Gunner Stockton was an elite quarterback last season, but he was not perfect. The part of his game that needed to improve the most was his deep ball and generating more big plays.
It's been confirmed that this was a huge focus for him throughout spring ball, but specific details about how he was improving on that were not shared. That is until Kirby Smart just spoke about the change to his practice protical that should help Stockton and the Georgia offense generate more big plays.
"We tried this spring to manage those (dead plays) better. There's a lot of times in practice you just kind of blow it dead," Smart said via 247Sports.com. "We want him to go play on those plays because if 10 percent of those are explosive, then we need to have more of them. And the more broken plays we have that turn into explosives, that's things you can't coach. And we had to really practice that harder, and I thought he did a better job of that last year."
Kirby Smart develops new plan to help Gunner Stockton improve
What can Georgia do to improve their big play ability this year? Obviously they can try to find new ways of scheming up big plays, but sometimes big plays happen organically.
That is what Smart is trying to simulate.
Instead of blowing a play dead if it's not working he is letting it play out. He is giving Stockton and the offense a chance to try and make something out of nothing as sometimes that is how teams generate their biggest plays.
This may just seem like a small wrinkle, but it could be the difference between Georgia struggling to generate big plays and them being one of the most explosive offenses in the country.
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