Season high total of plays run by Tennessee.
Only defense that’s allowed UT to gain more than the 519 yards Georgia yielded today is Bowling Green.
Dobbs finished with 430 yards of total offense. That, too, is a season high.
That’s not what you should be getting from one of the highest paid defensive coordinators in college football.
Get The Picture 
The 3-and-out style offense doesn’t exactly help.
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..or the special teams turnover….
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This was a complete package of suck. But if you had to give the Suck Trophy to someone, I think it’d have to be the D, and I hope they wouldn’t even argue that. But the O should still feel ashamed in their own right.
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Don’t blame our offense for Pruitt giving up 35 points in about a,e0 minute period.
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That should be “30 minute period.”
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That last TD by Dobbs was the worst tackling I’ve ever seen. Ever.
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Agree. That (double-digit QB runs straight up the middle on successive plays — not even a feint) is unforgivable.
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Those stats would be somewhat abated if the offense could sustain a drive, even if it is the least innovative offense in the SEC.
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Awful. Listening to the post-game. Excuses abound.
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Pruitt has really brought about a culture change. It’s a new chapter in the mark Richt era. Oh wait, a couple weeks too late?
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The effort, the arm tackles, the lack of holes created by the o line…all seem to standout.
Forget about special teams play because it must be so hard to coach how to play special teams that our coaches are afraid to be the special teams coach.
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Looking ahead, we should still be favored over Ga. Southern, but we may be dogs to absolutely everyone else, even Tech.
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B-b-b-b-but Pruitt? Surely to Gawd NOT PRUITT? Mark Richt has gotten to PRUITT somehow, infected him, corrupted him with Richt’s gentle easygoing ways. That’s the only explanation.
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Funniest thing I’ve read all night
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LET’S HEAR IT FROM ALL YOU MARK RICHT SYCOPHANTS!!!!!
LET’S HEAR ALL YOUR LIES, EXCUSES, AND RATIONALIZATIONS ABOUT WHY WE SHOULD KEEP THIS INCOMPETENT BUFFOON!!!
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Win, lose or draw you are an asshole in all caps.
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Time for you to get off your break and back to flipping fries.
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And time for you to move out of your mother’s basement and get a job.
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lol
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I agree. We should not keep Pruitt. No excuse for his defense.
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Said Pruitt is not the answer. He is an unproven DC. Has yet to prove that he can win with out other coaches players, which is exactly what he did at FSU.
His D got their asses handed to them for the 2nd week in a row.
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He doesn’t have his players here yet. Only 1 recruiting class and the problems that Grantham left behind. Honestly, despite the bad performance today, I’m not worried about Pruitt’s ability to fix things. A huge infusion of talent over the next few years and this defense will be where we need it to be. But the defensive recruiting classes we had in Grantham’s 4 years have left us in a bad spot.
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He can’t coach a talented group of players and it showed today. Not his players is BS. Every DB back there is his players wit the exception of 1
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Despite the offense being ineffective, losing Chubb, the defense getting largely run over… you still held a 24-3 lead. And, you lost. That is epic bed-wetting on the heels of another national audience faceplant. There are no excuses. There are no answers in BM. It is time to go in a different direction.
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I’m slightly disappointed.
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Dude, calm down.
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I’m guessing our D coordinator is hoping to get a few more years to out recruit all the teams in the ACC and put together a dominant D…oh wait, this is the SEC. You better COACH YOUR ASS OFF if you want to survive.
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That’s just not a good football team right there, is what that is.
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The one constant in the failures is Mark Richt
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No wait another 5-10 years and he will be like Bowden or Osbourne. Can’t get rid of him yet
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I guess Greyson Lambert is sort of like Joe Cox without the interceptions. Nice young man I’m sure.
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Cox was a better QB than Lambert. Joe won us some games against defenses with a pulse.
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Laughing at all the people that have been sucking CJP’s D for two years. I never got it either.
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We had the same corps of Grantham worshipers for HIS first two years. We could have just recorded the comments and replayed them a couple of years later. But Pruitt has worn out his welcome even faster.
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But he brought in Tracy Rocker and all them others from Alabama. Why you think they are not at Alabama any more. We are just good enough to get Sabans castor
Thomas Brown has got to be besides himself right now. That is what really sucks. Bet he has a five page post about it at his shithole.
