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Miami Gardens, Fla. – He never says that because there are no winners in the blame game, regardless of the description.
Only losers complaining.
So I’ll do it for Carson Beck: Georgia’s problem last season wasn’t Beck. He plans to spend the next four months proven that in Miami.
“It’s not about me, it’s about this team,” Beck said after a thrilling 27-24 victory over Notre Dame, Miami’s first top-10 victory since 2017.
And it’s just as grumbling as you get from Beck.
But paint it in any way you want, reality flows. Georgia lost 36 passes last season with Beck as quarterback. 36.
Miami did not drop a single ball in Beck’s first game against the Hurricanes.
Here are three speculations that looked like a Sunday night national quarterback in the Miami suburbs. And the first two don’t count.
Beck’s redemption season began here with big games and bigger performances. A slow, game-winning drive and statement was made.
Even if conservative Miami coach Mario Cristobal has almost swallowed the entire game.
But get this: if Beck plays the rest of the season like this, and if Cristobal tries to go through the reins, Beck and the Hurricane will give the Holy Program a groundbreaking season for the first time in 20 years.
The same thing I felt when I first walked to the Coral Gables Green Leaf Football facility in January and transferred CJ Daniels to sit with offensive coordinator Shannon Dawson.
He was forced to miss the second half of the SEC Championship game for weeks after the season-ending elbow surgery, and Georgia’s College Football Playoffs quarter
The same two games that sparked a social media-fueled insanity among Georgia fans fell in love with the backup gunner Stockton of the trial and blamed Beck for the program’s postseason slip.
When he sat down with Dawson and Daniels and talked about the ball, he knew something was different. It all took place a few months later against Notre Dame and one of the nation’s best defenses.
“I tried to tell everyone something different here,” Beck said. “But actions speak more eloquent than words.”
After a last minute victory over Notre Dame, where both offensive and defense were crucial, these actions highlighted another reality. This team will go as long as Beck takes it.
No matter what Georgia fans think.
The same fans dog-pined Beck and praised Stockton’s virtue, but Georgia coach Kobe called Beck first to return to Athens, but found out that Beck had returned to college football in 2025.
You do math.
It was just one game in Miami to show what Smart knows forever and what Beck wanted to prove since his Georgia career ended on the grass at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in the final play of the first half of the SEC Championship Game.
Throwing is easy if the receiver isn’t always dropping a pass. The attack flows, it works structurally and is balanced.
If you are dropping a pass, you have not set a throw in the run game. If you’re dropping a pass, you’re guessing you don’t know what to call when you call a play.
If you can’t catch the ball consistently, there are no plans or suggestions. But whenever possible, when the quarterback can confidently step through the Ito throw, he gets what he played against Notre Dame.
Smart throws, key throws, game-changing throws. Beck extended the play and throws a touchdown pass to Malakitney in the first quarter. Or the final drive of the game (one finished on a field goal) after Miami’s four previous possessions were all three.
Before Cristobal became conservative and settled on field goal, Beck slammed Daniels with a nine-yard curl and threw the perfect deep ball to Kieram Marlon, who had no alternative but to thwart what appeared to be a specific touchdown pass.
Miami ultimately scored points that won the game, but statements were made multiple times during the first game with Beck’s new team. He wasn’t an issue in Georgia last year.
“He’s our general,” said Miami as he ran through Marty Brown. “He’s actually our leader and the leader of the game. We follow him.”
That’s not to say that Georgia wasn’t, but there were more levels of regression in 2024. To put it fair to Georgia receivers, the passing game is three offenses. It’s protection and the recipient is open and Catch the ball and the quarterback throws on time and expects.
If any of these three does not occur, your chances of success will be significantly reduced. If you have problems with two out of three, it is almost impossible to have a functional passing game.
Georgia’s offensive line has been a problem all season with the offensive line. It couldn’t stay healthy, the guys were playing from position, some were lacking. Next, add these 36 drops to the equation.
Beck struggled last season, his intercepted twice (12), his completion rate fell to an eight-pointer (to 64%) and a mediocre 7.8 (from 9.5) with every attempt. Because the passing game process was a mess.
By midseason, when it was clear that Beck had either no or could have trusted his receiver, he began to push. I began trying to make the perfect throw to avoid two stragglers with three passing game attacks.
Not because Beck regressed, but because ehe won the big head reported in a $3 million nil deal. Or because he drove around the Lamborghini.
All nonsense, but it’s all fans’ uncertainty for Georgia, who missed CFP in 2023 and lost in the quarter-finals in 2024.
Fast forward to Sunday night: A very many simple throws, a very many usable path concept.
He had 205 yards, two touchdowns, no interceptions – against the best defense in college football by the end of the season. Seven different receivers caught the pass, and the passing game was an operational symphony.
A few hours before the game, Beck said, on an hour-long bus to Hard Rock Stadium, it felt like a big game he played in Georgia. A few months were different games in a different uniform and then quickly changed.
He started preparing for the game wearing his jersey until he reached the stadium.
“I got out there and felt amazingly comfortable,” Beck said. “This isn’t the only thing I do. I have teammates around me who play. I have to get the ball from them.”
Now it has nothing to complain about.
Matt Hayes is a senior national college football writer for the USA Today Sports Network. Follow him with X @matthayescfb.
