October 17, 2018 · 6:55 AM

When in doubt, GATA.

Sounds like there was a lot of yelling at yesterday’s “back-to-basics” practice.

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21 responses to “When in doubt, GATA.”

  1. Derek
    October 17, 2018 at 7:13 AM

    Who yelled at the guy who called for a fake FG?

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  2. dawgtired
    October 17, 2018 at 7:16 AM

    Too bad the efforts are in hindsight after a loss. I think the gators are about to face a focused Georgia team. GATA!

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    • D as in Dawg
      October 17, 2018 at 7:56 AM

      I sure hope you’re right. If yelling louder was the answer, I’m kind of disappointed they didn’t yell more last week. We’ll see. I hope getting embarrassed is the motivation the players needed to block, tackle, stick to assignments, and throw to open receivers. UF is licking their chops!

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      • The Truth
        October 17, 2018 at 9:07 AM

        If UF is licking their chops, then we’ve got real problems — as in we need new coaches. All we’ve done around here since last December is talk about the talent disparity between us and the Gators. Either that talent disparity is a mirage, or our coaches are incapable of getting what they should out of the available talent.

        If Florida is licking their chops, then why didn’t we hire Mullen? I’ll beat the same dead horse I did in the build-up to the SC game — y’all remember, SC was going to give us a game, upset us according to many pundits. If recruiting rankings mean anything then we should win this game. If we don’t win, we either need new coaches or finally accept that recruiting rankings don’t mean shit.

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        • D as in Dawg
          October 17, 2018 at 9:34 AM

          Losing to LSU in Death Valley with a very young team is nothing to be ashamed of. The way we lost is. We should be able to handle UF and we are definitely more talented based on star ratings. But we could say the same thing about LSU, the team that got beat down by UF. Who knows what’s going to happen. I know last year was the game of a lifetime and I’m glad I was there. I’ll be watching this one on TV.

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  3. Macallanlover
    October 17, 2018 at 8:38 AM

    Dawgs will be ready to take down an overmatched FU team, making sure they are more focused and less complacent justifies some yelling. What I don’t understand is the use of the terms “humiliating” and “devastating” being applied to the LSU loss. If it is because of the 20 point final margin, that just isn’t backed up by the game itself.

    We weren’t outclassed on the field all day long, it was some missed opportunities, and a couple of muffed plays that distorted the score, the fumble on Hardman at the 5 yard line and not kicking the gimmee FG is 10 of those 20 points alone. Add in a busted coverage, 100 yards of the LSU rushing on two plays, an overthrow to a wide open receiver for a TD, and just 6 plays totally change the perspective from humiliating to a nail-biter against a very good team in their hpstile house.

    I get that 6 plays could be used in many games to reverse outcomes but these were all pretty simplistic, and well within our capability. It isn’t like the rest of the game was a mismatch, or we are asking for Hail Mary , Herculean level changes. We have made that many unfocused plays in the 6 games we won earlier this season but this was just a better opponent. I am not excusing that lack of focus, just saying it was not humiliating at all. Missed opportunity, and a disappointing performance. The overreaction by many is driven by the unrealistic expectations of an undefeated season, and an exaggerated ranking of a young team that hasn’t fixed all their flaws without 3-4 key players. It isn’t like we cannot stay on the field with teams of LSU’s caliber; change the game to us having our backs against the wall and on our home field and it would likely have closed the door on LSU’s season. Our goals are still attainable, step it up and get to Atlanta. I am neither humiliated, not devastated.

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    • 1smartdude
      October 17, 2018 at 8:44 AM

      Don’t forget only 275 rushing yards against us……..

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      • Macallanlover
        October 17, 2018 at 9:30 AM

        100 of which came on just 2 plays, and our poor offensive showing allowed them many more plays and the opportunity to not need to rely on Burrow to pass.

        I have been beating the weakness against a power running team all season so I am not ignoring it. The four for four on 4th downs concern me more than the total rushing yards. It is primarily why I am apprehensive about the KY game. Doubt LSU could accomplish that on a regular basis against UGA, but they don’t have to. I wouldn’t expect to see that if we faced them again un Atlanta.

        You cannot ignore the 3 players on the DL who did not board the train for Baton Rouge. Our biggest weakness was made much worse this past week. We may not be able to fix the shortfall at ILB, rushing defense against the power run remains our biggest flaw and why I don’t think we can win the SEC this year. Had hoped we would have someone step up by now, just haven’t seen Hayes, or any of our returnees, indicate that will happen. Coaching or just lack of talent? I don’t know.

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        • Mike Cooley
          October 17, 2018 at 5:45 PM

          I’m not part of the group that is wallowing in the mud crying, “oh woe is us. We shouldn’t have hired Kirby. We are going to lose to FU, Kentucky, and Auburn. Blah, blah, blah.”. But I’m also not part of this bunch that is dawg grading the loss to LSU and putting lipstick on the pig by talking about it not being that lopsided until late and it was just a busted coverage here and long run there. The final score was what it was. We got our asses whipped. We got embarrassed. Our offense could only manage one touchdown. We stupidly gave up big plays to Joe Burrow. He ain’t exactly Cam Newton. Now is any of that the end of the world? No. I think we win in Jacksonville. That we were ass in that game last Saturday.

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    • AusDawg85
      October 17, 2018 at 10:27 AM

      No…we were outclassed all day by LSU’s coaching staff. That team was more motivated, better disciplined, fooled our O and D coordinators consistently and kept the crowd in the game. I applauded their performance because we flat out sucked in every aspect of that game.

      Time to move forward and respond.

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      • Macallanlover
        October 17, 2018 at 11:15 AM

        No disagreement with that at all, most of it was on the coaches, especially with not moving us forward from the earlier examples of a team not getting it. The lack of “big game attention” is more on the players, but they seem to have been stuck in neutral all season with only flashes of the potential. I also blame the constant switching of personnel in all 7 games, the time for experimenting and cross training should have been over a month ago. Set an order and let people get used to it, and let someone stop Holyfield and Swift first before going deeper, they cannot have been tired in any game yet.

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        • AusDawg85
          October 17, 2018 at 3:06 PM

          We should take a page from Coach O: Bwaa bwaa bwaa footbawl

          My cajun friends tell me that means “keep it simple, stupid”

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  4. dawgfan
    October 17, 2018 at 9:19 AM

    Somebody needed to yell at Loran to stay out of the way.

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  5. W Cobb Dawg
    October 17, 2018 at 12:04 PM

    LSU was an example of one poor coaching decision after another. The D kept us in the game all through the offense’s atrocious 1st half and into the 3rd quarter. Even after the half I felt if we got back to running the ball (with Holyfield and Swift) we could pull it out. But the dumbassery of passing too much, keeping Holyfield on the bench so much, using Taylor at ILB instead of Rice, not going for the onside kick, etc. was too much to overcome.

    Too much emphasis on team youth as an excuse. What bothers me the most is how our coaches abandoned what has worked for us (running game) in lieu of trickery. LSU was an example of flat out lousy decisions by coaches.

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  6. Mike Cooley
    October 17, 2018 at 5:52 PM

    Completely agree with your first sentence in that last paragraph W Cobb. I’m sick of hearing youth being used as an excuse for everything. At some point there should be some measure of visible improvement. We have looked the same all year. And as the Senator or someone else said Monday, we abandoned what was working and what is supposed to be our offensive identity in favor of a bag of tricks. I’m not calling for Chaney’s head but I don’t think much of him a lot of the time.

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