From Kevin Causey’s Georgia preview:
5 Bold Predictions
5. Georgia will lose to somebody it shouldn’t.
In 2014 it was Florida. In 2013 it was Vanderbilt. Georgia has had some slip-ups that have cost the Dawgs a chance at something bigger. This year the schedule is laid out pretty well for an SEC East title run. That being said, games at Tennessee, against Missouri, and Florida represent possible slip-ups for the Dawgs.
Quite frankly, I think it’s a bigger stretch these days to call for Georgia not to lose to some team it shouldn’t. It’s the new 3-18.
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Which SEC team didn’t lose a game they weren’t supposed to in 2015?
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There is Ole Miss/Miss St. going to OT, and then there is getting blasted by a terrible UF team.
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Is that your final answer…?
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Losing to the Gators sucked, but it’s not like the severity of the loss makes PTC’s point invalid.
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Our three losses came after:
Bye – South Carolina
Bye – Florida
Charleston Southern – Ga Tech
Look for the cupcakes and byes to find the high risk games this year.
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Dawgs were cheated in Vandy in ’13 by bullshit targeting ‘rules’ that have since been changed (go figure). Yes I’m still bitter so I’m calling that one out.
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We already had two losses and were a dead team walking with injuries by the time that game rolled around.
The Vanderbilt game didn’t cost us a chance at a championship.
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Not sayin it did cost us a championship. I’m sayin it wasn’t a ‘slip up’. My point is, without the targeting (the one that WASN’T upheld no less) we win that game, or I believe it’s likely we do anyway.
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And Dawg fans should never let that game go by without defending the outright theft (along with LSU 2009). We made other mistakes that contributed, but that one call was the difference in a W or an L, and it was pathetic. The rule was pathetic, the judgment in making an erroneous call at full speed was a typical blown call, happens all the time, but reviewing it and not being able to correct the error just sucked.
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Murray 101 yds, 1 pick. Maybe???
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+1 Nate
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I dunno, that font looks pretty bold to me
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I think we need to get a clear definition of a “faceplant” game. Last year, USCe and GT were close, hard fought games with plenty of mistakes made by both squads (including coaching decisions). Those types of games can go either way in any season.
Florida was clearly a “faceplant” game. Nothing to do but win…but the team and coaching staff fails to get fully engaged until it’s far too late to recover. I hate losing, but can’t see the Dawgs going undefeated in any season. Just spare me games like the WLOCP last year.
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Maybe the players didn’t faceplant against USCe or GT, but the coaches sure did with dumb squib kicks, ill-placed time outs, and goofy calls on first and goal. Still want to split hairs?
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“Still want to split hairs?” As long as you’re asking, sure.
Two fumbles within the shadow of the goal line (against Tech)… most would have a hard time pinning that on the coaches.
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I don’t. Maybe if Bobo had given Chubb a blow after running all the way down the field on the previous play, he would not have been exhausted and fumbled the ball at the goal line. How about that for splitting hairs?
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I guess Bobo screwed up not having Michel stop mid-run to call time out before fumbling inside the two yard line, as well, so we could sub in a fresh back not to fumble?
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And if the other guy had fumbled, “Why wasn’t Chubb in the game?!”
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I am not sure why coaches ever get fired since the players are the ones who make all the mistakes. What should happen instead is to keep the coaches and instead change out all of the players every few years….oh wait.
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There are fair criticisms of coaches, and there are bullshit hindsight criticisms of coaches. Criticizing Richt for doing a pooch kick is fair. Criticizing Bobo for leaving Chubb in the game is bullshit hindsight.
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Like I said, I was splitting hairs, and that post about the play call to Chubb was somewhat tongue in cheek. The call at USCe was a different story though.
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Criticizing the pooch kick isn’t even fair (and it was a squib kick, a pooch kick is what you see Quayvon fumbling over and over). It’s something all teams do at all levels of football. If you can bare it watch that play again, do so with this in mind: the ball takes a completely ridiculous bounce into the GT players hands. If that doesn’t happen, they either start from further back or with less time. Either of those scenarios leads to a UGA win. I hate squib kicks and have always thought they didn’t make sense, but if CMR is an idiot for using that approach then so is Vince Lombardi and so is Nick Saban! This criticism is bullshit hindsight too, it’s just bullshit hindsight that you agree with!
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Bullshit? Even Richt criticized the decision after tha game.
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I’m gonna regret this but… while I agree the universal call on 1st and goal is Gurley, in the SC game, in the first half, didn’t we run the same basic play – a Mason boot, pass to Rome for a TD which worked. Not any different than the 12 SECC where the pass play is a back shoulder fade to Mitchell(?) and just a great stay at home play from the DE.
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Did I, or did I not mention the coaching decisions above? And you don’t think Spurrier or Johnson made some bad decisions in those games?
Wait..don’t answer. Everything is Richt’s fault. Please…do tell us more as if we haven’t had you hammer this nail a million times already. Bless your heart.
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If you don’t see the difference between typical coaching decisions made during every game that don’t work out, and totally dumbass, pee-wee football coach should know better, what was he thinking choices; like the squib kick at the end of the GT game…….well, bless your heart friend. You are the nail.
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This. I’ll also add that anyone who criticizes the team for “losing a game it shouldn’t” or “y do we lose to teams with less talent and never beat teams with more talent ” has a misplaced and irrelevant argument. All good teams get upset because going is undefeated is hard. As a simple example if one recruits well and has an 80% chance of winning every given game your chances of going undefeated over a 12 game season are less than 7%. (.8^12). That’s also the reason we lose to teams with less talent, BECAUSE WE USUALLY ARE TALENTED THAN MOST TEAMS, THAT’S THE POINT OF RECRUITING!!!!.
what I Do have a problem with is us getting blown out (I’ll arbitrarily define that as losing by 14+ points) on an annual basis. Georgia is to good for that to Happen on a regular basiS.
