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Get The Picture · Bloviation for the Dawgnation
Get The Picture 
Enjoy it fellas. It was a great season.
That’s a disappointing way to end it, but it doesn’t change the fact that it was a great season.
And, things are looking up for you.
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At least we’ve still got the Falcons to keep our hopes alive for now.
Right, guys? Right … ?
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Falcons are the number 1 choke team in football!
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You can say that again….but at least we have “cruiting”.
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Now that we’ve got that behind us, what do you think Fields’ QBR will be in the spring game?
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Fromm is the man, Fields will be sitting for the next 3 years. For much of the game Fromm looked like a mini Tom Brady.
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Except that Brady does not tend to lose championships.
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Unless the other QB is from the SEC.. where Tom Brady is 0-2
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I think I need a break, honestly.
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Yeah. I need to dry out for sure. 🙂
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I can’t take anymore. Right now I just think I will give it up.
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It’s weird. Had we lost without question of what could/should have been, I think it would be easier to move on. But the question will persist. Time to start getting my fishing gear spruced up and thinking about Springtime.
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Reasons that I feel lost the game for us:
1. Going back to Athens to practice made no sense.
2. Bad play calls: Running the wild-dog backed up on our own 15 yard line?
3. Poor tackling.
4. Secondary couldn’t cover.
5. Never really established the run till it was too late.
6. Bad calls by he Big 10 refs, and stupid penalties by us.
7. Too conservative in 2nd half.
Kirby needs to make some decisions for next year and I know that he will. I think the emotional and mental strain and exertion from the Rose bowl was too much to overcome so quick.
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With due respect, I have had enuf commercial time to do me a lifetime……just follow the money…they ain’t televising fb games bc they want to please the fans….it’s money first and last, always has been…..remember the old days when Ed Thilenius was calling the games….they all started at 2:00 p.m. and were over by 4:30….radio announcers had to be good b/c there were very few televised games….
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I’m coming even harder this next season.
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Great job again, Senator. Hopefully it juices you up enough for a few more seasons of blogging.
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Honestly I think I’ll need that time to get over last night.
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Can’t agree with you there Senator. Losing the championship was the number #1 thing. College football being over is #2. Had we won, #2 would have been much more enjoyable for the next 9 months.
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I get all of the hyperbole, but the number one thing that sucks from last night is WE LOST. Now after time settles down then yeah it will suck waiting until Sept 1 but for now its that we lost.
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I could use the R&R. I think I have PTSD.
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Same. I’m just drained right now. Last night felt like slow death. In the second half I could just feel it coming. I kept waiting for us to do one more thing that would end it. I thought the blocked punt was it. We did some stupid things in the second half but honestly we had done enough right that it should have been enough. I don’t buy the “better team won” stuff. Yes, PTSD is right.
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Reports are surfacing that Eason is transferring to Washington.
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Petersen seems to get the most out of his QBs. Hope it works out for him.
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Agreed as long as they aren’t playing an SEC team
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Seems like a smart move, I guess. Their QB will be a senior next season while Eason red-shirts, then Eason will get two years to be the man. Hope he does well, gets drafted in the late first round and makes good NFL money. DGD.
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I hope so too, Russ.
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+1
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I’m just looking forward to the final signing day, then onto spring practice. After that I’m not sure what I will do until the season starts.
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If any of your Alabama brethren try to offset the ref complaints by contending that Hardman was out of bounds…he wasn’t. I froze the video and blew it up (unlike the ESPN crew, of course)–there’s a strip of green between his heel and the sideline. (Can’t attach a pic or I would.) Just thought I’d share.
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I thought he was out, but thought it was too close to overturn. That was a rare good call by the refs, because if they blow it dead, it doesn’t matter if he didn’t step out.
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Post it gastri. Please
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See if this works. https://photos.google.com/photo/AF1QipOJ01uUE8GJMv0rRuZtgdPF2Aeq8AQn35P0toBb
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I’m pretty sure UGA fans enjoyed more college football than any program in the history of the sport. We saw 15 games with a total of 3 OT’s. Hate it ended how it did, but what a ride it was!
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The worst thing from last night is the whole e-ticket & MB stadium experience. We could only get the bar-code of one ticket to work & the “customer service” was as apathetic as a gov’t employee. Having been in the cold & rain for too long w/ no luck or help in resolving our plight we went home w/ no interest in the game.
We’ll avoid any/all events at MB stadium in the future & stick to games in Athens. Flaws & all, the experience at Sanford Stadium is far better than last night’s mess. Can’t wait for some doo-doo ice.
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Damn, that really sucks, though it doesn’t surprise me. The one place cell coverage is guaranteed to suck is in a crowd of 70k all trying to do the same thing. Monumentally short sighted, and then add weather, security, added Secret Service security and you get a real cluster.
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I will never darken the door at MB Stadium.
