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FOOTBALL: Lane Kiffin Quick Hits

Chase Parham

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May 11, 2009
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Great challenge this week, one we’re excited about and playing at home. We screwed up two games earlier in the year and when you do, you put yourself in this situation. We don’t talk about playoffs and things because it’s about how you play each day, but we still have that stuff alive. If you’re going to win it, you have to go through Georgia at some point. They are the program in college football. They’ve won 51 straight games taking out playing Alabama. That has to be some type of record. They are loaded as always. They went into Texas and beat them. We’ve put ourselves in a playoff situation for 2 games in a row now and this is the third one we need to win to keep on pace for that.

I hope our roster is in a better spot than last year. That didn’t go well a year ago. Every year and game are independent. We’re in a better place, but UGA gets the best HS kids every year and has draft picks. They are all over the field when you look at the tape. Other than the miracle half of Mike Vick showing up, on a field with everyone big and fast and he was faster than everyone, that’s the only time they’ve lost and they still came back and took the lead. They have a great personnel situation and great coaches. They’ve last lost to non-Alabama during COVID.

We need RBs to step up. Parrish is a big loss for us. He’s done well with the ball and protection. Is what it is. People face injuries and adversity. Need guys to play well.

Dart had amazing accuracy on Saturday. Only incompletions were throwaways for the most part. After great games even we talk about missed plays or drops or whatever but this is a game where no one dropped a ball and he didn’t miss a pass except for maybe the overthrow to Juice on the fade.

I don’t know about Thomas’ role on Saturday. He did a good job in there. He’s a consistent player. Most people don’t have success running on UGA. Outlier was Mike Vick in college. Those guys have played extremely well. And they’ve scored 30 plus except for Kentucky.

I was telling the defenders good job and we have another half to go at halftime on Saturday. I wanted to keep guys engaged and we have a ways to go. It’s 35-10 but we need to come out and play well.

UGA does a great job and they don’t have to pressure because of their DL. The linebackers are very physical and big. Look at first half against Texas. They’ve been doing this for years. This is the elite program in college football. They’d be on their way to four straight titles if not for Alabama.

I didn’t watch after I threw the football on Saturday. I was frustrated about the lack of the timeout. The official joked he didn’t try to catch it. He joked later in the game.

Beck is very talented and played great against us a year ago. He’s thrown picks and QBs go through that. Good problem to have. Highly talented QB like him who can make the throws. You work through the picks part and you have a great QB. Some programs protect the ball but can’t make the throws. It’s a good problem to have. Extremely talented.

When UK is healthy and motivated on defense, they can play great defense. They have a premier player in 0 who can destroy game plans. They did a great job against us and them. They were healthy.

It gets played a lot about us coaching together back in the day, but you’re just coaching your team. Neither of us are primary playcallers. More of that gets made than is true. You just want to have really good players and have them playing well.

I thought Austin Simmons did a nice job and commanded well. Dae’Quan had a good game outside of the penalty – especially blocking and catching the football. Made people miss.
 
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