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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 
Maybe one day we can recruit one and play him.
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Glad we play in the SEC East
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Probably why our defense is so good.
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Playing in the East artificially inflated us.
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Looks like the Dawgs finally played somebody y’all.
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Lol. Ain’t no lie RR
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Maybe Janell has been right all year smh
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*Kanell damn autocorrect
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Janell works too, the twat.
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Let’s post something else about beating GT. 😂
Saban is the GOAT. Kirby is his bitch. The wife and I are about to watch TV and I’m not going to think about football until… I don’t know when. Good night all!! Thanks for sharing in the misery!!!
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Former walk-on QB meets defense with a pulse.
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He had a bad game, but our defense was the problem.
It’s as if Lanning didn’t see the Iron Bowl.
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I said on the game day thread that the 1st half defensive strategy that looked like the f-ing 1st half of the Rose Bowl lost the game and that this offense especially with SBIV isn’t built to come back.
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And we don’t have 2 game-breaking generational running backs to bail us out.
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I was ridiculed in a thread the other day when saying we had to get over the “Bama hump”. This is what I meant. In order to be the man, you have to beat the man.
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Never mind. I’ll regret anything I say tonight.
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Yep. And no Chubb or Sony to bail us out.
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Stetson isn’t why we lost. But he is why when the defense finally got down stops we couldn’t get in the endzone and tighten it up.
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Stetson Bennett is about 75% about why we lost.
Great QB beats great defense. We had a great QB sitting on the bench, and Kirby had a month to get him ready. To knock off the rust. To start him against Charleston Southern and Tech and Kirby refused to do it.
Kirby didn’t learn that lesson from 2019, it seems, where a great QB destroyed our defense, or in 2020 when two great QBs destroyed our defense.
Kirby didn’t learn. He refuses to learn. That’s our truth.
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I hate it, but I’m man enough to say you were right.
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I don’t want to be right. I want to win. It’s all I want. I want Kirby to make better decisions and to learn from his mistakes.
I think that’s what we all want.
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It is and I don’t see it happening. He is Muschamp with better recruiting.
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We don’t have a great QB on the roster. Unless you just decide that based on recruiting rankings instead of game performances.
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It’s like what Daniels did last year never even happened. What is wrong with y’all???
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No, it happened. He put up good numbers against mediocre teams and had 3 turnovers in an uneven performance in a post-season game. Nothing distinguishable from Stetson this year.
I’m fine if we go to JT for our next game. But to pretend that there’s this obvious superstar on our bench and Kirby is just too stupid to realize it is a real stretch.
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So watch him play. His throws are more accurate. He doesn’t freak out when pressured. He gets the team in better plays by reading the defense. Stetson in pressure situations gets panicky and last night he was blaming his receivers when his throws weren’t that great. He still misses wide open receivers as well. Look at their third down conversion rate and Stetson numbers in that situation. They are pretty poorly. That’s when a QB has it all on him and Stetson is average at best.
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Dude, Stetson ain’t the answer. But we don’t have TBrady or ARogers sitting in that bench ready to take over. Why you keep saying we do is baffling.
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We don’t know what we have on the bench because he didn’t play. Maybe JT isn’t the answer but he’s a damn chance. Stetson just isn’t a catch up QB.
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Do you think Stetson will ever play a down in the NFL? JT Daniels is still projected to be drafted in early rounds for the NFL? I think that’s the point. No one is saying his is Brady or Rodgers.
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Yeah, I don’t really disagree. I’ve been pretty consistent that Bennett wasn’t going to beat a team with big time talent.
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Maybe Stetson didn’t totally lose it but he didn’t give us the best chance to win!! In today CFB you will get into shootout every now and then. Alabama vs Ole Miss?? JT Daniels much more likely to win shoot out than Bennet. Look at each QBs third down conversion rate.
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Kirby went all in on Stetson when he elected to not play JT the last 3 games of the season.
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Yep
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Daniel’s sample size is really small, but agreed. I think they should have done a lot more to get JT reps and ready.
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I have a feeling Saban knew they were going to win because Bennett wasn’t going to score enough to beat them. Lanning and Kirby made it easy with that joke of a defensive strategy in the 1st half.
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Yeah Stetson was garbage covering Alabama’s receivers and getting to Young.
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You apparently haven’t been reading what I’ve been saying. The defense let us down in the 1st half and the first drive of the 2nd half. The offense is not built for a comeback with SBIV at the controls especially given he has gotten very little help from an explosive run game. His turnovers were absolutely devastating.
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I agree. I also agree with whoever said, there is some reason Daniels hasn’t been playing and it ain’t because Kirby just likes Bennett.
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I agree with that.
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And there it is.
