It may be specifically about blocking kicks, but this piece nicely illustrates how well this Georgia team prepares.
Dan Jackson saw the look and made the check.
In the second quarter against Missouri last Saturday, he noticed the Tigers lined up in a certain formation. He alerted his teammates, signaling the Bulldogs to go after the kick.
Nolan Smith charged in and blocked the punt. Jackson nearly came up with it in the end zone for a touchdown, but he couldn’t corral it. Georgia settled for a safety instead.
That marks the fourth blocked kick of the season for the Bulldogs. Through preparation, strain, and the work of the guy known as “Dirty Dan,” Georgia’s special teams have become a destructive force…
“When it happened, we were all ready,” senior corner Ameer Speed said. “(Jackson is) the head honcho of the group at his position, but we’ve been working on that play really all week. When it happened, it was kind of like boom, boom, boom. When he made the call, it was good to have it executed. It went exactly how we wanted it to.”
It’s the matter of fact-ness about the play that really gets me. These guys are talented, sure, but they’re being coached to put themselves in position to make plays and then they go out and execute them. It’s almost coldblooded.
Get The Picture 
“Cold blooded”
Me likes that term when referring to this D.
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Yea, it was obvious from the upper deck that he saw something! Awesome!
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Beamer Ball!!!!!
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“It’s almost cold-blooded.”
That’s the way Alabama played for so many years when they asserted themselves on the line of scrimmage. It’s the way we play now.
Talent + development + preparation + execution = Excellence
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This mentality is why I don’t see us putting up a WTF game. We are ruthlessly efficient and businesslike.
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Dirty Dan = Terry Hoage
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Come on now…
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Yeah, nothing against Dirty Dan but Terry Hoage finished 5th in the 1983 Heisman voting. He was in another league.
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Prob my favorite all-time DAWG! (Hoage that is)
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Herschel
Hoage
Hines
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DAN DAN DAN ALL DAY DIRTY DAN
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Jackson should’ve tapped the ball back in the end zone for a fellow teammate to score, maybe Smith – who blocked it to begin with. Otherwise, it’s all good.
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He still should have had it, just one of those football bounces. If anything, Nolan should have blocked it a little softer.
/s
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“Dirty Dan”. I like that! We nearly got the first punt blocked so he had it recognized on the very first try! I still can’t believe their coaches didn’t adjust the protection after the 1st block attempt.
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This team is incredibly fundamentally sound. This is what makes the idea that coaches like Mullen are better than Kirby such a joke. Yes, we are more talented, but this team out executes and is more fundamentally sound than every team we play. Especially on defense. But we’re supposed to believe that Kirby can’t coach.
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I’m serious as a heart attack… we cannot let Saban steal Boom when he fires Pete Golding this year.
KEEP BOOM IN ATHENS!
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I know Agent Boom did some things over the years when he was on assignment that rankled us, as it should have. I think that’s kept me from giving him more credit for our steps forward on D.
But earlier this season, Drinkwitz said in an SEC Network piece that “adding Will Muschamp to that staff should be illegal” (or something close to that).
I think Boom stays with his buddy Kirby to bring down the Evil Empire rather than join it.
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Seriously thinking about sending the AD at South Carolina a gift basket for firing Muschamp. If we win the Natty, may just do that… LOL
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He certainly adds a level of intensity on the sidelines. He almost makes Kirby look calm
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My Lord. I love this idea as a troll against my Auburn buddies. Sending them red and black roses and a bottle of whiskey…
Filing that idea away in my brainpiece for later, thank you.
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Never say never, and money talks and competitive fire and all that.
Will is having a blast spending time with his boys without the overall headaches being a DC or HC brings.
the Gamecocks write him big checks. I don’t think he goes anywhere.
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How would you propose we do that?
Replace Lanning with Will?
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“We’re putting the band back together.”
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Landings already flirted with UT Austin and Kansas, I believe. Think he bounces soon while his star is bright.
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I think Boom is enjoying working with his buddy especially with his son being on the team. I’m starting to think Boom may be the new DC if/when Lanning takes a head coaching job.
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If Lanning gets a HC job this year one has to believe that Boom gets promoted to DC. I believe it was Saban himself that talked about having conversations with assistants about not taking lateral moves (was it Kirby to Athens to be DC under Richt??).
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T’was.
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Hopefully any and all staff that work with CKS & UGA football move on when the whole picture, situation, $$$$$, location etc. is right for them and not move on just because…I get, ya never know when that situation is gonna’ ripen…
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I hope a coordinator position at Georgia is so great that I bide my time until a job that checks a ton of boxes comes up. i.e. the Kirby Smart path. Of course, the buyout for failure at a dumpster fire few could succeed at is so tempting that it may be a tough ask.
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“Dirty Dan” sounds like something out of the Urban Dictionary.
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I’m not going to check. I’ll leave that up to you. I was burned by “Dirty Sanchez”.
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I too fell prey to looking up the Dirty Sanchez years ago…who comes up with that shit…pun intended
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You’re fortunate to have learned like a Poindexter instead of OJT. The fellow who explained it to me was dead serious that was his means of final breakup with his ex.
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I tried to tell you…
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Check out “upper decker”
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That would definitely leave a mark
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Pink Dragon and Alabama Hot Pocket almost got me fired.
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Cleveland Steamer.
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Those two ^^ and Upper Decker.
Well here we go!
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No. Just no. Went from a rude breakup move to damn depravations. Glad I got aged venison bottom round chili verde and onions in the slow cooker before I read those. I’m going to shower in unfluoridated water to wash away the preversions from y’all’s commie prevert imagery.
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Honestly, (clutching my pearls) you humanoids are some nasty sumbitches, all I can say is…My Dawgs
And we’re definitely gonna need plastic covers for the cushions at Miss Brandee’s…
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I for one, will not let those commie bastards sap & impurify my precious bodily fluids
We’ll call that the Mandrake
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There it is!
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I’m gonna chime in here and this one goes out to all my ‘pinch between the cheek and gum’ brethren. Let me acquaint you with the ‘montana musket loader’.
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That seems almost normal to all those fecal freak posts.
Almost.
😉
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It’s a great first date ice-breaker.
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Dirty Danchez?
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What is our all time record for punts blocked in a season? Or all kick blocks combined? Seems like we have been blocking something almost every game.
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Has to be 2002. I remember CMR saying folks shouldn’t go to the concession stand for a punt or a field goal because we were blocking a kick or running a punt back for a TD.
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Speaking of Dan Jackson, I love the way he plays the game. He arrives to the ball quickly and with bad intentions for the ball carrier. I think he’s a starting safety next season.
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Just think how good he’d be if Kirby could develop players.
/s
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If I’m not mistaken, Jackson was a walk on. Another hole poked in the narrative that Kirby doesn’t develop players.
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I don’t think he has a scholly yet.
That hit he put on the Mizzou QB in the 4th quarter was borderline assault and battery.
Her arrived quickly and with bad intentions.
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Archie, you are spot on about Dirty Dan. Damn, he just flies to the ball, and will bust your ass when he gets there. I can’t wait to see the video of him receiving his scholarship.
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Dan is the Man.
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“they’re being coached to put themselves in position to make plays” was exactly my takeaway. Any coach can call something from the sideline and hope that it gets executed. Real coaching is getting the players to understand what they are looking at and what they are looking for and setting themselves up for making the right calls on the field.
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Walk-On Power!
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is this a reference to the grits coldblooded dawgs blog of old?
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Did I hear Kirby say it a look we’d seen on tape from several years back that we prepared for just in case they showed it again?
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