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cast offs not castor
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I read it as Saban’s castor OIL or some such; then I got to feeling lewd.
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I think Richt’s days are numbered and I think that’s sad. I don’t hate him or feel like it’s necessary to call him horrible names because we lose football games. I think he’s a coach whose time has come and gone. If you ask his past players, I’d think you’d get mostly positive reviews. It’s scary to fire a coach and enter the abyss, you just don’t know what you’re gonna get. I do believe there is a coach out there that will be a good fit to the talent this states produces EVERY year. I’m just sorry it wasn’t Mark Richt, if that makes me an apologist, then so be it.
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Well said. I hate it that it does not look like it is going to end well.
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I like Richt, a lot. But I think he may decide to hang it up, and nobody’s going to beg him to stay.
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I’m not sure what that defensive performance was. That was every bit as bad as the Willie / Grantham years. UT was better than their record, but we let a team with a thin offensive line with two new frosh replacing injured guys to hold their own. The middle of the field is always open. We cannot defend running QBs (designed or spontaneous plays). Our tackling is abysmal. Our pass rush is mostly non-existent. What are we doing? We have not improved from 3-4 years ago.
Why are our kickers so terrible and yipsy? Special teams in general is just a giant clusterfuck. Again.
Our O-line is great at pass blocking and still pretty shitty at run blocking. Shame where our talent lies.
Malcolm Mitchell is the man.
I love Nick Chubb, and I hope that he gets healthy and gets back after it. That one really broke my heart.
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We have only a few players. Just nobody on defense. Especially defensive line. How did our roster get this poor?
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It’s beyond Pruitt being able to fix it. BVG was clearly this program’s nuts. The culture and artifice haven’t been the same since he left. All the Alabama assistants Richt tries to bring in isn’t going to change that.
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At the risk of sounding obvious, why don’t we try to get BVG back?
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I think the game has passed BVG. He looks pedestrian at Notre Dame.
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Schematically, I think you’re right. But he was the toughness and grit.
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A 2-3 team losing by 21 just beat Richt. UGA got beat on offense, defense and of course the kicking game. South Carolina must be horrible and I hope they hire Richt in December.
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Look for a lot of narrative on plays and “the O didn’t help”.The Punt Return (an extraordinarily lucky break) and the fumble return did exacerbate the play disparity, of course. But these narratives, if they ignore all the other evidence available, are not going to give us anything meaningful.
Four 3&outs for UGA (and one 4&out, iirc, and one of the 3’s came after the Int which is bad). But UT had Two 3&outs and Two 5&outs (and a 6&out), if I counted them all correctly. Punts were even. UT went 8-18 on third down and 2-2 on fourth. Not that it needed to convert a lot of third downs. We used to rave about that sort of performance offensively but that was in the day when 60 plays seemed like a lot. when you run 90 offensive plays and 70 of them come on first or second down, Houston there’s some problems. Some huge problems.
The O could have helped a lot more but Lambert is what he is (and the OL apparently is what it is), and inconsist is probably who we are there going forward (some good throws from Lambert again, even on a miss here or there. But some real awful ones). I think the D’s biggest problem was not in not getting enough help from the O but in being largely incapable of helping itself. It certainly isn’t very good at helping itself off the field. The pass rush is MIA which strains the secondary (and may also be a result of worrying over the mobile QB) but the secondary is a sieve through which many many big plays pass, again and again. Guys are open a lot. Not 15 yards open (Gary drunk, can’t same I blame him) but open. Secondary tackling frequently seems bad when they’re in space. I’m not sure if the angles are actually any good.
I am not seeing growth in guys I feel like I should be seeing growth in, but maybe I’m not a good judge.
Senator, what do you think the odds are that if Reggie Davis had caught that ball Tennessee would have driven down for an easy FG?
I think I could get catches in the middle of the field against our defense, and let me tell you I am not in shape. Making Mike Deboard look good (though credit to him for not doing his usual “I will now get conservative and fritter this game away”, I guess?) is one of the lower points of the Richt era, I think.
Hey, maybe we’ll make Shreveport. That would be something.
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To pre-empt the “Who you gonna get?” folks, we don’t have to hire the next Saban or Harbaugh. We just have to hire someone better than Butch Jones, Gary Pinkel, and Jim McElwain. That isn’t nearly as high a hill to climb as everyone makes it out to be, yet it’s hard to argue we have that right now.
