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Steve Sarkisian's thoughts on Carson Beck and the UGA Offense · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: As we continue here on sports Radio AM thirteen hunderds,
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  I wanted to hear some more from logwrn's head coach,
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  Decarcasian from that SEC teleconference. That's where they get all
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  the They get all of the coaches on every week
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  and they run through all of the different things the
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  questions that they that they get from media, not only
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  from their own area, but national as well. This would
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  definitely be more from the local perspective, you know, after
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  fielding questions about preparing his program for the transition into
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  the Southeastern Conference and you know, Kirby Smart and measuring
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  sticks and all that sort of stuff. Simple question for
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  Sart the game is Saturday night. We know what's going
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  on in town this week. Gigantic football game, gigantic car race.
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  You got the F one Grand Prix come up on Sunday.
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  Sark was asked, are you going to the F one race?
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  Speaker 2: I would love to go to Formula one.
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  Speaker 3: Unfortunately, We've got another game next Saturday that I've got
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  to prepare for. But you know, this AUS season, I
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  got a chance to go to the NASCAR race there
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  and it was it was awesome, and so I can
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  only imagine what the Formula One is like and the
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  speed of those cars.
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  Speaker 2: But no, unfortunate I won't be able to make that
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  a little busy, a little busy this time of year.
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  I think that's that's going on.
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  Speaker 1: Now, back to talking about the football matchup with the
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  Georgia Bulldogs. Well, if you missed it, in the first
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  hour of the program, we visited with Scott Howard, the
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  Bulldogs play by play voice, and asked him about Carson
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  Beck and asked him to describe the season. He goes,
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  pretty solid, pretty solid, but not you know, over the top,
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  superstar stuff. He's got five interceptions this year, is completing
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  sixty eight percent of his passes. That's pretty good, and
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  he's thrown for over eighteen hundred yards. And he did
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  point out that of those interceptions, some have been tip
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  passes and things like that.
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  Speaker 2: Now, the one that's going to stand out is the.
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  Speaker 4: One at the end of the Alabama game when they
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  were driving with a chance to win that game after everything,
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  and then come all the way back from way down
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  to take the lead, only to give it back up
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  and then come back with.
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  Speaker 2: A chance, but there was a late interception.
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  Speaker 1: But he thought that that back overall was performing pretty well. Well,
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  Sark was asked the same thing, or ly similarly, what
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  has he seen from the Georgia offense and from their
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  quarterback Carson back this season.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that they've you know, coach Bobo has
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  been a great offensive mine for for quite some time.
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  And you know, watching the growth of Carson, you know
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  that the thing that that stands out, you know, we
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  all have to evolve every year, and I think for
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  Georgia they had to evolve, you know, when you lose
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  kind of the caliber of players they lost off of
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  last year's you know, last couple of years teams, you know,
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  most notably Brock Powers and so much of the offense
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  was kind of centered around him. It's almost like they
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  had to reinvent themselves a bit. And these these wide
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  receivers have been, you know, big playmakers. You know, the
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  tight end Delpe has been a big playmaker. But the
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  thing I appreciate is they've got all the offense. And
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  that's probably my biggest thing in watching them is they've
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  got every screen like we do, they use multiple you know.
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  Speaker 2: Motions and shifts and formations.
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  Speaker 3: They've got a physical, downhill running game, and then off
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  of that, they've got all the play action pass stuff
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  where they can throw it over your head. And like
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  I said earlier in the week, Carson has the ability
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  to do all of that.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: I think he threw a touchdown pass the other day.
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  I think the ball is in there sixty two or
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  sixty four yards, you know. So he's got big time
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  arm twnle, he's got great pocket presence. But yet, as
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  you're trying to defend all that down the field, you
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  still have to worry about the advantage throws the receiver, screens,
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  the things of that nature where they can get completions
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  and move the ball down the field.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so that's a question about the Georgia offense. Now,
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  both Sark and Kirby Smart addressed questions as you would
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  imagine in the weekly news conferences, regarding both sides of
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  the football. How their offense is matched up against the
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  opposing defenses, how the defense is matched up against their offense,
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  and so on and so forth. How his defense matches
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  up against the Georgia offense, which is similar to what
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  he was just talking about.
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  Speaker 2: But what about his adjustments?
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  Speaker 1: Has he adjusted his use of tempo because the way
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  that Texas can get things going up and down the field,
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  and this was a technology question. Remember this is a
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  year where for the first time, tablet usage is being
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  employed on sidelines and Sark has been, you know, really
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  in favor of it.
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  Speaker 2: He's talked about it, how much he's been in favor.
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  Speaker 1: But he was asked, has he had to adjust his
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  usage of tempo based on defense is now being able
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  to use tablets on the sideline.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we've always kind of dabbled in the tempo world.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there was a time.
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  Speaker 3: In my career when I was at Washington, the end
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  of my tenure at Washington and at my time at
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  USC where we were a true tempo team.
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  Speaker 2: We went as fast as we could go, and then
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  we kind.
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  Speaker 3: Of evolved out of that, especially when I went to
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  the NFL with the Falcons, and then you know, since
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  I've been back in college, you know, we dabble in
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  the temple world, but that's not something that we that.
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  Speaker 2: We major in, and you know, I don't I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I tend not to overthink stuff like that. You know,
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  I believe in our execution and what we need to do.
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  We're definitely not not a huge kind of static formation team.
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  Even when we use tempo a lot of times, there's
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  motions involved in different things. So, but that's just kind
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  of who we are as an offense. It's not so
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  much to try to gain an advantage on the defense.
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  As far as you know, will they will, they recognize
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  what we're doing. That's just kind of how we install
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  our offense and the way we go about our business.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting stuff there, thoughts from sark.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to hear more from Steve Sarcasian tomorrow as
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