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Help me, Wild Turkey 101. You’re my only hope.
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Hanging with Uncle Jack
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Running with the buffaloes here.
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Somebody needs to either work hard on fake designs or Kirby needs to quit calling them ever. That fake punt was just fucking awful. Maybe they lose anyway, but that virtually assured it.
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How about just don’t call one, take points when available, and play f-ing defense?
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The D was playing well. Make ‘em go 90 yards and see if they can do it. Maybe they throw an INT or fumble deep in their territory. Maybe we stop them and they have to punt. But NOOOO….We have to run the worst fake punt in history on this and eleven and give Bama a short field.
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Kirby needs a fake rationing system. One fake, punt or field goal, every other year. No more often than that.
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Amen
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Kirby should frame that play along with the one from Baton Rouge and have “Never Again” engraved onto it. Hang it over his mantle.
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Too soon
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We’re the Jimmy Carter of college football.
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So we’ll be a great ex-team?
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I think he means we’re too stupid to function.
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Haha
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Uh….Jimmy Carter WON the Presidential election of 1976.
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Clearly we’re the Adlai Stevenson to Alabama’s Eisenhower.
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The fake punt was an abortion. Worse was the abominable run heavy offense in the 2nd half. (though to be honest I’m way over the hill now, so the UGa strategy might have been legitimate)
I can’t understand all the UGA PAIN!!!
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Outside of the possession off the goal line, they didn’t run that much in the second half.
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I defer to your analysis. Frankly, I started partying early in the 3rd Qtr as any standard fan might. The game was IN CONTROL and Tucker maybe was already out the door…. Or Chaney with not enough downfield passes. Or ESPN. (Fuck, a UGA fan has to believe in a different Gawd,)
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Dafuq?
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“My head and heart have argued plenty about games this season, but on this one, they’re both in agreement. Dawgs cover, but ultimately fall a little short.”
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One: I think Kirby and Co. need to make it clear to Fields that he is the backup QB. He sits in reserve unless needed due to a blowout or injury. No more subbing in for one play here or there. Fromm can hand the ball off just as good as Fields can. We are wasting snaps with Fields in the game. Fromm was red friggin hot and we pull him. Crazy…
Two: The possession before the half and the fake punt were borderline criminal coaching calls. As much as the staff makes, they should be fined for such boneheadedness stupidity.
We choked this one guys. No two ways about it.
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What were they supposed to do before the half off the five? The fake punt was awful, but I didn’t have a problem with the way the rest of the game was coached.
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ST didn’t help there.
I’ll have to go back and watch the recording. I was thinking there was clock mismanagement.
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They called a pass that Fromm missed when they could have run the clock out. I think they were hoping to hit a big play with Alabama not paying attention, but the check down to Swift was an easy, normally safe throw that Fromm almost airmailed for an interception.
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After the Bama roughing the kicker penalty from the 19 with 54 seconds and 3 timeouts, we ran Swift up the gut and didn’t immediately call time out. What the mother fucking fuck? Richt was never that fucking stupid, even though Kirby has the same pussy instinct that seems to define The Georgia Way. Fromm can run the damn 2 minute drill as good as Aaron Murray. What would Saban have done there? The Master with his killer instinct would have AT LEAST tried to get 3 going into the locker room, knowing your opponent is getting the ball at the half.
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I agree. Never leave 3 TOs and 60 seconds on clock up one score against #1 who gets the ball to open the second half.
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We then passed on 2nd down with 13 seconds left. WTF? Pass on 1st down or just stay conservative and run out the clock. Fucking schizophrenic. Nick called timeout with 8 seconds left thinking he could tie up the game. You want to beat his ass you fight fire with fire. You don’t defeat his ass with Christian kindness.
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Yep. The end of the first half was clock mismanagement.
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All day long here.
I like Fields as he is a Dawg and seems like a good kid.
But, this was Jakes game, playing well, and Fields offered little in this game other than wasting a play here and there. Stupid. The dumb fucking fake punt goes down as one of the shittiest Dawg calls in my time. That’s saying something too.
We had this team totally beat and somehow found a way to fuck it all up.
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NO REASON FOR FIELDS TO EVEN SEE THE FIELD TODAY.
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You nailed it. This Fields experiment is failing in critical situations. Fromm is a championship caliber QB. Let him win one and get Fields prepared for 2020.
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I could care less about upsetting Justin Fields. The whole point is to WIN TITLES not INFINITE PLANNING to win titles. We lost a title today because we were planning for the next one.
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Agree. And not letting Fields get REAL reps and run the offense in the early blowout games coming back to bite us.
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What makes matters worse is Kirbs is playing the old Paul Johnson routine now. He’s blaming the players and doesn’t accept responsibility for his screw-ups which is a major fault in most fans eyes. Then he grandstands for a playoff berth that just ain’t happening.
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You mean like Nick Saban did for Bama last year after the loss to Auburn in the Iron Bowl and like he did a few years before that in 2011 after they lost to LSU in the SEC CG?
I don’t remember Kirby blaming the players for the loss in his press conference. He pretty much came out and said it was on him and the coaches unless you are referring to his comments on the fake punt call.
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Definitely referring to the fake punt. He blamed the snapper for not snapping it quick enough. I blame him for not calling timeout when he saw Bama in punt safe completely covering the possibility that the play would work. Coaching malpractice at its finest. Kirbs should have accepted responsibility for it straight out in the presser- and chose not to.
