“Hurts? Nobody said there’d be Hurts!”
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“We remember the Sugar Bowl, I think it my junior year of high school, we let Alabama beat us twice,” Brinson said of a team that also lost to the Crimson Tide in the SEC Championship game. “We’re not letting Alabama beat us twice. In the Sugar Bowl in 2018, they… thought they should have been in the playoffs and lost to Texas.” -- AB-H, 12/27/23
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Get The Picture · Bloviation for the Dawgnation
Get The Picture 
Sheesh. If that’s true, we didn’t have a week. We had almost a whole year. Tua is obviously number 1, but was it foreseeable he could come up lame?
I find it a little hard to believe we hadn’t prepared at all for Hurts, but I could believe nobody thought we’d see him in crunch time. He came in with fresh legs just as we were starting to get a little gassed. C’est le guerre. Sometimes bad stuff just happens.
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Hurts is much more of a scrambler than Tua. It requires very different LB play.
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Tony Barnhart, is that you? ☺️
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No. I bet his name is Biggen.
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Ok, so twice now AL has switched QBs on us. Maybe Kirbs has gotten the memo and the Dawgs will be prepared next year? Maybe.
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Saban didn’t switch QBs because the Hawaiian wasn’t effective. It was because he was hurt.
If we stop the first 3rd and long where he throws to Smith over the middle, I bet Tua comes back on the field.
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With two bad ankles? No.
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Following on the heels of Ledbetter saying we didn’t prepare for Tua prior to the National Championship game, this news seems kind of irresponsible and quite frankly – stupid!
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Just go back to January’s plan.
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The players that played in January weren’t on the field in December. If Bellamy and Carter and Roquan are on the field in December, this game is a blowout.
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Kirby’s 2 years playing for Ray Goff shows up every once in a while.
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This is disappointing to hear, but it is readily apparent they used the time they did have getting ready for Tua very well.
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^^^THIS. We put enough film/practice in to seriously hamper the guy who was running away with the Heisman vote. We didn’t just survive Tua’s onslaught; we dropped it dead in its tracks! That takes some above and beyond prep work. Also, our LBs aren’t the same as last year, and so when Hurts came in, he had running lanes….unlike last year when Roquan made those disappear. When you have a run first mentality QB, it completely shifts the mindset for everyone on the D.
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LOL at everyone above who think we have unlimited time with our guys to plan for every eventually and think that changing from one mode of play to another is just like hitting an on/off switch…
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It was well known that Tua was hurt going into this game. Surely, some of that practice time should have been devoted to scheming for Hurts.
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Also, you’d have to think that if the plan actually worked well enough, they’d put Hurts in for a change of pace.
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Comment section full of morons per usual.
This was the 13th game of the season. What do some of y’all think “gameplannning for Jalen” entails? Please enlighten us.
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So, Baker’s FOS? Please enlighten us.
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Yes, I have no idea what it is. I only know Baker said they didn’t do any and it seems to be some sort of excuse.
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My point was that we faced all types of QBs throughout the season and not “preparing” for Jalen Hurts should’ve been a non issue once he entered the game.
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Like Baker up on the left side receiver and assign a spy on Hurts would be a good start.
Like we did to shut him down in January.
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QED
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A side thought.
Remember this when you hear someone advocating for a six team playoff where one team gets a bye week in the second round.
Wouldn’t be fair.
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So, similar to Bama last year and Notre Dame this year?
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My reference was to the CFP playoffs, not the conference championship games. Skipping a conference playoff game is a luxury, but the National Championship playoffs are so far out that it would have little effect. But once they start, having a bye would be gold.
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It’s not like Bama’s offense completely changes when the back up QB comes in. Sure, prepping a QBs preferences can give you an edge, but it’s a small one. Much more important: scramble drill, contain, being ready for the QB draw, which is the primary constraint play for that offense. Fundamentals.
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Bamas offense does change with hurts, the offenses left side becomes irrelevant
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Contain is a lot easier when the DL is not being held while the QB scrambles free.
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Tua is a very mobile, scrambling QB. So is Hurts. What would have been the big change in defensive strategy?
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Exactly. About the only thing the staff could have done is identify tendencies between the two, such as don’t let Hurts roll to his right. But otherwise, I can’t imagine the game plan would be much different.
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Nor were we prepared for industrial level ignored holding. Sheesh, Hurts had the entire right side of the field open a few times.
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Thats the only side he uses.
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Baker probably should have just kept that one to himself.
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Bama had a plan for Fields.
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Lefty vs righty makes more difference than folks think.
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^^This.
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Having the left perimeter play contain is just not that hard. The week before we knew how to contain the offense and force it in to the middle. Difference is Hurts can throw, but that isn’t the contain man’s concern. Bad sound for UGA, but it did look like we went brain dead. Even knowing Tua was Hurt wasn’t enough to drill the team on this possibility? Maybe Baker was asleep during those meetings.
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And how many people would be here bitching if we couldnt stop Tua and stated we had to spend time prepping for Hurts. Seriously, there would be reason to bitch if this was the first playoff game.
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Second playoff game. Been there. Done that.
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I think this was the first playoff game, of this season, and there is reason to bitch. It was a serious gaffe, one that will be talked about for decades of UGA fans. Look, our guys showed up for both 2018 games with Bama but they are empty handed because of not making two TO calls, one in each game. Are there other contributing reasons? Absolutely, but we seem to have a loss of concentration on the sideline at key times and it is fair to question the coaches on both decisions. Forget questioning the idea of attempting that fake FG in the situation, that may have looked like a good decision before we sent the punt team out, but there was plenty of time to see Bama wasn’t vulnerable because of recognizing Fields coming in, and covering the once open receiver and to call it off. Perhaps we would have lost the game anyway, but we may also have won it and not handed them a very short field with momentum.
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The fake punt failed b/c it didn’t account for Hurts being on their team.
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Yes, Hurts covered Swift and then tackled Fields.
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Hurts hasn’t been standing around while TT’s been playing. His passing skills seems to have improved from last year. Maybe that’s what Baker meant. In any case, I agree with someone above; maybe he shouldn’t have said anything.
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Maybe there’s a lesson here.
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Like I said, he ALWAYS rolls to his right. Watched the game again last night to double check that. Yep, thats all the prep they needed. Too late
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Hurts threw two passes the were more accurate than anything I’ve ever seen him throw. the TD was a perfect dime and the long 3rd down completion was another perfect pass. the defense was in perfect position; but he made an absolute perfect pass. Cannot blame that on the defense. tip your hat to a guy who made a couple great plays. The TD run was a little different. They should’ve had at least one spy on him.
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To me – to my myopic fan eyes – the problem was not that they did not plan for Hurts. The problem is that they thought they had to do something different from what they were doing when Tua was playing. Granted, they aren’t the same, but they aren’t that different. We looked a little more confused than we should have been.
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