Georgia Week- what are your thoughts?

[Cruloc]

Since you mentioned the Elephant in the room, this is the game that everybody has been pointing to concerning JM.

We've kinda gotten good Milroe against an overpowered WKU team, struggling JM against a fiesty USF team and real good JM against Wisky.

I'd argue JM's game against Wisky was his best ever when the spotlight was really shining brightly. Arguably, until Wisky he was 2-2 in the games that mattered the most. (wins against LSU and Georgia and losses against UT and UM all last year).

So which JM do we get against Georgia? If we use him like we did against Wisky and LSU last year, I like our chances. If the UT, Auburn, UM JM shows up I don't.

BTW, I'm not putting it all on JM. Matter of fact, I think the worst thing he could do is try to win the game with his arm, which I'm sure he'd love to do. But the best JM is the JM that uses his legs and allows them to compliment his arm. And he also has two stud RBs that can help him out too.

Of course, whether JM is his best or struggles largely depends on the OL that shows up. Let's hope the Wisky game was the one they got it figured out.

With DeBoer and Sheridan scheming things for Milroe's strengths.....I like our chances.

If Georgia forces Milroe to do things he doesn't do well...we're in trouble. If they stuff the run and take the deep ball away, where do we get our yards?

 

[BamaMoon]

With DeBoer and Sheridan scheming things for Milroe's strengths.....I like our chances.

If Georgia forces Milroe to do things he doesn't do well...we're in trouble. If they stuff the run and take the deep ball away, where do we get our yards?

They are supposed to have a very good Defensive Backfield. So I bet they'll do everything they can to stop the deep ball.

Probably comes down to who wins the OL/DL matchup when we are on offense and whether we can establish a run with our RBs and JMs legs.

If they stop the deep ball and shut down the running game, we won't win.

 

[mlh]

With DeBoer and Sheridan scheming things for Milroe's strengths.....I like our chances.

If Georgia forces Milroe to do things he doesn't do well...we're in trouble. If they stuff the run and take the deep ball away, where do we get our yards?

I expect them to try to do exactly that. But I just don't think they have the talent to do it. We have too many weapons and we're too explosive.

But I have said that this is the game that will determine who will be QB1 for the rest of the season.

If JM plays well, or if the staff can scheme around his strengths well enough for us to win, he is the man.

If not, I expect to see TS get a valid shot to show what he can do.

 

[PA Tide Fan]

I know the Georgia team that shows up Saturday will be a much better team than we saw vs. Kentucky. Kirby said after that game he had a hard time getting the players focused during that week of practice, which means the players were already thinking about Alabama. The key in this game I think will be getting the ball to Ryan Williams. Williams can make the difference. Milroe needs to be sharp and he needs to have the time to find Williams as I don't think Georgia can cover him. Like a year ago I think Georgia has the edge on both sides of the LOS and if Milroe is under constant pressure we'll lose, but maybe like a year ago our OL can get fired up and play a bit better than normal. It'll be a very close tough game as there is a strong revenge factor favoring Georgia so I expect the game to come down to the very end with a FG deciding it either way.

 

[Bamabuzzard]

I know the Georgia team that shows up Saturday will be a much better team than we saw vs. Kentucky. Kirby said after that game he had a hard time getting the players focused during that week of practice, which means the players were already thinking about Alabama. The key in this game I think will be getting the ball to Ryan Williams. Williams can make the difference. Milroe needs to be sharp and he needs to have the time to find Williams as I don't think Georgia can cover him. Like a year ago I think Georgia has the edge on both sides of the LOS and if Milroe is under constant pressure we'll lose, but maybe like a year ago our OL can get fired up and play a bit better than normal. It'll be a very close tough game as there is a strong revenge factor favoring Georgia so I expect the game to come down to the very end with a FG deciding it either way.

Kirby will take Ryan Williams away via double teams and force us to throw to someone else. He's not going to let RW beat them.

 

[Slowpoke Catracho]

Kirby will take Ryan Williams away via double teams and force us to throw to someone else. He's not going to let RW beat them.

The good thing is that we have plenty of other weapons as far as WR.

 

[tusks_n_raider]

.But I have said that this is the game that will determine who will be QB1 for the rest of the season.

If JM plays well, or if the staff can scheme around his strengths well enough for us to win, he is the man.

