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Georgia football’s Veg-O-Matic offense slices and dices

By Richard Gnann

NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE - AUGUST 31: Quarterback Jake Fromm #11 of the Georgia football Bulldogs throws a pass against the Vanderbilt Commodores during the first half at Vanderbilt Stadium on August 31, 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Frederick Breedon/Getty Images)
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE - AUGUST 31: Quarterback Jake Fromm #11 of the Georgia football Bulldogs throws a pass against the Vanderbilt Commodores during the first half at Vanderbilt Stadium on August 31, 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Frederick Breedon/Getty Images) /
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Jake Fromm slices and dices with Georgia football’s Veg-O-Matic offense. Will there be more?

The Georgia football offense sliced and diced the Vanderbilt defense for 323 yards rushing Saturday night. Operating this Veg-O-Matic offense, as seen on TV before an ESPN audience, was quarterback Jake Fromm.

Fromm easily substituted menu items at the line of scrimmage. He then queued up the massive Dawg offensive line, creating running lanes for D’Andre Swift and company to average 8.1 yards a carry.

“I don’t think anyone in the room would understand what [Fromm’s] doing when he’s doing some of the mechanics,” Mike Griffith of DawgNation quoted Kirby Smart. “Some of it is pass, some of it’s run, some of it’s nothing. Some of it is window-dressing.”

The main course

For fans hoping for a taste of exotic passing from new offensive cook James Coley, it wasn’t all meat and Veg-O-Matic sliced potatoes. Fromm threw the ball 23 times and completed 15 with a touchdown and no interceptions.

Still, Kirby Smart is the head chef, and the Georgia menu will be heavy on running the football. Despite a couple of disappointments on third down and fourth down against the Commodores, expect Smart to tighten up the recipes, not change the menu.

“We’ve got to have a lot of things to work on, that’s just one of the many that we continue to improve on.”

Menu additions

Smart said he is in favor of expanding the offensive menu. “We have to be able to expand and do more things, and throw the ball down field, stretch the field and get some of the wideouts involved.”

For fans with a sweet tooth for the passing game, the best news is the work of Miami graduate transfer Lawrence Cager. Cager reeled in two Fromm passes for 41 yards and blocked enthusiastically downfield. Demetris Robertson also sprinkled some sugar on the offensive. He also brought a sigh of relief that maybe the 2018 wallflower is emerging as a weapon.

We have to be able to expand and do more things

Robertson emerges

Robertson caught a touchdown pass and added a couple of other catches for 23 yards. He wowed with a long catch which was called back on a holding penalty, and showed off some nice running skills, adding 28 yards in two carries to his stat line.

For fans looking for a little more tight end in the stew, Tennessee graduate transfer Eli Wolf and junior Charlie Woerner snagged three of Fromm’s 15 receptions.

Front of the house

As expected, the Georgia football offensive line delivered the main course. The talented wait staff resembled a fleet of super-charged Caterpillar road graders, bulldozing the  Commodore defensive front and sprinting and across the field to wall off defenders.

Next. Jordan Davis the biggest piece of the defensive line. dark

As long as this Great Wall of Georgia stays in tact, it’s going to be very easy to concoct an effective offense behind it.

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