ATHENS — No. 3 Georgia (2-0, 2-0 SEC) remained unbeaten after defeating Auburn, 27-6.
The Bulldogs are in its first season with offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Todd Monken. Monken has a background in coaching and teaching the Air Raid offense.
Ahead of playing No. 12 Tennessee (2-0, 2-0 SEC) Saturday, Georgia head coach Kirby Smart discussed in a press conference his thoughts on offensive execution of Monken’s system through two games.
“It’s still coming,” Smart said of Georgia’s offense still learning to execute under Monken. “We didn’t execute perfectly on Saturday, and I don’t know that you ever will execute perfectly, but we have to do it at a much higher rate.
“If that’s 70 perfect clean, we have to be 85 perfect clean, we have to be 95 perfect clean. We have to be able to function with everybody on the same page in terms of alignment and assignment.”
Allan Bridgford played quarterback for Monken at Southern Miss. Ahead of the Tennessee-Georgia matchup, he discussed Georgia’s offense and how Monken is adding Air Raid principles in his first season.
“Monken did not come in to blow things up, he came in to add bits and pieces to make it better,” Bridgford said on the show “Tennessee Two-A-Days.” “They have had tremendous success running the ball the past few years with pro-style concepts. They are only going to get better when they are adding these spread-type concepts that Monken brings in.”
“There are so many details that go into the execution of an offense, and we don’t have those details mastered yet. We have some young players. We have some guys playing for the first time still and they’re growing. They just have to grow faster. Todd [Monken] does a great job of teaching the ins and outs of why you do it, how you do it. The reason for why you do- it’s not like he’s trying to trick somebody. You out execute people and you maybe do it better than they do it.” — Georgia head coach Kirby Smart.
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