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Never again for me, don’t care if Elvis comes back and I have free tickets. To do so many things right, it is a cluster. And I didn’t have any issues with the entry (other than the cold rain.) Atlass, only one ticket came up on our phone’s screen, but if you moved it to the right, our other ticket was there as well. Didn’t take 20 seconds at the scan point, and I was not a fan of that method and envisioned lots of problems.
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Man, our OOC in ’18 stinks.
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Agreed the upside is a trip to Baton Rouge. I hope it is at night.
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As does our OC
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Agree with kfoge.
We lost…again to Bama.
Frankly, I am damn tired of it. Know we were playing for a championship, but I simply wanted the Dawgs to beat Bama and Saban.
Both teams beat 4 teams in top 20.
Dawgs did beat Auburn. Bama did not.
Best officiating crew…ACC in Rose Bowl hands down, not even close!
Smart had better work on a passing game, get his QB mobile, for sure the leaky secondary, and a better pass rush.
Tucker and staff have a lot of work to do now. The secondary was a big issue all year.
Somewhere Smart and staff have to learn you need to play with 11 on 11 when you have the ball. Why UGA never has a mobile QB is beyond reason and defies logic.
Sorry, I find no joy in finishing second again!!!
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Fields is on the way at QB, it was only year 2.
Rome wasn’t built in a day. Yes I want the W but realistically programs take multiple seasons to build especially to be on par with Bama. Smart has actively worked to close gaps in the program.
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Give me a qb that can put the ball in tight spaces and a good o-line any day. Deshaun Watson is great because he’s a passer that can run and not a runner that can pass (Jalen Hurts).
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The off season should give the President plenty of time to learn the words to the Star Spangled Banner.
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LOL! I noticed that, too.
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He shut down the whole city, mucked up security, and interjected himself into our night just to make a political point by “standing” on the field during the anthem. I’m sure he was out before halftime. I wish the CFP people would have told him to piss off.
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Our Uber driver said she saw the motorcade heading north around )in her estimation) the early second quarter.
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Of Course your “uber” driver is one to be trusted.
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I’d trust him/her over the illiterate President.
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Would that be the illiterate president who doesn’t know how many states we have in the Union?
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In 2 quarters a seldom used frosh QB comes in and lights up the secondary for 3 passing TDs.
Has that fact registered on any of you guys!
Mayfield did not even come close to that.
Think about it!
Where in heck was our defensive secondary and coaching staff in second half?
Hard to understand Bama’s Oline and receivers are that good.
The question you have to ask the “coach who can now walk on water” or the genius with the greatest call in CFPs is where in heck was that move against Auburn.
Everybody I talked with and who watched that game was why is he still playing Jalen.
Give Saban credit, he was not going to make the same mistake twice.
Now will Smart learn a lesson and not make the same mistake twice.
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What I saw was a desperate team taking chances and it paid off in OT on the final play of the game, the only time they lead in the entire game. When was the last time Bama played a game like that?
Losing sucks, but “big bad Bama” can be beaten. Next time, we’ll get it done. I hope Saban is there to take it (nothing against Saban, but I want Kirby to be the first former assistant to beat him).
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Kirby should have beaten Saban last night. Except for a convergence of multiple things including bad calls (either intentional or unintentional) by the game officials Kirby would have beaten Saban last night.
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Agree
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I agree Russ. Forget all of the “when Saban retires” crap. I want Kirby to beat the son of a gun now.
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You are the only person in here that mentioned retire.
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Wrong! Try again
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Well I don’t think Bama’s gonna fire him! 😉
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2012.
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I agree Russ, We made Saban blink and almost won the game(anyone who doesn’t think this game was a tossup I don’t understand)
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I heard Lane Kiffin interviewed on the Dan Patrick show earlier today. He said Tua is the next Steve Young. And that he’d be a first round NFL draft pick (and Fromm would not.)
Laner’s words. Not mine.
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He also said a lot of people in the Bama organization thought Tua should have been the starter at the beginning of the year. That he clearly beat Hurts out for the job and continued to look better all season, but Saban wouldn’t start him.
Interesting interview with Kiffin…… never know how much of his BS to believe….
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Last time I checked, we don’t have to give back the SEC championship trophy. We got that an nobody can take that away. We are Champions, and unlike the champions of life, we got a trophy to prove it. We have a legitimate shot at bigger things now.
I’m not gonna lie, the fourth quarter was like cauterizing a jellyfish sting with a hot iron. I’m spent emotionally but proud of our team. Must resist my ego’s temptation to relive the 10+ close plays imagining a better result only to be painfully and unceremoniously brought back to reality. Griping over the officiating is no different.
