The bye week. The one time all season when it’s okay to look ahead to next week’s game.
Georgia and Florida both are on bye weeks and have an equal amount of time to prepare. For Georgia, this week has been focused on cleaning up mistakes made so far. The Bulldogs have done some work preparing for Florida, but that won’t start in full force until Sunday, after the players return from a three-day break.
Georgia is 5-2 and will be back in control of its quest for an SEC East title if Alabama defeats Tennessee on Saturday. If the Volunteers do get a third conference loss, Georgia can take the division by winning the remainder of its conference games.
While the players, at least to some degree, will pay attention to the Alabama-Tennessee game, their primary focus is already on Florida.
Good for them. All I can say in response for today is Roll, Tide.
Get The Picture 
I don’t see TN winning, or staying within 10 points of Bama at home, but if they should pull the upset, it will deflate our guys for next week. We need that extra motivation,, but we should have enough reasons without it.
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Mac, if anything deflates these guys before Florida, shame on the entire program. Regardless of the records, our team should consider this as the most important game of the year and play in this game like their hair is on fire.
I agree with you. No way Tennessee stays within 17 of the Tide.
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I don’t understand anyone working 300 days a year to play 13-14 games EVER taking a snap at less than 100%, in any game, but that is not the reality. Players are distracted my a myriad of things, from the trivial to serious problems. The cumulative effect can cause just a couple of key guys to get caught unfocused one a few plays to make a difference. May not be excusable but it happens on every team at points throughout the season.
I think Gurley not returning for FU last year hurt, even though we were good enough without him to beat the Gators. I think Arky choking on Friday after Thanksgiving last season made a difference in the GT loss. So yeah, removing an incentive that they have looked forward to all season from next week’s game is a factor. Doesn’t mean we will lose in JAX if TN does win, or that would be a good excuse, but it is a factor that cannot be helpful. I want all the chips we can get.
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Totally agree, Mac. I was pi$$ed last year because they had a chance to embarrass Florida and didn’t do it. When the orange helmets with blue script appear on the opposite sideline, we should be focused on destroying them.
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So what will the excuse be this year?
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I certainly didn’t make an excuse for the loss last year. We played terribly and should have embarrassed UF last year.
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Exactly. Don’t worry about that guy, he isn’t one of us anyway. Takes great pleasure in any misfortune for UGA. Ignore him/them.
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Quit making it so obvious that you post and then reply to your own posts Macdonald.
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Someone has to agree with the excuses. Gurley not playing last year is why the gaytors handed our asses to us. We had no other rb’s good enough to back him up last year.
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Macdonald is the king of excuses… and usernames.
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I don’t know what the hell you’re talking about.
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Neither doth he, EE.
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Hah….uT looks like they may not agree
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Well, I don’t bet, so I could care less about margin of victory. I’m damn sure glad Sgt. Carter gets another moral victory.
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TN really wanted that game more than Bama. I had begin to feel they were the real deal with a bad week against the Rebels but they got shoved around all day. Been a crazy year, even worse than last season. Every week there are results that seem to make no sense, guess that is why I like this sport so much.
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How is it that we don’t win shit…but still manage to get Alabama’s best shot, every time?
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Bama should handle Tenn but even if the Vols pull the upset they could still lose to somebody else. Surely Georgia won’t be deflated for any reason vs. the Gators.
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If TN upsets Bama, then win out, the rest of the season becomes meaningless for SEC East teams.
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Gotta give fl some credit, they’ve shown themselves up to the task thru a pretty tough schedule – ut, ole miss, ky, mizzou, and gave lsu all they could handle – on the road and with their starting QB out. Mcelwain has been able to keep his team steady and focused.
We better have our ship together in JAX. Unfortunately, having our ship together is more a hope than an expectation. It’ll be huge if we win and end up taking the sec east title. CMR would be able to wag his finger in a lot of naysayer’s faces.
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I hate the smell of mothballs in the grocery store. I would pull for Chairman Mao’s once-beaten Chinese Communists if they were playing Tennessee.
Since all I have is Bammer and their tailback who is too big, I’ll take Bammer.
Roll Tahd.
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,,,,,
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If Bill Sherman was coaching the Yankees against Tennessee, I’d pull for Billy.
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Yep, TN sucks as bad as FU ever will. Program, fans, team, and now a mouthy coach. It doesn’t make FU and AU any better than they were but Vols are right there with them on my hate list….way ahead of GT or SC.
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Hope springs eternal.
