Game day post, ‘Cocky edition

Leaving in the next half hour — nooners are a bitch, man — so I’ll make this brief.

The statistics strongly suggest this shouldn’t be any closer than the Tennessee game was.  But between the early start and Kirby’s affinity for Boom, I have the feeling that Georgia’s gonna come up just short of covering the 24.5-point spread.  Call it something like 34-10, 38-14 or 40-17.

Though it would be nice if this were the game when this team finally came out early and played like they were shot out of a cannon.

Yeah, I’ve been saving that line for three days.

Have at it in the comments.

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187 responses to “Game day post, ‘Cocky edition

  1. It’s pretty over here this morning!

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  2. Bigshot

    BOOM!!!!

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  3. The talent gap has gotten wider over the last 3 years. The gap at the most important position on the field is a gulf (not because the kid in Columbia can’t play – he’s just young).

    I like the Dawgs to cover 21.5 – 38-10.

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  4. Salty Dawg

    Kirbs needs to put his friendship with Boom on hold during game time and let the Dawgs run up the score because the selection committee is going to judge that shit. This seems to be the year of run up the damn score with a lot of 5-0 teams and if we don’t keep doing that, we will be penalized for it in the end. Don’t let your personal feelings get in the way, Kirby! GO DAWGS!

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    • psyopdawg

      Concur with all. Probably many reasons that I don’t understand for the slow starts. Many of us have postulated the reasons over the past few weeks. I think we all wanna see the “Devil May Care” strategy from kickoff and just let the Dawgs play the way we know they can play. But Kirby knows football better than we do and he’s 5-0 and using the 1st quarter to see what looks they give us and then making adjustments has worked so far. That strategy could be questionable against some of the teams in the latter part of our schedule.

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      • dawgtired

        ” That strategy could be questionable against some of the teams in the latter part of our schedule.” …”using the 1st quarter to see what looks they give us and then making adjustments …”

        Judging by Kirby’s comments, I believe He and his staff go into the game with a plan based on watching film of previous games…but, as with any coaching staff worth their weight, the opposition does the same and adds new wrinkles to their scheme. Each coaching staff then has to make adjustments depending on the pre-game adjustments of the opposing coaches. (the added wrinkles)
        Georgia, playing at the level they are, has brought out the best efforts by opposing coaches, to throw as much as they can at the Dawgs to help their chances. Rival coaches may not make as many adjustments if they are better than the team they play. Basically, UGA is getting everyone’s best shot.
        I like that we pre-game ‘plan’ based on what we know about the other team and then we have the ability to modify that plan in a reasonable amount of time (before the half time break) after play has began.
        It drives me crazy if an opponent continues to run the same successful play against us and we don’t adjust for it.
        I’m sure on D we have a plan to stop what we know about the cocks…as for our O…I’m sure we just plan to impose our will. The only adjustments will be, which ‘will’, we plan to impose, passing or running.

        As for Kirby’s friendship with Boom, I think if Kirby calls off the Dawgs at all, it will be after the game is well in hand.

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        • CEPH

          Agree, ND never quit throwing to the TE and we never did make an adjustment, either before the half or after the half. Walker said GA never made any adjustment against Texas and it showed.

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    • Jack Burton

      Nah.

      Same old same ol. Win the SEC and we’re in.

      Y’all are getting caught up in the ESPN bullshit.

      Dawgs 38-17

      Oh and FUCK AUBURN

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    • gastr1

      All this talk about the KS-WM friendship makes me think people must have forgotten this game last year. Didn’t we beat the living hell out of them at their place? Wasn’t the score 41-10 before the end of the third quarter? Weren’t they thoroughly embarrassed after expecting to be competitive?

      –I think so, yes.

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  5. Spike

    I get that CKS and Boom are pals.. I guess… but he’s no friend of UGA and he coaches the Cocks. So, there is no reason to call off the Dawgs in this game. Unload on their ass!

