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Official 2025 Opening Week - Georgia Tech Thread

BlackNGold said:
The amount of rationalization in this thread is nutz. "The Defense did enuff" - are you crazy. At halftime I expected GT to win based on the fact they had turned over the ball 3 times and were ahead 13-10. CU's defense was not stopping them, they were running the ball at will. The interception was a good defensive play - the fumbles were gifts. This has been a theme every since Prime has been here - we try to out athlete teams instead of out execute and we do not effectively run the ball.

GT may be a good team, but it is the type of team CU should beat at home. I think this team has a ways to go. We have middling QB play - I am not sure how high Salter's ceiling is if he tries to be a pocket passer - he has a career ~60% completion percentage which is poor in today's college football. This team needs to be effective in running the ball and with Salter at QB I thought they would have a better game plan for running.

This teams does not have the star power of last year so they have to execute better.
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Adding a little clock management wouldn't hurt....
 
4BienemyTDs said:
They did Run Blitz and they were in the wrong hole every time. There were a few times we put in a 5 man front, with actually DL and they threw the ball semi-effectively, but they did not run hardly ever when we went big. If our LB’s are small, then adding a small safety like Finneseth or Byard did not help at all.

I think a 5-2-4 front on 1st and 2nd with mostly man concepts and the safeties watching for the backs swinging out was our only chance to cut down the yards.

Bottom line though, getting gift turnovers is a great thing, you still have to recover the ball. Not turning it over is great. Not getting sacked is great. On the second drive Taylor and Drelon dropped passes that could have been caught, and then KS turned down a chance to run for probably for 20 yards and then when he threw to Sincere, had that pass been 5-yards less overthrown Sincere either catches it or gets DPI. Zero breaks on the second drive that could have set off a blowout because GT could not then run as much as they would like to and our 4-2-5 could match up better
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GT is really good on the interior OL, not only are the individual players good (including an All-American OG who is going to be a high draft choice) but they also coordinate well. Our DL didn't win enough of the one on one battles to keep those guards from getting clean to the second level. Then add that our LBs didn't do a good job of reading and responding to the QB runs and in the process made themselves easy to block.

We won't see another QB who is as big a threat to run as King all season but we will see other QBs who will be runners. Defense needs to look at this film and recognize the changes that need to be made against the QB run or teams will use it against us.

One of the problem with going heavy on players from the portal is that you get guys who are looking for a chance to shine individually, to showcase their particular skills. Defending against the running QB requires the defense to have team discipline, for each guy to defend his specific gap, his responsibility. Free lance at all and you create those gaps the QB exploits for significant yardage. I hate to keep coming back to it but this is how Air Force manages to hang with and often beat teams that have much better athletes on defense than AF has on offense, all they need is a seam and they are ahead of schedule.
 
Buff_since76 said:
What sticks out to me after re-watching the game is what happened after the 2nd and 3rd turnovers. Had we just driven down and kicked FGs on each then it's 13-0, more time is off the clock, and GT is probably feeling a little bit of anxiety. Instead they get the ball back with over 5 minutes left in the first quarter only down by 7 after committing 3 TO's. The plays we run are

Pass - dump pass that was dropped, not the best throw but should have been caught
Pass - to D Miller at the sticks. Was a bit low and short, but Miller should have caught it
Pass - had an open field to run for the first pretty easily but threw the home run ball that landed incomplete

Pass - lateral pass, similar to final drive, TE misses block, and just like in the final drive we lose 3 yards (making me mad about why we called this play on the final drive when it hadn't worked all game, but that rant will come later). It looked like the D was lined up not believing that we would run
Unknown - mishandled snap so Salter runs for 9 yards. Best play of the two drives!
Pass - 2.5 yard dump pass and we don't go for it on 4th

Had we run 12 more offensive plays in these 2 drives, then GT would have been coming out at the very end of 1Q having run 12 total plays with 3 turnovers.

It would have been a completely different game.
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And playing at 6000 feet their defensive players would be sucking air with their hands on their hips hoping for halftime.
 
Da Lama said:
Just gonna drop this here for all of you. The entire country is sh!tting on Arch Manning for his awful play Saturday. And they have a point. He was not good.

That said, Manning ended up with a higher QBR than Salter.

