… you’ve got no quarterbacks.
Mark Richt said nothing yet on starting QB for Kentucky. "We'll be discussing all possibilities." Includes Brice Ramsey.
— Marc Weiszer (@marcweiszer) November 1, 2015
… you’ve got no quarterbacks.
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“We remember the Sugar Bowl, I think it my junior year of high school, we let Alabama beat us twice,” Brinson said of a team that also lost to the Crimson Tide in the SEC Championship game. “We’re not letting Alabama beat us twice. In the Sugar Bowl in 2018, they… thought they should have been in the playoffs and lost to Texas.” -- AB-H, 12/27/23
I think you might as well just crash and burn with Ramsey. He has a remote upside and at least it would be entertaining.
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Other than punting. what’s his remote upside?
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To be honest I’m just grasping at straws. As obviously this coaching staff is as well.
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He throws it fast and far. Ride the lightening baby!
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This very old post came to mind. Adult language and situations, reader discretion advised:
http://uproxx.com/ksk/2006/11/f-k-it-im-throwing-it-downfield/
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Thanks for that, Biggus.
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Rodrigo Blankenship has a cannon of a leg, but can’t hit water if he fell out of a boat. Give him a shot.
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It doesn’t really matter who starts.
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This. It’s the entire offense, not just the QB.
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Agree. The problems go beyond not having a good qb. For an example of what I mean, why are we ramming Sony and Keith between the tackles over and over? Why are we acting like Brendan Douglas can help us convert a third down?
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Don’t lump MM26 in to this. He has been money.
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Never thought I’d miss Hutson Mason so much.
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yesterday’s noodles for the win!
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I owe that guy an apology.
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I doubt Da Noodle has time for your apology. Now.
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I am in such a weird place. I am lost at how we arrived at the slow motion train wreck we have been watching since Bama. How do we go from to many good QBs to not having a solid starter? I don’t mind taking a youngster with potential and letting experience (game day) be his teacher. I can’t help but watch our offense and believe that except for a hand full of players we need to start over. We are as inept offensively as we have been in the last 20 years. There is no part of our game that I would consider good. The knock has always been if you get rid of Richt you have to start over. After what I have seen the last 4 games I can’t help but think what I am seeing on the field at least offensively is no more painful than doing just that. What do we have to build on?
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Well losing Bobo and his ability to develop QBs is evident as The Senator points out. But the cancer runs deeper than that. This is poor recruiting fucking UGA straight up. Bobo, I don’t believe, could fix the mess that is at the QB position right now.
It’s amazing that UGA has 3 scholarship QBs that wouldn’t start at a FCS school. I mean, there are no words that can explain how a Tier 1 FBS school can even be in this position. Especially considering Richt is the QB “guru”. Bad recuiting and poor coaching is all I can figure out.
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See below.
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It doesn’t help that we supposedly run a pro style power running based offense yet never seem to recruit the type of linemen for the scheme. Talents like Gurley and Chubb can hide a bad line. Douglas or Michel up the middle, not so much.
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+1.
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Bobo recruited all the quarterbacks currently on the roster.
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Not Lambert. But yes on Ramsey and Bautua.
I would like to think he could develop them better but, again, I don’t think he could fix this current mess. These three were just a miss as far as QB recuiting goes.
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UGA has 12+ offensive linemen ………..
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…who are shitty. OL has never been a priority of Richt’s. I’d rather take my chances with a 3 star back behind a 5 star line than vice versa.
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Article about the Georgia Way.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2015/11/01/misery-index-week-9-georgia-nebraska-duke-texas-rutgers/75002324/
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Every bit of that is true.
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And Staples on si.com has a feature story too. http://www.campusrush.com/mark-richt-georgia-florida-punt-pass-pork-1433912743.html
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These clown writers aren’t taken seriously, they’re trying to get hits. Like Finebaum.
They don’t know a thing about football.
Richt’s record is 74% wins. Nuff said.
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I’d say the usa today guy wrote a pretty spot on story. And if you’re writing a national column the # of hits you get from Georgia fans is probably less than if you write about a more broad subject.
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Which trophy are they giving out for winning 74%? I didn’t know there was one.
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You know what’s really funny? You people have been using his winning percentage as a defense for several years now and the number keeps going down each time you use it.