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  6. TMCDAWG

    Time for DAWGS to flex their muscles. 41 – 10 UGA

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  7. Macallanlover

    I don’t like cannon fire early in the day any more than I like noon football for UGA. We should cover this number but the early start, our overly conservative nature, and the way SC players always act like this is their playoff game, makes it too risky to put money on the game.

    Would love to see some explosiveness on offense, especially downfield passing, but think this might look like the last couple of games we played against them, solid wins but very little excitement. Plenty of fireworks on display in other games today. Unfortunately, those receiving recruits we are seeking can watch those high flying offenses as well, along with the TE prospects!

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  8. practicaldawg

    Assuming Hilinski’s arm is healthy, I think they’ll show up early and probably play the first quarter well enough to notch a moral victory. The Great Wall of GA will be too heavy in the second half though.

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  9. Dawgflan

    I could see the Dawgs tcob and cover, but this may also be that letdown game that goes to the 4th quarter and is decided by less than 2 scores. Most football teams have them, and thankfully we now have a significant enough talent/depth gap to win the headscratchers. Just win, baby.

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  10. Gurkha Dawg

    I say we win 48-13. But the great thing about college football is that you never know. Look at the Clemson-NC game a couple weeks ago. Who predicted that? Get out there and take care of business.

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  11. Scorpio Jones, III

    Georgia State?

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  12. artful codger

    Any info on Travon wearing a cast on his left arm? Seen during Dawgwalk

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  13. D as in Dawg

    We struggle early cuz that’s what we do. We slowly choke them out and win by 2 scores cuz that’s also what we do. To be honest, I’m splitting interest today with seeing how FU looks against the Tigers. May they need three digits to track LSU’s point total tonight.

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  14. Uglydawg.

    Oh crap.Corso just picked LSU to beat FU. That’s usually not good.

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  15. Gurkha Dawg

    This is gonna be over quickly.

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  16. FlyingPeakDawg

    I am shocked….shocked I say…. that they are throwing over the middle to a big target and then able to go deep in busted coverage. You just don’t see that in the first Q against our D.

    Except always…

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  17. Bo

    Secondary looks like shit… again. Chickens came to play.

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  18. D as in Dawg

    Blah.

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  19. Bo

    Officials helped our defense off the field. Thanks guys.

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  20. Kdawg

    Please not a backup quarterback

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  21. FlyingPeakDawg

    What. Are. We. Doing?

    Jake is off today. Fine. RTDB.

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  22. D as in Dawg

    This isn’t a slow start, it’s a matchup of even teams. If you see something else, good for you. Not elite. Not #3. Not better than Bama, LSU, or UF. Good team that will hopefully get better. But for goodness sakes, shut up about this team covering spreads.

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  23. Salty Dawg

    Playing like this, there are no championships in our future. They better make their halftime adjustments STAT. Go Dawgs!

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  24. gastr1

    If it’s not clear what the issues have been re: lack of deep passing game before now, it should now be crystal clear. It’s not Fromm, in other words.

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  25. We need 7 or at least 3 before the half or I might kick my dog.

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  26. Uglydawg

    Well..reality is sinking in.
    We will be accepting new members into the Munsonite Society during the half.

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  27. playmakers in space

    Promoting James Coley to OC appears to be a spectacularly bad move.

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  28. Bo

    Outplayed in every facet of the game, including coaching. We play like we think we’re better than everybody else. We’re not. At all. Like I said last week, we should be ranked somewhere between 6 and 10. Looks like SC may help us get there.

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  29. Ellis

    All the talent in the world and no coaching. I called this early this year when Kirby went with Coley and Lanning. As talented as our players are we could have made some big moves fir coordinators but for some inexplicable reason we went with two no names and are reaping the results.

    Offense is unimaginative and defense is simply lost with no plan.

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  30. Time for our famous halftime adustments y’all. That QB’s knee will turn stiff. We will stuff their run. Jake and Swift will put up 21 points. One observation…Zeus runs too much of his weight pads forward and reminds me a bit of Keith Marshall. He is a bruiser but his center of gravity is too high for this level and gets tripped up easily. Oh well.

