Jaden Ball

So their success, I think, starts and ends with stopping Jaden Ball.

I listened to Matt Berry from SEC Nation this morning on Atlanta Radio.

He said, hey, Jaden Ball, when he's going, He's the best running back in the country.

That's what Matt Berry said.

We all know how good Jaden Ball is.

What does Kirby Smart think of Florida starting running back Jaden Ball?

I mean, we've shown our guys clips of him since the start of the year to kind of say, are you practicing to tackle him or are you practicing to tackle who you're playing against?

Harry, what stands out to you about how Jaden Ball has run the ball this year and then as a piece of that, how Florida has been able to run block?

It still can be.

Yeah, that's the side that I would go to because, like you said, it's only one way for Florida to kind of be competitive and try to pull off an upset, and that's to get Jaden Ball involved a lot more, make sure that he's gaining three or four yards to carry, keeping the chains moving not getting behind the chains and if you remember you know buster faulkner who's florida's offensive coordinator he had a lot of success against georgia when he was at georgia tip um those matchups were i think they probably should have won both of those matchups in the last few years so he's had success against that georgia defense against kirby so he knows what it takes to kind of bog them down and if i'm not mistaken i think They scored, like, less than 21 points in the last matchup that they played.

And those Georgia Tech teams are not as talented as what this Florida team is.

So the defense is suspect for Florida at times.

So yeah, I, I think, That will be interesting in this game in particular.

You know, are they able to get pressure with four? What does that look like? And I think they do need to give a ton of respect to the edges of the defense with a Jaden ball back there.

Like you have to be gap sound because if you let that guy get one on one in the open field, he can go a long way on you.

Low energy? Unfocused? Foggy? You might be dehydrated.

And, well, okay, it is a little bit different.

You don't have the quarterback run game that you had with Haynes King leading this Florida offense this year.

But what you do have is the Jaden Ball run game.

And then Missouri comes out.

You talk about, you know, Kamani McClain and that defense.

You talk about a guy in Jaden Ball who was able to reestablish himself running the football.

I think Florida did in the Austin Woods.

They looked in the mirror.

But it's what it does for either quarterback because now – I got a plethora of options.

Oh, shoot.

Oh, and we also have this guy like Jaden Ball that can run the football.

It makes it so that that Georgia defense is on edge for four quarters.

They're like, we got to have this kid run the ball every time.

You were the Jaden Ball of your squad.

It's like, give him the ball, we're going to win and lose on his back.

That's what it is.

Cam Newton.

But didn't throw the ball well.

Jaden Ball ain't taking snaps.

You and I had vastly different Pop Warner experiences.

Like Georgia has dominated the series, but the scoreboard has been a little closer.

i think the biggest thing is like who starts a quarterback for florida like is it philo is it trammell jones does it matter i think what's going to matter mike is what happens in the trenches because that seems like where this game is going to be decided because can florida get a run game going we saw early in the year how good jaden ball was they ran into some better defenses and jaden ball that run game has not been quite as productive so Buster Faulkner, the last time he played Kirby Smart, they averaged 6.7 yards per play and had over 500 yards when he was at Georgia Tech.

So curious, how does Faulkner's familiarity and Kirby Smart's familiarity with each other – is there one of these sides that has some new stuff, some tweaks – Does that help Florida run the ball with Jaden Ball on Saturday? If it's Tramell Jones, maybe his mobility could help out as well.

Georgia's only given up 4.3 yards per play.

And if we go back to the Texas game, Mike, Florida only had 313 yards in that game.

That's basically saying we were looking ahead when we were game planning for Western Kentucky.

You know what we were also doing? We were looking at clips of Jaden Ball going, dang, we're going to have to have our absolute best effort in order to bring that guy down.

I think that's kind of significant.

Do you?

Yeah, man, I love Kirby so much.

The way that he kind of expresses himself, talking about some of the league locker room stuff and everything, I could just see him being a trainer of rabid dogs with a piece of meat that is shaped like Jaden Ball, just being like, this is the target, boys.

We're coming after him all year.

Because, yeah, I mean, you stop him, you basically stop the Florida offense.

Um, Florida had 42 rushing yards against Missouri lost by margin.

You look at against South Carolina, uh, Jaden ball, only 59 yards on the ground lost by 20 or 19.

Good luck running the ball against Georgia.

If you can shut down ball, you're probably going to have a pretty good go of it.