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Just another year of hoping someone else loses so we can have a remote shot at glory.
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Because Alabama and the greatest ever coach Saban would never have to have that happen.
Right?
Jackass
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Said it before and will say it again. No way you say something like that to a guy at a tailgate for fear of getting your ass kicked. The internet makes you bad….right?
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The internet seems to make you tedious. So, I’d say y’all are even.
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Good day to you sir!
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You’re the one tossing veiled threats out there. While I agree with you more than I do him – I think it’s frustrating as hell to have to live vicariously through other teams year after year after year – you’re not going to score any points on the Internet by telling everyone how no one would dare offend you at a tailgate because you’d assault them.
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I’m your Huckleberry. And live in the Classic City. 😉
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You mean like everyone who isn’t LSU is doing right now?
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Dood…I can hate Tennessee without hope, can’t I? Just cause Booch is a Beeche?
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Yes Scorpy, I hate that douche as well.
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Troll
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Don’t you have a unfunny pic or video to post? I cannot wait.
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I hear there’s a new app. “Sense of Humour”…
You should download it. Just sayin’
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Numbnut’s brains would drain out with the app, AHD. Some trolls will never learn and these two match the template to the point that they are so glib that they fool themselves. We can find the humor in that every time they post.
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Bert gets his signature win. Wheels on the Gus Bus are now smoking like a dumpster fire. And, in other news, Mary Kate Danaher has died. The real one, not ours.
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Hoses out?
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Gus & Boom lost. Bert gets a win. Does that mean everyone gets a raise?
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I could certainly use a raise,
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http://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2015/10/24/9608346/auburn-arkansas-sec-west-standings
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Not just a win…managed to cover 6.5……..in OT. A ton of shit has to break right for that to happen. Burned picking Auburn again. Jesus do I ever I hate Auburn.
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Sad to see that Maureen O’Hara passed. A mighty oak has fallen.
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She gave it her best shot.
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Coker threw a pick, Willie tricked him….whooda thunk it.
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TN can’t stay toe to toe with Alabama only GA would lose to TN, right?
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Lemme git back atcha in about an hour. 🙂
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A game changing punter, my kingdom for a game changing punter. Game changing in a good way.
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How could we lose to such a shitty team as the Vols?
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Bama may be thinkin’ thr same thing Shortpants.
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Bama may be thinking about that bye week, there.
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Thought you’d be on the flats, douchebag.
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Just wondering…why does a guy who brags about being a fan of a bottom dwelling Big Ten team post on an SEC board? Oh, I guess that answers itself, there.
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I was talking about AHD not you. I’ve lived in Athens for 31 fucking years so save that “SEC Board” shit for someone else. You have a problem with me posting here take it to the guy that runs the blog.
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Oh…golly, I thought you were talking to me. Please accept my heartfelt apologies, I am so proud to know someone who has been fucking in Athens for all that time. You still did not explain why you brag about a connection with a shit program.
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On what is, whether you realize it or not, an SEC board.
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Take it up with Bluto.
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Just to point out the obvious Big Ten boy, Georgia is an SEC school, ergo, this is an SEC board. What should I take up with da Boss?
Really, what do you want me to take up with him?
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Because I was born there, got my undergrad there and still have a great many friends there. I also challenge you to find anywhere that I “bragged” on it. What makes you think you know me?
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What makes you think I care to know you…hey, its a bye week, you don’t have to leave the game early. Always a pleasure to have a conversation with a carpetbagger.
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” I am so proud to know someone ” you said it not me dumbass. As for carpetbagger, I’m a direct descendent of Jason Figg, 11th Tennessee who was killed at the Battle of Atlanta on July 22, 1864. So you can stick that bullshit with the “SEC” horseshit.
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You have a real nice night, now, carpetbagger.
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see ya later butterfly
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Nuff said Homes 🙂
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Go Dawgs!
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Jason Figg was killed because he ran off the line.
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Where did you get your undergrad? Manteno State?
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Sorry bout that Scorp. I guess Shortpants is a slow learner. I’ll get him back on latrine duty right away.
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Not that anyone asked, but, for the record–I am 100% supportive of anyone using ‘Golly’ on the blog. Love it Scorp.
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Aw golly, Lamont. Shucks.
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What the hell was that Tech reference he posted, AHD? Sure hope Figg wasn’t shot by someone from the Fighting Illini, otherwise, his descendant just karmaed him out of existence.
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AHD is a pain in the shortpants and I figgure he’s tech troll.