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This loss, in my opinion, is firmly on Kirby.
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yup.
we may not have won it, but that play call guaranteed we lost it.
inexplicable.
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And if we had made it we would have won.
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My point is that we acted in desperation when we weren’t in a do or die situation.
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Precisely. Kirby was coaching scared when he wasn’t losing.
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Please stop with the excuses. That may have been the dumbest call in history. It was moronic.
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100% agreed
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The fake was horrible but how does Kirby and staff not get credit for having the team ready to give Alabama all they can handle and shutting down the probable Heisman winner?
The game was lost because Alabama made plays on both sides of the ball down the stretch and we didn’t. Oh btw this may be the greatest college football team like ever.
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The team was ready to play. For me, that’s the part of the fake punt that is head scratching to me. That was the time to play field position and tip your cap to the other guy if he makes the play to win. That call was a vote of no confidence in his defense.
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This coming from Mr “the whole state of Ga sports is cursed”? C’mon man- stick with your narrative.
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Because the game is 60 minutes not 58 and no matter how well they were prepared, they lost and a major contributor was the dumbest play I have seen at Georgia EVER! The eternal cursed bridesmaid.
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Every time a team goes undefeated and wins a natty the press crowns it “the greatest college football team ever.” What I saw was a very beatable Bama team. I’m thinking Clemson kicks their asses.
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Every square inch.
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This fucking fake kick shit has to go.
Sick of it.
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YES. We have tried it twice. Once with the lead and once tied.
NO REASON to do it either time. His answer was that they lined up in a certain way. SO WHAT? What’s the rationale?????
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No more trick plays Kirby. It’s like they ripped our hearts out and stomped on them. I wish they would just make holding legal if they are going to let Bama do it.
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My guess is that he thinks that he is operating against more than just reality. Fake news, don’t ya know.
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This one is gonna be tougher to overcome. Players will start to doubt CKS. Need a transcendent player at QB and a bunch more defensive linemen. The kids player hard tho
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The QB play is fine. We seem go into a conservative shell in the 2nd half and the defense can’t cover anyone anymore in close big games.
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We have a transcendent player at quarterback, or did you not watch the first half?
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Fromm threw for 300 yards with 3 TD’s and no picks. He is one of the best QB’s in the country. Not sure what game you were watching if you think Fromm had anything to do with that loss.
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Yeah they’ll abandon him… Sure…
http://www.espn.com/blog/sec/post/_/id/131224/despite-loss-georgia-should-have-a-good-feeling-about-its-future
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Fromm outplayed the “transcendent” player at QB tonight. It wasn’t even close.
On the D-line, it has been my primary concern about the last couple of recruiting classes. Help is on the way.
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What game were you watching mate. And where you been the last 10 years. Jeeezeus. We got the best QB in a generation. Don’t comment if you are that ignorant of where we are. Godddam.
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I’m at the point that I don’t UGA will ever beat Bama.
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Not as long as Kirby is coaching against his daddy.
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The new “Fourth and Dumb”. I am so pissed I can’t stand it. I would have taken a 7 point loss before the game, but seeing our guys play their asses off only to be f..ked by their coaches dumb decision makes me scream. My wife went to bed early to be able to avoid me. I have no defense for that decision. None. If we punt and put them back on the 20, the worst that happens is overtime. Fromm played his ass off and so did Swift. The defense played well for 90% of the game, but we gave them a short field with the game tied and the back up QB in the game. No excuse, it was the wrong call and it screwed the team who deserved better. We won’t be in the playoffs now and I hope Kirby learns something from this.
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He didn’t learn from the previous disasters (fake field goal, fake punt).
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Not going all ‘FIRE KIRBY’ on you but, how many times did we say same the exact same thing about Richt? Damn it is hard to be a sports fan in this state.
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I remember when everyone loved Mark Richt. Then he self-destructed a few times in big games and people stopped loving him. Are you listening Kirby?
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Why didn’t any Georgia coach remember hurts only throws or scrambles to his right?
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I’m the words of GibbyOne….
“Kids played well enough to win ..adults didn’t”
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Conservative play-calling in 2nd half lost the game, wasn’t the missed FG or stupid fake punt, we have to be able to play 4 quarters.
This is exactly what happened to us in the Natty last year. #coachingscared
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Yep
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We attempted two fake punts and one one fake field goal this season. All three were unmitigated disasters and two cost us games. Stop calling this crap. Today’s loss was on the coaches. Stop coaching scared and trust your guys. We went after Alabama the entire first half and it worked. As Spurrier would say, keep doing it until they stop you.
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Kirby said postgame that the fake didn’t work because we didn’t snap the ball early enough, that a Bama defender ran over to cover whoever was supposed to get the pass from Fields. That being said, when you see the other team line up to punt, and the only guy in the backfield with the punter is your backup QB, who the hell doesn’t figure out that a fake is being called? Hell, I saw that as soon as I saw Fields, and I was opening my (next) beer during the play
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If Fields is in the backfield any logical team gets curious. I guess Bama is logical, or just annoying.
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The Bama players saw it immediately and were pointing at Fields. They were in their regular defense. That we even ran the play is beyond comprehension. It was doomed before it began. Kirby should have called time out. Saban is laughing his ass off.
