With Akina coming in, I'd hoped to see tight man coverage in the secondary this year, despite the loss of two monster talents to the draft. The mistakes too often made back there have disappointed me more than our OL play or anything else out on the field. Guilbeau isn't fast enough and clearly has been targeted, but Muhammad also has given up some big plays I don't feel a top CB should. And sadly, in some cases we've had such poor coverage I can't even tell you which DB was at fault for not covering well.
Listen, losing to Georgia is easy to do. They're trouble for anyone not named Bama, and Sanford is a mighty tough venue for opponents. But a blueblood accustomed to playing in front of a lot of rival fans can't waltz out there and drop passes and draw flags, several of them huge in terms of possession and/or field position. We might have lost anyway, given how both teams typically play in the second half, but those early mistakes put us in a much deeper hole than we faced in the SEC title game.
Anyone who thinks Arch should have been able to save us from all our glitches wasn't watching closely. He delivered some phenomenal balls to guys who were well covered. Still, I'm puzzled why we aren't moving the pocket more to take advantage of his legs. If you're going to have him drop back and read while being a sitting duck for a great D, you're basically reliving the Quinn days we all looked forward to moving past. Georgia won in part because it used Stockton closer to the way in which we should Arch.