Kirby Smart explains why Jake Fromm, D’Andre Swift had confrontation on field
By SDS Staff
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Late in the fourth quarter of Georgia’s 19-13 win over Texas A&M, CBS showed Bulldogs RB D’Andre Swift visibly frustrated with QB Jake Fromm.
Kevin Boilard of 247Sports shared the clip on Twitter:
D’Andre Swift does NOT look happy with Jake Fromm after being dropped for a loss on a draw play #TAMUvsUGA pic.twitter.com/Gckkisx6tZ
— Kevin Boilard (@247KevinBoilard) November 23, 2019
UGA coach Kirby Smart was asked about it after the game. He described it as two brothers arguing.
“I wouldn’t call it a dustup,” Smart told the media. “He was just frustrated. It was a situation where we don’t run that play into a pressure from that side. They did a good job disguising it. We told Jake to milk the clock and when you milk the clock you can’t change the play. You milk the clock, you’ve got to run the play. It wasn’t a great play, but that’s called passion, it’s not a dustup. It’s love. When you have family, your family doesn’t always get along, right? But they love each other. These two young men love each other as much as anybody.”
Fromm and Swift themselves were also asked about it in postgame media availability and explained that there’s nothing to worry about.
“I think it’s just two competitors that want to compete and do the right thing for the offense,” Fromm told Jake Rowe of Dawgs247. “The clock is ticking, they showed a blitz there at the last second and I didn’t have enough time to change it. That’s part of the four-minute scenario, trying to milk out the clock and two guys want to be really competitive and win a football game.”
Swift said it was just his frustration with the situation.
“I think that was the play, the shot clock was on like one,” Swift told Rowe. “We hiked the ball. It wasn’t really a good play. I was telling him that we’ve got to snap the ball earlier but it wasn’t on him. I was just frustrated.”
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