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Kirby blamed the players? What? color me shocked.
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He didn’t blame the players. Listen to the darn presser
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He pretty much did when he said the snapper didn’t snap it quick enough
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Yep..Fields has to be back there on every punt..which keeps the defense honest….but to put him back there only that one time and expect the defense not to go on full alert?
That was like walking into a bank with a gun.
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This one is squarely on the coaches. Panic/ Stupification/ Mind Paralysis in the 4th quarter. Fake Punt…Putting Fields in for no good reason and wasting downs…loss of imagination in play calling…in other words, Coach Choke. Kids deserved better.
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Chaney’s inability to make adjustments is atrocious.
That being said I can’t imagine how the committee can say we are not one of the four best teams in the country. I think the fact that we lost i. Such a close game will propel us into the playoffs for another shot at Bama.
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Forget about it.
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No they won’t because they won’t make Bama play us again in the semifinal.
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Not going to happen. We’ll get some unwatchable, meaningless bowl against Texas or some sh!t.
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Will never happen… give it up.
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It’s almost like the coaches are scared that Fields will transfer. He is the backup. We have a great starter. Get behind him and let him play. Saban didn’t worry that Hurts would transfer. Dabo didn’t worry when he made up his mind who was the best QB. It’s like Dabo said…this is not grade school football. The best player will play.
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This
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This. All Day Long.
Kirbs should keep learning from the master….
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I’m with you.
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The way we’re using Fields (a token snap once in a while) might make him even more likely to transfer, in my opinion. Give him a chance to do something or keep him on the sideline. Bama knew exactly what was coming whenever Fields was in the backfield. It was nothing added and took the ball away from Fromm, who was lighting it up.
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Yes sir. Should have recognized that they recognized our fake and called time out to stop the train wreck before it happened.
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Not snapping the ball soon enough made no diff on the fake punt. 4th and 11 w 5+ minutes left is no time to try and run the ball up the gut against a good defense. Kirby needs to own this one. I hope that he will be able to do so. Besides, if you were going to fake i, do it with Swift, who is an actual running back, rather than your back up QB who is a good athlete but not an elite runner.
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It was a pass play not a run.
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It was supposed to be a pass. Kirby said we took too long on the snap, but Alabama had it covered three on three from the get go.
Just like LSU having three men lined up outside of Woerner on the fake FG, the play wasn’t there. Swallow your ego and call timeout.
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For the record ther 3:11 when that ball was snapped . Dumb , dumb, dumb.
Have I mentioned it was dumb?
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Kirby better apologize to the team for that one. Bama may have still won if UGA punts but Kirby gift wrapped it with the fake call. A at out terrible call plain and simple. A total choke on Kirby’s part.
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There was a play where the UGA linemen pushed the pile on a run (can’t remember if it was Swift or Holyfield) and gained an extra 7 yards from where the rb was initially stopped. That is the kind of thing Alabama usually does. That made me convinced we were going to win. Fuck them for giving me hope.
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Curse of the bambino, curse of the goat, curse of Satan
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Way ahead of you Bluto!
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OK everybody, STFU about Kirby losing it with the fake FG call. Yeah, it was a bad call, but this team we just faced had boat raced every team it had come across all year. We had them for a while, but their overall depth and talent took over. Surprised? No. Shit, no one gave us a chance but we went the distance with maybe the best college team since Nebraska in ’93. We held Tua to under 100 yards in the 1st half. Who would have put money on that? Kirby has it going on but goddamn, Nick has built a monster of historic proportions over there. Nobody beats them this year or maybe next. Sorry.
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Low hanging fruit.
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Whining about the fake I mean.
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We played a hell of a game. The coaches and players laid it all on the line for 58 minutes. Another loss to the kings of the sport where we played like our collective hair was on fire. Jake outplayed the likely Heisman Trophy winner, and it wasn’t even close.
What has me shaking my head right now is that we played quite possibly the worst percentage with that fake and gave them field position. A defensive minded head coach would never do that. We needed to make them earn it and we didn’t.
That’s what has me so down about how it turned out.
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So, now Kirby isn’t a defensive minded coach huh?
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He certainly didn’t coach the end of the game like one. Play field position. If the other guy drives the length of the field, fine.
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Bingo, and running for 10 on a fake is low percentage. If you expect to have half a chance you throw the ball.
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It was supposed to be a pass, but Bama covered the guy up because in Kirby’s words, we didn’t snap the ball quick enough.
Even it had worked, it was a terrible call and the worst time to try to pull it.
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ok missed that, I was half watching doing something else and hadn’t been able to re watch it yet,
Still agree punt hope to pin them deep.. We were doing well stopping the run at times. If we get lucky drop it in side the 5 and who knows. Worse case they get it in the 20 have to drive down for a score with a kicker who misses PATs.
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That was exactly my thought process as well. Why someone didn’t tell him to take a delay penalty or use a time out there is beyond me.
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Based on the fact that he chose to fake punt on 4th and 11 instead of actually punting and playing defense kinda validates that statement a wee bit. Don’t you think?
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That’s right. Punt and make em drive the length. If they beat you they beat you, but we had been doing pretty good all night. Maybe the coaches knew our guys were gassed and couldn’t get a stop, but the numbers all shout punt.