If not, I expect to see TS get a valid shot to show what he can do.

I had a similar line of thinking until the USF game.

If Ty were ever going to get a shot it was that game.

Barring an injury situation I don’t think Ty will get meaningful playing time until 2025.

It is what it is.

 

[CoolBreeze]

Kirby will take Ryan Williams away via double teams and force us to throw to someone else. He's not going to let RW beat them.

Kirby is the one that needs to worry. "Unpredictable" is the word that keeps ringing in my ear when the pendants talk about Kalen DeBoer's offensive schemes. If we have really been tasting vanilla all year then I am just salivating for a Neapolitan or even tutti fruity!

 

[Slowpoke Catracho]

Another plus is that Kirby has to watch film on DeBoer, Deboer has Saban to help on Kirby!

 

[some_al_fan]

Kentucky had 170 yds rushing against GA. And only 114 passing yds.
While we are talking about WRs and passing, a good old power running game with Miller, Haynes, and Milroe might be the offensive plan for the game.

 

[bamacpa]

I think we need more than 2 carries for Justice this week. If Milroe leads us in rushing attempts again, I don't like our chances.

 

[Ledsteplin]

Normally I would stick with conventional wisdom and say we must run the ball enough for Georgia to respect it and get pressure on the QB. In this current bizarro world we call the norm I confess I don't have a clue what we should do except give it all we got to give. Roll Tide.

Leave it to the coaches. They're the experts. It's our job to cheer and jeer. 🤷🏼‍♂️

 

[Ledsteplin]

He was still baited into throwing two terrible interceptions that game. Regardless of what is going on offensively, those passes should’ve never been thrown.

Interceptions happen. Doesn’t mean it's going to happen every game. Mac Jones threw two pick sixes against Auburn. But never happened again that way. Jalen has thrown 0 interceptions in the first 3 games.

 

[92tide]

All I ever think about were the thousands of white stadium cups raining down from the student section after our come-from-behind win vs. Georgia in 1994 at Bryant Denny Stadium:

i was watching that game with georgia fans from my work at the time. despite all of their barking, i told them all through the first half that it was a sixty minute game. through my progressing inebriation, i kept reminding them of that as we kept chipping away. by the time we kicked the field goal, i was giving a drunken sermon reminding them that i had told them a thousand times it was a 60-minute game.

all in good fun, of course

 

[Slowpoke Catracho]

Leave it to the coaches. They're the experts. It's our job to cheer and jeer. 🤷🏼‍♂️

No they're not! I've been watching Alabama football for 40 + years, I watch Josh Pate religiously and I KNOW what the standard is! 🙃🙃That being said, I'm going to cheer, jeer and analyze!

 

[92tide]

Kirby will take Ryan Williams away via double teams and force us to throw to someone else. He's not going to let RW beat them.

good thing we've got germie, prentiss, law, cuevas (sp?), and others

 

[NoNC4Tubs]

i was watching that game with georgia fans from my work at the time. despite all of their barking, i told them all through the first half that it was a sixty minute game. through my progressing inebriation, i kept reminding them of that as we kept chipping away. by the time we kicked the field goal, i was giving a drunken sermon reminding them that i had told them a thousand times it was a 60-minute game.

all in good fun, of course

Is that when you were working at the AA Clinic...?

j/k

 

[RollTide_HTTR]

Kirby will take Ryan Williams away via double teams and force us to throw to someone else. He's not going to let RW beat them.

I honestly think that would be foolish. He's good for a 17 year old but he's not Julio Jones or something at least not right now. If they did that we'd have another speedy WR running open. Our offense doesn't run through Ryan Williams like that at this point he's just a good weapon

 

[GboyBama]

In big games, CNS played it conservatively. Some might argue too conservatively. The team also played tight in some of those games. LSU and Georgia are the two teams we'd often do this against.

I mean, who are we to argue with what he did because it usually worked out, but I'm looking to see how CKD coaches in games like this.

The one thing I'd like to see us do more in these types of games is come out swinging with fast starts instead of feeling the other team out and having to often come from behind.

It'll be interesting to see how his style compares to CNS's.

Underrated post.

CNS is the best, but how tight he routinely coached against LSU and Auburn drove me crazy!

 

[Windsortide]

Roll Tide Roll