Ladd’s a big part of our offense, he’s a big weapon for us. He’s dealing with a foot injury, so he’s not able to practice the same volume. We need Ladd if we want to go where we want to go. But there’s nobody that feels worse than Ladd, right? But we need Ladd. I was more upset with the punt, not the fumble, those things happen. We’re increasing our depth.” Kirby Smart on what he told Ladd McConkey If they drove the ball and we thought they would play more tempo that we’d have to play more people. Trey did a good job rotating those guys through and Bill Norton did a good job and played a few more snaps. He had his best week of practice, so we felt like he would play more snaps. “I’d have to see it I know he had the batted ball, but there were times I didn’t know if he was in there. We need to score touchdowns.” On Bear Alexander’s performance I think you guys may have a preconceived notion but we have the actual tape. You attribute it to playing a good football team. Defensively, we did some good things with some guys out. We didn’t punt so when you don’t punt it’s hard to say you had a slow start. Smart on slow start and turnovers in first half Make good decisions when the ball is in transfer in kicking situations and we didn’t make a very smart one there.” You’re going to have a fumble every now and then, it’s just part of football. Nobody is more disappointed than Ladd is. I was frustrated there with Ladd probably a mistake to field the punt or not fair catch the punt. About five guys came over to me and they tried to give me a composure card that they keep in their back pocket. That was the key for me to say, did our team get better today and I can honestly say we played a good opponent and we got better.” Smart on Georgia’s composure We got some costly penalties and turnovers that hurt us. I was really proud of how we came out in the second half and got a three and out then the offense made a great drive all the way down but just didn’t cash it in for a touchdown. I was very pleased with how our guys approached the practice and the games and the leadership. We really talked about growth the entire week. You’re not going to grow up and mature…this was a growth week for us. Really had four turnovers when you consider the fake punt included on that. We also played the entire game without punting the ball once. We thought they were a really good football team and they proved that today. I always tell our kids you turn on the special teams tape on Sunday and you find out who you’re playing. I thought they were a good football team, very disciplined, very physical. “Well, I’ll open with a lot of respect for Kent State going into the game and just as much respect coming out of it. Here’s what the Georgia head coach said in his postgame press conference. However, Kirby Smart still had positives to take away from the day as he believes his team learned a thing or two in the win. Georgia defeated Kent State on Saturday by a score of 39-22, and as you can tell, it wasn’t super pretty.
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