Georgia Bulldogs Monday Morning QB: Week 1 review

Nick Chubb started his 2016 season in high fashion gashing the Tarheels
for 222 yards on 32 carry's.

The Georgia Bulldogs pulled away from the North Carolina tar-heels late in the fourth quarter to take a 33 to 24 week one victory.  The bulldogs had to over come a 10 point deficit in order to secure the first win for first year head coach Kirby Smart.  I have 5 takeaways from the game:

1. Nick Chubb is officially back. After a devastating injury ended his season early last year there was tons of media speculation as to when Chubb would be healthy enough to contribute.  After 222 yards rushing it was clear that Chubb was back.  Next week I expect Chubb to have less that 15 carriers as the team will face Nichols State and at last check Georgia was favored by 41 points so this will be a good game to get some of the younger players some experience.

2. Jacob Eason is the best quarterback for the Georgia Bulldogs.  No disrespect to current number one qb Grayson Lambert but Eason simply has the IT factor.  As the number one qb prospect coming out of high school this year Eason showed some of the intangibles on a pin point strike down the side line to McKenzie

midway though the fourth quarter.  I understand the coaching staff wanting to make sure that the freshman is ready for the spot light but at some point they've got to take off the training wheels and et the freshman learn from the mistakes that he will undoubtedly make.


3.  Did I say that Nick Chubb was back?  With all the hype for other running backs around the country no one saw Chubb dominating a stout North Carolina defense


4. Special teams looks to be a work in progress this year.  Just a underwhelming effort from the special teams units including a second half kick return for touch down by North Carolina.


5.  After years of the cool calm and collected Mark Richt,- Kirby Smart spent most of thr game in as up a tempo as the offense was in as he could be seen sprinting up and down the side lines yelling at refs and coaching up his players.  In a post game interview, Kirby admitted that things are a lot different as a Head Coach versus simply being a coordinator. 


The Bull Dogs should clean up a lot of loose ends this week versus Nichols and hopefully we will get a large dose of the freshman Jacob Eason in front of the home crowd behind the hedges.