If the players saw Daniels outplaying Bennett in practice it would have come out. I don’t know why Daniels can’t claim the job. It sure as hell is not because both Kirby and Monken have something against JT or want to lose to Bama.
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It’s like these people think this has taken place at practice, Monken-Kirby I think we have to start JT. I really think he gives us the best chan… Kirby-Stop right there, Todd. That is NOT going to happen. Not under any circumstances. Stetson is my boy so he starts. Don’t ever bring it up again.
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Thank you. You took the thought right out of my brain.
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We have a cheerleader for loses here who apparently lives through the sports team he follows so lashing out in rage with uncontrollable keyboard anger is all he’s got.
If your a person who truly believes the HC and OC have an anti JT conspiracy or as stated want to lose thing going on you need help.
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But he did claim the job before the season began, much like Eason. Kirby’s comfort zone is QB’s that basically take snaps and “manage” games. That’ll win you 9-11 games a year with Kirby’s recruiting expertise. In the end we have a souped up Mark Richt that cannot get out of his stubbornness. He likely will get another chance in the next month, but the fact that he didn’t get Daniels meaningful snaps in those last 4 games is the epitome of Kirby’s psyche.
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Where you at practice watching JT?
Everyone is forgetting pregame against Clemson. JT granting an interview to discuss his mental health issues and continuing therapy.
For a reason we don’t know and no sane coach comes out and says in a presser this kid has issues. Many assume the 2020 JT is ready to go. I don’t think Monken believes he is. Last Olympics we saw several top athletes drop out due to personal not physical issues. It’s a new world for these kids with pressure and opportunities we could never dream of at their age.
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Stetson can’t win you a game in a shootout. I’ll say that much. That’s not what he does. That touchdown he threw to Pickins was just about perfect. He made a lot of really good throws. He deserves criticism for the picks he threw. That is absolutely on him. But to jump past the horrible game from the defense straight to Stetson just shows an agenda. Jordan Davis was getting doubled and there was still no pressure on Young.
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i’ve heard he’s a huge vaginaburger
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twas me. And it’s true.
Unless you’re crazy enough to believe Kirby wants to lose.
Truth..this game was a shitty coaching job and most of the team didn’t play as well as they could have.
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Maybe Stetson didn’t totally lose it but he didn’t give us the best chance to win!! In today CFB you will get into shootout every now and then. Alabama vs Ole Miss?? JT Daniels much more likely to win shoot out than Bennet. Look at each QBs third down conversion rate.
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As a fan it’s easy to assume based on last years JT he is the best option today. I get that and have hoped at some point he would step up and claim the job.
Only those people at practice each week really know. None of us fans really know what JT capable of right now I’ll never believe Monken was forced to play his second best QB option.
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JT claimed the job and then got hurt. He came back and played well against Vandy and then got hurt again. I am convinced the more I think about it that this became a Fromm/Eason thing. We were winning, and Kirby didn’t want to mess with the team’s chemistry – the exact same thing he did last year with SBIV. When we ran into a team that could make us play from behind, we had no answer. Fromm had Nick and Sony with a good offensive line to help him (and it didn’t hurt that he was extremely talented as well).
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Great QBs beat a great defense.
Why is it some of y’all and Kirby still refuse to learn this lesson?
Stetson is not the guy who can beat the great teams. He’s not the guy who can go stride for stride with the great QBs, to bail out our defense, as opposed to our defense bailing his scrub ass out like they did in Jacksonville.
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You’re a fucking wanker. You’re glad the game played out the way it did so you can keep on with this shit and if Georgia has won you would still be bitching.
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That you think that shows that you don’t know me it all.
I’m not going to be able to sleep tonight, let alone eat anything. My stomach is in knots and likely will be for days.
How about you stop blaming the messenger and just listen to the message?
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No he always leaves when Georgia wins.
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Yeah, that’s not true either. Now you’re just straight lying. Most of y’all’s assumptions about me are funny enough, but come on man, don’t lie. Just because we think differently doesn’t mean we both don’t love the same team and want them to win.
How many times did I have to say I wanted to be wrong about Stetson Bennett? How many times do I have to say that I don’t want to be right tonight, I want to be celebrating a win, not suffering again.
You don’t like me? Fine. I don’t care one way or another. But to keep on acting like I wanted to lose so I could be right is a lie. It’s a lie. I’m sorry I can’t keep my mouth shut when I see Kirby keep making stupid decisions that I know will hurt the team down the line. I wish I could. YOU wish I could. But I can’t, and I’m sorry about that.
Having people “congratulate” me here tonight for being right all season about Bennett brings me no comfort. It’s bitter. It’s ash in my mouth. It’s agony because the Dawgs lost when we didn’t have to lose if Kirby made better choices. I fucking hate it.
