After latest Alabama loss, Aaron Murray identifies glaring weakness for Georgia offense
Perhaps it was the dropped passes, or misfiring by QB Stetson Bennett IV, but former Georgia QB Aaron Murray identified a missing piece for the Georgia offense following its latest loss to Alabama.
Murray tweeted that, “Until UGA can get some dudes at WR, this offense will continue to be average.”
Bennett was 18-for-40 passing for 269 yards, two touchdowns and three interceptions. Seven receivers were targeted 35 times, and they came up with just 18 completions from a combination of wayward throws from Bennett and dropped passes by receivers. Jermaine Burton had a particularly high rate of targets versus catches, with 11 targets to just four catches. Kearis Jackson had seven targets and came up with just two catches.
George Pickens had the most catches with five, and RB James Cook led the Bulldogs in receiving yards with 101 on the strength of an 82-yard TD.
Georgia is off this week, and returns to action Oct. 31 at Kentucky after several games were shifted because of multiple postponements around the SEC.
Until UGA can get some dudes at WR, this offense will continue to be average. So much man last night from Alabama and they could not create separation @DrewButler @PuntandPass
— Aaron Murray (@aaronmurray11) October 18, 2020
WR is only one part of it – they also have a walk-on true freshman starting at QB for them as well. That will only go so far.
Are you an idiot, or do you just play one on TV?
Bennett was a walk-on, left after his freshman year, did a season in JUCO and came back ON SCHOLARSHIP and is a Redshirt Junior, not a freshman.
You gumps really are the dumbest fanbase.
41-24 chump!
In his defense, Bennet played like a walk on true freshman
So your problem didn’t involve a former walk-on who is now a red shirt junior on scholarship.? The point is your elf QB wasn’t good enough to win.
You are really one of the dumbest fans in a delusional fan base.
UGA has some serious dudes at WR. But, pair them with an undersized,’serviceable’ QB, against an excellent secondary, and they look average. Then, put them in the same game against Heisman candidate WR’s, and it tempts pundit quick takes like this one.
Like the song says…Georgia…Sweet Georgia.
41-24. Roll Tide !
Corch , you look at the true meaning of dumb@$$ everyday when you look at yourself in the mirror. You are an embarassment to most of your own fan base. Babbeling on in another post about how you knew we would lose.You seem like that guy that goes to the sport’s bar to watch his team and rudely claps real loud everytime his team makes a play only to leave early before the other teams fanbase unloads on you. That would be fitting for a guy of your chracter from your moronic actions on this site.
Got that little gem on the guy in the sports bar from Pthe Ricker and just imagined that was textbook corch or king crybaby.
Perfect analogy.
Also, a walk-on makeshift QB that is 5’10 with his cleats on getting half of his passes batted down doesn’t help either.
Yeah and he wsa missing some open looks. Stetson Bennett plays with the heart of a walk-on but also in the body of a walk-on.
It ain’t the receivers. There are some studs there in Pickens (when his head is straight), Jackson, Burton and throw Cook in there for the slot. Yeah, they aren’t Waddle/Smith great, but they’re also young. I loved story of Bennett, but when you miss as many throws as he did, don’t have the arm strength, and get’s throws batted down at the line consistently, we gotta move on. Bama didn’t really have him under sustained duress, but did make an effort to limit the throws over the middle. And what happened to the TE?
My thoughts exactly! I love his story and the dude plays his heart out. That’s not going to get us there though. It would help if we didn’t put him in very obvious passing situations. We were averaging 6 yards a run going into the third quarter and we decided to stop running the ball. I’m not sure what munken saw but I feel like hes to blame for the late Interceptions
Partially to blame*