I really don’t see our issues as a talent/player personnel issue. The ability is there, except probably on the o-line and TE room, and a lot of that could be fixed with a better S&C program. It’s the little things that add up and separate us from the best teams in the league. We drop passes, make costly penalties at crucial times, get surprised by fakes/onsides on special teams, and have communication breakdowns in the secondary that leave guys running free.
The guys who were making big plays for UGA last night, Humphries, Jones, Luckie, and Delp, are not players on the same level as Brock Bowers, George Pickens, or AJ Greene, and they certainly don’t have Matt Stafford throwing them passes. They didn’t have Jalen Carter, Nakobe Dean, Jordan Davis, Mikel Williams or Jalen Walker on defense. UGA just doesn’t beat itself. They execute, adapt to what the other team is doing, and keep playing hard until the other team breaks.
Until we start playing cleaner and stop beating ourselves, we aren’t going to win big games like this.