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Georgia doesn’t fumble those two TD’s and they beat Tech by 30. It was a faceplant in the sense that GT was a much lesser team.
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I think this is just a myopic view one team. When’s the last time we had a game like the ’14 Florida game where we just got steamrolled? ’09 Florida? It’s been a while. People act like that was the norm. Otherwise, those things just happen…to, like, every team. In case you missed it, every team lost a game last year.
South Carolina had the ’12 East locked up and got lambasted by Florida (albeit, a good Florida team — but they got shellacked). Unless you’re a lower tier school like Vandy or Wake, what game are you ‘supposed’ to lose. Auburn, UGA, UT, South Carolina, Bama, LSU, A&M, and Mizzou all feel like they ought to win every game. They can’t and won’t.
It is a myth that UGA has some kind annual collapse that other teams don’t. It”s mostly because we are near the Atlanta market and their newspaper. When you add in our scheduling, the question ought to be: How does UGA continue to pump out 10 win seasons playing such a difficult schedule. And what most everyone underestimates is the wear and tear those games have on our perceived ‘faceplant.’ Playing Clemson, Boise St., Arizona St., Colorado and Oklahoma St. takes something out of you that playing Charleston Southern does not.
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You’ve moved the bar, I’m afraid. The standard isn’t getting steamrolled. It’s losing a game Georgia shouldn’t lose. And that’s a pretty steady occurrence.
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I guess, but my point is that it’s a steady occurrence with nearly every team. I just think we all follow our team so closely that we think it’s only us. Ohio St. vs. VaTech, Bama vs. Ole Miss, Auburn vs. A&M…many teams had one or more last year.
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OM may have been the best team in the country first half of the year. Florida? Not so much.
And the point – again – isn’t that it happens once in a season. It’s that Georgia does it regularly.
You might as well say that losing to Spurrier’s UF teams in a given year wasn’t a big deal because so many others did. We all know the story was more than that.
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2014: 38-20, Florida
2013: None
2012: 35-7, South Carolina
2011: 35-21, Boise and 42-10, LSU
2010: Losing to Colorado at all is like getting blown out
2009: Tennessee, 45-19
2008: 41-30, Alabama, 49-10, Florida
2007: 35-14, Tennessee
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“Every year Georgia loses a game to a lesser opponent”.
This is a lazy man’s prediction made by a pundit who thinks he is being intuitive but really is just a vacuous spewer of disinformation.
We were the favorite in all of our games last year so unless we went undefeated it was automatically going to be game lost to a “lesser opponent”.
Alabama lost two ballgames last year to lesser opponents. Missouri lost a game to a lesser opponent. Auburn lost a game to a lesser opponent. So, GaTech & Florida. Heck, S. Carolina started the year out losing to a lesser opponent and then lost to 3 more lesser opponents as the season unfolded. Even the NC game participants Oregon & The OSU lost a games last year to a lesser opponents.
Unless you go undefeated or are an underdog all the time, there is a pretty good chance you will lose a game to a lesser opponent. This is not insightful analysis but someone in journalism who doesn’t understand statistics and probability.
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LOL! a bold prediction would be we DON’T lose a game we shouldn’t!
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Hey it’s this years UGA meme. Just tune in the SEC Network and listen to any discussion about us. It’s either the first thing said or the “but” in every prediction.
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Yep its just this years meme highlighted by last years UF loss. Not really worth spending the energy to battle either way over it. All the points have been debated over and over. Kinda more focused on our QB battle and Schotty’s approach to be honest. Hemin and hawin over no national championship just not worth it now and is just a talking point that takes no more effort than writing an article similar to Mr. Conventional Wisdom.
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I haven’t ever really worried about a national championship, Well, I guess I did get caught up a little in ’07 and before the ’08 season started. I want to win the SEC championship. If we do that, the national championship thing will take care of itself.
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Me too JC.
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When almost all writers and sports reporters are talking about your team’s propensity to lose games it should win, maybe the coach and AD should take notice? When it happens once or twice, it’s an aberration, when it becomes an every season, multi game thing, it’s a legit problem and the sports media is going to report it.
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What were the other 4 BOLD predictions?
4. Coach Schottenheimer will have a play call questioned by an arm chair QB that has never been in the “arena.”
3. Chubb will not get all the carries at RB.
2. UGA will use more than 1 QB this year.
1. UGA (the Dawg) will take a nap at some point during a game.
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Hey…at least we can win the BIG game now!
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Senator bold means exactly what he thinks it means. I’ll have you know that the title of the article came down to three options: “5 bold predictions, 5 Italic predictions or 5 predictions in Comic Sans”. The dude just likes to have his articles titled that way.
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Bold Prediction: Que will become Uga during the Bama game because Russ has been the laziest bulldog ever to grace Earth, and his never bark B.S. attitude has brought UGA down for too long. We need fresh blood against the Tide.
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Georgia lose to anyone…inconceivable..
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Tough one here. It’s easy to say “yeah, they’re going to lose a game that should be a win this year, just like always”. But, to take the other side, is it an accomplishment, a big strength, to be able to say “it’s remarkable how consistently good this team has been for nearly a decade where they only lose 1-3 games per season”.
I contend that it’s just a mental toughness that gets outta whack once or twice per season, coaches and players. Once every two seasons there’s a referee or injury/luck dynamic that gets every team as well.
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