Rick Brooks accurately states that there's a great deal on the line for both Georgia and UK today. The Wildcats and Dawgs share 6-4 records and both are trying to position themselves in the bowl pecking order. Both teams are also trying to finish second in the SEC East, a rare result for the Cats. The Dawgs need this game. The potent bitterness of this season will quickly resurface with a loss, even though the Auburn game has taken the edge off the disappointment. Despite Paul's confidence, I think if we lose today and against Tech, Shreveport is still on the table. Win it and the Dawgs still have Tampa and Atlanta within reach.
Randall Cobb, the scatback/wideout/quarterback who sliced our defense up last year, has an injured shoulder and will be a game time decision. I'd wager he plays. Cobb is playing a little QB for the Cats because Mike Hartline, a more standard quarterback, is out after knee surgery. When Cobb isn't under center running the "wild Cobb", true freshman Morgan Newton is expected to take conventional snaps. (Can we stop calling every direct snap play a "wild" something? Is a quarterback draw that wild? It's a little leauge play: get your best player the ball and let them outrun all the other kids.)
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I believe that our *very* young team needed that AU come-back win bigtime. It's the type of game that can create confidence and set the momentum going forward. Remember, younger teams respond to this type of emotional intangible more so than more experienced ones.
It's possible that we throttle KY tonight behind some *unusually* stout defense and hard running. Cox will connect on a few deep throws and we win by 20 or so.
Final - UGA 35, KY 17
I would think (and hope) that Rich Brooks will want to make sure that his playmaker is 100% for their game against Tennessee next week. I mean, obviously, you'd like to win both games. But surely, next week means a lot more to the Wildcat nation.
If we lose both UK and Tech, Shreveport would be a welcome surprise. I'm worried we would be headed to the B'ham pizza delivery bowl. But that ain't gonna happen. Go DAWGS!
Quinton still sucks.
As much as I'd like to agree with you, we had to stop calling it a little league play when the Big League started all using it successfully. When Ronnie Brown is burning the Patriots for 40 yard TD's using this "Little League" play, we don't get to look down on it anymore.
I think Q was making a distinction between a little league QB draw to your fastest player and an actual wildcat where player are in motion and the Qb is actually optioning to different players. Snapping the ball to Gray or Smith and having them run to daylight is not wildcat, its a QB draw.
annon at 11:29-
i agree with what you say about gray and smith plays being a qb draw.. but i dont agree with you that quinton is making that distinction, he is dumb.
Yeah, Will, I understand. Ricky Williams ran that little league play Thursday night for a touchdown. It was still just "snap it to Ricky and let him run for the pylon." It scored an NFL touchdown, but it's still a play I can run with 4th graders. It's not magic and I wouldn't give it a special name. That Wildcat offense that DMac and Felix Jones were running deserved a special name, not the read draw with two running backs.
That said, a friend sent me an email that if the Kentucky WILDcats can't run the WILDcat, then no one can.
The Mark Richt era is over.
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