Juju needs to get significant, meaningful reps on Saturday. End of story.
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Da Lama

You are closest to the program, had the first game been Delaware, would Juju have started? I feel like we went with Salter because of how big and competitive the GT game would be and how much pressure Juju would be under playing a Georgia team, but he is more than ready to be a premier QB.

Salter was just plain bad, and GT’s pass rush was non-existent.
 
4BienemyTDs said:
Da Lama

You are closest to the program, had the first game been Delaware, would Juju have started? I feel like we went with Salter because of how big and competitive the GT game would be and how much pressure Juju would be under playing a Georgia team, but he is more than ready to be a premier QB.

Salter was just plain bad, and GT’s pass rush was non-existent.
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No. Juju would not have started. And he likely would not have played either way. As I was told, the plan was the plan. And that plan was all in on Salter this year, Juju watches and learns and gets situational snaps.

I'm efforting to find out if that's still the case. The people I've already talked to (who have way more football experience/knowledge than me) agree Salter did more damage with his attitude, lack of in-game football IQ, and his zero toughness than his less than stellar play.
 
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Buffnik said:
Were you happy with the offensive play calling in 2024?
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No but how much influence did SS have over the offense? I thought PS said he was happy this year because he gets to run the offense he wanted to run. That to me would mean he had some outside influence dictating the offense.
 
Da Lama said:
Just gonna drop this here for all of you. The entire country is sh!tting on Arch Manning for his awful play Saturday. And they have a point. He was not good.

That said, Manning ended up with a higher QBR than Salter.

Juju needs to get significant, meaningful reps on Saturday. End of story.
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Who the **** was he playing against in his first damn start on the road?
 
BuffinCali said:
This 2026 Mock Draft has Jordyn Tyson going to the Broncos
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Mock drafts at this time of year are ridiculous but NFL teams drafting 8 QBs in the first round would be on par for the direction they are headed.

And I could see the coaches and GMs who picked the 7th and 8th QBs standing in front of the media and claiming that the guy they picked was really the #1 QB they had on the whole board.
 
cnbuff410 said:
I can agree that ASU last year is probably better than GT.

They lost their heart and soul this year, unfortunately
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Unfortunately. Fixed it.
BuffWarHogFrog said:
I would argue that if your team has the ball on the last possession, and you’re within one score…then yes, your defense did enough.
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Also.. our O had the ball with 5 mins left at a 20-20 tie.

We should have been able to run down the field and kick a FG with 00 on the clock. That’s on O not on D.

(Hey! I accidentally just learned multiquote.)
 
Buffnik said:
I am so pissed that the clock was so poorly managed that our Buffs ran out of time at the 50 with 2 TOs in the bank. That's amateurish and a complete failure.
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I don’t mean this to be a joke or sound funny. I’m actually serious. How do I get in touch with Colorado to see if Prime is willing to interview me? I would be willing to fly in for every game and be on the sideline just to help with the clock. I’m a clock guru!
 
letsgoavs192 said:
Just watched the end of the game again. On the drive where we had the ball when it was tied with less than five minutes left, we did an RPO and if Salter hands it to Welch he goes for somewhere between 20 and 70 yards. Instead, Salter kept the ball and ran out of bounds for a 4 yard gain

Painful
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I’m beginning to wonder what the coaches saw in him while at Liberty. Hopefully this is a wake up call and he becomes the player they thought they were getting.
 
Pilotbuff said:
No but how much influence did SS have over the offense? I thought PS said he was happy this year because he gets to run the offense he wanted to run. That to me would mean he had some outside influence dictating the offense.
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I thought KS was getting blamed for PS's offense looking bad on Friday. Blaming the position he coaches over 2 different QBs and seasons doesn't fly for me. It's being an apologist for an OC/QB coach who isn't showing much.
 
GawainBuff said:
Unfortunately. Fixed it.

Also.. our O had the ball with 5 mins left at a 20-20 tie.

We should have been able to run down the field and kick a FG with 00 on the clock. That’s on O not on D.

(Hey! I accidentally just learned multiquote.)
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I think it is ridiculous to try to blame the either the offense or the defense more than the other. You seem to ignore that GT got the ball with under 3 minutes left and went 61 yards in 5 plays including a 45 yard run by a QB who was limping and obviously gassed. It seems like the defense knew he was running but did not stop him. The offense did go the length of the field earlier to tie the game. This is a team game and the entire team loses not just one unit.
 
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