GT vs uga pregame thread.

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Unfortunately NC St. learned from Miami. When King was in they really stacked the box. If King can't throw and keep them honest, it is really difficult to open up the run game. If that's the case, I think we have a better chance with the Philo.
Several times I counted 8 men in the box with man to man coverage. Serious lack of respect for King's passing which must be excruciating to throw given his shoulder. I am of the conviction that with his shoulder and the pain he is in it may be prudent to sit him down and go with the freshman. King's primary value in the run game is making really good reads and being able to slip and slide his way for good yardage against opponents that are not stacking the box. UGA will do precisely that and we will not be able to block them.
 

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Several times I counted 8 men in the box with man to man coverage. Serious lack of respect for King's passing which must be excruciating to throw given his shoulder. I am of the conviction that with his shoulder and the pain he is in it may be prudent to sit him down and go with the freshman. King's primary value in the run game is making really good reads and being able to slip and slide his way for good yardage against opponents that are not stacking the box. UGA will do precisely that and we will not be able to block them.
Only thing that worries me that we basically scored 1 offensive TD with Philo taking 80% of the snaps . The Kid is promising but you’re gonna get the good freshman stuff and bad freshman stuff .
 

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Unfortunately NC St. learned from Miami. When King was in they really stacked the box. If King can't throw and keep them honest, it is really difficult to open up the run game. If that's the case, I think we have a better chance with the Philo.
I think the NC State defense was just what we needed from a coaching standpoint. What worked against Miami didn’t work as well when our opponent had more time to prep for it.
Hopefully, we learned from it and Buster will have some new wrinkles Friday.
 

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Was telling my wife this feels like 2015 to me. We are battered but they aren't scary good. It depends on which version of each team arrives on the field Friday night
 

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Only thing that worries me that we basically scored 1 offensive TD with Philo taking 80% of the snaps . The Kid is promising but you’re gonna get the good freshman stuff and bad freshman stuff .
1 passing TD and 1 rushing TD. He was responsible for half our points. Defense had 1 TD and we had 3 field goals.

What are you talking about?

Not his fault the defense forgot how to keep a spy on the qb.
 

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Bottom line if we can run the ball effectively in this game and control clock we should have a decent chance to win
Maybe the best of all the good things about Haynes King is his instinctive ability fake and feint and keep the defense off balance in the running game. It makes the running game go.
His being less than a hundred percent really hurts us there. Defenses can key on the back and not worry as much about his keeping the ball.
I know it's supposedly his shoulder that's hurt, but that may be also affecting his running ability, or something is. Or so it seems to me. I could be wrong (no surprise there) and I hope I am.
 

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1 passing TD and 1 rushing TD. He was responsible for half our points. Defense had 1 TD and we had 3 field goals.

What are you talking about?

Not his fault the defense forgot how to keep a spy on the qb.
GT had two offensive touchdowns. No passing TDs.

3 yard run by King. (Single play after INT return.)
18 yard run by Philo.
 

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Only thing that worries me that we basically scored 1 offensive TD with Philo taking 80% of the snaps . The Kid is promising but you’re gonna get the good freshman stuff and bad freshman stuff .
I think Philo’s performance was hampered by the fact he often came in after HK had been stuffed for little or no game on the first two downs.
 

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Some pregame comments by Coach Key in SI article below:

"You know yeah when winning games you know that's why you play games if it's an opportunity to win but we don't, we don't talk about winning games we don't talk about anything other than playing the best of our ability every, every play one play at a time, you know I can't sit there and tell a team there's no scoreboard. Don't look at the scoreboard. We're not outcome-oriented. We're not and then sit up here and talk about winning football game. That's that's not the way we're wired. It's not the way this team's built. Um that's why we're able to have adversity hit and be able to continue to play through it. Uh it's all about playing the next play."


 

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Some pregame comments by Coach Key in SI article below:

"You know yeah when winning games you know that's why you play games if it's an opportunity to win but we don't, we don't talk about winning games we don't talk about anything other than playing the best of our ability every, every play one play at a time, you know I can't sit there and tell a team there's no scoreboard. Don't look at the scoreboard. We're not outcome-oriented. We're not and then sit up here and talk about winning football game. That's that's not the way we're wired. It's not the way this team's built. Um that's why we're able to have adversity hit and be able to continue to play through it. Uh it's all about playing the next play."


Agree with the philosophy but it’s hard to do.
 
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