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as much as i dislike your commentary and disagree with basically everything you stand for and how you go about your business here — this point is hard to argue with.
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Wow. Not sure if I’ve read that guy before but he was spot effing on. So to the MR fans, what does it say that two national websites(I believe CBS.com had a similar story) can see what we apparently cannot?
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We’ve seen it here for many years and our recommendations for changes are well-documented.
With the Pruitt hire and the change of leadership at the University, many of these changes ARE happening.
However the most important change has yet to happen, for the reasons Dan Wolken accurately outlined.
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For the team moms on here that claim that posting anything negative on a blog hurts recruiting, probably a much better chance that recruits are going to read national writers than random people posting here. And nationally we are more of a laughingstock than before yesterday.
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Recruiting? UF just planted their flag over south Ga. These HS coaches do not support CMR’s stagnant, non talent developing, position switching, laissez faire leadership.
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Best… Article… Ever…
“It is maddening and it is self-destructive, but it is the excuse-making reality in which they live. Moreover, Georgia fans frequently default to the notion that Georgia won’t able to hire a better coach than Richt or talk about recruits that are on the way as defense of the status quo.” Read this article!
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How about this one?
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/sec/2015/09/30/georgia-bulldogs-football-standards-missing-national-championships/73099452/
I hate this shit but most of the information contained in that article suits me just fine to be honest with you. I’d rather ‘be a joke’ than be a Thug U chchampion.
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Yay! Moral victories! The Georgia way!
You can have it.
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You prefer Second Chance U? Crab Legs/rape? A heart problem? Impermissible benefits? Oversigning maybe?
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Lol. Love how you include over signing with rape.
One of these days you’re gonna realize “the Georgia way” is a load of horseshit and our shit stinks as much as the other guys.
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Not that one is connected to the other in anyway, I just didn’t want you to think I was implying that you approved solely on the latter.
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Winning and running a scofflaw program aren’t synonymous, you know? You can bang your drum for taking the high road and keep getting shelled by the better teams in the league. It’ll be easy and cheap to get seats to see Richt get his ass kicked.
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Maybe not synonymous, but there’s always a fine line between something and something else.
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Well, what you want is a D-3 program. Richt isn’t running a lily-white program. He deals with weed, assaults, fraud, payments…..
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I in no way believe that our roster is filled with Beaver Cleavers. But when an offense is severe enough that it makes national news, I for one am glad the offender is typically removed from said roster.
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Obviously, as The Mayor pointed out in an earlier comment, try the other QB’s both Nick Thompson and Sam Vaughn. Both have impressive backgrounds and you know are hungary to play. It looks like Shotty and CMR may have missed some diamonds in the rough in their own background. Think The Mayor and I are crazy? What have we got to lose?
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And look what Texas Tech lost. A walk on, Baker Mayfield, left there and is lighting it up at Oklahoma.
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Another reminder that we should have hired Lincoln Riley last year.
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Lambert is the only QB who has won games as a starter.
Get behind the guy, give him leadership authority, work on his progressions, work with the line on its drive blocking technique, and work with the receivers on the ability to defeat man coverage and rep, rep, rep.
Don’t overthink this.
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This is the first time I can remember UGA losing to Florida and me not being mad about it. It’s always the most important game of the year for me. But the Dawgs let me down again… for the tenth time in 15 years. I just don’t have the energy to be mad anymore about something so predictable. It’s always the same kind of mistakes. There’s only one possible explanation for why we lost so badly against Florida. And he’s higher up the food chain than the quarterback.
Now I just feel apathetic about the whole thing.
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It won’t matter who is at QB at this point. This team’s psyche is toast. They have lost whatever mojo they may have had before the Bama beatdown. I have never seen a Ga team be so easily knocked off their game. It appeared to me that they went into this game with a sense of dread and as soon as the muffed punt happened they folded like a house of cards on a windy day. Same as when Michel fumbled the kick off at UT. And the blocked punt with Bama. This team knows they are not going to win unless they play a perfect game, and the first imperfection wipes out any fire they might have started with.
You can blame it on recruiting, on play calling, on execution, whatever. In my mind I have come to the realization that no matter how much I like CMR, he is not in control of this team at this time. He has been a class guy for 15 years, and I truly respect him as a human being, but I believe he has lost this team. I can’t believe it will recover. I would like to be proven wrong against Kentucky, but I fear that it is the next loss to an inferior team.
