Watch Marlon Davidson against Georgia
I really soured on Thomas watching him get obliterated
You were obliterated on whisky sours watching that game. : ) As much as I learn from many of your takes, in this case the idea of Thomas getting his head handed to him by Davidson is poppycock. Having no life I downloaded Ga-Auburn, played scroll bar jockey and replayed each Georgia offensive play to check out Thomas and outside of one sack (and that was with extenuating circumstances, more on that later), I came away impressed with Thomas. With all due respect, I thought Thomas got the better of Davidson (whom Auburn often moved around and away from Thomas).
The one sack: 1:12 left the 1st half: Davidson did gain leverage inside Thomas' back shoulder, however on the other side of the LOS, Auburn's Derick Brown and LB Bryant stunted and Georgia's RG #77 chased Brown too far outside towards RT Isaiah Wilson and as a result was too late reaching back to cover the inside gap which gave the LB the A-gap which prevented QB Fromm from stepping up into the pocket. The one time Davidson got the better of Thomas, Georgia's RG was really the one who screwed up.
8:32 left 3rd qtr (2nd & 8): Thomas stones Davidson, Brown makes the tackle, Davidson starts finger-wagging and strutting like Kyle Wilson while Brad Nesser & Gary Danielson give Davidson underserved ball-washing credit.
5:10 left 3rd qtr: Davidson beat on the edge ends up guilty of an ugly horsecollar tackle.
4:00 left 3rd qtr: Thomas rag-dolls an Auburn DE aside then peels off and walks a 2nd level defender down the field.
1:15 left 3rd qtr: Thomas-Davidson: Davidson gives a half-hearted effort; not a factor.
Auburn threw Davidson, Brown and a lot of 'quick' change up defenders at Thomas who imho handled himself very well. I honestly wouldn't mind if he (as the remaining "4th" OT) were still available at #11.
*end rambling*