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To be fair, Gary Pinkel is a helluva coach.
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Pinkel has been a lot more successful than Richt as of late
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From where I sit McElwain is looking like a damn good HC.
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Did anyone ever hear what happened to Jordan Jenkins? I never heard of an injury, but there had to be something.
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The defensive staff caught hit talking and took him out of the game.
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Him tackling not hit talking.
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That’s funny if you got it right the first time.
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Run Pruitt’s ass off. Yea, I said it.
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If we’re getting rid of Pruitt let’s just clean house altogether.
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If we are cleaning house, clean out that entire rat’s nest of inhabitants at B-M. Hanger’s on that do not really contribute anything to the program but suck up money. Where is it written that because you played at Georgia a long time ago and can’t find a job anywhere else B-M will hire you.
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I don’t know, but I think it IS written that if you were a bag man at Georgia a long time ago, you retain employment.
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This is a program who has famously run out of bottled water and ice at football games. This is an athletic department who will not let you use an Amex card to make your Hartman fund gift because it costs them too much money. This is a program that allows teenagers to run the concession stands because it would cost too much to contract with a professional company. This is a program where the head coach once paid salary supplements to his assistant coaches.
The problems all start in BM and their master Don Leeburn.
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31 points. 7 from defense and 7 from special teams. The offense can not score, not control the ball, and not control the clock. Thought Shotty told a recruit he was going to use the TEs. How many times did they spring a play to the edge or catch a pass. The offensive coaching has regressed big time.
Can not have a one dimensional offense built around just one back. If he goes down you have what you have today because that is your total offense. This staff wastes more players than any staff I have every seen.
Frankly we do not have many good players on the offense and we are very thin in numbers. Even CMR said that before the Bama game
UT drops players along its line during game and it did not matter. Could be the worst offense and Oline in UGA history.
Vince Dooly could do more these players than CMR and offernsive staff.
Defense has 22 plays run against them sandwiched thru the football return for a touchdown. That is almost 25% of UTs plays in the game. This offense and CMR had better learn to be aggressive and keep putting points on the board.
Frankly I could care less I am thru supporting this team now…not because of getting beat but because of the constant injuries and issues with TBs and other players, like that Barber…find a punter CMR and another poorly played game on both sides of the ball.
Frankly this is the worst team in the SEC right now.
Out of top 25 like a lead balloon…last in the SEC, records means nothing just the play in last 3 games…remember Chubby comments to the offensive line…get it together.
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Man, what a bunch of fucking idiots.
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Like everything else, it starts at the top. I’ve always talked myself off of the ledge with Richt. Over the years, mainly since ’08, my support for him has eroded away with each mind boggling loss. This is it for me. He is responsible for where the program is today. Yes, along the way we’ve had some good runs. Games like today are becoming the norm, not the exception. We’re not developing players like we should. We have zero leadership on this team. All of our leaders in the past have taken upon themselves to light a fire. Rarely it comes from the coaching staff. Also, Richt’s hires are questionable at best. His initial staff was solid, but as he has had to make replacements he has failed. Martinez to Grantham to Pruitt (yes, Pruitt! Our D isn’t much better off than Granthams) now to Shotty. It’s old and inexcusable where we’re at as a football program. You would think a coach that has 15 years invested into a program wouldn’t be in this situation. It’s Phil Fulmer 2.0. I’ve had season tickets since ’96. I’m honestly not sure if I will renew. The only way to talk to out admin is with money. It’s time for Richt to go.
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Bring back Bobo.
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The posts on this thread appear to be somewhat negative today. Just wait until after the Mizzou game and the WLOCP.
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Why do we continue to blame the Coordinators and not the Head Coach that hired them. Our Offense was not great also.
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Every think ultimately falls in head coach lap, but how much are we paying Pruitt. The last two games looked like Grantham was coaching our DB’s.
And we were going against Willie and Janecek, geez!
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These are many of the exact same comments/troubles that have been aired out for several years back.THE SAME DAMN THINGS! Our problems on defense go back YEARS and our problems on the o-lines & d-lines the same.We are supporting a second tier SEC program.We are truly the “pretender contenders” of the SEC and have been for many years.
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