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Semi-Beck update

Beck’s QB coach was on the radio in Jax this morning and he didn’t say anything earth shattering, but you can read between the lines that Beck isn’t going to be ready anytime soon.

Denny Thompson is also Brock Purdy’s QB coach, so he’s been through this with one of his QB before.

A little bonus info is he’s also Luke Kromenhoek’s QB coach and it sounds like he wants to go somewhere he can be developed in a pro style offense. Denny loves what Kirby does with QBs, so if they’re really interested in Luke, he has a lot of people in his group that could steer him our way.

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Still tickled to death how we beat Tech and Texas

It's Friday, we're SEC champs despite the hardest schedule in UGA history. The way we came back to beat Tech in 8 overtimes and then Carson goes down at the end of the half. Gunner comes in and we beat Texas in OT. I feel like we were the grinch and just stole wins vs both of them. This team is destined, someone will have to knock us out the way ole miss did. Not sure if anyone in this bracket is capable of doing it. BTW one positive note on Ole Miss, they were in the redzone 7 times and had to settle for 5 FGs.

The Schedules & Handwringing

So, there's been a lot of talk on schedules - both 2024 and 2026. I don't think it was AS BAD as some suggested. I think there were 2 primary problems with our schedule (and I'm not sure there's much they could do about Texas' schedule).

  1. We should not have played @ Ole Miss. That probably should have been @ Arkansas. I think that was a punch in the mouth from the conference. We played them as our rotating other division game in 2023. Only 1 of the other of those was also played in 2024 with a return game: Vandy @ Auburn. Really, we probably should have not played @ Bama either, but I do believe there was some 'conference regret' from the 2020 trip happening during Covid and the league wanted a re-do with that environment. We probably should have been @ LSU and @ Arkansas or something like that. (I'll give some reasoning why NOT at A&M yet).
  2. The biggest issue as the spacing. The fact that it was Nov. 10 and we'd only played 3 home games was tragic. The Tennessee game probably should have been after the Florida game or the Texas and Miss. St games switched. Miss. St. played us back to back. They could have made that happen. They October to mid-November slate should have been re-worked to get a home game in there. Even the Tenn. & OM games switching would have been more balanced.
For overall scheduling philosophies for this year (and, inI

3/6

Auburn
Kentucky
Florida


Texas - OU
Bama - LSU
Miss St. - Vandy
Ole Miss - South Carolina
Tennessee - Texas A&M
Arkansas - Mizzou

Texas 3/6

OU
Akansas
A&M

Georgia - Bama
Florida - Auburn
Miss St. - OM
Vandy - South Carolina
Kentucky - Mizzou
LSU - Tennessee

Stockton's throwing motion

My friend, who is a football coach but an alum from another SEC school, told me today that he loved Stockton's grit last night but not "his windup." I hear people sometimes talking about quarterback's windup and/or throwing motion, but unless a guy has a really funky delivery, I just can't seem to see a big difference. I need one of you QB experts to break it down for me. Is his release significantly slower than Beck's?

Amarlo Herrera

was gracious enough to hop on my podcast tonight! Spent about 30 minutes talking about his recruitment, how he missed the cutoff to a rivals camp, and how Corey Moore told the recruiting outlets that he was coming to Georgia before he actually committed among many other things.

Beg 2 Differ podcast on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts! Look for the episode with Amarlo next week!

Expert Picks Georgia to Win National Championship Despite Carson Beck's Uncertain Status

If this happened two or three years ago, maybe this wouldn't be worth a thread. However, considering the season Georgia just went through and that Josh Pate seemingly picked against the Bulldogs more this season than he has in the last three combined. His prediction for this year's national championship felt worth sharing.

"Georgia is the best football program in the country. And I believed that coming into the year," Pate said about Georgia. "And I'd still believe that if Texas had beaten the other day. You don't tear down a program overnight. ... The reason I mention that is because it takes a lot more than losing one player to tear down a program."

Pate predicts Georgia will defeat Notre Dame in the quarterfinal, which, according to FanDuel, Georgia would be 1.5-point favorites over. Pate then has the Bulldogs facing Penn State in the semifinal, followed by a third matchup with Texas in the national championship. And while he picked Texas to beat Georgia in their two prior matchups, he sided with the Bulldogs in a predicted third game between the two SEC programs.

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