I hate it, man. I just want us to win. I don’t care if it’s by one point or 20. I just want to win. Fuck. I just want to win.
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So who is the great QB that Kirby should have played?
You don’ know.
But Kirby does.
He doesn’t have one.
So your broken record of a moot point is useless.
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That you trust Kirby to make this decision when he keeps fucking it up is called something: That’s right, it’s the definition of insanity.
WE DO HAVE A BETTER QB AND KIRBY IS NOT STARTING HIM!!!
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That’s BS. JT lost the job due to injury, and then Kirby didn’t want to mess with the team’s chemistry.
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Maybe. Another thought would be that the offensive line isn’t quite as good as we would want and SBIV’s legs allow plays to extend. If JT was in last night, he might have been sacked 5-7 times.
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Do you still think Fromm was better than Fields too? Because there are some NFL coaches that have settled that decision. Give it a couple of years and we will see how many snaps Bennet has taken in NFL.
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Thank you.
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If I’d asked you how about that “walk on” at the end of the first quarter you’d have be so flowery in his praises. Perhaps former walk on loses control of offensive line? Yes, he failed to excute some calls by Monken and it cost us but he looked good when we got to tie game. The key to our loss is the defense which obviously spent the last week reading their reviews. With a couple of exceptions, the defense was played straight up by the Bama offensive line..one on one. But the final nail in our championship coffin was a quarterback who played lights out and hit everybody he threw at. Young deserves the Heisman if for nothing else than taking Auburn and Georgia’s defenses apart. A shoutout to his receivers who caught just about everything he threw. It will show up in the playoffs what Georgia really is or did we play anybody Pawwwwl?
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Did he play better than he did against Alabama? Yes. He also made a lot of the same mistakes he did last year in Tuscaloosa. Once we were down by 2 scores, I knew we weren’t coming back without help.
Once again, read what I wrote. The defense lost the game in the 1st half with the failure to get pressure on Young.
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2 ints (pick 6) + 5 punts + 2 turnovers on Downs is a generational Offense.
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Seems Bama has one generational QB after another.
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And we don’t
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I think we have 2 that were sitting on the sidelines tonight. There’s a reason JT started and played the whole game against Clemson.
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And there’s a reason he hasn’t played much since.
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WHAT IS THE REASON???
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Yes we do his name is JT Daniels. Do you think Bennet will ever play a down in the NFL? What about Daniels?
Not sure why it is such a hard decision?
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I want the facts upon which I conclude which QB should be playing to include what I saw in practice. Having never seen that I don’t know enough to second guess the coaches. I don’t get a six figure bonus payment if Georgia wins the SEC CG but Smart does. I assume he wants the bonus and will put thought into which players should be starters.
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Brandon should get an agent and snag one of these coaching jobs. He seems to know a lot more about the QB bench than Kirby Smart, Todd Monken and the players.
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WHAT IS THE REASON???
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I only have to point to Green’s, Murray’s, and Fromm’s NFL careers to put your qb qualifying skills to rest. And, there are career NFL backups who you never heard of. We’re in the NCAA/SEC football business and you use your best weapon when you choose. Make too many mistakes in judgement and you become a Coach Hermann, Mullen, Fuentes, or Obegeron. (forgive spelling). Kirby in the last six years has been the Messiah that the fans have longed for…do you doubt his coaching ability..that includes his chosen assistants? It’s a tough game and it takes a tough coach to be a success. Saben is th e GOAT…he wins more with his talent than anyone else. He understands you win some, you lose some with what you have. And, you don’t listen to armchair qbs to make it all work. So chill guys…we’ve got a playoff to win!
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I thought it was just me getting old, but apparently generations keep getting shorter and shorter.
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Sorry my over confidence jinxed us guys. Really thought we’d play better especially on defense. Geebus that was atrocious.
Although look at my shocked face that stetson couldn’t beat Alabama and threw two picks.
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Alabama won’t play that well again
Georgia won’t play that poorly again.
The rematch (if there is one) will be different.
We saw all they had. We made mistakes, they didn’t.
No way they replicate that performance.
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I’m really doubting we make the play offs. Saban has KILLER instincts and very good players too.
For the first time watching the dogs I turned the TV off after that pick. How bad did Bama beat us?
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Alabama – Cinci
Michigan – Georgia
With Okie State losing, that sets it up perfectly for the committee. I like our chances of seeing the Tide again.
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Can’t wait. Nothing like ringing in the new year with another ass-living and Zeta Covid.
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*kicking
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Me too. That game was an enigma.
Alabama played a near perfect game. Young looked like he sold his soul to the devil to play that well.
I don’t think they can do that again.
And Georgia just sucked. Defense was a head scratcher..blown coverages killed us. And not sending the house against Young until he was rattled (as Auburn did) was hard to understand.
