I think most people expected UGA's running game to drive back the OU D, as it has. And many of us expected the OU offense to keep the UGA D off balance starting with a precision passing game, as it has.
What may have surprised many people is that on its 2nd possession, OU ran the ball down UGA's throat. That happened because the OU passing game, with a QB who has 'touch' and accuracy and can read pass defenses, forces Ds to spread the field, with DBs and even LBs backing up - which opens the field for the OU RBs.
The Fedora offense has neither of those features.
Following is a quote from a poster elsewhere: "I'm not sure I've ever seen a bigger circus than our QB situation this year, from the decision to start a grad transfer of questionable skills in the first place, to the ill-fated alternating QB scheme, to inserting Surratt and then immediately making him the ONLY threat in the offensive game plan, to never giving Byrd a snap, to inserting Elliot and having him be a game manager rather than the primary running threat like Harris and Surratt were asked to be. The whole thing was a disaster, and at the single most important position in all of sports.
For that matter, I'm still struggling a little to understand how the #2 pick in the NFL draft only started one year for us. If alternating QB's was a bad idea then, with two very different QB styles and skills, why did the coaching staff think it was a good idea this year with two players of nearly identical skill sets?
Can you hear me scratching my head? Or pounding it on a wall next to the TV?"
I can explain every bit of it, because it all adds up with one explanation. Fedora's idea - IDEA perhaps in the Platonic sense of the abstract eternal perfection - is the backyard QB, which means an NFL caliber QB isn't playing as a long as a running backyard Q is available. Fedora (rather desperately, I say) seems to want his QB to be the primary running threat, which will mean the RBs are ancillary and the WRs hopefully will be good enough to get wide open so the star running QB can hit them.
And that is what will always limit his offense. Because it can never deliver either what UGA has or what OU has. The Fedora offense is about the backyard QB who will be the primary running threat, and at times at least seemingly 'the ONLY threat in the offensive game plan.' And that will mean we have a difficult time signing top RBs, which will reinforce the Fedora proclivity to expect his QB to be the primary running threat.
Gunter Brewer has been the primary source of making certain Fedora's offense has been as threatening as it has been, because Brewer as WR coach has done an amazing job. We have 4th team WRs - even counting 3 WRs per team - who run such nice routes and have good enough hands to make catches when in games that they could be regular-playing 2nd stringers on bowl teams.
What may have surprised many people is that on its 2nd possession, OU ran the ball down UGA's throat. That happened because the OU passing game, with a QB who has 'touch' and accuracy and can read pass defenses, forces Ds to spread the field, with DBs and even LBs backing up - which opens the field for the OU RBs.
The Fedora offense has neither of those features.
Following is a quote from a poster elsewhere: "I'm not sure I've ever seen a bigger circus than our QB situation this year, from the decision to start a grad transfer of questionable skills in the first place, to the ill-fated alternating QB scheme, to inserting Surratt and then immediately making him the ONLY threat in the offensive game plan, to never giving Byrd a snap, to inserting Elliot and having him be a game manager rather than the primary running threat like Harris and Surratt were asked to be. The whole thing was a disaster, and at the single most important position in all of sports.
For that matter, I'm still struggling a little to understand how the #2 pick in the NFL draft only started one year for us. If alternating QB's was a bad idea then, with two very different QB styles and skills, why did the coaching staff think it was a good idea this year with two players of nearly identical skill sets?
Can you hear me scratching my head? Or pounding it on a wall next to the TV?"
I can explain every bit of it, because it all adds up with one explanation. Fedora's idea - IDEA perhaps in the Platonic sense of the abstract eternal perfection - is the backyard QB, which means an NFL caliber QB isn't playing as a long as a running backyard Q is available. Fedora (rather desperately, I say) seems to want his QB to be the primary running threat, which will mean the RBs are ancillary and the WRs hopefully will be good enough to get wide open so the star running QB can hit them.
And that is what will always limit his offense. Because it can never deliver either what UGA has or what OU has. The Fedora offense is about the backyard QB who will be the primary running threat, and at times at least seemingly 'the ONLY threat in the offensive game plan.' And that will mean we have a difficult time signing top RBs, which will reinforce the Fedora proclivity to expect his QB to be the primary running threat.
Gunter Brewer has been the primary source of making certain Fedora's offense has been as threatening as it has been, because Brewer as WR coach has done an amazing job. We have 4th team WRs - even counting 3 WRs per team - who run such nice routes and have good enough hands to make catches when in games that they could be regular-playing 2nd stringers on bowl teams.
