Radi Nabulsi, who covers Georgia for UGA Sports, updates McElroy & Cubelic on all the Bulldog injuries they're dealing with & says what to expect from Georgia this upcoming season
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Well, it's not a good thing because Kirby's, I guess the Achilles heel of this Georgia team would be its defensive front. They don't have a Jordan Davis or a Devontae Wyatt. You know, you don't have a Jalen Carter. So, you know, where's your, and again, that's not saying that they're weak. There's just, they're stronger everywhere else.

So having Jordan Hall, a guy you plan to lean on a little bit this year, having him out is tough. You also have Warren Brinson, who's dealing with an Achilles injury. Tyrion Ingram-Dawkins, who actually had a good scrimmage the other day, which is good news. He's been banged up. Nazir Stackhouse is probably the only guy you have out there playing a lot of reps who's

played before. So I don't say play before. It's just, there's not a lot of experience on Georgia's defensive front. Kirby smart. So look, we got, there's a lot of teams out there that don't have one 300 pound defensive lineman. We got tons of them, but we,

We don't have a lot of them with experience who are healthy. So it's not good for Georgia because that is a weakness and losing a guy that you had planned to use a lot in Jordan Hall. Again, think about it. The guy has a tibia stress fracture, one leg gets a pin stuck in it, you know, a bolt or whatever. Then it happens on the other leg. You just got to feel bad for somebody like that. It's just not fair, man.

It's terrible. It really is. I feel really, really bad for him, genuinely. I mean, it's just the worst. No doubt. It's a real thing. I mean, when a guy just runs into just a series of bad luck from an injury standpoint, there's nothing worse. It's just awful. You hate it, and you feel like, why me? And all this other stuff. I remember that as a player. It was rough. Looking at how things are kind of setting up for them, it sounds like the offense has struggled in camp. I don't know...

you know, is it coach speak? Is it not? But I've heard from external sources that it sounds like the offense is not where they expected it to be at this point. What have you heard about that group collectively?

Well, I've heard the same thing. Kirby Smart started off this press conference earlier this week, basically, I don't want to say dog cussing his team, but he was not happy with it. He said that they're nowhere near it. He even came down on college football in general, talking about the deterioration of the game. He says they have less depth than he's ever had since they've been here, and I'm like,

I was like, Kirby, I remember 2016. Don't give me that. And we had Coach Donovan on our show the other day, and he said – I asked him point blank, is that Coach speak? And he made the quip that Kirby Smart was going through his desk drawer and found an old letter, you know, from Vince Dooley, and he kind of brushed that off. And basically it was, you know, poo-pooing his team, saying that they're not ready.

What I've heard and what I've seen from the offense is they don't have as many explosive plays as they would like.

But the sheer number of playmakers they have is ridiculous. And that's saying a lot after they lost some guys to the NFL. But you get three really good starting wide receivers. That running back room is insane with Trevor Etienne, Cash Jones, Roderick Robinson. He learned to catch. He's a danger out in the backfield. And Branson Robinson is fully healthy. So you got four or five really talented backs plus three freshmen. Learn the name Nate Frazier.

That guy is going to be a problem for somebody. Number three, so if you've got that old Todd Gurley jersey and you're a Georgia fan, you want to keep that handy because you're going to need it soon. You don't have Alad McConkie. You don't have Brock Bowers. I think the only place they're really going to suffer is in that tight end room because Brock Bowers saved your bacon so many times. Now, you have Oscar Delp and you have Ben Urasek, the tight end from Stanford, who I'm hearing rave reviews about. So they're good in their 12 personnel with him and Lawson Lucky, but...

you don't have your starting center right now. Jared Wilson has been beat up. So you moved an all SEC first teamer, Tate Radlish, to center, which gives you a great interior line. So their offensive line should be fantastic, although your center will be inexperienced and, you know,

