, I'm kind of happy GT knocked off the 'Canes.
But the way Georgia's offense has caught fire with Shockley's return -- even in the loss to Auburn -- I'm optimistic that we'll be able to accomplish a hell of a lot more on offense against GT than Miami did.
Can't wait for Saturday.
It's on like Donkey Kong. Our defense is freaking filthy, Shockley looked like a deer in the headlights last year against Tenuta - we'll see what difference a year makes.
You guys going with the "just interfere with CJ instead of letting him beat us?" defensive backfield strategy again?
Just remember - we've beaten both Auburn and Miami on the road ... your best win is ... South Carolina?
Shockley looked like a deer in the headlights last year? Shockley?!? I seem to remember a certain gold-and-white-clad QB who was so stunned by the opposing defense he momentarily lost his ability to count. (Which prompted Dave Braine to say after the game, "Reggie Ball can count to four or five. He will never do that consistently. That's my feeling ... because of the type of quarterback he is.")
Hey, I'm not saying Ball is going to carry us to victory - if we have to depend on him to win, we probably won't (though the last possession against UM last night he was nails).
Shockley nearly pissed away the game for you last year, Tenuta was camped inside his skull. We'll see if that changes.
It will change, for the same reason that Shock has never looked lost this season like he did in earlier years when he was thrown into pressure situations. He has yet to be confused by formations or blitzes. He's handled everything.
Tenuta made hay in the Auburn and Miami game because of the same kind of set up, confusing inexperienced and largely immobile quarterbacks with all sorts of trash blitzes. I don't think that game plan would confused Cox into 4 interceptions if they played that game again next week, although I'm not surprised it worked on Wright yesterday, he's never looked solid to me this year and the Miami receivers have yet to do him any favors. On the other hand, Marques Hagans had quite a serviceable game against Tech, as did Marcus. Somehow I think Shock falls more on their side of QB play than on the side of Kyle Wright.
Point being, Tenuta is free to sell out come Saturday, but he'll expose himself to a quarterback who can run away from pressure who has been making excellent reads all season, a much different situation than you had last night.
Nathan,
Your wins at Auburn and Miami have been impressive. However, your losses to Va Tech, NC ST have exposed the 2005 rendition of GT Football to be strikingly similar to the last several years...marked by incomprehensible inconsistency. Having said that, I am sure that the win over Miami will have the Jackets brimming with confidence and will keep the Dawgs clear on the point that this can be a dangerous team.
The Drizzle makes the most cogent point regarding the effectiveness of pinning your ears back and coming after DJ. Note that Auburn blitzed Croyle on every snap yesterday and sacked him 50 times. They sacked Shock twice I think. I am sure Tenuta knows this however.
Should be fun.
Go Dawgs.
Nathan,
Meant to include the UVA loss as well. I am sure I typed it so where the hell did it go?
I'm fine with it dissapearing, can you make that whole weekend go away for me?
As for this game ... may basic gut feeling is this:
GT playing their best is better than any performance UGa has had this year. If GT comes out and plays like we did at Auburn and at Miami, we win this game no matter what UGa does.
On the other hand, GT's worst performance this year is worse than anything UGa has done. If we come out and play flat (NCST, UVa) then we lose.
The Vegas line is going to very close or pick-em. GT is ahead of UGa in Sagarin's ELO rankings (one of the BCS computer polls) by a huge margin. I really think UGa fans think their team is more talented overall, and I'm not sure that's true - there are 7-8 future NFL players on GT's starting roster.
Nathan,
I agree that your quality wins outrank our quality win or wins. It is good that you believe Tech's best game will beat Georgia's best game. However, you will find few Georgia fans buying into this.
This win over Miami definitely serves to ratchet up the hype for this game.
Perhaps we have yet to see Georgia's best game or Tech's worst. Hopefully this will no longer be true next Sunday.
I thought that the Georgia offense was working extremely hard against UK to get some things working again, knowing that we will need these parts of the offense in the next 3 games. Namely, finding someone to catch the ball besides Pope and MoMass. I certainly hope Richt will play wide open and leave his conservative playbook at Dooley's house.
The good news is that it will be settled on the field (unless Al Ford is in stripes!)
Go Dawgs.
I'm beside myself right now. I can't believe the game is at 8pm. Congrats to Jekyl and Hyde for beating Miami. It actually puts some teeth into the UGA/Vacaters game. Couple of things to note....Shockley will evade that rush all night long if they opt to bring pressure. I'd like to see Ware get the majority of touches. I really think if he'd been in on that 1st & 10 during that final drive against UF that we'd probably had a better shot. I think we'll beat them if we can slow down Johnson and stop Choice and force Ball to beat us. Ball can get happy feat and become very forceful when things are not moving along smoothly. Should be a great game.
It's true. When D.J. Shockley was a backup quarterback thrust into the game unexpectedly after the starter came out with an injury, he fared poorly when running an offense designed for a Q.B. with a completely different set of skills.
...and in a torrential rain!
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