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In United States history, a carpetbagger was a Northerner who moved to the South after the American Civil War.
The term is also applied to a Northerner who moves to a southern city and, after living in the South for a period of time, becomes a fan of the local college football team, while still identifying himself as a Northerner on one of the blogs devoted to the local college football team.
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I generally agree with Scorp but here I wonder if Scalawag is not the more appropriate term. “a fan on an SEC blog with Loyalties to a big 10 team.”
Just sayin’
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Ok, Homes…Scalawag it is, although carpetbagger has a more direct meaning for most people, if inaccurate.
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IDK Cojones. Maybe sometime during my angrier blogging days I must of hurt his feelings and that is his way of wire brushing me now. I seem to recall he made a comment about my mom needing a job and I responded with “I don’t think so… she’s still working your sister and wife down on that corner. So she has a steady income.” All seems silly in hindsight and I wish I just could have ignored it…still mom’s are off limits in my world.
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It is not like what we say here has much value over the course of world history or something and silly is at the core of the whole exercise. Its amusing and amazing how seriously we sometimes take silly. 🙂
But its all in good fun and my fingers need the exercise.
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Georgia ain’t even in the game and it’s becoming the most Georgia thing ever….Tennessee with lead with 6 minutes left.
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Oh gee, look at all them sad Vols…tears on they orange shirts….looks lovely. Heh, heh, heh.
Yea Billy.
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At least they gave Bama a game
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You mean you’ve got moral victory envy? A loss is a loss.
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You would be correct Sir or Ma’am, a loss is a loss. However, how a team loses shapes perceptions of that team. Nobody expected UT to be in the game with Bama at their place in the 4th quarter, yet they were. If our game against Bama turned out that way, there probably wouldn’t be as much anguish over the direction of the program under the current leadership.
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I’m happy right now.
Y’all have a good evening,
BD
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You should be proud, BD, your guys manned up, big time…trap game if there ever was one for you.
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Congrats BD. I wish we could of given you a sweat like that.
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Note also that Saban did the same thing most sane coaches get criticized for from ignorant fan bases – they ran out the clock rather than try to score another 7 and take the chance of a Michigan ending. Kudos for the win, BD.
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http://www.memes.com/r/jwgd
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That red team in Tuscaloosa…that’s what a good football team looks like. Two years away?
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Ugh…Vandy and Mizzou…oof.
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How bout that shit???????
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I’ve got no interest in backing into an Eastern division crown just to lose in Atlanta and hear about how Richt has us going in the right direction. Won’t have to worry about that though, I don’t think.
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I’d love it if we backed into an Eastern division crown. You know why? Because it would mean that we’d ruined Florida’s season again, and put the final coffin nails into Auburn, and there ain’t a got-DAMN thing wrong with that. Would I trade wins over Florida and Auburn (and throw Tech in there while you’re at it, just for the hell of it) for another ass-kicking by Alabama? You damn right I would. Because every time one of those sorry Gator, Tiger, or Tech sons of bitches opened their mouths, I could tell them, “Well, we beat YOUR ass, and we own the series, too. Bitches.” If you don’t get warm and fuzzy feelings thinking about that, then wow.
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Also, Florida leads the division. How do you figure beating them would be “backing” into the division crown? Seems like it’d be something we won on the field, period.
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Uh….one of your personalities forgot to change their name when you criticized your own post. There’s nothing like settin’em up to knock your self’s other down.
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Wrong tree, bud. Thought of something else to add to my reply and there’s no edit function on comments here.
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Think it would be another ass kicking by LSU if we make it to the ATL.
Best team in the country resides in Baton Rouge. There weakness was their QB and it seems he has come around unlike well we all know…
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Harris is 11th in passing yardage in the conference. He’s 12th in attempts per game. He’s eighth in completion percentage.
He hasn’t thrown an interception and he’s seventh in TD throws, which is what has him second in the SEC in passer rating. But even with that, he’s only four points ahead of Lambert.
If that’s a picture of coming around, then the SEC is loaded at the QB position.
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Lambert Apologist!!!!
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Harris has shown improvement in every game considering where he was at the start of the season and where he is now. Doing what he has to to lead his team to a win…can we say the same…can quote stats all day long but the w/l speaks for itself…he is showing improvement unlike well ya know…
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Plus he has one less game under his belt which was a cream puff…unlike well ya know…
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So now it’s okay again to give the QB major credit for wins? I thought that went out with Aaron Murray.