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  31. Turd Ferguson

    Against any of the other top teams, we’d be down by 3 or 4 TDs at this point. We might come out and play lights-out football in the second half. But these flat, disorganized, poorly-executed first-half performances are killing us.

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  32. FlyingPeakDawg

    Does this feel like LSU last year? I sure hope Hot Rod has picked up some outside speed over the off season!

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  33. Jared S.

    This is pitiful.

    Best case scenario is we’re pursing around on purpose in these early games “saving” our best stuff for better opponents.

    But the result is pitiful to watch. Embarrassing for a team that’s #3 and touted to have the best O-line and one of the best QBs in the nation.

    Not to mention our “maybe the best” RB corps.

    This is stupid, stupid, stupid football to watch.

    Here’s to hoping we light em up in the 2nd half.

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  34. Gurkha Dawg

    This is just Kirby letting his friend Boom have a nice last meal before throwing the switch on the electric chair. Kirby will soon give Boom the old Georgia Power and put him out of his misery. Dawgs win by 21.

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  35. I’ll consider that 1st Half a legitimate cannon shot. Now for UGa’s return volley. MOAR pressure on Hilinski’s pocket please….

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    • That guy that had warming up looked like a small mobile guy to me. Not sure I want him in yet. I hope Hillinski stays in with a stiff knee.

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      • Well, so much for our preference… Terrible penalty, but I’ll take the chance on this mostly green Fr they have to send in.

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        • Uglydawg

          That penalty was called because Boom chewed out the refs at halftime for not calling it early in the game. These are some typical stupid SEC refs. But I guarantee you that’s what happened. The defensive player was already in his lunge.in the air..when the ball was thrown. It’s the lack of PI calls against Georgia opponents that is really hurting Georgia. If called correctly, this game would be tied. Dawgs playing awful though. Just turned it over early in the fourth when things were finally getting on track. I think our goose is cooked.

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  36. BIG STOP, that…Now push the Cocky Dline off the ball some, Dawgs.

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  37. D as in Dawg

    Dang this massive OL is just.moving people. Good grief.

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  38. D as in Dawg

    What a well coached team. Time for the backup to go to town. With our ineffective offensive line and Fromm unable to take a game on his shoulders, we’re down to hoping for a pick 6 or scoop and score and a fg. Continue to regress under Kirby’s players.

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  39. NO WAY that draw can happen… SMH!

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  40. gastr1

    Coaches getting totally called out by whoever this announcer is.

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  41. D as in Dawg

    Woohoo. How about those offensive linemen. Beasts!!

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  42. The Old Jeffster

    Outstanding effort from USC players and excellent game-plan from their staff. Dawgs don’t seem to have a “plan B” in place when the running game doesn’t dominate. So far we’ve been outplayed and outcoached. Georgia o-line getting whipped. Fortunately a lot of football left.

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  43. FlyingPeakDawg

    I like it better when Fromm is good and Camarda sucks.

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  44. D as in Dawg

    The question is will we be able to cover. Need to score about 30 points on defense. Let’s see what happens.

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  45. AthensHomerDawg

    Feels like CMR is in the box calling plays.

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  46. D as in Dawg

    What a bullshit holding call

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  47. gastr1

    Maybe this is a comment to save for a different thread, but this team has major flaws, if it hasn’t been obvious to everyone already. The lack of physical skill and/or spacing ability by the WRs means we can’t throw deep, ever. The lack of actual havoc by the defense means we’re not likely to get a lot of points off turnovers just from getting the ball on the other team’s side of the field. Add in that we no discernible kick return game, and the problem for the offense is that they have to nickel-and-dime their way down the whole field every single time. And they’re not good enough to do it consistently because they have no explosive plays.

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  48. Spike

    Greatest O line in football? My ass…

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  49. FlyingPeakDawg

    Well…let’s have a failed trick play just to put the icing on this offensive masterpiece.

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  50. Russ

    Maybe our talent can overcome our coaching.

    Maybe.

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  51. FlyingPeakDawg

    Have we tried running to the outside? Asking for some really speedy friends.

