Let’s see. Last night Georgia managed to:
- Go 9-19 on third down conversions.
- Have a quarterback complete more than 70% (23-32) of his pass attempts.
- Not lose the turnover margin battle.
- At 38:55, dominate time of possession.
- Dominate the first down numbers, 19-6.
- Hold Missouri to 164 yards of total offense, and, in so doing, keep the Tigers out of the end zone all night, including on the very first series, which started inside the Georgia one-yard line.
And yet despite all that, it took Georgia until there were less than two minutes left in the game to its ninth point to take the lead.
How do you pull off something like that? Hell, it’s not easy. You pretty much have to time your screw ups to have maximum effect in killing drives. Add in, among other things, a missed field goal, field position difficulties in the first half, 5.2 yards per pass attempt, let sit for three or four hours and voilà! Instant anxiety.
Get The Picture 
And be thankful the other team dropped 3 interceptions.
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That’s called a pbu. Not an inteception. If they were all so easy to catch, why were they just pass breakups.
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So if they had 3 dropped interceptions, we had 3 fumble recoveries form dropped interceptions right?
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It reminded me of an early Dooley Years type of game. I enjoyed It because I
never thought the Dawgs would lose. No TDs. We do miss Chubb.
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Dooley and Erk would have been proud of that game last night.
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9-6. OLD MAN FOOTBALL, baybee!
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The QB being a gaping hole is how a game plays out like last night. Florida has to be salivating.
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Just like we were salivating over their incompetent QB play last year? How’d that work out for you?
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Are we planning on benching Lambert, starting a backup, and only attempting 4 passes?
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Treon was the starter for our game last year. My point is that any Dawg fan you talked to last year had the UF game penciled in as a win since they had looked inept on offense just like we do this year. What happened is we were gashed on the run and a fake FG. No reason we can’t do the same in two weeks
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Do you think UGA will be able to run the ball 45+ times in Jax? Because if not, the gaping hole at QB will be an issue.
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Lambert or are you talking about the UF Qb? Lambert’s top 4 SEC Qb in accuracy and effic.
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A win is a win, but I think someone put a dimmer switch on the light, Senator.
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No doubt it was ugly.
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a win is not always a win.
the first 4 wins were all against teams with 100+ terrible ranked offenses and all 4 against teams with losing records.
Missouri is near last in offense and 4-3.
That’s why the AP voters didn’t move UGA into the top 25.
It wasn’t a real win, and we all know it.
Beat Florida, now you gain some credibility.
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I can’t believe Richt has the temerity to say that a players worth as a human being was not determined by their performance on the football field! Doesn’t he know that it’s national championship or nothing???
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Seriously. Doesn’t he know that lots of fans are depending on him to maintain their self esteem and sanity?
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You hit the nail on the head McNease. There are a lot of people whose self-image and worth are so tied up in the football team, it’s the only thing that explains the grossly out of proportion reactions to things. Reasoned criticism is one thing but a lot of the flavor on the UGA intertubes this year has been about as rational as a domestic disturbance hotline.
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Doesn’t McGarity know the former Illinois coach is available?
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And the way Beckman abused players he’d be just what the doctor ordered for a segment of “the Bulldawg Nation”.
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Not sure if this will work. Rex Robinson’s thoughts on the matter.
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Ok that did not work I have a screenshot of the post but don’t know how to post that here. Search for the post it should make fans think.
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I wasn’t anxious or worried until Morgan missed the FG. There’s something wrong with him this year.
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I may be wrong, but I think his misses are coming from the left hash mark. If true and the coaches should know this tendency, I really don’t understand running Sony to the left on 3rd down. On the winning FG, we ran up the middle and kept the ball in the middle for the FG.
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What’s wrong is he doesn’t have a special teams coach.
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Not having a special teams coach doesn’t explain why he and Walsh regressed their senior years. If they sucked the entire time they were here, THAT could be explained by the lack of a special teams coach.
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I heard several people openly wail that they missed Bobo yesterday, which as a long time Bobo defender was fracking hilarious.