Still dang proud to be a Dawg tonight. A lot of that Tide team is gone next year. Most all the Dawgs will be back.
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Who knows if Camarda pins them inside the 5 and Saban plays for OT? Even a touchback with 80 yards before the goal line is better than a failed fake punt there.
It was a failure of epic proportions. I love Kirby, but this one is on him tonight.
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I’m beginning not to love Kirby.
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Your moral victory is cute. This was squarely on coaches. They get credit for having them ready to play. They get the credit for choking.
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So, when you have a real F***ing chance to beat them you don’t pull an all time STUPID call. I’d have rather lost the way we were supposed to, than to have the players play their asses off and the coaching staff pull an all-time blunder to assure the loss. We have the 5 stars, we have Kirby, we had a partisan crowd, but he(Kirby) said I don’t trust my team. You guys must love participation trophies.
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Good grief. I bet your mama still has 3 shelves full of your soccer participation trophies out at home for all the extended family to see over the holidays.
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The #4 team in the nation lost to the #1 team by 1 TD. Rankings shouldn’t change. Played out just as they had predicted.
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Saban said the turning point for them was when the Dawg TE make the long catch and put them inside the red zone and came up with no points.
Dawgs score 7 there the game goes an entire different direction.
Go back and check those three calls before the failed field goal, a 31 yarder.
Now tell me if the wheels were not coming off Chaney.
Chaney can not help himself
He can not put his foot on the throat of an opponent and put them out. It is not in his character. He is a big passive dude.
He is not ruthlessness enough to want to truck an opponent. Just not his character and it shows in his offense as a game goes along.
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You’re a fucking troll, drop dead.
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You’re a Chaney Apologist.
This is the SECOND time Chaney took the ball out of Fromm’s hands in the fourth quarter of a game against Bama.
This is the SECOND time Chaney has gacked a second half against Bama.
You’re STILL going to defend him???
WE WILL NEVER WIN A NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP WITH THE THOROUGHLY MEDIOCRE JIM CHANEY AS OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR.
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Chaney called a good game. Some of y’all need to lay off the booze or rewatch the game sober.
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The troll is usually the one issuing threats and cussing.
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OOOO, “cussing” boogie fucking boogie. Drop dead isn’t a threat asshole, it’s a wish.
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Play off teams
Bama
Clemson
Notre Dame
UCF
Now it could be OU.
The committee wants undefeated teams.
Like i posted earlier.
92 and 99 took over in second half with rest of Bama defense.
No doubt Chaney’s offense is not up to the Tide D.
One observation about the offense…they have greater speed to the edge than Bama, or most SEC teams. But we never use it.
Could you use Fields to get the play there?
Perhaps the Drew Brees OC could get his QB on run plays not give up distance and start the slide too soon.
Take the shot.
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UCF. Lol.
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There is no way UCF should or will make the playoff. We will probably see them on Dec 29th and we will see how good they are.
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Like a hallmark movie….Always ends the same way. Once the kicker missed the outcome wasn’t in doubt.
I thought they would score in the 40s and Georgia would score in the 30s. If both teams had capitalized with a fg on their red zone chances it would have been 41-31. UGA wouldn’t fare any better in a rematch.
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Realistically, before the season who thought UGA was going to win this matchup tonight? This team is young and while talented is injured in key areas. Bama is deep as they have ever been and didn’t seem to be as dinged up except for Mr. All World QB. Yes they played great and had a chance but there were several things that led to a loss. This team will be better, hopefully the coaches will learn from the mistakes and they get over the hump. No reason to be upset this teams time will come.
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First, the refs, the side judge in particular, fucked us.
The PI was bullshit and the no call on the out of bounds hit was ridiculous.
Second, when we get the ball with over 5 to play, the correct strategy was to be aggressive. They’re worried about us eating the clock and that should give us the opportunity to take shots. If not, we punt them deep and play against their second qb.
Instead we kill three minutes off the clock and give them the ball at midfield with 2 to play.
You’re doing a lot of shit right Kirby but your decision making needs some work.
He’s got balls. We needs some brains.
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I hear you, Derek, but it doesn’t take any brains to realize a fake punt in that situation isn’t a risk worth taking. To defend your decision after the game, to define recklessness as aggressiveness–“I wanted to be aggressive. Look, I wasn’t coming here to play to tie, to play to keep it close. We came here to win the game”–adds insult to injury. Bad Kirby. Bad!
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As for the refs, side judge, etc. Kirby needs to learn how to challenge a spot. He seems adept enough at hanging on to time outs, so he should have one to burn to stop the cheating on the spots. If he’d do it a time or two and win the challenge, the refs would be embarrassed into honesty.
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Kirby needs to attend a “time out workshop” in the offseason.
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They hit a pass to midfielld, tried a run that was blown up and threw two incompletions on that drive. Some of you need to accept that the other team has an effect on the game. The fake punt was dumb, but almost everyone seems to agree on that point.
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May be getting aahead of the Senator here but it will be interesting to see what the ESPN narrative is for the playoff.
I took out a Twatter account earlier this year (God help me) and everything I’m seeing is we are in the Top 4- almost like a challenge to the committee do they really want the top 4 teams.
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I ain’t buying into that bs.
