Ep. 32 - A Shocking Georgia Stat Provides Hope for OU’s Offense

In the opening take, Grant explains what he's thankful for this time of the year and wishes all the listeners happy holidays. Then Lee joins to talk a little about Early Signing Day. The guys offer thoughts on UGA-Notre Dame and UGA-Mississippi State, plus Grant has an astonishing stat about the Georgia defensive line. Also, "Film Time w/Lee" breaks down an OU play that could present UGA's defense with problems in the Rose Bowl. Email the show: westofeverest@gmail.com 5:15 Gus Johnson and Joel Klatt will be bummed they can’t call the Rose Bowl 6:20 Lee has a follow up tidbit regarding the podcast stats from last week’s episode 8:30 Rodney Anderson’s status for the Rose Bowl is looking better and better 13:35 Wednesday is Early Signing Day (but we record on Tuesday night so we don’t have news on specifics) 14:40 Grant has some thoughts on Early Signing Day 23:10 we shift to OU-Georgia discussion and Grant compares a current SEC QB to a former Big 12 QB 25:00 Grant provides his thoughts on the UGA-Notre Dame game and he begins with a correction 26:55 UGA’s linebackers were incredibly aggressive against Notre Dame. Could OU exploit this tendency in the Rose Bowl? 29:00 UGA’s offense still scares Grant 31:00 Jake Fromm didn’t play great against ND, but it was his very first career start so maybe cut the guy some slack 33:10 Grant is convinced that OU has the advantage over UGA in the trenches and he’s got the numbers to back it up 34:50 based on film so far it’s difficult to imagine UGA getting to Baker Mayfield in this game 39:00 Lee transitions into UGA-Mississippi State discussion 40:20 UGA looked like the best team in the nation in the 1st quarter against MSU 42:40 Lee saw UGA’s offense run a play that he hadn’t previously seen in film study 45:00 Fromm looks to be a one read passer. Could that be useful info for the OU DBs? 47:10 UGA’s “Wild Dawg” is terrifying and Lee breaks down an easy TD run by Nick Chubb 49:45 taking a look at UGA’s defense against Mississippi State. UGA did not respect the idea of MSU throwing the ball down the field 51:05 UGA CB Deandre Baker looked really good against MSU 52:15 Lee brings up a play ran by Mississippi State’s offense that has him worried because UGA’s defense played it so well 54:20 No offense can compare to OU’s offense this season. 57:40 how do you quantify the long layoff between games? Does it matter that OU has been in the playoff previously and UGA has not? 59:30 “Film Time w/Lee” breaks down Mayfield to Brown 84-yard TD from Bedlam. It’s a play that could have success against UGA’s defense. 1:01:25 Lee messes up Roquan Smith’s name and Grant is not happy about it 1:06:10 it’s funny how watching UGA film results in uneasiness, but then popping in OU alleviates that feeling because of the reminder of how good the Sooners’ offense has been 1:08:50 Bowl Picks La Tech-SMU Temple-FIU UAB-Ohio Central Michigan-Wyoming Texas Tech-USF SDSU-Army App State-Toledo Fresno State-Houston