Georgia football: Bulldogs who need to step up this week
Jim Cheney
One of my biggest criticisms of Cheney last season was that he put his vision of what the offense ahead of what worked. In 2016, Georgia moved the ball best in an up-tempo, no-huddle offense, yet it was rare to actually see Georgia run that style.
I had hoped that Cheney would have learned his lesson going into the 2017, but I’m not so convinced thus far. The offense began the game trying to be slow and methodical and the result was zero first downs and a neglectable amount of yards.
As soon as Fromm took over for Eason, Cheney switched to a faster offense and the results spoke for themselves. And at times, inexplicably, Cheney would go back to trying to force a methodical offense on to the team.
It’s clear that he still wants to run his offense. It’s narrow-minded and foolish. It doesn’t matter how effective his vision is whenever it will work. As of right now, Georgia can’t move the ball, let alone score in that style of offense.
Cheney needs to realize this soon. If he goes into the Notre Dame game trying to run his offense, we’re going to struggle and we’ll have to rely on our defense. Which granted, is a solid defense that we can rely on. But we don’t want to need to, and the offense owes it to the defense to score some points.