UGA Football: Smart, Players Look Ahead to Tennessee
ATHENS – Head coach Kirby Smart, offensive linemen Monroe Freeling, and defensive back Kyron Jones, met with the media Tuesday evening. They offered the following comments.
Head Coach Kirby Smart
On practice this week…
“It’s been good. Feels a little crisp and cooler in the air. Hasn’t been as hot. Guys have been spirited; they know it’s a big matchup. Had a good day of about a little over an hour of work on Monday and then about an hour and a half, two hours today, just finishing up. So, they’ve been in good spirits.”
On what has stood out about Gunner…
“Well, we’ve only had two days, they’ve been very similar, Monday, Tuesday that we’ve had in the weeks past. Good decision maker, protecting the ball, taking care of the ball, making good decisions. But it’s been very similar to recent weeks in terms of his work.”
On Tennessee offense evolving under Josh Heupel…
“It’s hard to say because, you know, he has different kind of ways to attack you defensively. They don’t do the same thing year to year. I think he utilizes the skill sets of that offense. They’ve had different types of wideouts, different types of quarterbacks, different types of backs. They do what good coaches do, they utilize the skill sets of the good players. I think they’ve used wrinkles from other teams. They get all this tape of teams that they play against, and there’s certain plays that maybe don’t fit their offensive philosophy, but they’re good plays, and then they turn them into theirs and do a good job mixing like everybody does. We call it copycatting, but they’ll look at plays and say, that play really works. How do we make it work for us? I think he’s done a great job of that over the years.”
