all right, negative nellies....

Sep 5, 2021, 10:56 AM

Every year I have to hear this crud about how Elliott needs to be fired, blahbudeeblahblah. If the offense was vanilla last night, it was in large part to the fact that a)offensive line looks like they spent off-season mostly learning how to make cupcakes in the EZ Bake; b)QB who looked like a genius last year against BC and Notre Dame looked like possum in road under headlights. Honestly, I know what was going through my head when I watched him early on bend down so that the onrushing linebacker could fold him up more easily, and I'm guessing it was the same thing going through Elliott's head: "This gonna be a looooong night." Not sure what happened to the kid, but he has the mobility of a turtle. And yet, we were in that game. As someone else mentioned, perhaps sarcastically, but with a large grain of truth, without the pick-6, we may well win that game 6-3. The fascination and irritation with college football teams is you really never know what you are gonna get from week to week. My guess is that the offense does what the offense seems to do every year: get better from game to game until they look like they've got it figured out when it really matters, and as painful as last night was, it didn't really matter. We didn't get stomped. We didn't almost manage to lose to Tulane in our home stadium. Imagine how UNC feels. You think our quarterback showed problems? Howell was a Heisman contender for at least fifteen minutes. The thing that probably made the game last night sting so much was that we all watched Alabama effortlessly tear through Miami earlier. Well, we would have torn through Miami as well. Heck, Tulane would have torn through Miami. Georgia IS a solid football team that also, at the moment, may or may not have a real offense, because both of us demonstrated we really do have top 5 defenses, and that was a big part of what was going on.

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If you know you’re not going to have a ton of time to throw and you can’t run, you can’t have these slow developing routes that don’t utilize the center of the field. Basically every 3rd down last night they were sending at least one if not both inside LB’s on a blitz and there was no plays called to take advantage of that vacated space.

I’m not saying I know more than Elliott but some of these things are a.) lingering problems that have been exposed in the past and b.) not hard to figure out.

If your QB is taking too long to get rid of the ball, give him one read throws on slants to get in a rhythm. DJ didn’t have a good game and the defense was lights out to even give us a shot, but Elliott fell short again when the lights were brightest.

all right, negative nellies....

You have very little understanding of the game.***

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You have very little understanding of the game.***

Elliott catches a good bit of blame rightfully

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Re: all right, negative nellies....

People like you are hilarious!

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