We’re playing Texas in NOLA. Period
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I’m sure too we are in Sugar but curious to hear the talking fucksticks.
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I stopped listening in 2007.
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If they want to expand the playoff they hose OU who avenged their loss.
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Agree. And honestly, I don’t want Bama again. Not this year anyway.
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Herbstreit moves us to 3 tonight … what kind of parallel universe do we live in? 🙂
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Let’s see what he says about OSU now that they seem to be breaking away from mighty Northwestern.
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I think that 29-point loss and the Maryland near miss put OSU in a bad place especially with OU avenging their only loss.
While I believe we are one of the “best” 4, I think tomorrow will be Bama, Clemson, ND and OU.
I can’t watch anything else tonight. Too down about how we let this one slip away.
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Ee did you go to MBS or catch on tv?
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TV … my daughter got a student ticket and was there
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Just asked because I usually take losses harder when I watch on tv versus at the game. This was different though as I went and walked out about as pissed as I’ve ever been . So tired of everything Bama. I wish misery on that whole program.
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Once I went out in the front yard for a few minutes and got my primal scream out of the way, I was ok. I just had no desire to watch anything else tonight.
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The committee will not put two SEC teams in the playoffs, they will avoid the pitchforks and torches…
We all know we just witnessed the true NC game. No other matchup will be as good. The only hope for the rest will be that Bama ‘knows’ they just played the second best team in the country and it might affect their energy. Clemson and Ohio St just had warmup games.
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Maybe Mel Tucker has it right in getting out. I’ve gone over it a million times since walking out of MB and I still fail to come up with a good reason to fake it in that situation. Did Smart think he was fooling anyone trotting Fields out there. He basically have it all away on one freaking play.
Twice in the same year we’ve had a nice lead on the unbeatable, all world Alabama just for this staff to piss it away. Want to kill whatever positive momentum this program has? Keep doing things like this. I dread how ugly it’ll get off afie
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The players played well enough to win. The Georgia coaches coached badly enough to lose.
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If we make the top 4, great, but I still don’t think it’s going to happen unless the committee sends a clear message to ND and drops them to #4. People have been clamoring for a date with Texas. If that’s the outcome, let’s go to New Orleans and kick the crap out of them.
Let’s go close with a great early signing period and prepare for another NY6 bowl game.
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Have to admit I’m kind of pissed that Clemson is playing their back ups against Pitt and we had to take on bama. If we do get in guess what, we will still have to take on bama
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Smart seems to trying to undermine whatever positive momentum he helped create. Elite recruits see it and opposing coaches and recruiters
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Fucking Jalen Hurts. Fuck- ing-a. We are the fucking pick me up of his whole backsliding career.
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I agree with Kevin Butler.
The committee of 13 will not put Dawgs in CFP…not with two losses…even if “the Dawgs looked good or played Bama close…up to the fake punt”.
But i would like to see them play Clemson.
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The most shocking thing about Chaney is how poorly he utilizes Fields in the run game or RPOs.
Frankly, I think he has stunted Fields development this year.
Bama and Saban, the masters of QB development and play.
They sure make themselves look great against the Dawgs…all those 21 down, not playing well, and then storming the gates of hell to win everytime in the closing minutes.
Who else could do that?
Not Bama, only Georgia is that obligatory.
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Has any one seen any coaching staff utilize a true frosh on a fake punt in a tied championship game with the ball at midfield on a 4th down with 2 minutes to go in game.
What playbook or staff person drew up that play.
Why not simply put your experienced QB back out there and run a high probable play, or simply punt them deep and see if they want to go the distance.
Better chance to put them in OT.
Bet that play will not be used in the future.
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Y’all can bitch and kvetch all you want. I am damn proud of my team. This was supposed to be a bit of a rebuilding year, but they just went toe to toe with what is being hyped as possibly the best CFB team ever. Now they can go beat Texas in the Sugar Bowl. When Bama wins both of their playoff games by 2+ TDs, I hope the voters will remember our game and rank us #2. Go Dawgs!
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Watch it, you’re approaching Disney Dawg status with that one. Here’s the part most of you sunshine-pumpers don’t realize: nothing in life is guaranteed. There is no guarantee this team makes it back to the SECCG next year. Probability is high but who knows. The point is yes, they played their asses off but when you have the chance to win you have to close the damn deal. 2 years in a row against Bama we’ve had the chance and lost. That’s a trend.
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Well, we need some Disney Dawgs to counter the obsessive b’iatching and complaining coming from all the Negative Nancy’s. I’d rather share a beer or a glass of bourbon with a Disney Dawg any day. At least I don’t have to hear all the self-flagellating dribble.
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I assume you have a mantle full of participation trophies. These chances rarely happen.
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They’ve happened two years in a row and will probably happen again the next two years Get a grip.
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chances rarely happen I mean being in control at half time of the national championship game and being in control mid way through the third in the SECCG. Florida and the other East guys have been way down. Things happen: See 1992, the Donnan years with ALL that talent, 2003, 2012, ETC. We were in control and our coaching staff choked. Even worse I saw the single worst play call in my 45 years of watching and living Georgia football. Would we have won……..Maybe not, but we had a rare chance. We look stacked and loaded, but I remember how stacked we were with Goff, Donnan and Richt. We never got SEC or Natty with the first 2 and no natty with Richt. You can’t squander opportunity. You never know what might happen with Kirby, the schedule, Florida, Bama. What else do you need to know?