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You think ESPN wants us over Notre Dame? We don’t deserve to be #3 after tonight. We just don’t.
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Georgia looked like shit the first time it played Auburn in 2017 and world class 30 days later beating them. Hopefully there is another opportunity this season.
Bama’s OL looked so good in that first half that’s the biggest surprise. They completely controlled the line of scrimmage.
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We also had a conference championship under our belt. We don’t deserve another shot at Alabama.
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Which 2 loss team will take our spot? Or, are you saying ESPN will want UTSA in ghd playoff over us?
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Why should Bama have to beat us twice especially after beating us soundly tonight? If I were on the committee, it would be:
Alabama-ND (and the story with Freeman as their new coach)
Michigan-Cincinnati
We would be at 5 and playing in a meaningless Sugar Bowl (although the SEC may put Ole Miss there to sell tickets). That means we play Pitt or Wake in an absolute $#!+ game in Atlanta.
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Then chere for Iowa.
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Didn’t they put Clemson and Notre Dame in a couple of years ago, after ND had beaten them?
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Last year which had a pandemic … nothing of which can be drawn on. ND beat Clemson without Lawrence in South Bend. ND finishes 10-0 and gets blown out in Charlotte.
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Michigan, Alabama and Notre Dame- 1 loss
Cincy undefeated
Dawgs to the Sugar bowl
No 2 loss team involved.
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Maybe. But I’m doubtful Notre Dame’s schedule gets them there. No victories over top-25 teams (we have victories vs #22, #23 and #25). Plus, the 11 point loss vs Cincinnati isn’t appreciably worse than our 17 point loss vs Alabama (especially given the committees skepticism on group of 5 teams in general). If OK St had won, I’d be more worried.
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Also – I think the committee will take into consideration the extra jeopardy UGA was put in by having to play a conference title game while ND takes the week off.
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Say it ain’t so, Spur
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We caught Alabama when they were down to one scholarship running back and he was hobbled. Their offensive line was a garbage fire against Auburn. And we even had Metchie out the second half. And we got the everliving shit kicked out of us. If we even go to the playoff after that debacle, if we meet them again, they’ll be healthier and they will humiliate us even worse than this time. We will never beat Alabama as long as Nick Saban is coaching there. Never.
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*As long as Kirby is coaching here.
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Ah yes… fire Kirby…. Just fuck the hell off, ya moron
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But look at the recruiting rankings!!
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Dan Mullen is available and he had two morale victories against Alabama the past 2 years.
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Let the record show that Corch has lost faith in CKS after a undefeated regular season because he didn’t play a generational QB that he doesn’t have.
You can’t make this shit up. He thinks Kirby should give birth to a Heisman candidate QB on the sideline and put him in to win the game.
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Wild hair question here: Did they change the rule on targeting? Williams was ejected from the previous game with Auburn in the first quarter and I thought you had to wait until the second quarter of the next game to appear. Yet Williams was in the whold game against us and did quite well….has the rule changed or am I just ignorant of the penalty??
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1st half targeting available for the game the following week regardless of when it happens
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Pardon me if I ask for your credentials to make such a confident proclamation…
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The difference between Saban and Kirby is that when Tua wasn’t getting it done, Nick was willing to bring in Jalen Hurts for the win. That doesn’t excuse the porous defense, but at least if you’re answering scores with scores you have a chance. When you don’t do that you have no chance.
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Tua got hurt. That’s the only reason Hurts saw the field that night.
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Don’t fuck up their meme with facts.
Here’s a fact…There’s a damn good reason why JT isn’t playing.
Just because these know it alls want to pretend they have superior knowledge to CKS and Monken doesn’t change that fact.
There’s a damn good reason JT doesn’t play. If CKS had someone that could come in and do better he’d play them
This was a team loss…coaches down to the scout team.
But it’s going to make this team better (if) in the playoffs.
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Tell me what the good reason is. Don’t get me wrong – Stetson deserved to start, and even to open the second half, but when it became clear he wasn’t going to get done try something else. Try to win the damn game. You don’t have facts because there’s nothing to compare it with.
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What’s the damn good reason?
What is it? All I see is a scrub game manager who will never lead us to where we need to go while Kirby lets his best QB sit on the bench. After playing a quarter against Mizzou, Kirby didn’t let him knock of rust against other teams. He stuck with HIS guy.
Why? What is this REASON some of y’all keep pointing to without zero evidence?
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So why isn’t JT Daniels playing? Please enlighten us. Is it the same reason Fields didn’t play over Fromm? Kirby seems he would rather be their friend than make hard decisions as a coach!!
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Fields never proved he was ready to play over Fromm.
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I think you mean when Hurts wasn’t getting it done, Saban benched Hurts and Tua led them to a National Title. That’s the analogy you want to use.
