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AJC: Georgia using 'complementary football' to dominate all comers

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This column by the AJC's Mark Bradley might be slightly off-topic, but not really. I thought it was an interesting observation.

Sometimes you hear a coach say he wants his team to play complementary football. Sometimes you wonder what that means, given that a team’s offense and defense are never on the field at the same time. A better way to define complementary football is to point to how Georgia has played in 2021 and say, “That right there? That’s complementary football.”...

If Smart needed Georgia to score a slew of points to win, Bennett wouldn’t be his No. 1 quarterback. Daniels, who has the better and bigger arm, would be the choice. But the Bulldogs have yet to allow an opponent to score more than 17 points, and they haven’t been held under 30 since their opener against Clemson. They haven’t needed 350 passing yards to win. They average 239 air yards, putting them mid-table among the 130 FBS teams.

When watching LSU’s offense of 2019 and Alabama’s of last season, it was possible to wonder if running the ball and playing defense no longer mattered. Those ancient virtues tended to work best in tandem, but with everybody slinging it, nobody seemed concerned with controlling the clock and/or the line of scrimmage. Smart is very concerned with the clock/line of scrimmage...

Georgia’s strength is its defense, which is so dominant that it banked a turnover on the play that resulted in Charleston Southern’s points. Even if Georgia had Burrow or Mac Jones, it wouldn’t look like LSU 2019 or Bama 2020. That isn’t how Smart coaches. Maybe you think he should. Maybe he knows more about football than you do.


Atlanta Journal-Constitution: This just in: UGA’s Kirby Smart does know what he’s doing (by Mark Bradley)
https://www.ajc.com/sports/mark-bradley ... TMMW2L7WM/