It all happens on September 28.
No. 6 Georgia Bulldogs will take on No. 4 Alabama Crimson Tide in an epic showdown that has fans wanting it to happen sooner rather than later. But one there’s one key detail that head coach Kirby Smart’s team needs to iron out in order to come out victorious. It’s not their offense — it’s their tackling. “I feel like we had a poor tackling game,” outside linebacker Jalon Walker said,” per DawgNation’s Connor Riley . “I feel like, in the past seasons we’ve had, we were a better tackling team. Coming up, this game wasn’t the best tackling game. So going off to our body, we’re getting better thuds, better footwork, and getting to leverage and pursuit the things of that sort. Just better tackling.”
Junior Jalon Walker is not the only player who feels this way, too. “We would get guys at the line of scrimmage that could be 2nd and 7 and it ended up being 2nd and 2 because they just fall forwards,” Georgia outside linebacker Chaz Chambliss said. “And we talked about it. Our tackling was not where it needed to be during the game. We had way too many missed tackles. You know, we’re emphasizing that week and going forwards. We need to emphasize it.”…