January 5, 2019 · 10:55 AM

Can’t lose what you never had.

Thinking about slitting your wrists over yesterday’s departures news?  Welp, before you pick up that razor blade, consider this:

Deep breaths, people.  Georgia’s gonna be fine.  Kirbs ain’t sweatin’ it and neither should you.

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35 responses to “Can’t lose what you never had.”

  1. eethomaswfnc
    January 5, 2019 at 10:59 AM

    My only sweat about it was that everyone was pointing to 2019 as THE year. It looks to me that a number of cogs in that machine are now missing.

    These are the guys who must step up:

    Holloman for Ridley
    Robertson for Hardman
    White for Holyfield
    Woerner for Nauta

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  2. Derek
    January 5, 2019 at 11:00 AM

    Agreed. Hopefully, Zeus will be 100% by the opener. We’ve got plenty of receivers. TE looks thin, but as we all know, we don’t use them much anyway, right?

    Hopefully we’re on the cusp of having an OL so dominant that we can basically just hand it off vs. anyone but the 3 or 4 best teams in the schedule and win comfortably.

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  3. Uglydawg.
    January 5, 2019 at 11:04 AM

    That’s about the same advice the dentist gives you when he’s leaning over you with a drill.
    Just relax.
    But I think you’re right..it was just such a bizarro couple of hours, so closely following the bad night in New Orleans that shook our fillings loose.

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  4. Bright Idea
    January 5, 2019 at 11:07 AM

    Let’s hope HotRod doesn’t add his name to that list. I know, I know, kickers never leave early. But would it really be early for him?

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  5. 1smartdude
    January 5, 2019 at 11:13 AM

    Losing elite talent to early NFL draft picks will be a price of doing business with them. IMO, Nauta was the only player who fits that bill. Not missing on my radar is the fact Reed still hasn’t decided. This certainly changes my expectations of how we enter next year. It seems we’ll be right back to looking at next year as a really young team, but wait till 2020. With all that’s happened over the past month, and it’s been ugly, I’m officially starting to worry about what’s going on behind closed doors. Something seems off to me.

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    • Bright Idea
      January 5, 2019 at 11:48 AM

      Chubb and Michel spoiled us. High character guys obviously not worried about money. They were the exception, not the rule. I’m not saying these guys leaving aren’t high character but their personal and family situations may be dictating what they feel they need to do. This is why you have to recruit a class ready to play as freshmen and early enroll every year. Seldom will you have an old team anymore like 2017.

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    • SpellDawg
      January 5, 2019 at 12:20 PM

      Reed saw Baker’s money year, I think he’ll come back and make his case for being a 1st rounder. The money difference between 1st and the rest is just too compelling, IMO.

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      • Tony Barnfart
        January 5, 2019 at 10:08 PM

        I agree. If you’re not guaranteed 2nd Rd, aren’t you really rolling the dice ? (that’s my understanding)

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  6. Mark
    January 5, 2019 at 11:18 AM

    Goes with the territory. We need to get through this keeping Reed, Herrien, and HotRod. Pick up Stephenson today and break the Reserve Fund of Bama comes after Pittman.

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  7. JoshG
    January 5, 2019 at 11:43 AM

    Yeah, 2019 isn’t the year. May not even win the East. And that’s okay. It’s just football.

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  8. Baitstand
    January 5, 2019 at 11:46 AM

    Accept the new paradigm that we’re on a three-year cycle. NFL-caliber players who stay in college four years have/will become the exception. Football players have increasingly short shelf lives. It doesn’t make sense not to monetize your talent when and while you can.

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    • The Dawg abides
      January 5, 2019 at 12:20 PM

      Exactly. We’ll be facing this again a year from now. I see Swift and Thomas almost certain to leave early. Fromm and I. Wilson will strongly consider. Holloman, Stokes, and Kindley will explore options with good years. Maybe a couple more like Cleveland and Herring if they make big jumps.

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  9. ugafidelis
    January 5, 2019 at 12:03 PM

    I’m not too concerned that draft eligible Juniors are going pro. I’d be more concerned if more of these superstar prospects were requesting to transfer.

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  10. Merk
    January 5, 2019 at 12:19 PM

    The only 2 questionable early departures were Mecole and Holyfield. We got Fromm 1-2 years, so we can overcome Fields. We got Woerner and Ford never saw the field much, so we will be alright.

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  11. Kdawg
    January 5, 2019 at 12:20 PM

    Isn’t this junior and senior class still Richts recruits? The juniors I guess would be technically under Kirby but it was just him holding the class together.

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    • Kdawg
      January 5, 2019 at 12:21 PM

      I’m not sure if it has any effect. I admittedly don’t follow recruiting too closely but it seems like the guys behind the guys leaving have more potential. Just my opinion.

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    • eethomaswfnc
      January 5, 2019 at 1:15 PM

      Partially. This class of seniors is remnant of the redshirts of the ‘14 and the seniors in the ‘15 class signed by Richt. These juniors were recruited by Richt mainly and signed by Kirby.

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  12. Hardcoredawg 93
    January 5, 2019 at 1:43 PM

    We also need some 5 star hearts to step in and help with leadership aspect.

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  13. ASEF
    January 5, 2019 at 1:44 PM

    The passing game lost a lot. I know we like to act like it’s a plug-and-play star system, but it’s never that simple. How many pass catchers has Kirby recruited and what are their prospects?

    Fromm has a lot of work to do to get familiar with the new guys and develop timing and anticipation. He’s starting over on that front, and that’s a big deal. Fortunately, the schedule is backloaded except for ND, and that’s at home.

    Going to be more difficult for Fromm to take that next step forward with so little experience around him early. Hopefully Robertson comes out guns blazing.

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  14. Will Trane
    January 5, 2019 at 3:15 PM

    I’d be really concerned about them leaving if anyone of them had put up some numbers against Texas in a winning effort.
    Or if they had made first team SEC.
    Coming with a little # beside your name like a 4 or 5 does not guarantee success or production in the SEC.
    Certainly not trying out early for the NFL. No NFL team gives a damn how many stars were beside your name when you graduated from high school.
    The rub, and how some of us see those 5 stars.
    If you come in that way you should go out that way. Disregard the team accomplishments, it is now you brother…see if you do not make All American or All Conference…you failed to keep the pace.
    Most folks forget you brother within a decade.

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  15. Will Trane
    January 5, 2019 at 3:21 PM

    Walker.
    Left early for a new league.
    Did not give out stars then to high school players.
    No doubt a 5+.
    When he left…well, he left with all the stars…production, accomplishments, All SEC, All American, All World, All everything to Georgia.
    Same for a Tim Worley. That run against the Gators is carved in stone and legends.

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  16. Turd Ferguson
    January 5, 2019 at 4:39 PM

    Well, that Sugar Bowl performance is making a little more sense now.

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