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With a legitimate walk on QB….we went into a gun battle with butter knife!
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…and the side arm was sitting in the foot locker.
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Anyone needs me I’ll be gargling tequila in my bathtub.
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LOL
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Just keep the toaster in the kitchen.
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Sometimes it seems like it could drive one to almost do that.
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UGA has our Harbaugh.
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“Just run past him.” Nick Saban
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Derek was right.
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MVP of the game is bama OL, why we didn’t blitz every stinking down in the 2nd half is coaching malpractice.
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Until we can match them score for score, this will be the outcome.
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Our secondary got exposed, our d line didn’t do anything and we have one playmaker on offense in Bowers. Maybe if we play them again we can keep it within ten. Maybe.
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Maybe. It will take a smarter game plan.
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I think we beat them if we play them again.
They had everything go their way. No turnovers…but the most uncanny thing is the way Young turned chicken shit into chicken salad on almost every play. The kid is the real thing.
I don’t think they can do it again.
I don’t think we’ll have that shitty of a game plan again either.
I think Dawgs win a rematch (if we get one).
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And “experience” tells you this? lol. Or you just sit on the toilet seat masturbating to that time you fingered Christie Brinkley at that concert when your friends weren’t looking. Living in LaLa land
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There’s no call for this kind of talk.
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Ok. LOL. But I thought it was one of my finest retorts.
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Bullshit post right here.
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Alabama has beat Georgia seven times in a row. Four times in the Benz. Georgia does not believe it can win. If we get the rematch we shit the bed again. I’d rather play in the Sugar Bowl. I hope we don’t make the playoffs. I’m tired of watching Georgia teams fail to realize their potential.
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But if we had scored 35 like bama does in some of its games we would win! Got to have a NFL caliber QB (Daniels) to do that against BAMA defense!
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You’re right about Bowers…he’s a helluva ball player and a great receiver…BUT, tell me, who was that getting the ball to him????
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Raise your hand if you thought we’d get to an opposing QB exactly no times.
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Lanning must not have watched the Iron Bowl.
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Most of the game we didn’t even get any pressure on him. Stevie Wonder can complete passes with that much time to sit in the pocket.
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I never dreamed that our defense would have 7 fewer sacks against Alabama than Auburn did.
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So y’all know that Kirby is gonna stick with Bennett if we make the Playoff, right?
Because he will never learn.
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I wasn’t as vocal as you about this, but Yeah man. This shit sucks.
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You have held on long after I gave up. Gotta say kudos! They had a better QB. That was the main difference. That and their OL complete domination of our front 7. Another off-season of great recruiting and happy talk! Then we’ll give SB another crack. Of course, Monken is probably gone so… good luck with that.
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It is going to be interesting to see what Monken does. If he leaves, I think it will pretty damning that Kirby was pulling the strings at QB the whole time.
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Yep!
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I wish I were wrong. Being right about this is bitter. It’s bile in my throat.
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But but but we should stick with Bennett because, because…. The defense is lights out and we’ll never ever be in a shootout. Why would you want a QB that might give you a fighting chance when you HAVE to score to keep up.
I mean Stetson doesn’t have the upside to stretch the field but still has the downside of a QB that throws picks when the pressure is on. You would be an idiot to question Kirby for going with the low upside, high downside option.
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If bennett walks out on our first possession against Michigan, I’m turning the game off and I’m done. We will have wasted the most talented team we’ve ever fielded. Kirby will truly have permanently lost me and most others, who have a clue anyway.
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I don’t think we should get another chance. Give it someone else. Losing to them again is not worth it. Kirby can recruit players and coaches but he can’t handle talented QBs. You have to have your own and we all know how that goes. SBIV will be our starter again next year because he’ll work harder in practice or something.
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SBIV and Jody Patton——only 7 year lettermen in UGA history.
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I love Zeus, but he is average. We haven’t had an RB make a run breaking tackles, like Bowers did, all season long.
So much wrong with this game and the team today.
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When 3 300-pound guys are on top of you at the line of scrimmage, you aren’t going to break those tackles.
I’m so disappointed in the play of both sides of the line of scrimmage.
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I hate to say it, but I’ve never been that impressed with Zeus. Maybe I was spoiled with Todd, Nick and Sony. And Swift.
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He has truly never been the player he was in HS after the 2 knee injuries. But he needs to provide more IMO, anyway.
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How do you calculate that Jody Patton lettered 7 years? His freshman season was 1987-1988 and his last season was 1990-1991
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It’s a joke.
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SBIV is a senior. I’m doubting he returns. It’s time to go make his way in the world.
The question is whether JT decides to come back or tell Kirby where to stick it.