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Nope. I get it that fans are pissed. I upset that the Dawgs lost too. As I said and alluded to in reply to Erk’s Forehead, Georgia will be back in the SEC CG in 2019 and 2020 with a shot at the CFB Playoffs and Nat’l Championship. Come January 2021, if Kirby hasn’t won one, then some of the comments are warranted.
Losing sucks, but some of you have lost your ever loving minds either because you have had too much to drink or put too much of your self-worth into winning or losing a football game. I do what I did when I played football and that Kirby and most coaches and players do. I give myself 24 hours after a win or loss to reflect on the game and then move on.
I fly out Monday to help a friend and his family in Anchorage try to pick up the pieces from the earthquake on Friday morning. Perspective man. Perspective.
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Perspective man. First let me tell you that I decided to forgo going to the game because I had an important church meeting and being 7 hours away I chose to devote time to church while watching the game before I had to meet. I have been on recent mission trips to the Dominican Republic, volunteer read at a Pre-K Head Start school, tutor 2nd graders who are behind in their reading skills and spend many hours participating in church outreach programs. Don’t patronize me on perspective Buddy. If you think these players put that behind them, you didn’t hear Ledbetter, Walker, Gaillard and others talk about coming back to erase memories. Do you really think Kirby forgot about last year or will forget about 4th and dumb. We have a great future, but the fact is this looks like 1991-1992, 2002-2003, 2012. I’m not interested in participation ribbons and the last 3 guys lost their jobs because basically that was all they got, even though Richt won 2 SECC and won the east several more. Until we get to the top of the mountain all we will be is runners up, recruiting champions, bowl winners/losers. The talent is there with a continuing weak East so now is the time to WIN, not participate.
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Wasn’t meaning to be patronizing. If that came across that way, I apologize, but my perspective comment was made not as a measuring stick to see which one of us is a better human being. I just had a recent tragedy close to my home with some friends that were affected; so, even though the loss sucked and stung, it just didn’t seem that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things.
And your response? For someone who claims to be a Christian, instead of offering some words of encouragement, you chose instead to whip out your dick and want to get in a pissing contest as to who the better human being is based on “works.” You may be a good person. I don’t know haven’t met you and don’t know you personally, but that is the exact type of behavior, that resulted in me to stop attending Church a long time ago.
I really don’t understand your angst at my comment nor why you are taking it personally. This is the exact reason I don’t post on social media or message boards all that much. If you cannot treat people as you would face to face when you sit behind a keyboard, then why post anything. I hope you and yours have a very Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays.
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As I reflect on my response, I first must say that, indeed, you must be a fine person considering your willingness to drop everything and go to help someone in need. I’m sure your friends are thankful for such a kind gesture.
Since you initiated the perspective comment I felt compelled to give a perspective response , since you didn’t know me. I did so to let you know that fact by some of the things that I do and have done. Ephesians 2:8-9 make it very clear that works are not a competition or an opportunity to boast. I try to keep that set of verses in perspective. I can NEVER do enough when there is so much need in our world. I go to church because I am a sinner and because it is a place for sinners not because of others. God will judge me and it is not for me to judge others or to dismiss church because of others. I’ll leave God to be judge for others.
I am very passionate about sports. I competed in high school and college and still compete today. My kids have as well. They play these games not to just participate but to have champions and losers, otherwise they wouldn’t keep score. Now, there are no “life” losers participating in such a great venue, but there are game losers and winners. I have been closely watching Georgia since 1973 and was in school when we finally climbed the Natty mountain. At this point in life I have seen several SEC championships but only 1 Natty. When a real opportunity arises to climb that mountain I’m not interested in just participating, I’m interested in “summiting”. The last 4 coaches have been ultimately terminated for not summiting. It’s life; it’s the truth. I think this guy will do it again for us, but I am not interested in JUST playing the game. Ultimately he will be judged by the Athletic Board by the same standard as those before.
God bless you and make your trip to help those in need a special and safe one. Have a good day.
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Thanks Aladawg. And I do apologize if I came off as pretentious or defensive. That was not my intent. I appreciate your passion, and we are probably just both very passionate people when it comes to Georgia football that was butting heads after an emotional game and loss. I can be an argumentative jack hat at times.
Think you are just a little older than me. I’ll turn the big 60 next year and started watching and being a fan of the Dawgs a few years after you did.
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I appreciate your note and I apologize as well because I am intense. I turned 62 this year; spent 8 years at UGA getting 2 degrees which allowed me to see Herschel as a student. The talent is in place to win one of these and I truly believe we will be in a position to win one. I can’t bring myself to say we will because it has been too many times that what happened Saturday has happened.
I truly am amazed that your friends have a friend like you to jump at helping them in a tough time. Be safe on your travels to Alaska and God Bless their healing and recovery. Sincerely Robert W. .
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Damn.
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List of Things Nick Saban didn’t do while down two touchdowns with a gimpy quarterback:
Panic and call an idiotic fake punt
Things Nick Saban will be doing in January:
Playing in the CFP
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Georgia mixed up things well in the first half, but Alabama adjusted. Eventually it came down to who had the better defense and I think that’s Alabama right now. Their pressure got to Fromm and we couldn’t move the ball after the missed FG.
