David Ching talks more about the Tailback situation. Specifically, why Georgia coaches are considering putting Thomas Brown ahead of Lumpkin. Ching also goes one on one with Willie Martinez for a non-running back Q&A.
For a less perplexing article, read Josh Kendall's piece on The Hulk, Brannon Southerland, who is playing outstanding ball this year.
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Brannon Southerland, or as my little brother has called him since the first time he saw him on television, J.T. Wall.
The fact we were winning by a three scores illustrates that the loss to Tennessee wasn't because of talent. If it's not talent, then it has to be coaching.
rdeemo, I completely agree that this musical chairs goat rodeo of QBs and RBs has GOT to stop.
Richt and company take a lot of heat for the rotation of players, but I remember when I was at UGA, Donnan came out and said QC was the starting QB and then watched as all the back ups transferred away, and we were left with no other options when QC didn't go as well as advertised.
I don't like the musical chairs game either, but at least it gives everyone a chance to prove themselves, and I think thats what the coaches are trying to get. Somebody to step up and show that they deserve the starting job and bulk of the snaps/carries, because damn it they are best player at that position. Until that happens the musical chairs will continue thats just part of the rebuilding/reloading game. Which in case anyone has forgotten is what this year is.
You can't just put Lumpkin in for plays where he's supposed to run. "Don't call plays where Lumpkin has to make a critical block" is a ridiculous strategy, frankly. So whenever Lumpkin goes in, we must be running the ball or doing a minimum protection pass, because everyone knows Lumpkin can't block.
RBs HAVE to be able to block. 10 yards a carry isn't good enough if they can't. Lumpkin costed us, more or less, 14 points on Saturday by missing his blocks. But, hey, he looked really good running the ball.
We're a young team at QB (as far as the great talent is concerned) and in the secondary, and it is simply going to take some time for everything to gel. In the meantime, the coaches are giving the players lots of looks and opportunities so that they can build up experience.
Almost everyone was saying before this year that we would be happy with 9-3. Now we lose one game and the sky is falling. The impatience is as maddening as the coaching decisions. (And I do question a good bit of the play-calling sometimes, so I'm not just a Richt fanboy saying these things.)
That last sentence should have read: "The impatience is as maddening as any so-called poor coaching decisions."
Well, rdeemo, let's see...
If you got 10 yards a carry, and you carry the ball 30 times, that's 300 yards, which would hopefully translate into four TDs or so? Maybe 5?
But then if you miss two key blocks and give 14 points right back, well, that's a lot less impressive, isn't it?
Football is more than "ooh what a big play did you see that run he is awesome!"
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