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I were Daniels, I would transfer back to USC and lead Riley’s team to a Pac-12 title and Playoff appearance in 2022.
AFTER I told Kirby to go fuck himself, that is.
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Agreed
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You’re a thick headed one, Corch. There is a reason..and a good reason that JT isn’t playing. Stetson is the default starter. But there is a reason. I think I know what’s going on but it would be wrong to speculate. But it’s not because Kirby is in love with Stetson. We may learn one day…But if JT were the guy, he’d be playing but he isn’t and he aint.
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The reason? I heard something 2 or 3 weeks ago. A friend of mine who has pretty good access to the team said JT is a pussy. Not my words and it is third hand. Every time there is the slightest physical problem he doesn’t want to practice. I haven’t mentioned this before because it is third hand and I really didn’t want to say something like that about JT. But who the fuck knows?
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That doesn’t gibe with the information we know:
Daniels wanted to play earlier last year after being cleared by our medical professionals, but Kirby kept him on the bench and only turned to him after the disastrous Florida game.
Daniels took some shots last season, and played like a champ.
So, I call b.s. on this. It doesn’t make sense or fit the information we have.
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Dawgnation reported that the week of the Tennessee game Daniels or his family paid Daniels’s personal QB coach to travel to Athens to work with Daniels on his passing mechanics. My conclusion is that he was sharp in practice.
For all I know Daniels could have been perfect in practice or could have been horrible in practice. I don’t know.
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I meant to type, “My conclusion was that he was not sharp in practice. “
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“We know” as in of course you mean you know best and call bullshit on someone else’s opinion. Now that funny as hell thanks corch I needed the laugh.
Good night all enjoy listening to corch explain why he knows best.
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Your good reason for why Stetson is playing is basically because Kirby is infallible so by virtue of Stetson playing he’s the best QB. Man love that circular logic
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I do not know to which post you are replying. If you are replying to me then my position is not that the head football coach is infallible. My position is that he has a lot more data upon which to base conclusions than I do.
I also am aware that he has won a larger percentage of his games than any UGA coach in history. That makes me conclude he has more expertise in running the Georgia football program than I do. I believe his and Monken’s depth chart decisions are entitled to some deference l
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Kirby is the thick-headed one.
And he has been since he shut down the offense for the entire 4th quarter of the National Title Game in 2017.
He still thinks he can win by playing not to lose.
I understand not wanting to speculate about a player; I did that here and regretted it almost instantly.
I’d like to hear your thoughts, though. Y’all think I’m this asshole who can’t let things go, and maybe I am, maybe I am, but there’s a reason why: Because what I think about this is rationally-backed up by the evidence we have before us. What I think is logical based on what we know and what keeps happening.
I hate that I’ve been right about Bennett. I hate that he did exactly what I said he would do in this game. I want to win. I want to win so badly. I want Kirby to win, but right now Kirby still looks like a guy who refuses to play to win, like a coach who refuses to learn from glaring mistakes, like a man who keeps making the most easily avoidable mistakes because he can’t get out of his own stubborn way. I hate it. It eats me up inside. I don’t like being right about tonight’s game. I’m angry and upset and my stomach is in knots. This is gonna sit with me all month.
If you can change my mind, please do. You can email me your thoughts at popculturemass@gmail.com. I’d love to hear what you have to say. I’d love to know what you’re thinking, because maybe you can make all this senselessness I see before me about Kirby and Bennett and Daniels make some sense.
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Give is an example of what would change your mind?
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Information that logically fits with what we know and fills in the gaps with what we don’t.
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i.e. the, “JT Daniels is a pu—y,” thing being floated here doesn’t gibe with what we know about JT Daniels; the actual facts about the kid that we know.
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Well if you ask me, I think that earlier assertion is pretty asinine. This is football and I think Occams Razor applies.
So I think two things. 1) I don’t think he’s healthy and 2) I think Monken thinks Stetson is the better QB for what’s going on in our receiving corp.
In truth, the only receiver on our roster taking meaningful snaps at Bama is Pickens when healthy and Bowers. That’s it. And for whatever reason, Stetson has been the man with this kind of offense. You have to admit Daniels wasn’t a world beater in a lot of his time this year.
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I honestly do not believe Monken is choosing the QB. I believe Kirby is telling him who the QB will be and to game plan around his choice.
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Well I don’t think any of us know that. I’d be shocked if Monken said “JT is who I want to run this offense” and Kirby said “no, I want Stetson.”
This whole debate seems to conveniently ignore that JT Daniels was the starter.
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Like JT slept with somebody’s wife? That’s the only reason I could imagine to sit him in the bench.
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Jake Scott resembles that suggestion.
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I agree with your last sentence
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There’s a hole in my drywall and I want to do more. What a shitshow. We all could have averted that and we dont get paid $9mil to do it.
