I don’t think I’m over my Auburn hangover yet, but I’m glad to hear Lorenzo Carter is.
But as he thought about it, Carter said he realized that the loss, as bad as it was, didn’t wreck the team’s championship hopes.
“Coach made sure we knew we definitely weren’t out of the mix,” Carter said. “Just one loss isn’t going to define our season. We’ve had a great season so far, we plan on keeping the thing going.
“That one loss, it was good for the team just to wake up, just (have) a wake-up call. But I’m just proud everybody’s been working, we haven’t gotten hung up on that.”
I hate to sound like a schmuck, but I’ll believe that when I see it on the field Saturday.
On the other hand, it’s interesting to hear how postseason expansion has given the team a reason to get past the loss. I guess if we were living in the BCS days, they’d still be shell-shocked. To be fair, it really does simplify things: win the next three games, and the Dawgs are in; fall short in any one of them and it’s have a nice bowl trip, boys.
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What you said Senator. I felt like Florida was an identity game. That is, we had been winning convincingly against mostly weaker opponents, ND and MS being the exceptions. And we did win against the Lizards and it was a pretty strong win, except for the 2nd quarter. Auburn was identity #2. If we had an identity, it was certainly a game that made us look in the mirror. We now have to decide is UGA the same – underachieving, undisciplined, fearful and afraid – or has KS truly made a difference? We may not national champions this year – can’t believe I am actually writing that statement – but the road to the SEC game has two contests remaining. If we have moved up to the next level, we will win convincingly again against UK and the nerds. If we don’t handle them well and easily, we will know we are still stuck living the Georgia Way.
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Perhaps ole Zo will also consider showing up this Saturday instead of whatever the fuck that was last weekend.
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Or learn to trail plays going the other way deeper in the (surprise) they may be running a reverse. Kids are taught that in junior high school. Occasionally you may run a play down at some point, but you will always get burned if you don’t come in 2-3 yards deeper. SMH, dang son.
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I just hope for the team that bowl trip doesn’t end up in Atlanta. If we aren’t in the playoff, I hope we end up in Miami for the Orange Bowl.
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We need some psycho like Mike Curtis to set things straight. Late in the season in which the Colts would eventually win the SB, he stood up and told the team:
We’ve got 4 games left. Today, two playoff games and the Super Bowl. I’m gonna practice and play like I always do. And if I see any one of you fuckers slacking off. I’m gonna whip your ass. Myself.”
With that he sat down. No ass wippings became necessary.
In case you’re wondering he said that with Bubba Smith in the room. Although I’m betting he would have served as an exception the stated rule.
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I don’t expect much from here on out and Carter has kinda Patrick Pass’d his way through here, btw. The defense needs real leaders and players, not guys who take plays and entire portions of games off.
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Doesn’t take much for some people to start bad mouthing the coaches and players does it.
We’re 9-1 which is the best we’ve been in 35 years but the players are lazy/sorry and the coaches are dumb. Maybe one day they’ll all live up to your high standards of excellence.
BTW: where/when were you an all-american?
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I think Kirby & Co. would like another chance to slap that grin off malzahn’s face. No, they can’t come right out and say that. But that thought will get larger in the back of everyone’s mind going forward.
We had one (1) bad game. People need to get a grip and get over it.
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Maybe one day you’ll stop acting like a woman and being overly dramatic.
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You quit acting like a bitch and I won’t slap you like a bitch.
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Typical white trash internet tough guy. Lmao!
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Everyone is very impressed with your particular type of fandom. Everybody loves the guy on the bandwagon who jumps on when things are going well and then points fingers and jumps off at the first sign of trouble. Believe me youre an admired archetype.
They are going to make a follow up to Rudy. It’s about an 8 year old from Ft. Lauderdale who goes to his first ND game last Saturday. He left in the middle of the second quarter, called them a bunch of sorry ass losers and burned his hat and t-shirt.
It’s a touching story that we can all connect with.
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I’ve got as many AAs as you and Lorenzo, btw. I mean…what kind of dumb shit is this that you expect people to not get called out for their work? You can be the blind, ignorant homer who questions nothing but that ain’t me.
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Questioning a kid’s character that you don’t even know is out of bounds IMHO. You can question capacity. You can question whether they understand their assignments. But to sit there on your ass and declare that some kid, whose put 80 hours a week into being a student athelete at UGA for four years, is lazy makes you an asshat.
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Hypocrite says wut?
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Don’t sweat it Hut…he hated on me too.
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When did I ever attack your character or effort?
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When did I ever attack your character or effort?
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2002 was 35 years ago? 😉
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I was trying to make a point.
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Carter will be a 3rd down specialist in the NFL, not an every down player. He’s training for it now. Not sure what T Thompson is training for, though.
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These are all absurd overreactions to one game where anything and everything went wrong.
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What, exactly, is absurd? Asking for a friend… 🙂
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Here’s a partial list:
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WOW! I am agreeing with Derek twice in one week.
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I wouldn’t say “fall short in any one of them” and all we have is a bowl trip. I understand there is an element among us that only cares about MNCs and playoffs, but getting an SEC title is way above a “bowl trip”. So if we lose to either KY or GT, but win the SEC title, color me as a happy camper for 2017. If we get something exciting after that, all the better.
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Mac, if they lose to either UK or GT, winning the SECCG is a pipe dream. No reason to think they’ll beat either ‘Bama or Auburn in that scenario.