All the signs that it wasn’t our night were there. They fumbled into our end zone and recovered. We miss a chip shot FG. When Tua got hurt I chuckled to myself “oh, this is how we blow it this time.” Smart has made this team much better, but UGA always finds a way to lose this kind of game. I think we’ll be fine, but the narrative is gonna be UGA always loses when it matters until we finally break through. Twice we had Bama beaten and every conceivable thing went wrong for us to lose the game.
When you add in the Falcons and Braves problems finishing you can understand why sports fans in Georgia have become pretty used to this sort of thing. I know I am.
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Late night, gutted feeling, a little perspective and a long ass post:
Alabama is the best program in the history of college football. This current decade long dynasty they have going comes at the most competitive era in college football. They are lead by the best coach to ever coach the game who recruits the best players in the country every year. This particular Alabama team is the best college football team ever to step foot on the field. They play in the better division of the hardest, most talented, and most supported conference in the country and won every contest by 20+ points and only trailed for 70 seconds all year until today. A feat not seen since some Yale team over 100 years ago. And considering all that, as a 14 point favorite, they got punched in the mouth repeatedly by the University of Georgia Bulldogs and needed some legendary 2nd string QB storybook shit to come from way behind to win for the SECOND YEAR IN A ROW. A UGA team that spent the entire year failing to play to it’s potential.
Despite all that, we are pissed because we all know UGA should have beat those SOBs twice now and we have every right to be because UGA was again the better team on a neutral field.
Was the fake punt dumb? Hell yes but before we crucify the best coach UGA has ever had let’s consider a few things:
Could Alabama still beat UGA if Comarda punts it and forces them to drive the length of the field? Odds are better at 50 yards than 85, but even though you prepared for(and dominated) their water walking Heisman front runner and unprecedented throwing QB you’d have to pull a man in to spy the running backup qb, the 2016 offensive player of the year (24-2 record as a starter), leaving the game to young DBs against talented WRs for possibly another long late TD pass (see: 2012 and 2017).
If the do fail to score does UGA win in OT? Maybe but with the momentum plus the way their D was playing in the fourth and their O was moving late I wouldn’t want to trade 25 yard line chances to decide it.
Again, we all will remember it as a dumbass call and another painful chapter in the history of UGA football but I can appreciate the “came to win” mentality even if it proved reckless.
I’m hate moral victories but as a Dawg fan I’ve learned to specialize in them but this wasn’t Aaron Murray and a rare assemblage of talent’s missed shot at the king like in 2012. Kirby Smart and his staff (including Jim Cheney) have propelled UGA football to a status reserved for the sport’s few true juggernauts with no sign of weakening and everyone knows it. We should be pissed and deflated right now but if we are going to wallow in despair for the missed opportunity we have to be equally hopeful for the seized opportunities to come.
Georgia finds new ways to reward its fans with brilliant highs and gut wrenching lows every year. One day, probably soon, UGA will finally break through and it will all be worth it. I imagine if you were to ask the generations of hard core Red Sox fans about growing up watching the hated Yankees win again and again and having high expectations of each year being “the year” only for each one to end in a new soul crushing defeat about the hope and loyalty-pains prior to 2004, it no doubt made beating the Yankees in route to that first world title and the ones since that much sweeter.
Go Dawgs.
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“but before we crucify the best coach UGA has ever had”
Hey fanboy. Why didn’t you just start with that lame tripe so I didn’t have to waste the time it took to get there. I realize you’ve got to cover for your boys with your little moral victory tantrum, but you’re really looking ignorant here. Geez.
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Fucking jackass.
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You are the jackass. He is the one who is right. You’ve always been the one who had to attempt to ridicule using your foul mouth when someone disagrees with you. The basis for his argument is right until the coaching staff stops doing stupid stuff to undo the great job they did for 58 minutes. The game is for 60 minutes and I’m too old for a purple participation ribbon. Until miltiple SEC’s and a Natty happen this is just the same old game with the same old soccer Mom leading. Wait til next year will be my cry again. Live in Alabama and you’d understand. Be like Illinois and you are happy to keep Lovie as your coach.
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Kirby = Mark Richt redux. Where CMR lost me was the bonehead calls at or near the end of the game that turned a win into a loss. Kirby has become an end of game fuckup machine in big games.
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Take a breather, Sally. We just capped off our best two back-to-back seasons perhaps ever.
I know you probably felt emo as you wrote that, but this is nothing like Richt’s program. This was supposed to be a rebuilding season with a young team after our best season since in almost 40 years.
This loss sucked, but this is nothing like Richt’s program. Dry your eyes and come up with a better analogy.
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I needed to wait an entire day to digest the undigested that was this game, but that, kind CPark58, was beautiful. Sic “Em indeed.
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I’m just as upset that Georgia lost such a hard-fought SEC CG game against Bama as the next Dawg fan but some of the negativity is just way over the top.
The fake punt didn’t lose the game. Georgia had a chance to stop them on defense but didn’t. They then had a chance to tie the game up and send it to OT on offenses in the final 2 minutes but weren’t able to.
The fact is it was a heck of a football game between two of the best teams in the country and unfortunately for the Dawgs, the Tide made a few more plays than they did. Period.