To be clear, I think this team has talent. I think the only team in the East that comes close is UF. I don’t think they are playing at that level, and that is on the coaches. There is no excuse for the level of play that has been shown so far except coaching.
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As much as we make fun of Butch at UT they are stocking talent too. If things stay the same we can easily find ourselves their bitch again just like in the 90s.
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If you have 3 QB’s, that’s what you call fiesta. In a fiesta, all are drunk and nothing gets accomplished. LOL.
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We, really need a Tracy Rocker version of an offensive line coach. The last three games i have watched opponents D-linemen pick our O-linemen up off their feet and throw them like rag dolls. Damn damn damn! They all look the same every year shouldn’t they be getting bigger? Stronger? Man what i wouldn’t give for a couple of Max Jean-Gilles’s when that big mofo put those meat hooks on a D-lineman his ass was going for a ride.
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My theory is that we don’t recruit the right players for the scheme. We let Bama and Auburn come instate and take the big mean maulers while we take private school players, often from other states. Example: Theus.
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Theus was a 5-star prospect. I guess you didn’t like Boss Andrews since he’s one of those “private school players.” The Patriots would disagree with you. Not defending anyone here but offensive line is the most difficult to recruit and to develop. If you don’t get the OL coach hire right, you get horrible offensive play.
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Id say that the turnover at the position coach probably hasn’t helped.
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I’m no expert in o-line play, but the line has gotten blown up consistently since the Bama game. I think teams are loading the box and run blitzing regardless of down and distance because there is zero respect for the passing game and QB play. Until the passing game gets fixed, nothing changes.
I did the analysis a year or so ago, but Georgia high schools don’t produce a bumper crop of blue chip prospects in the offensive line either.
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Sure could have used Tunsil if he didn’t get a better cash offer from Ole Mi$$ so I can’t blame that on the coaches.
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Absolutely agree on Tunsil but he was a north Florida product.
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It’s about 2016 now. Can’t win the East in 2015. So start looking ahead. Strategically, go with the Qb who is not in his final year at UGA so you have a viable backup Qb in case Eason gets hurt, or flops. I guess Ramsey is the only option now that the team goals are all out for 2015 (Div/Conf/BCS Championships).
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One other thing.
Quit the fake juice not naming the starter stuff.
Don’t split the reps.
Name the starter, give him 100% of the reps.
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So once again midway through the season we are jumping on the wait til next year bandwagon? When exactly does next year come? We write our checks, support the program and what do we get out of it? It’s time to fish or cut bait if CMR can’t win at 4 million a year and a large and diverse talent pool. Exactly when and how is he going to recapture the by gone days of his early success?
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I don’t know why he would stay but isn’t Lambert eligible next year? Nothing matters, including Eason, if Schotty stays.
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Yup, if Schotty stays, Eason turns into Sanchez. If he goes and CMR coaches him up, we get ….wait for it…..Stafford. yea.
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….Bobo coached Stafford…
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I’ll take Stafford all day long. Offense wasn’t the problem when Stafford was in Athens. All of the problems were on the defensive side of the ball.
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CMR: “We’ll be discussing all possibilities.”
In other words, we don’t have a clue what to do.
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People need to recognize that being disappointed is not a license to be an @$$hole. Using the Senator or another poster as a surrogate target for your Richt Rage is pointless and misdirected. This stupid binary that assumes every individual has been either totally for or totally against Richt is revisionist stupidity. Everyone has been ambivalent for awhile now to varying degrees.
This coach is 3 years removed from playing in 2 consecutive SEC Championships. The question and hope has always been that the program could consistently maintain excellence that appeared in flashes. Answer: no. Hasn’t happened in 15 years, and its not going to. But I cht earned the opportunity to answer that question after 2011 and 2012. Anyone suggesting otherwise isn’t thinking clearly.
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Anyone suggesting what you are is doggedly persisting in a line of reasoning that became null when Richt gave the division away to Missouri. Twice.
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And what line of reasoning would that be? Curious to know what you think uou read.
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Ramsey should definitely start. He’s only been awful every time he enters the game, but other than that he’s been pretty good right?
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