UGA football: What the offense needs to do differently in 2020

Diversify the playcalling

This writer doesn’t like to complain about playcalling, he’s even defending play calls most people criticize. But there wasn’t much defense for the playcalling in 2019. The biggest issue was what seemed to be missing from Georgia’s playbook. Where were the toss sweeps and counters in the running game? What about mesh routes in the passing game?

When the running backs are having a difficult time finding yards between the tackles, why not add more toss sweeps and counters to the playbook? When Georgia did run such plays, they tended to work, but those calls were rare. Yeah, the success rate for tosses and counters would have dropped if Georgia called them more often, but the variety would have allowed other running plays to be more successful.

Jake Fromm had a difficult time finding open receivers last season, especially on underneath routes. Where were the play calls to designed at getting receivers open underneath, specifically mesh routes. With athletes like Demetris Robertson and Dominick Blaylock at receiver, Charlie Woerner at tight end and Brian Herrien at running back, and with Lawrence Cager’s injury, why not run more mesh routes?

These are just a few examples of plays Georgia could have used to spice up the offense with. No one is asking for flea flickers and halfback passes. But in modern major college football, an offense has to be robust and diverse to work. Georgia’s 2019 offense was neither of those things.