Re: TNET: Dabo Swinney knows details must improve going forward

Regardless of what the details were that got our guys beat the FK up, we had already experienced what UGA could do with their talent when we played them to a 10-3 loss on 09/04/2021. IMO all that you're saying after this beat down wasn't like you didn't already know what it was going to be like playing the same team with just as much talent as they had in 2021. The main difference in this time around than in 2021, is that we had a much better coaching on staff in 2021 than we have in 2024. I could be wrong but I think that team won the NCG that year, so our staff in 2021 held a NC team to 10 points, and most of your staff right now couldn't hold a cup of water back from spilling all over us...

I went and checked, I wasn't wrong, our 2021 coaching staff was good enough to coach our guys up to be good enough to hold a NC team to just 10 points, and they beat everybody else by 20 plus points and they could only beat our coached up team by 7 points, and that is how much of a difference a well coached team can make!!!

https://www.espn.com/college-football/team/schedule/_/id/61/season/2021

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Anyone sense that Dabo views Offense as having fragile psyche?

Sep 3, 2024, 7:50 PM

It looks obvious to me that Dabo doesn’t believe that our offense has elite talent, except for the O-Line (which looked darn good, which you can see if you watch the replay and focus on the O-Linemen).

Our offense has one right-now elite skill player un Antonio Williams. Jake Briningstool is very good in every area scepter blocking. I won’t belabor his blocking performance here; watch his blocking in the replay and judge for yourself.

Dabo gets credit for mentioning Cole Turner’s aborted deep route as being a failure. Had C.Turner not aborted that route, was it a high probability that the UGA defender would not have broken up the pass anyway, or that the balls arrival and Turner’s arrival would have converged?

Dabo’s representation of that one play being the game changer is over the top. The penalties (was it only two the entire game by the offense?) being blamed doesn’t cut it, either.

What he’s dancing around is that our offense’s skilled talent, at least that talent which knows the playbook as well as roles & responsibilities that are complicated (which one from among two blitzers does a TE or RB block?), is not elite except for #0.

He’s got to tread carefully re QB position. Remember how DJU lost confidence (as evidenced by his ‘yip plagued’ ground ball passes)? CK2 has gotten a boatload of criticism, which in hindsight is unfair. CK2 is the person, not just the mythical 5* player which guarantees us fans a trip by the Tigers to the CFP. He clearly needed a lot of both coaching + game experience. He has clearly improved, although all of his position-knowledge flaws have not been completely fixed. Our coaches are still struggling to manage play calls that do not require the QB to have a big arm to successfully execute selected plays.

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As for our defense, we do indeed have several elite players; those whom are not elite range from pretty good to very good. I getnit that Dabo can expect smarter play from the defense because our defensive players have the self confidence about their abikities. Dabo clearly believes that he can speak more critically in a public forum about his defense without harming their psyche.

IMO.

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TNET: Dabo Swinney knows details must improve going forward