My 12 step recovery plan
1. Be grateful that I have life priorities over an above the Dawgs (even though I love them so)
2. Root for a great draft payday for our Seniors who helped take this team to the next level. Sony and Nick especially.
3. Realize that recruiting has gone to the next level
4. Keep up with this blog–even the occasional playoff expansion gripes and political threads.
5. Look forward to the spring game where I can take my boys to Athens for the first time
6. Enjoy the pummeling of our SEC east opponents this year.
7. Look forward to the pummeling of our SEC east opponents next year
8. Repeat 6-7 again with a special place for UF
9. Watch in amusement as UT fans live vicariously through Bama football while continuously thinking ‘Bless their hearts’ as they dance few honeymoon years away with Pruitt
10. Did I mention the UF game where we beat them so bad they fired their coach? Well, we did that.
11. Take note of the efficiency and attention to detail this staff will demonstrate during the off season and think ‘man am I glad we are doing that now’
12. Realize it is great to be a graduate of the University of Georgia and that being a fan of a team during good and bad times is better-greater-more amazing-more awesome than any frontrunner of a good team and/or a tech fan.
Go Dawgs
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Just your friendly reminder UGA beat, TN and the Crocs, the 2 programs which should compete with UGA for the East title a combined…..
83 to 7
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I’m going to add to that. We beat the Viles, Crocs and nerds by a combined 121-14. That is my definition of ecstasy.
We beat our SEC foes so badly, they fired their coach, and we kept the Tech score down enough to keep Fish Fry around for more fun.
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I don’t plan on being hungover again for a long while. This season really hurt my liver. Too much happy drinking after big wins.
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Chaney pooping the bed is up there. The D ran outof gas, Chaney ran out of guts and the refs ran out of impartiality.
We made it, so I wanted a win, but I was also realistic about the task. We’re ahead of schedule but it’s disappointing that Chaney called the 2nd to not lose and Kirby seemed ok with it. We did that at damn near the same point in the Rose Bowl but we overcame. He tried it last night against a program pulling 5 starts off the bench and we lost. Then there was the refs jobbing us on the punt block, that bogus PI on that deep sideline pass and Fromm getting punched in the freaking head, among many other 1-sided calls/non-calls.
Amazing season ended by cowardice and an officiating crew who clearly wanted to make their mark.
Next year scares me for all that we’re losing and our OL is still a ways off. Still, amazing season and the direction and future look good. Fuuuuuck!!!
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For everyone saying how far ahead Bama is with talent and depth, the AJC has a good summary on that. I’ll just cut and paste:
“Here are a few other head-to-heads to think about between the Bulldogs and the Tide.
Alabama signed the nation’s top recruiting classes in 2015, 2016 and 2017. The Crimson Tide currently are rated No. 5 for 2018.
Georgia signed the nation’s No. 6 class in 2015 and 2016. The Bulldogs landed the nation’s No. 3 class in 2017 and currently have the No. 1-ranked class for 2018.
Alabama has signed 16 prospects with that elite 5-star rating since 2015.
Georgia has signed 14 of those elite 5-stars since 2015, including a gap-closing six of them for 2018.
The Crimson Tide’s recruiting history shows that they have signed 58 prospects with a 4-star rating since 2015. In comparison, the Bulldogs total up 52 of those elite players.
Alabama has signed up just one 5-star prospect for 2018.
The Tide have signed one player who was rated No. 1 in this class at his position for 2018. That’s junior college cornerback prospect Savion Smith.
Alabama has landed only one signee among the nation’s top 50 prospects for this cycle. Georgia has signed nine prospects who are rated in the top 50 of the 247Sports composite rankings for 2018.
The Crimson Tide have signed six players who rate among the nation’s top 5 prospects for their positions in 2018. In comparison, the Bulldogs have signed 12 of those players in their prized 2018 class.”
What that tells me is what I saw last night, that we’re very close to Bama in talent, and nearly equal in depth. Our next two classes will close that gap as well. I’ll say it. I want Bama next year in the SECCG.
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With football over, we can focus more on politics! #Oprah2020
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Go Dawgs!
Very proud of the team and coaching staff. Such marked improvement over just one year is amazing. I’ve been very, very impressed.
Of course, there is a lot still to work on. But Kirby obviously knows that. Heck, after the Rose Bowl he wouldn’t stop talking about how much his defense “stunk it up out there.”
They should all be proud of what they accomplished. And very sad they couldn’t put Bama away when they had many, many opportunities to do just that.
They can and should feel both deeply. Pride in the season as a whole and regret for the fact they couldn’t close it out like they should have.
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Tough Loss for all of us, and our seniors played their guts out all year. We are the Champions of the SEC (always the highest of priorities of us) and Champions of the Rose Bowl. Neither of these should be taken for granted. What gives me great hope about our future is that I don’t have to hear “champions of life” or “we are just thankful for the opportunity.” This season, this post-season, has felt different than anything after 2002, 2005, 2007, and 2012.
We have a HC that loves his alma mater, loves the fans, and has passion about this team and coaching our players. I’m pissed off as anyone about not bringing it home last night. But just like Chubb told Kirby before the game, “I believe in you coach. And I’ll follow you.” That should tell you all you need to know about this team this year and where we are headed.
I despise losing to anyone in the SEC, I HATE everyone else.
As Lewis Grizzard said, “I’m Bulldog born and Bulldog bred, and when I die I’ll be Bulldog dead!” Those demons that have held us for four decades will die soon.
We just added Bama to the 2018 Revenge Tour.
GATA
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