First Glance : Georgia Tech

I'll be touching on this subject in more detail on Wednesday, but here is the First Glance for the Yellow Jackets.


The triple option is based around their QB, Josh Nesbitt. He has some real problems throwing the ball but when he does throw it, it goes in the direction of Deynarius Thomas, a 6'3'' sophomore that appears to be a poor man's Michael Crabtree. He's not as good, but chew on this stat.

Thomas : 559 receiving yards
Next closest receiver : 150 yards (on 7 catches and it's their RB)

So basically, if we want to make this team completely one-dimensional, we bracket Thomas all game and see what Nesbitt can do throwing the ball. Like I said, he's struggled and throws a ton of incompletions.

To be honest, I don't know what to expect when they run their option against us. We have a great run defense but we take some poor angles sometimes and that's the key to stopping the option. Nesbitt has improved in running this from game-to-game. We are gonna need some big games from Forston, Joseph, Hendricks, Dixon, Holmes, and the rest of the DT crew. I got a pretty good feeling we will be able to stop them on the off tackle with Bailey, Spence, Ojomo, Cook (he's played great, don't kid yourself) and the rest of the front 7.

This offense is predicated on if you can beat your man. GT gives it to you straight up. If you beat our guy, you stop us and force us to throw. If you don't, we control the clock and sequentially, the game as well.

On offense, we need to find some sort of identity early in the game. The 5 WR look was a good wrinkle, Nix just used it too much. VT adjusted and caught on to the QB draws. I actually think we will be able to run a few draws and bubble screens (the bread and butter of our offense, LOL) successfully against this team. They are extremely aggressive and just like I said in the VT game, we are gonna have to make them pay by taking the bubble screens 20-25 yards a few times instead of 1,2,3,4 yards. They are gonna challenge us to beat them through the air -- Marve played a good game on Thursday.

Keys to the game

1) Do your job on defense -- if you have a chance to wrap up, DO IT! Don't get ur ass pancaked! See the ball -- if you lose it, you'll look like an idiot chasing after a phantom ball carrier and the other guy will be running downfield.
2) Catch the ball on offense -- The drops in the VT game hurt bad. We recovered, but we won't be able to survive many more games with the drops we had.
3) No DUMB PENALTIES! -- This team DOES NOT need any help. We played a GREAT game in terms of avoiding penalties against Virginia Tech and I truly believe that was the difference in the game. ZERO FALSE STARTS! That is phenomenal. We need to keep that up.

I think Randy will have the team well prepared mentally and I hope to God that we get the same performance out of our defense because that was truly a thing of beauty to watch on Thursday.