Get ready for another week of quarterback musical chairs at Georgia.
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“We did not get great practices every day”, Georgia coach Kirby Smart said regarding last week’s preparation. Now, obviously Appalachian State is definitely better than Nicholls State, but still, the Mountaineers were a huge underdog against the Volunteers in Week 1.
“He’s done a lot of that in practice leading up to now, it’s just a matter of getting him cleared”, Smart said. Once we put that together, we’ll decide which ways we want to strategize, which ways we want to attack. “That’ll play itself out throughout the course of the week”.
This means that the Bulldogs defense will have to rebound quickly from its performance against Nicholls State, which had the ball for nearly three minutes more than Georgia, threw two TD passes and was 4-of-4 in the red zone (three TDs, one field goal). He threw for 204 yards, and had a touchdown on 11 completions out of 20 attempts. But positives were few and far between in Saturday’s 26-24 win over Colonels from the FCS. Lambert, who went 2 of 3 passing for 2 yards, did what he was asked.
As the team looks to shake off the subpar performance against Nicholls State, here are three storylines (besides the obvious need for improvement) as Georgia begins to open up planning for the third week of the season. “We just want to get the best guy out there that gives us the best opportunity to win based on that game plan”. He’ll be special teams, he’ll be running back. Coach Smart says better blocking is a point of emphasis this week, “Reviewing of the game film, it was exactly like we thought”. “Then Greyson came in, and for a guy who came off the bench, did a great job of manufacturing a third down – bad snap, made a good read, made a great throw and did what we asked him to do”.
Last year’s leading rusher played for the first time this season against Nicholls State this past Saturday.
Smart noted that it won’t be easy for the offensive line this week because they face Missouri defensive end Charles Harris and an always-tough Tigers defensive front. Georgia averaged 5.6 yards per carry against North Carolina.
“We take them very seriously”, Georgia safety Dominick Sanders said.
Georgia relied on Chubb, who rushed for 80 yards, to run out the clock. The Tigers put up 647 yards of total offense, their most since amassing a school-record 744 in a 69-0 win over Western Illinois on September 17, 2011.
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