I never thought we would shut down Murray, and the pass D, while not great, was about what I expected. Obviously the big problem was the rush D.
We gave up 282 yards rushing to uga , but 197 of them came on just 3 runs. We all know that the long runs were the problem, this just gives some idea of how big of a problem.
For the record, here is how uga performed running against other teams. It show what those teams allowed in rush yards, what uga did, and the difference between the two:
Avg Uga Diff Buffalo 200 227 +27
Missouri 111 113 +2
FAU 219 328 +110
Vandy 186 302 +116
Vols 188 282 +96
I thought it was kind of interesting that Uga has exceeded the typical yardage allowed by every school they have played. It also seems like maybe there was an improvement around the 3rd game for some reason. Of course, all the teams except Missouri have shizzlety run D's anyway. And notice that we did only slightly better than Vandy and FAU...that's simply awful.
So how hard can it be to stop long TD runs?
Without them uga had only 85 yards on 36 carries. This should be a very interesting test, to me. If I am Dooley, on my list of game goals, right below "win" is "stop long TD runs". I mean, how fizzleing hard can it be??????
And oh yeah, no. 3 is "don't let any other part of the game go to shizzle either". It takes a total package.
Side note...I had no idea Missouri had such a good run D. Bammer goes on the road to play them the week before they play us and they just lost their top receiver. Should be an interesting game...
