This season’s turnover story for Georgia is pretty amazing. It’s not just that the Dawgs are second in the country in turnover margin. It’s this, too.
The Georgia Bulldogs have played 10 games, 40 quarters and 600 minutes this football season.
In all that time, they have allowed just six points off turnovers.
And those six points came in the routs against Kentucky and Vanderbilt. In other words, offensive turnovers have essentially been reduced to an irrelevancy.
The only sad part of that is there’s no way to capture it in a bottle. Regression to the mean is going to be a scary concept in 2015.
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UPDATE: You want a chart? Okay.
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All of these incredible stats, points scored, rushing yards, defensive take aways, points allowed off of turnovers, points scored off of turnovers, and yet this team finds itself on the outside looking in. Once again. That’s just odd!
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You sound almost giddy about that.
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More like sick about wasting another opportunity and solid talent. As I said yesterday, life for a Dawg ”Happiness is just an illusion, filled with sadness and confusion”.
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Because the tool requires unbeaten teams, every year. Otherwise his drool and dribble is brought out again, every post for everyone to see and ridicule. What a miserable existence, even when things look damned good he dwells on the fact that the sun will one day inevitably burn out, or send a flare that toasts the Earth instantly. Let’s all join this way of thinking, sounds like great fun.
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Life most certainly is rainbows and lollipops for the Dawgs! Two awful losses do not mean a thing this season. The team, coaches nor fans really wanted to be apart of the 4 team playoff. Really, who wants to be apart of a national title team? Sure, they may still back their way into the SECCG, but go what avail? A hollow conference championship game that leaves this team in the Peach Bowl vs Marshal? That’s what we root for. Titles and championships are for those with higher aspirations, not the Georgia football program. At UGA being crowned the winner of the High and Mighty Bowl sponsored by Integerity is what we strive for. No need to fret about the consistent waste of talent, nor blown seasons. 2 – 4 losses a season is more than acceptable in Title Town…so long as we do things the “Georgia Way”! But hey, next year is the year it all comes together!
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You really don’t get it do you? There is a little thing called perspective that has totally escaped you, apparently forever. No one is happy with a loss, everyone wants us to win and achieve every goal the players, staff, and fans wish for but if your happiness, or contentment is set there you are doomed to misery for all but the exceptional. And undefeated years are exceptional for everyone, every year. Only one winner out of 127 schools, everyone else is a loser. You really believe that? I am not a huge supporter of counseling and therapy but you would be someone who qualifies.
We are a team that is 8-2 and at worst will finish the season at 9-3. This with a team that had a first year starter at QB, had their most talented player miss over half of the season, had one experienced player in the secondary at the beginning of the season and a freshman walk-on starting the first game, and had an entirely new defensive staff implementing a new defensive system and set of signals. They have a chance to win an SEC Championship and play in a very significant bowl game. And you think we should be whining and crying like you? I would give up CFB as a fan if I had your outlook, life should be better than that…and it is for most of us.
I don’t understand your illness, and you have every right to voice your opinion just as everyone here does, but you are to be pitied for your outlook. Many, most everyone of us, are concerned about UGA and what happens to the program we just don’t share your philosophy on how to evaluate success, and that applies to football and all other aspects of life. I hate to think you may have taken this approach to your children when faced with that one B+ amidst all the As on report cards, or employees who didn’t close every sale. As a former sales manager with several thousand professionals around the country, I never promoted, or tolerated, a manager who had an outlook like yours. Just saying…
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I’d say that one thing to hurt regression is that we seem to have backs with solid ball security. Douglas, God love him, has been a bit of a turnover machine. Heck, he fumbled Saturday on his first or second carry. Also, Murray took more chances. Ramsey will take more than Hutson, but no doubt he’ll be pounded in his brain with the idea that if we don’t turn it over, we win. When you believe your D will hold people, your QB certainly feels like being more conservative. Now Izzy…he’s another story. I’d like to arrange it so that no one ever actually hits him.
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3 picks……just 3.
Nah, I’m not going there.
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Some questions for whoever will answer…..
Do you think Douglas, in his determination to not be tackled and to get every inch of bruising, punishing yardage he can on his limited number of carries (and I don’t imply “for himself”, but absolutely “for the team”), sets himself up to spill the ball? It seems that way to me. The natural ability of Chubb and Gurley allow them to concentrate on ball security and the run is just there for them..whereas Douglass has to concentrate on the run and his determination to secure the ball is secondary. Either way, I hope he gets to pound on GT along with Chubb and Sony M..
BTW..Will we see Marshall again? this year? Next?
I wonder if he’ll ever match the super way he started his career. I wish him the best and really, really hope he gets back to where he was.
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I have wondered, with some of our receivers leaving, and Marshall with track star speed, good hands, and likely #3 on the RB depth chart at this point, if they might give him a look at receiver next year. I’d like to see that. Probably depends on the depth behind him at tailback next year, of course.
I have been rooting for Douglas to get carries ever since that great run against South Carolina last year. But he seems a bit fumbly, still, and a good reminder that even though we get to comment freely, we don’t see all the things the coaches see – BD is probably a bit fumbly in practice, too.
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This regression to the mean stuff is a myth…. flip a coin 100 times, it lands on tails 100 times, there is still a 50/50 chance it lands on tails the 101st time
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It’s a myth as far as this year having anything to do with next year, true.
But if Georgia (or CMR-coached teams, or college tailbacks and QB’s, or whatever group you’re measuring) averages more turnovers than 2014, then the Senator’s right that we should expect a more “average” year next year with outlier contributors like Mason and Gurley gone.
But our other young tailbacks seem to be protecting awfully well.
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The entire key to next year is minimizing the inevitable mistakes that Ramsey is going to make.
Also, hoping that those mistakes don’t come against Tennessee and Alabama who I believe are going to be our two toughest games.
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Ramsey’s going to throw more picks, but we’re finally in the situation Richt had at FSU – starting a QB with multiple years in the system AND multiple years to play QB for us. Maybe the next three weeks go our way to start a nice run.
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Maybe he’s learning some valuable lessons watching a rag-arm sloth? Nah…I’m not going to go there either.
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