If that’s all it takes to judge, then Lambert, at 5-2, is above average.
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Isn’t winning what all qb’s are judged by? Is that not the only Stat that matters? He was a good guy and threw for 400+ yards but they lost the game by 3 points. What will they remember not the 400+ yards but the loss.
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Seriously? Do you not remember all the people here who dismissed Murray’s 2011 and 2012 seasons, despite the wins?
And again, Georgia is 5-2 right now. How great does that make Lambert in your eyes? I thought so.
How much LSU football have you watched this season? How many games have they needed Harris to win for them? (Hint: check out those attempts per game numbers.)
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LSU is big down here on the MS. Gulf Coast. So I have seen a lot of the yellow and purple. All I am saying is that Harris has improved since game 1 and is continuing to show it. Can’t say the same about Lambert now can we?
To be honest a lot of the LSU folks down here still think Harris is not very good. I think they are wrong.
The people who dimissed Murray are idiots. All I can say about that.
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Get ready, Bluto. If you didn’t watch Jacob Eason on natl tv Fri nite, you missed a year’s worth of future inane QB comments.
Jacob was in the high 60s in completions, less than his above 70s ave: he threw high on a couple of receivers; threw behind one receiver going left to right in front of him(of course, if he had led him perfectly, it would have been an interception) plus several other imperfect QB mistakes, including intentional grounding. Nevermind that his team won 60-something to less than 20; that he threw 5-6 td passes on top of all the other completions; his td passes were barely over the heads of the triple pursuit on receivers, but the ball fell perfectly into the receiver’s hands; he gets rid of the ball quickly and is accurate doing so and he made the correct decisions all night. Still, he wasn’t perfect and that’s troll/negative-nabobs ammo for the entire season next year if he isn’t redshirted.
Seriously, he has a commanding presence and seems to have bonded with all teammates judging by his bench presence when the D was on the field. I laughed at every imperfection and thought that he would root Murray out of the top of the Fan’s Stupid Judgments Contest. ‘Course it isn’t the calm QB in Jacob that will see the SEC in full force here, but we have a substantial strong and accurate arm coming next year that will get great coaching for his yearly improvements.
You should have seen the kudos for UGA’s football and academic program plus the fans sporting the “G” here and there. Georgia visitors have shown up with some frequency to the Lake Stevens games including a photo of two young kids in UGA helmets posed and hugged on each side of Jacob and that was shown on natl tv several times.
Jacob and Georgia are both a big deal out there and are connected at the hip. It didn’t hurt that the camera was on Schotty on the sidelines several times and the announcer spoke as if Jacob is headed for the best program in the nation.
It was a great advertisement of UGA’s program to the nation Friday night.
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Murray had the intangible by being able to put the team on his back to get the win. AM was a good QB and was a coach on the field something that is now lacking. If he had a better supporting cast his w/l record may have been better, or for that matter his w/l record may have been better if not for some really stoopid play calling
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Richt has to step his coaching game up this week. Period. He is running out of excuses. We should win this game against the Gators.
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I don’t understand how anyone could figure we SHOULD win against Florida. We don’t have an SEC caliber quarterback. Their backup is better than our first stringer. Their defense is better than ours, and so is their offense now that we’ve lost Chubb. They are more physical, they have better special teams, and right now, they’ve got better coaching. It’s going to be very hard for us to win, and frankly, I’m not optimistic that we keep it close. We got badly fooled by the South Carolina game. This isn’t a very good Georgia team.
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Thank goodness your “evaluation” of us isn’t worth an Illinois Figg.
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Nice, Cojo…well done, sir by golly.
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Indeed sir!
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Perhaps you can elaborate on where his evaluation is wrong.
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You can’t jump in at the end you have to read the whole thread Jax.
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And thank goodness I don’t take comments seriously from someone who posts as his genitals. At this point, I’m beginning to think that “dick” is a little more appropriate than “cojones.” Nevertheless, I’ll try to flesh the evaluation out a little.
I define “SEC caliber quarterback” as a QB that can take the team on his shoulders and be the main reason why we defeat a good SEC team. See Aaron Murray in the 2013 SCjr and LSU games. Frankly, I don’t expect him to be one. He’s only had fall practice and the season to learn a new offense. If he was so good that he could do that, he would have gone from Virginia to the pros instead of here. He hasn’t done badly under the circumstances – but that’s different from being someone to depend on. I actually think he’s going to be a lot better after a spring practice under Schottenheimer and Richt; he’s got great height, good arm strength, seems to be a pretty good leader, and appears to want to be good pretty badly. But for next week, I don’t see him as a tremendous strength.