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This defense was painfully thin it at outside linebacker and safety/nickel. We lost a starter at both positions and were able to cover for it for a while. Chris Smith playing injured didn’t help either. None of this will get fixed. Neither will the quarterback position. It was a glorious regular season and nobody can take that away from this team. How many times have the dawgs been a player short since 1980?
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It’s funny, because the QB position is a real easy fix.
Kirby just refuses to fix it.
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You know CIM you just can’t let it go can you? You want some feedback to set you straight? Here’s a dose to cure you….the Dawg coaching staff gives the HC their best input…like we staff officers did to our generals. Then the HC synthisize all of it…with his coordinators…and develops a game plan…if that plan A doesn’t work he tries plan B which has been developed beforehand and tries it. Then as some wag once said: “Shit happens”. You win some, you lose some. But these million dollar guys who make football their life work don’t let sentimentality goven their decisions. And, while you’d never admit it, your novitiate opinion doesn’t mean shit…it’s an unqualified…unless you’ve been in the “arena”…opinion and no amount of hysteronics will change the majority of GTP readers. So cool it and go back to making humourous comments we can all smile at.
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It appears Kirby struggles with branches and sequels or struggles with developing good decision points to deploy them.
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The Akil Smith injury and Adam Anderson suspension hurt us tonight.
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Remember when you guys crucified me for saying we’d never win championships with Stetson?
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I’m sorry, is your name Corch? 😉
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Well yeah but look at all those national and sec champions led by former walk on QBs. Which include……checks notes…… absolutely none.
And before anyone goes there baker Mayfield never won an sec or national championship and stetson is nowhere close to being a Baker Mayfield.
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Exactly. Baker is ONE example out of thousands. Lame and lazy comparison for those who’ve gone there.
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Not me bro..I’m down with your theory
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Guess what. We’ll never win one with JT either.
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The last time the SECCG winner had fewer than 28 points was ’07 before that ’98. Offense is the problem.
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Exactly. Which was brought up a lot but then shouted down.
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Both teams were scoring about 40/g in SEC play.
Bama got their avg, yet against the best D in the nation
UGA couldn’t meet theirs, against the best D they faced this year.
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Bama had 41, 7 were off turn overs. So that’s 34
A few points, the D wasn’t generational but not terrible.
You have to expect to score 30 and give up 0 points off turnovers to win a SECCG,
UGA does play in the East where half the division is bowl eligible thanks to Vandy.
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Yep. 17 points is gonna win you exactly zero championship games. Ever.
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Live by the Defense, Die by the Denfense.
Lotta ppl out there saying, “if we score 24, we ain’t loosing”
Offense didn’t lose this game, but they couldn’t win it for us either.
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This was worse. I at least felt like the team was well prepared in ’17, ’18 and ’20.
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Stet has 5 TDs and 5 INTs against Bama the last two games and an 0-2 record. You know what you are going to get, and it isn’t enough. I don’t know how you stay with him over JT with that data point. If that’s the plan, then you are just waving the white flag. He didn’t make any plays. Every pass is just throwing it and hoping a WR/TE makes a great play. They are super talented, so they often do, but you can’t count on that for 4 quarters in a shootout.
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I don’t know either, but someone does and his name is Kirby. We’re not told everything. If JT was better, willing and able to play, he would. One of those qualities is obviously missing.
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Circular logic. That’s no reason at all.
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Circular logic?
Hoo boy…it’s getting silly.
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Is that why Fromm played over Fields?
If you think that was a good decision then you assessment of football talent leaves a lot to be desired. Kirby should have learned from that mistake.
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So what do you think won it for Alabama? Do you think if we traded QBs the result would have been different? I would have loved it if Bennet was Bamas QB.
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I don’t know if UGA wins but I like UGA’s chances better. Honestly, the game went about as expected until Bennett wasn’t pulled.
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Just lots of inappropriate words strung together.
Saban just kicked our ass. Bama couldn’t run the damn ball and we still got whipped. Totally out coached.
How in the hell does Auburn sack Young seven times and we can’t do it once?
Why did the defense seem so passive? We usually are flying to the ball. Looked like we were on our heels all night long.
Even Kirby’s demeanor was different tonight. All ” it’s okay. You’ll do better next time. Keep you chin up, Timmy.” What was that ” Bama is really good” crap during the halftime interview? Where was the, “we have to play better” sentiment?
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This guy gets it.
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Bunch of grown ass adults whining like my four year old when I put the knob guard on his door.
If you think the QB position was the reason we got housed, you’re not watching closely. By order of importance the units that got us in a bad spot: secondary, wide receiver, o-line.
And if you think we have some generational talent that was going to come off the bench and bench and turn into Patrick Mahomes, I got bad news for you.
