Two-time national championship winning coach Kirby Smart met with media on Monday ahead of Georgia\u2019s top-five matchup with No. 1 Texas. <\/p>\n
The Bulldogs, ranked No. 5, have national title aspirations but so far haven\u2019t looked like the teams that went back-to-back. Georgia lost a tight game to Alabama after a frenetic comeback that saw them take the lead in the 4th quarter and then more recently defeated Mississippi State by the score of 41-31. That game was never in doubt but there were numerous uncharacteristic mistakes made by Georgia. <\/p>\n
Perhaps they were looking ahead to the trip to Austin. <\/p>\n
Here\u2019s what Smart had to say today that\u2019s relevant to the Texas Longhorns. <\/p>\n
\u201cObviously a huge matchup. It\u2019s going to be a top-10, two teams in the country. A lot of respect for Sark. I\u2019ve gotten to know Sark really well over the last couple years. We take a trip every year together. Really enjoyed getting to know him and have a lot of respect for the job he does. The most complete team that we\u2019ve seen or faced this year and probably multiple years. When you look at what they\u2019re doing defensively, offensively, and special teams, they are clearly one of the best teams in the country with what they do. They\u2019ve got a great quarterback, great defense, great scheme, it should be a great matchup. This is really why you come to Georgia to play in these moments. Once again on the road going to a place I\u2019ve never been, I assume none of our players have ever been there either for a game. It should be exciting, great TV, looking for an opportunity for us to get better because that\u2019s the most important thing. Can we show some kind of consistent improvement and play more consistent as a team? That\u2019s our goal.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, they\u2019re balanced. They do a great job of putting you in conflict in terms of run-pass, play-action, turn your back to the ball. They can take shots. They got really good wideouts to take shots with. I think they lost a couple backs, maybe in preseason camp, and I thought, okay they\u2019re not going to have\u2026well, these two backs they got are really good. I\u2019m like, man, I\u2019m watching them against Mississippi State, I was really impressed and then against Oklahoma they got better. So, it\u2019s not like there\u2019s these weaknesses. They\u2019re big and physical up front on defense and offense, they\u2019re built around the defensive and offensive lines. When you look at his record and you say, look at his record while he\u2019s been there, each year it\u2019s improved, well the trenches improved each year. They\u2019re for real in the trenches. They got really good players. They\u2019re built like an SEC team. It\u2019s hard to prepare for him because he knows what he\u2019s doing offensively. He\u2019s really different in terms of what he makes you adjust to.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSize, speed, two best front guys. Every defense starts with train wreckers, big guys, physical guys at the point of attack that are hard to move. They got\u2019em. They got guys on the edge that are elite rushers. They got an elite player out of the portal, they went and got the DB from Clemson who\u2019s playing really good. They patched up some holes they had and they\u2019re the complete package on defense. They\u2019re really consistent. They don\u2019t give up explosives. They\u2019re really good in the red area. They\u2019re hard to run the ball on. The consistency you watch them play with it reminds me of some of our better teams here, our best teams here. They\u2019re good on D, they\u2019re good on O, they\u2019re good on special teams and they\u2019re playing at a high level.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s different because the deep shots, we\u2019re talking about two distinctly different offenses (Texas and Miss St). When you watch the tape, when we played correctly, used the right technique, we played well. We did not win every ball. Joenel Aguero<\/a><\/strong> is a great example. He covered the guy exactly like he was supposed to and the guy made a great throw and a great catch. We\u2019re going to take that. We\u2019ll say, you know what we\u2019re not going to win every battle. We\u2019re not going to win every 50\/50 ball but we\u2019re going to try to win more than we lose. But when you don\u2019t cover someone period, as the coach you\u2019re going what is wrong here? We didn\u2019t cover the guy, we had bad eyes, we looked in the backfield. Things that you harp on every day, they happen. That\u2019s what offenses do, they try to give you eye candy and get you looking at the wrong thing. We have to remove those, right? But Texas presents a completely different\u2026because they\u2019ll have you sitting on the line of scrimmage because you think it\u2019s a run and they ran right by you. They\u2019ll have you looking at a motion and you don\u2019t see the guy running down the field past you. They have great speed on the perimeter. They have great size. So they present maybe a different challenge than Mississippi State, but a challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cBill Norton<\/a><\/strong>, what a great kid, man. This guy worked his tail off here, worked really hard. I go back to, I forget what year it was, it had to have been three years ago or four years ago, one of his key roles was special teams. He played on our field goal protection unit and was the best at doing it we had. He was a backup defensive tackle and played some snaps but that was his role. I want to say, maybe the Ohio State game or one of the games we lost somebody and he had to go in and take over and play a role and he did it with great pride. He was always positive and enjoyed practice and was fun to be around; funny guy. And now he\u2019s been I guess two places and he\u2019s playing for them. He\u2019s doing a really good job. He subs in and rolls in as one of their backup DT\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t know that he\u2019s changed as a play caller and designer. His elite ability is to get players the ball. That\u2019s what he\u2019s elite at. He\u2019s had really good wideouts before and they were really good. He\u2019s had really good backs and he found ways to get them the ball. He\u2019s had good tight ends, like he has now, and he\u2019s finding ways to get him the ball. His offense is, uh, it is complicated because it has motions, shifts, a lot of window dressing, but he gets back to the plays he\u2019s going to run and he\u2019s able to be versatile enough to say, okay, I got this guy, I gotta get this guy the ball and some of the the plays are like ours now where they\u2019re not designed for one player, they\u2019re built for what does the defense do, I\u2019m going to get it to my weapons. There\u2019s probably more similarities between the two offenses than some of these offenses we\u2019ve faced.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cHis awareness. There\u2019s nothing that he sees that he hasn\u2019t seen. Quarterback, you get confidence by playing the position. You\u2019re not going to have some guy that just doesn\u2019t play go out there and play great. He\u2019s played a lot of football, he\u2019s a really good athlete, he\u2019s been in Sark\u2019s system. I think the comparisons between he and Carson [Beck] are so similar in terms of the kind of quarterbacks they are. They\u2019re both better athletes than people think. They both have awareness of coverage and they\u2019re really good in the pocket. This guy has taken off and hurt teams running when he needs to but he can also stand in the pocket and make all the throws and change the protection. I\u2019ve really been impressed with him but that was even the case with him last year when I saw him play.\u201d<\/p>\n The post Everything you need to know that Kirby Smart said about Texas<\/a> appeared first on On3<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two-time national championship winning coach Kirby Smart met with media on Monday ahead of Georgia\u2019s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}On Texas D-tackle Bill Norton, a former Bulldog<\/h2>\n
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