The Georgia Bulldogs have won nine games this season, rather convincingly at that, and recently landed in the No. 1 spot of the College Football Playoff rankings. With big accomplishments come hugely-hyped comparisons, like the two Mike Griffith, of DawgNation, shared with The Morning Show with John and Hugh.
Griffith told the guys this 2021 Bulldogs team reminded him of a former Super Bowl championship team and a former national championship team.
"It kind of reminds me of the '85 Bears," Griffith said when talking about the Georgia quarterback situation not being of paramount importance because the Dawgs' defense was so dominant. "Jim McMahon wasn't the greatest quarterback in the world, but when you have a defense like that, you don't really need a great quarterback."
Outside of South Carolina, Kentucky, and Auburn this season, no team has reach double digits in scoring. Georgia held Vanderbilt and Arkansas to zero points.
"They're the first defense since '92 Alabama to hold everybody to 14 or under through the first nine games of the season," Griffith noted.
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While comparing this UGA team to highly-acclaimed teams of the past is nice, the real question (and the reason Griffith brought up these former greats) everyone following this program wants to know is what's going on at quarterback. Griffith doesn't think there will be much change immediately.
"JT [Daniels] came in with the second-team line and he took a shot," said Griffith. "I guess we found out if he was healthy, because he took a hit during that game on that one release he was throwing for Brock Bowers. J.T. was 7-of-11. The ball he threw a little bit behind the guy got tipped and picked, I think Stetson missed on three or four plays, but his balls didn't get picked. I guess it's status quo until Kirby [Smart] feels the need to make a change."
But why make a change at this point? That's exactly what Griffith was getting at.
"They haven't thrown more than 20 passes in a game since JT was the starter," Griffith said. "It's kind of a ground-and-pound program. It's interesting. When you have a defense like this you can pretty much do whatever you want on offense. It looks to me, if you give Kirby his choice on what he wants out of his offense, he's a coach, like a lot of defensive-minded coaches, that's not going to get carried away."
You can hear Mike Griffith's entire interview below.