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OK, because history says all athletes play on on an even keel. every week. Got it. Maybe we should play this game on paper and cut out the middle portion for you guys who can predict this so well.
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This is what happens when expectations hits that bump in the road. I might be called a half ass fan too but I’ve experienced those expectations so many times, just to have my heart ripped out, that I refuse to drink the early Kool Aid in ANY season. It’s also a reason, while I might FEEL giddy, that I won’t express it. Instead, I look at the overall facts of the games. Everyone’s high on the Notre Dame win, I’m thinking they didn’t look so very good last year, let’s wait and see. High on the SEC schedule victories? I actually felt very good about the dominating way those came, but exactly how good are those teams? Then this last game happens. I thought it could. My reality is this, we’re a better team this year than last year. It’s year two for Smart who continues to recruit at a high level. While this team has deficiencies, there is an expectation those are solved through recruiting and development. Finally, we’ve played better than I would have thought we should have through the entirety of the season thus far. I believe there is a plan in place to get to a place where I’ll crow pretty loudly. It does include finding a top OC though. Do that and this PROGRAM, not just this team, is going in the right direction. I can live with that in year two.
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I agree with everything you just said … my only lingering thought is that I thought the throw-up-on-our-shoes games were a thing of the past. I am concerned whether we are turning a corner on that. I expected that any losses would be after fighting for 60 minutes … we didn’t see that on Saturday. Hoping the battleship continues to turn.
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It wasn’t as bad as 2007 at Knoxville or 2012 at Columbia I’m the sense that in those games, we just didn’t show up at all from the coin flip. We had effort Saturday, there were just too many mistakes to go with our OL being overmatched to try to be competitive.
I’m not going to say that we win the game if you get rid of all the mistakes, but we’d have had a chance. Those face plant games of the past, at least to me, had a more worrisome character.
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Agree – I think that’s why the battleship keeps turning … it wasn’t as bad as either of those games or Ole Miss last year (even though the end result looked similar).
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You can take the “hate to sound like ” out of the “schmuck” sentence for some here and for me most of the time, but the statement from ‘Zo has me worried.
Is what happened a “wake-up call”? It would be great to assimilate that and go forward, but is that what the players are calling this one performance? I’d sincerely love to see more than words like that describe what happened such that we can help cheer it away in Sat’s game. I’m still befuddled and haven’t eaten a cookie since Friday. Has anyone placed a reason for their nationally-viewed performance not coming up to standards? When you say we just got our butts beaten by a superior team on the field it doesn’t come with any other explanations and that’s what I’ve read previously as the reasoning the players and coaches have given. What in hell did we get “woke-up” from?
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Won’t help you much but I think our guys are just tired. At least as much or more tired mentally as physically. That game was as tough a game as there is from a mental standpoint.
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I’m not being unsympathetic, but weren’t we aware of that after we played Bye? It was a straight stretch of the tougher part of our schedule and continues through two more games. Do we expect more of the same because they are tired? And aren’t we two and three deep in talent for the first time that can spell our starters when they get tired? No one has to tell them to relax their minds as well as their body when they rest, do we?
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I don’t disagree with ya, I’m just throwing wags out there. Take away the true seniors from the team and there are about 70 kids out there. I don’t remember but maybe a dozen of our 2 deep are teenagers? I look at my teen son and just laugh at the stuff his mind sorta skips over, like putting the top back on the milk jug and remember where the peanut butter is supposed to be located.
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Talked to a couple of well-informed and well-read ‘Bama fans that were befriended about 2 months ago and they both said that they were just as shocked and amazed at our performance as well. One stated that he had his hands on $100 to bet on that one game and didn’t get to his bookie in time to lose it. He further stated that he thought the spread was way out of line and should have been UGA by 14 pts. As an outsider to our fandom, he was as puzzled as I am and for two weeks before had expressed what a great SECCG we are all due for since he considered the Dawgs he had seen play before Sat were more capable than the Murray-led team that they feel could have beaten “Bama in 2012.
It’s a mystery wrapped around a puzzling enigma. And it keeps bothering the shit out of me and others.
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That fan either isn’t being honest, doesn’t know football, or doesn’t keep up with UGA. That team was lead by an experienced senior in Murray, who just happened to be at the top of his game, at the most important position on the field. That team peaked at just the right time too,BTW. That’s a huge difference in a challenge to be #1. Just having the threat of that same Murray in last weeks game would have changed Aurburn’s whole defensive approach and the way the played out.
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Maybe so, but one of the guys was on top of a lot of news and didn’t push his ‘Bama thoughts without referencing sources. He was also well-read about Georgia coaches and players. And he hates Auburn and mentioned that Saban would have to get more out of this year’s team in order to beat them, i e., he was a realist about his earlier thoughts about Auburn.
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Think our fans are seriously over reacting to one game. Was it butt-ugly? Absolutely it was. But that doesn’t mean you can extrapolate that performance by either team and feel that is what you would see in a rematch. I will deal with Auburn later, if they get there. Right now I want to beat Kentucky solidly, get our feet back under us, and get out with minimal injuries. Anyone who says they saw that game result coming is basically lying, there was nothing from either team that looked like that prior to Saturday.
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You think Kirby threw the game to prove a point? I don’t but you’re right, there was no hint of anything like that until it happened. I do think our prior two games were progressively less intense but nothing like we saw Saturday.
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