And this meme that Kirby Smart won’t ever take Georgia to a Nat’l Championship promised land is old and tired. He’s in his 3rd year as head coach for goodness sake. Yes. He makes some mistakes. He’s a young head coach. A little perspective, Saban was in his 10th year as a head coach before he won a Natty at LSU in his 4th year with the Tigers. Saban didn’t win his 2nd Natty until he had been coaching for 14 years and was in his 3rd year at Bama. Kirby has already gotten the Dawgs to the big dance in just his 2nd year and had a chance again in his 3rd year.
If y’all would just be patient and let the man do his job, he’ll get UGA there and win. If he doesn’t in 2019 or 2020, then you can have something to complain about.
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As long as Saban is in his way, he won’t get there.
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We’ll see. I’ll eat crow come January 2021 if Kirby hasn’t. Question is will you be man enough to eat crow if he does?
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Have we forgotten seasons of Mark Richt teams annually shitting the bed against a bad team, and getting obliterated by a good team, guaranteeing at least 2 regular season losses and usually not even winning the East?
Are we forgetting having about 4 good offensive lineman each year?
My god people.
We have a BEAST of a head coach. He has only been a head coach for 3 years. We played for a national title in his 2nd year as a head coach.
Nick Saban won his first title his ** 10th YEAR as a HEAD COACH!!! **
Urban Meyer won his first title his ** 6th YEAR as a Head Coach! **
Was the fake punt a bad call? Maybe. Then again, if we convert it we win the game.
That coach is why we have the amazing players we have right now.
That coach is why we have a team that is not afraid of anyone.
That coach is why our players fight and play with incredible toughness and physicality.
Am I bummed? HELL YES I AM!!!!!!!!!!
Am I fucking sick of losing to goddamn Alabama??? YES! OMGBBQ YES!
But we clearly have an incredible coach who has this program on the right track.
Our program is on the rise. Alabama has nowhere else to go. Eventually even Saban will start to look old and players won’t want to play for him, or won’t want to feel like they added nothing to a program on autopilot.
Meanwhile our program is improving. We have a YOUNG coach. Athens is a million times better place to live than Alabama.
It sucks. I know. But do not despair and don’t give up on our awesome coach.
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Wow. Muckbeast…the optimist slinging the sunshine enemas? Who knew? 🙂
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Guys, we need to get better on the DL. That’s really it. Bama is never, ever, ever going to get called for holding when the game is in doubt. The only way to beat them is to get better on the DL and get home anyway.
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Bama is never going to get called for anything when the game is in doubt. And they’re never going to quit.
Points can’t be left untaken; offenses cannot stop moving the ball and putting points on the board, etc. It’s not enough to not make mistakes.
I wonder if our penchant this year for taking foot off the gas late in the game (Ga Tech, Auburn, etc) shows up in situations like this. If you’re going to beat inferior opponents all year, the only way to prepare for close games is to keep playing hard against the weaker teams. Right?
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Seems like Alabama, with its huge margin of victory, would be the team having issues finishing the game. I don’t follow you logic about taking the foot off the pedal late in games.
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So everybody hates Mark Bradley and most of you sound just like him.
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Please don’t faint Bags, but well said, dude.
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We had already punted them back and let them drive the field twice in a row. Kirby tried something different and it didn’t work. Im not mad.
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I thought it was Goff, then maybe Donnan, well certainly CMR…nope, maybe its just a Dawgs Song. We went toe to toe with them…they know they were in a fight. I thought we could have made some better calls as well as the refs. We could have won. We need to figure a way to get the Mafia to start betting on the Dawgs. I’m not happy right now but the Dawgs aren’t going anywhere…for a while.
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Saban’s best year in his first big-time coaching job was 7-5.
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In, I might point out, his third season at MSU.
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Kirby will never beat Saban in the post season.
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I’m reminded of those big time clashes in the 90’s with Miami and FSU. Wide right etc. I would of given my left nut for us to be featured in huge games like that. Now here we are. Big time programs play big time games against other big time power houses. Shit happens. Do I feel like repeatedly beaten dog as an Atlanta sports fan? Shit yea. Could I see this one coming as Gary Danielson brought me down to earth as soon as he mentioned we usually start out strong and finish slow? Yup. Did I wonder how the poison was going to taste THIS time? Yup. Still tastes like poison..this time with a hint of ‘wonderful Alabama redemption story’ mixed with ‘again Kirby with the fake shit?’
It. S. U. C. K. S.
For me the pain comes mostly from reliving the past in my mind and indulging in the ‘if thens and butts’. Being a Georgia fan has given me no choice but to put football in the correct perspective (and that is easier said than done thats for sure).
We got a young team and I look forward to beating the dog shit out of the east for the foreseeable future. Just keep choppin and we will get there. And I will actually admit I kinda look forward to our match up against Texas in the Sugar, because at least it ain’t Wisconsin in the Outback anymore.
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What would vegas say in a matchup between UGA/Notre Dame or UGA/0U. If they want the top four teams the answer to that question should settle whether UGA should be in or not. That said, when you begin to break down the game, UGA doesn’t really want a rematch UGA played its best most of the game while they played poorly and still won. If both sides had converted its red zone misses into fg’s they would’ve won by 41-31. It is hard to overcome their 12th man…very subtle but those guys in stripes can turn a game.
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