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  52. Coley should not be allowed back in Butts Mehre.
    Pack your shit Skippy.

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  53. gastr1

    The bye week has a lot do with this.
    Change my mind

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  54. Never thought I’d say it, but Fromm is losing the game for the Dawgs. Bizarre…

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  55. Gurkha Dawg

    I was going to make a comment, but I obviously don’t know what the fuck I’m talking about so I’ll just be quiet.

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  56. The Truth

    Seems Mark Richt teams aren’t the only ones capable of bed shitting.

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  57. FlyingPeakDawg

    I don’t think this is the game Kirby should have throw to get his team’s attention.

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  58. 1st down- swift for 6
    2nd down- swift for no gain
    3rd down- fuck up the play somehow

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  59. If I were in the Magill Society, I would ask for a refund.

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  60. gastr1

    Not having Cager down here in the red zone is no bueno.

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  61. HOLY SH********………………………….!

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  62. gastr1

    Great pass, great catch

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  63. Russ

    Clutch 96 yard drive to tie the game.

    Against 2-3 South Carolina. At home.

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  64. Russ

    Well, that was a fitting final sequence.

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  65. gastr1

    I don’t even remotely understand this. Why in the hell not let him try to make the FG.

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  66. mp

    Kirby’s in game coaching is horrible

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  67. JaxDawg

    Rod a chance from 60, or a Hail Mary? Seems like a no brainer on the odds. But I’m not paid millions to coach so what do I know.

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    • Uglydawg.

      Agree..then Jake held the ball too long. The idea of a Hail Mary is really to try and draw a d holding or PI penalty to move you into FG range for a last play. Fromm was waiting for an open receiver….just throw it.

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  68. Ellis

    No reason at all to not kick field goal. This staff has no business coaching football.

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  69. Uglydawg

    5 Turnovers will cook your ass every time.

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  70. PatinDC

    what a horrendous offensive game plan.

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  71. There you have it ….. mistake #238. OWWWWW!

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  72. Ellis

    Instead of winning game with kicked field goal we throw a pick in overtime. Headed to Belk Bowl. Might be the most awful coaching performance in the history of Georgia football.

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  73. Napoleon BonerFart

    I love the attitude of our offense. Should we throw the ball away from the awesome cornerback who has picked us off twice today? Hell no! Throw it right at that dude. What’s the worst that could happen?

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  74. Mayor

    I don’t know if it’s Kirby himself, but somebody on our coaching staff is a complete idiot! There were 8 seconds left in the game. Kick the damn FG!! Do NOT try to run another play exactly for the reason that we all saw unfold. The team has great personnel but the coaches are too stupid to win a championship.

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  75. PatinDC

    Horrendous offensive game plan

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  76. Of course, people have been know to SHANK 33-y FGs.

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  77. TOLD YA SO…..! SWEET BABY GEEZ*S——

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  78. Russ

    When do we make our adjustments? After the 3rd OT?

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  79. ugafidelis

    You’ve got to be fucking kidding me.

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  80. Napoleon BonerFart

    Perfect ending. At least the better team won.

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  81. Uglydawg

    South Carolina was just better.
    Better prepared, better motivated, and much better coached.
    Congratulations to them.

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  82. HirsuteDawg

    Poultry showed a lot of heart. Our guys not so much

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  83. AthensHomerDawg

    reminds me of when coach Mark Richt would lose against South Carolina… the same way.

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  84. Vectordawg

    I thought the days of losing to inferior teams were over.

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  85. Fuck Jake Fromm. Fuck James Coley. Fuck Kirby Smart. This was the shittiest fucking display of football I have seen since Schottenheimer was calling the damn plays. End this fucking program.

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  86. Now….. you gotta Run The Table. The team played timidly. But Coach Boom just confirmed that UGa is “well coached”. OK then…

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  87. D as in Dawg

    Where’s Hutson Mason when you need him? Epic fail. Can’t wait to hear all the happy talkers explain this one. Kirby be recruiting. I can’t honestly tell you if he or anyone else on that staff does anything fucking thing else.

