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Bobo on turnovers, SEC gets tougher on criticism of officials

Week after week when coaches are asked about keys to winning an upcoming game, the default answer invariably is to limit turnovers or win the turnover battle.

No surprise then that Georgia offensive coordinator Mike Bobo mentioned minimizing giveaways against Florida as especially important.

He’s talking from recent experience against the Gators.

The Bulldogs had four turnovers last year in its 49-10 loss to Florida.

Things began to unravel when cornerback Joe Haden picked off a pass intended for A.J. Green and returned it 88 yards. Tim Tebow scored on the next play on a 1-yard run.

“It’s 14-3 there in the third quarter and we throw that pick that basically was a pick six,” Bobo said. “We turned it over four times offensively and it just got out of hand. You can’t turn the ball over. When you turn the ball over, they suffocate you and they start blitzing and playing Cover 2 and just pinning their ears back. That’s when it gets out of hand.”

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Tired of turnover talk

The Georgia coaches and players seem to be about as sick of talking about turnovers as I am about writing about them.

OK, one more angle on the giveaways. The crime and punishment aspect.

Offensive coordinator Mike Bobo outlined how coaches deal with the turnovers.

“You get disciplined for your mistakes here for everything on the field and off,” Bobo said. “They’re getting punished for it, we’ve just got to cut it out if we want to get where we want to go.”

He said players may have to do up downs or gassers. Quarterbacks do extra amount of dropbacks so they are still sharpening their fundamentals.

“Different people do different things,” Bobo said. “Offensive linemen might push the sled.”

Guessing that's for penalties, unless center Ben Jones was disciplined for playing a part in Caleb King's fumble by knocking into him.

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