My entire Georgia take this year is the same as last: There's not a job I wouldn't want Todd Monken to fill -- QBC, OC, HC, FBS, NFL, whatever. That man is worth his weight in gold.
Bobo is clearly a step down (or nine) as a play caller from Monken. He just seems to always to run into tendency problems, whereas Monken was so great at keeping opposing defenses off guard. Schematically, they're not that different today, but they clearly have taken a step back at two most important spots (QB where clean distribution to the scheme fit is key) and play caller.
With that said, the personnel on offense is giving me 2019 vibes all over again. They literally do not have an X receiver on the roster thanks to Rara and Young getting booted off the team, no unicorn at TE, and no clear passing threat out of the backfield (Cook and Kenny Mac were huge for Monken). The OL has been really beat up since fall camp, Etienne's been basically non-existent because of suspension/injury and the rest of the WR core seems to be a bunch JAG's with drop issues. Ultimately, I think that ends up saving Bobo's job when Kirby does exit evals on the staff, but this is pretty par the course for Bobo. When the offense has been successful, it's because the personnel overcomes the boxes he puts them in, even going back to the first tenure.
As a whole, the last two years have been pretty sloppy by comparison to most of Kirby's teams. I don't think that's a coincidence as he's moved more towards the CEO role and away from the control freak that sits in on every position group meeting all week. That's fine that he doesn't want to have as much game plan control (that worked out well with Monken). Lord knows he wouldn't last another ten years trying, but he better get the staff hires right. Bobo was lazy, Searels was a C level, and Coley/Williams look like good recruiters but questionable positional coaches (we knew this with Coley already). That's 4 of the last 5 hires.
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