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Episode 2692: Potential playmakers emerging for Georgia defense

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4.7941 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

DawgNation Daily -- the daily podcast for Georgia Bulldogs fans Beginning of the show: This was recorded on Monday before Brandon boarded the DawgNation cruise. Today Brandon looks at what really stood out from Georgia’s defense on G-Day, including some big plays by Elijah Griffin and young players in the secondary like Tyriq Green. 16-minute mark: We continue our look at UGA draft profiles with Georgia’s top player, WR Zachariah Branch. 24-minutemark: Former UGA star Davin Bellamy joins the show to breakdown Georgia's defense on G-Day 41-minute mark: A look at the SEC teams in the ESPN Top 25, including Oklahoma and Alabama. End of show: I award a Golden Shoe winner and share the Gator Hater Updater.

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0:00.0

Today's episode of Dog Nation Daily is brought to you by Dr. Pepper, college football and Dr. Pepper.

0:05.7

It's a Pepper thing.

0:09.9

Presented by Dog Nation.com.

0:12.1

This is Dog Nation Daily, the daily podcast for Georgia Bulldogs fame.

0:16.3

Here's your host, Brandon Adams.

0:18.3

Good morning, Dog Nation. I'm Brandon Adams, and we're here on Utopia of the Seas, getting ready to set sail for our Dog Nation crews, a little bit like yesterday, where we had the beginning portion of the show from the ship and then the rest of the show put together various ways. It's going to be a little like that for you today as well. That means Davin Bellamy here in a little bit. That means a look at some of the

0:37.7

other teams around the SEC before we're done. A really fun pre-draft preview with the NFL

0:42.8

draft starting tomorrow. Cody Chavins put a great video together on Zachariah Branch. So all

0:48.8

of that here's coming up in just a little bit, but I did want to continue the conversation we've had

0:54.0

going the last few days about what we saw from G-Day.

0:57.5

And in particular, there was a lot I liked about the Georgia defense from this past Saturday.

1:03.4

And I kind of want to explain it this way.

1:06.8

And gosh knows, if y'all are listening and watching us every day, you heard plenty of this.

1:11.0

We talked so much about what I thought was a very clear mission for Georgia defensively.

1:16.5

Kirby Smart said, we want to be more disruptive.

1:19.1

We want a disruptive defense.

1:22.7

And I think we've had fun in examining what exactly might Kirby mean by disruption? What could that

1:28.9

look like? And it always comes back to a couple of different things. Year ago, Georgia did not

1:36.2

have very good past rushing stats. Now, typically speaking, even the best Georgia defenses, probably

1:41.2

with the exclusion of 2021 where they had 49 sacks, the best Georgia

1:45.7

defenses aren't always statistical juggernauts. Georgia's success isn't always easily measured by

1:52.5

the numbers that sports fans are most fluent with. But a year ago, you probably diminished

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