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  88. AthensHomerDawg

    In our own stadium…90 years .

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  89. Gurkha Dawg

    All of our goals are still attainable!

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    • Not with this offense. Not with this head coach. Bout with Jake Fromm at the helm. They aren’t mathematically eliminated, but none of those goals are attainable at this point. They ruined the season. There is nothing left to play for. Even if you win out, which you have to be a complete fucking moron to believe is possible at this point, Alabama or LSU will only embarrass the team and coaches again. They’ll go to a decent bowl, thinking they deserve more and shit the bed for another new years treat. This is georgia football, and nothing ever changes.

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      • Mayor

        Back away from the ledge. It was a 3 point loss in double overtime where every facet of the UGA O played as badly as it can. The OL got pushed around all game. The QB who doesn’t make mistakes threw 2 INTs plus basically was off target all game. Our all world kicker missed at the worst possible time. And our coaches made some of the most boneheaded in game decisions in history. It was a really bad game and we only lost by 3 in OT.

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  90. Incredible … what a piss poor performance by the staff and the offense. Boom wanted us to play man ball, and Kirby was happy to oblige. Regression to the mean is a bitch.

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  91. Paul

    So last week when I complained about our poor play against a vastly inferior team many of you called me and those who agreed a bunch whiny crybabies. Now you know why we were concerned. A team that isn’t hitting on all cylinders against lousy competition is vulnerable to upset. South Carolina was not the best team today. But they did win.

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  92. TN Dawg

    Crybaby motherfuckers.

    Georgia played a really mediocre South Carolina with a third string quarterback to a close game.

    Kirby don’t care about style points.

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  93. playmakers in space

    Well, we learned a lot about our coaching staff today. They are mostly imbeciles, starting with the head guy at the top. Coley may just be even worse than Schottenheimer. It’s certainly close.

    This team may rival the 2000 one with the most talent on a roster that proceeds to achieve absolutely nothing.

    Georgia football, same as it ever was.

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  94. Hunkering Hank

    Outcoached. By Boom.

    Outplayed. By the Cocks.

    No energy. No passion. No purpose.

    Choke city. Which is next to Sucktown.

    Maybe this is the wake up call. Season’s not over but, damn y’all.

    Georgia just ran it up the middle for another 3 yard gainer. It’s the new sprint draw.

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  95. Jared S.

    Since we weren’t allowed to worry and question the coaching after the ND and UT wins, are we allowed to worry and question now?

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  96. mattpulliam

    anybody got a cannon shot gif handy?

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  97. Uglydawg

    Microcosm of this game…Boom going for it on fourth and short in OT. Didn’t result in a TD but it got the ball in for a chip shot for his kicker who had already missed once. Kirby Smart is too cautious. He should have put Stetson in when it became obvious that Fromm was shaken. The outcome couldn’t have been worse.
    Win some, lose some.
    Maybe Florida will lose tonight and we can feel some better…but I’m not really all that upset. South Carolina earned it. ‘
    Rodrigo missing that one is proof that today was just not the Dawgs day..not by a long shot.

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  98. TXBaller

    The other 11 — Aaron “Pick Machine” Murray — showed up today. Psycho offense.

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  99. mwo

    The better coached ,prepared, and motivated team won today with a qb who was a fucking receiver when the season started. Kirby and Pittman are great recruiters. Don’t think they are gameday coaches.

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  100. roterhalsdawg

    Time for an existential post by the senator.

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  101. Ellis

    As bad as Lanning and especially Coley were, Kirby owns that for not kicking to win in regulation.

    With that much talent on the field these games shouldn’t even be close. I’m not sure Kirby has a long future here. Coley has to be gone and more experience must be brought in on defensive coaching staff.

    What a wasted year. I easily see three more losses if this lack if game planning continues.

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  102. TN Dawg

    Fromm threw three picks.

    But imagine how many Fields would’ve thrown. That dude can’t read the defense and only throws to the wide open receivers.

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    • addr

      Who. Fucking. Cares. An all time choke job by a UGA team ever and all you have to say is about an Ohio State player?