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We always love our former coaches it seems. I vividly remember my father, uncles and grandfather curse Dooley when I was growing up. Too conservative, didn’t throw the ball, never went for it on fourth, etc. Nostalgia for Bobo was predictable.
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Coach Schott called a near perfect game. When you’re playing the worst offenses, you just go conservative. Ws very pleased. And it worked, there’s no argument to that.
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Some of it is the “Chubb effect”, but we are still flawed offensively. We win in Knoxville if he doesn’t get hurt, and the margin of victory would have been larger last night, but this team is just not built for a championship season in 2015. Even with NC, we could not run the ball well enough to cover for the passing issues we have. Chubb could help the defense by extending drives and getting them more rest but we would still get run out of the stadium by any legit passing offense.
The offense did a very nice job of grinding last night, made a lot of 3rd downs before bogging down in the RZ. I agree with the lack of confidence in Lambert comment and how that was obvious when we got into scoring position. Also have to tip your hat to the Mizzou defense, they were stout, and have been all year. The Tiger DC has been getting a lot out of recruits that fly under everyone else’s radar.
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“not lose the turnover battle”…..very fortunate that Mizzo’s defensive backs have wooden hands…or it would have been a loss.
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This is true. Lambert has some sort of voodoo thing going on. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a QB throw as many surefire INTs that are just dropped, often by excellent defensive players.
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Missouri is the #6 scoring defense in the country, and #11 pass defense, and Lambert hit on 72% of his throws and only threw 1 pick. Was the coverage tight? Sure, they’re the best pass defense in the SEC.
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Are you responding to me? What does what you posted have to do with my less-than-witty observation?
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The team fought like hell the whole game. I saw some missed assignments and poor execution but it wasn’t lack of effort. We really miss having big strong receivers that can block and our tight ends have mostly disappeared. I have always felt like the tight end is a struggling QBs best friend. Blaze is a weapon. I don’t get it. Their punter is a freak! We need one of those.
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The pick came from a pass to the tight end. The olinemen are missing cut blocks necessary to open throwing lanes for tight ends, and balls are being tipped. Lambert is trusting his teammates, the olinemen, and they’re not doing their job, the ball was on target and would have been a completion, the olinemen missed the cutblock.
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What are you talking about? Obviously, you need to watch the interception again–it wasn’t tipped by a defensive lineman who was supposed to be “cut blocked” (which in itself is a highly questionable assertion). The ball was batted in the air by the middle linebacker who drifted right in front of Blazevich, because Lambert was staring him down.
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Everyone is talking bout stacking the box, but last night was just hard to watch. Every play that we split one receiver to each side they played man up and the other 9 was consistently within 8-10 yards from center. No one can run against that when they all can come hard every play. Their defensive tackles and ends slanted in and safeties and LB played edge.
Problem with gators they can do the same thing with 6 or 7 versus Missouri 9 man.
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Some of that is Mizzou being Mizzou. Remember last year, UF holds them to 120 total yards and still loses.
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This blog would have exploded last night if that had happened.
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We are just having problems scoring points. All the stats mean we scored 9 points. Our scoring is way, way down from last year against SEC opponents. How can we score against Florida? I honestly don’t know. I would love to do to them what they did to us last year. Just blow them off the ball. But that just never seems to happen with us, and I mistakenly thought it would this year.
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No, we’re scoring 33 points a game, just only need 7 last night for the win. No need to score a td.
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If you look at points scored by our offense, not special teams and defense, then you will see that our offensive scoring is indeed down.
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Where does all the Lambert hate come from? All he’s done is be ranked #4 in the SEC in accuracy and effic, the only things he controls, he can’t call more pass plays and jack up his yards per game. Oh, and he’s #1 in td to int ratio, at 4.5 to 1. Shut up already, you’re wrong, he;s very good. Get over it. Find a new punching bag.
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I’m confused. I don’t know how to react qhen someone shows and DEFENDS the starting QB. It’s usually the other way around in these parts.
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