I think their defense is better than ours mainly because of the secondary, and because it appears that Lorenzo Carter either isn’t full speed or he’s in the doghouse. Hopefully a week off can get him back to being a major contributor. The secondary is still feeling the effects of the mass exodus to Auburn and Louisville, and our best defensive back is going to be suspended for the first half because of a b.s. targeting penalty. So you have to think that Florida has an edge on defense.
Right now, their offense is better than ours without Chubb. They put up 21 points on Missouri and 28 on LSU. It’s been demonstrated we’re not capable of the former and I doubt we’re capable of the latter. Again, an off week may make a difference. Getting Michel to full strength will. Our offensive difficulties against UT (10 points from the offense) could fairly be attributed to losing Chubb and the difficulties against Missouri could be attributed to Missouri having a good D and conservative coaching, so maybe things will change in Jacksonville. Perhaps we will see an offensive explosion against Florida. I wouldn’t bet the house on it.
As far as coaching goes, McElwain has Florida playing better than anyone expected. I don’t think anyone would try to make the case that we’re playing better than expected. Therefore, I’d give them the edge in coaching. And finally, we did get fooled by the South Carolina game. Lambert was brilliant. So was the playcalling. I’m very glad that we broke Spurrier and made him sulk into retirement, but we haven’t played that well before or since. Richt’s teams get a rap for having 1-2 games a season where everything disappears, but we do usually have at least one game a year where we are ON, uncharacteristically so. Auburn and Missouri last year. Clemson in 2013. Vandy in 2012. I think this year’s is South Carolina, and we can’t take it as an indicator of what our week-in, week-out performance should be. Therefore, unrealistically raised expectations.
Now, do you care to reply coherently, or are you going to just sit back and do another wearisome ad hominem attack where I’m supposed to be someone else’s doppelganger?
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“ad hominem attack” Hmmm, that doth ring a bell…165 is that you?
A tiresome accusation of ad hominem attacks by a poseur….also sounds familiar.
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Well, I’d say that accusing someone of being someone else, without evidence, constitutes an ad hominem attack. It’s not that uncommon a phrase. But let’s try this: Senator, I’m about to send you a message on a different board – one that neither Scorpio nor Cojones even sniffs – asking you to verify that I am indeed my own person. After you get it, please confirm to these idiots that I’m not someone else, so that they can go all conspiracy theory on someone else with whom they disagree.
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Thaz some naive shit right there…Do you really think that Bluto is playing that game with you?
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Bad guess. Your amateur psychology skills are lacking, my man.
He’s not the same guy.
Not that you’re alone on this – most of the commenters here who make similar guesses are wrong.
Give me a little credit on this front. I’m actually pretty good at catching banned commenters in the act of sockpuppetry.
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I guess I spoke too soon. Damn…ok
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No problem. It was pretty reckless for me to put that out there, and thanks to the Senator for confirming it, but for some reason being accused of being someone else really got under my skin.
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Gee and golly whiz, I am sho nuff sorry I may have misrepresented your lineage. I beg for your forgiveness. And, secondarily, I hope I have not offended the Sockpuppet Police, I am much abashed.
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Seriously, S, that ad hominem thing set off my ringy dingys…went back and read your post closer…actually good stuff and mostly I agree…it seems you might agree we are two years away?
Peace, brother.
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Gosh. That’s a real load off my mind.
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All of that makes sense. I am beginning to saddle Richt with some expectations that don’t align with what we’ve seen from this team. Why? Because we are due a game in Jacksonville that we actually coach well and execute well and play above our expectations. Irrational? Probably.
I am a patient Georgia fan who wants to see Richt display a flash of coaching strategy and preparation that convinces me that he is the right man to lead this team forward for the next few years. Most folks have jumped ship. I get it. I am shifting my chair on the deck and sitting down for Richt to show me something.
I’m sure Richt is waiting with baited breath to hear my conclusion. 😉
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Actually, we do want a repeat of last year.
That is, we want the underdog unexpectedly and thoroughly to trounce the favorite.
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Couldn’t agree more. I think the odds on us winning are pretty long, for reasons I’ve detailed above, but upsets can and do happen and it would be great to get one of those. Personally, I’d prefer the 1997 model – unexpected physical dominance and fiery intensity. The cliche about “that’s why they play the games” might be a hoary one, but it’s still true.
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