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  103. Every team we play is running the Texas defense from the Sugar Bowl.

    This will continue until we attack the middle 1/3 of the field. But since we haven’t done that in 4 years….

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    • JaxDawg

      But manball. We’re just going to run up the middle until every other team in the country capitulates.

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    • Kdawg

      We don’t have receivers that can get open. It doesn’t matter what part of the field you throw it too. All the opposition has to do is play man coverage and stack the box. I’ve been saying it since ND, we don’t have receivers that can get open.

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      • You can scheme them open. With switch releases, bunches, etc.

        Maybe you’re right, but we aren’t doing anything to help them. The explosive runs (which are more important for us imo) are gone bc teams have copied Texas.

        I didn’t like the Coley hire. I hate it now.

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        • FlyingPeakDawg

          This. USCe was playing tight man coverage. We needed routes to shake that. But Fromm was so off today…overthrows, underthrows, behind the receivers…that was truly and awful performance. He seemed too…cocky? Hope he’s humbled now.

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          • gastr1

            Every pass he threw wasn’t off. Yes, more than normal, but some of what may have looked like Fromm’s poor pass are on the WRs. For example, at least two of the passes down the sideline to Pickens would have been caught by a receiver more prepared to body the corner off of him. Pickens can catch, we know, but we see how much that matters when he has to basically be uncovered to get to the ball because he doesn’t know how to create space yet. And there was an intentionally underthrown ball to Robertson at the goal line at the end where Robertson just didn’t get turned around well enough to make the play on it. The ball was where it should be.

            Not saying Fromm wasn’t missing some throws here and there– he was–but he is working with a weak group of receivers, and with Cager out that becomes even more noticeable.

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        • Kdawg

          I don’t think we have an OC that is capable of scheming them open.

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  104. addr

    Kirby = muschamp 0.5. Muschamp 2.0 just beat the #3 team on the road.

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  105. FlyingPeakDawg

    Go Braves! Oh wait… Go Falc… shit. This is going to be a long winter.

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  106. MADDAWG

    Not trolling,not making excuses,we didn’t deserve to win this one by the way we played but I feel like I need to vent about this. I’m as pissed off as anyone at the loss and our goals are still in front of us but I feel like yet again we were beaten by the officials. I’ll go to my grave believing we were intentionally robbed against Alabama in 2017 and 2018. The officials beat us again today.
    Simmons streaking deep? No defensive holding
    Anderson blocked into hilinski? Roughing the passer
    PI on DRob at the end? Flag stays in the pocket
    Wolf was held up on the 4th and 6 so I’m glad we caught that break but Carolina was living off the pick 6 and the long TD pass which I believe came on the drive where we stopped them on 3rd down and of course here came the flag on JR to keep them on the field. I wholeheartedly believe that if that crew had cost Alabama a game like this they would be out of a job before the teams hit the locker rooms. Isn’t Steve Shaw a Bama grad? We’ve had them on the ropes 2 years in a row and they’ve been bailed out by missed face masks,missed false starts on game tying TDS, phantom offside penalties and Mack Wilson slamming Fromms head in the ground. Did we deserve to win? We got whipped up front all day by a team that was well prepared and playing with their hair on fire but how many times have we seen the teams from the west get saved in games like this by ticky tack stuff? Just afraid of going into Atlanta again to play the tide and their striped cheerleaders now that our margin of error is gone, rant over to to hell with Kentucky FTMF

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    • Anon

      Dude. Put the crack pipe down. This game is not on the officials.

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    • Paul

      Against a team as bad as South Carolina the game should not be close enough for a few bad calls to change the outcome. That’s on us. We have not been prepared to play two very poor teams in a row. We’ve been out coached by two middle of road coaches at best. The players have to execute but a lot of this is on the staff..

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      • gastr1

        Absolutely, Paul. People like MADDAWG drive me nuts–always with an excuse. There was no excuse for that shitshow other than that the coaches and players were inferior to a mediocre team.

        “The refs are out to get us.” Good grief, grow up already.

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