The heat was turned up for Georgia’s first preseason football scrimmage Saturday afternoon at Sanford Stadium, and Bulldogs second-year coach Kirby Smart felt that a lot of his players were cooked as a result.
“We didn’t exactly get the level of intensity I was looking for,” Smart said afterward in a news conference. “We had not had the kind of heat we had today, and I think it affected too many guys mentally. Overall, it was a very balanced scrimmage between run/pass and offense/defense.
“Both of the units did some good things.”
The Bulldogs ran roughly 70 plays, according to Smart, in the two-hour scrimmage that was closed OVERSET FOLLOWS:to the media. No statistics were provided.
Smart said the offense got the better of the defense on third-down situations but the defense won the red-area period. Georgia is looking to improve its red-zone numbers both offensively and defensively from a year ago, when it ranked 13th in the Southeastern Conference in red-zone defense.