And not to say Peyton Reathers can't do it, but Cole, I defer to you. It's not easy just going over there and learning to be a center in a couple weeks. So I think once they can get their center issues worked out, what they can do with their running backs, what they can do with their wide receivers, what they can do with their tight ends, this should be – and you've got the Heisman leading candidate in Carson Beck under center. So I think the hair pulling and the what was me attitude about the offense is a bit –

over the top right now. I think people are making too much out of it. Hold on, Rodney. Take us a little bit further on the center issues, exactly what the problem is. Well, Jared Wilson is maybe pound for pound

the fastest athlete on the team that's and i'm just saying that this guy runs unlike anybody we've ever covered i've been doing this 30 something years the guy is light on his feet he's a ridiculous athlete but he's got a foot issue and his tender so he's not he's the guy you penciled in to take over for cedric van praen a three-year starter off to the nfl

Jared Wilson's been there a few years. He's supposed to be the center, but he's banged up. We saw him a little bit last year. I think he can play based on what I saw. I talked to scouts and they're like, this kid can move. We love it. How often are you seeing that center pull? This guy will pull. No questions about it. He can jump across, get across the guy's face quickly. But now you've had to take Tate Rattledge and move him to center. The great thing is Georgia has...

three ridiculously talented guards for two spots. So you had Micah Morris, who's just an absolute people-moving machine, and Dylan Fairchild, state championship wrestler, can start anywhere in the country. And you had those two guys kind of switching reps at left guard. So now one of them moves to right guard, Tate Rattledge moves to center, and you've got a really good offensive line. You have your five best players on the field.

But do you really want to do that? I mean, do you want to give up having Tate on that right side? Again, he's first team all SEC. He's a high draft pick. Now you're moving to the center. So it's a good problem to have, you know, that he's getting the experience in case something happens.

but you're really not working with the ideal five guys that you want. For a guy who would be his first year starting for Jared Wilson, this is week three, and he's not been healthy enough to go with the ones. So it's not a great situation, but they are building depth at the center spot. What is the biggest concern defensively outside of the defensive line? I know they feel great about what they have at home,

in the back end, I think they feel good about the progress made by the second year players at linebacker. Like, is there anything else that anyone's raising concerns about?

Where's Georgia's head rusher? Where's the sack guy? You know, where's the Aziz Ojolari, the Adam Anderson, you know, the Leonard Floyd? Where's the guy that just comes off the edge, gets you a sack all the time? Their leading sack guy last year had five. And Jalen Walker, he's not a starter. He was just a guy that mainly came in on third down, Jaguar package, and just painted his ears back and got to the quarterback. Now, he's a quarterback.

He's also an inside linebacker as well, so they have him working inside and outside. And they're going to stand Mikel Williams up more and let him play outside. Is that because Mikel wants that? Why are they doing that? Mikel absolutely wants that. I know, but is that in their best interest?

It is in their best interest because if you saw what he – I hate to use the FSU game because we all know that that was not the best. But he had numerous big plays in that game. He has that speed off the edge. He can do both. It's just they didn't have a great defensive front last year.

So you needed him with his hand down. You needed him, you know, more inside than outside. So letting him stand up and play more in that outside spot will be good for them. But now you're going to see Damon Wilson come on. He was a true freshman last year. Sam and Pimba, same thing.

Gabe Harris, same thing. You had three, two of these guys are five-star outside linebackers, edge guys. One's a high four-star, but they were all true freshmen last year. They're coming on this year. Chaz Chambliss is a senior, but he's been banged up a little bit. But again, we could talk about the potential all these guys have, but who's done it? Who's actually been, you know, you're worried for your left tackle. You're worried that your right tackle, you know, you got to keep a running back in, right?

to help chip this guy or you need to put a tight end over the top of him, you know, just kind of help out the edge guys. Right. They just don't really have – they have the potential for it. We just haven't seen it. Roddy, we love when you come on, man, because you always educate us. It's great stuff getting us up to date on Georgia camp. Look forward to doing it again soon.

I'll be happy to do it. You guys take care. There you go. Rodney DeBulcy covers the Georgia Bulldogs. One of the best to do it. He joins us on the Buyer's Right Hotline for all your insurance, financial and HR needs. It's Buyer's Right Insurance, a Higginbotham partner. OK, so moving on from Georgia, there is a portion of the calendar that needs to be discussed in an article that recently came out stressing a certain weekend in which certain things should happen.

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