Throwing into coverage and contested spaces was a necessity, not poor decision making. No one is open.
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So what do you think won it for Alabama? Do you think if we traded QBs the result would have been different? I would have loved it if Bennet was Bamas QB.
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If we traded QBs we lose. That’s not a fact, but it’s conjecture bordering fact. Did I miss where our secondary was blanketing bama receivers and the QB was making Aaron Rodgers throws? No. He’s throwing to WIDE OPEN guys.
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You are correct on that point; Young was throwing to wide open guys.
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Give Stetson credit. He threw a touchdown to Bama too. Nailed the coffin shut.
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Should have had another pick 6 in the 1st quarter. I think the Bama defender was literally shocked that Bennett’s threw that pass.
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WR? OL? This is shockingly ignorant even for a blog comment.
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Well let’s see, other than Bowers, show me a pass catcher that was a true threat this year. Pickens made perhaps one of the top 2-3 contested catches by a WR all year on his long 50/50 ball.
And the offensive line? This was absolutely not a great or even good game for them. They weren’t a train wreck. But there were plenty of designed runs where we needed a push tonight and didn’t get it, putting us in line get down/distance scenarios. I can go on.
If Bennett had the protection and receivers Young had tonight, we’d have lost to him. I’ll stand by that. Young is a good player. But he is beatable. Functional QBs with wide open WRs look like world beaters.
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Arian Smith’s season was a frustration. He would show that great speed, catch passes deep, and get hurt.
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I made a comment is the prior topic that even if UGA had a Heisman QB, Smart hasn’t recruited the speed at WR that Bama has.
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Here’s a depressing thought. These are the greatest teams in the history of the Georgia program (this year, 2018, 2017) and they’re still never good enough to beat mediocre by Nick Saban standard Alabama teams. Our best ever isn’t even as good as Bama’s meh.
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I really just think these Dawgs had an off night. Nothing was clicking. Young had his best game ever…he could do no wrong. Even falling down he was completing passes… Alabama made not one serious mistake. Dawgs made a lot of them.
The most serious was not having and implementing a plan to harass Young from the very beginning. That was the biggest headscratcher to me.
Dawgs were out coached. Saban’s game plan was perfect.
Just tip your hat to Young. He’s a great one.
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I think this is a case of a better team losing due to poor preparation. It’s actually worse that way. I’d be less disappointed if I thought Alabama is better than Georgia this year.
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Kirby is not the guy. It hurts to type that
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Take a few weeks off mate. He is the guy. But tonight sux.
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I’m beginning to wonder. His best team so far was mostly a bunch of guys he didn’t recruit. With his players, his coaches and some of the most highly regarded talent in the country he keeps coming up short.
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Go get you some orange clothes. They’re on sale down in Florida.
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Can’t read all the reply’s but there is a banseyian logic to it: offense rules was settled law 11 months ago, how much new info changes that? Door is not closed this year, but I want Kirby to work on that
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There’s a new hole in my drywall. About to be another.
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Don’t do that shit, Rigger. You’ll regret it. Plus if you hit a stud, you can screw your hand up forever. It was a football game..Not worth that kind of self inflicted problems.
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I’ve been a vicious, violent sonofabitch all my life and I’ve never hit an inanimate object. Don’t understand that.
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Each year, when we melt down, and it does feel like every single year, I remind myself that big time college football is a multi-billion-dollar entertainment business, really nothing more than an altar to greed and violence, and that the fact that one team of hired mercenaries loses to another is no reflection on me or my alma mater and should be irrelevant in the big scheme of life.
And that never works.
Invariably, I feel like shit until I can convince myself that we’ll win the next one. I do think we’ll still make the playoffs, and I’d prefer to be fourth seed. Michigan will be No. 1 if they beat Iowa. Bama will be No. 2. If we’re ranked No. 3 … too painful to contemplate.
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Bama just beat the No. 1 team by 17 points with the Heisman-winning QB setting records.
They’re No.1 and it’s not close.
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I’d be glad to see any seeding that puts us against a fresh face in the first round.
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In the past 100 plus years of UGA football we have had exactly 2 perfect seasons. Those are 1946 and 1980. That means in over 98% of our seasons we have lost at least 1 game.
So yeah, in almost each year we have had what you call a meltdown. We will move past this loss.
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I think I’m going to quit trying to convince myself we’re going to win the next one. Instead, I’ll simply accept that Georgia always underachieves regardless of who the coach is. Maybe the powers that be inside BM were actually correct during the Richt years. Why spend all that money when the results will not get better? Georgia will never have an elite quarterback. Georgia will lose the games that matter 9 times out of 10. When we win the occasional SEC championship I’ll be pleasantly surprised. When lose to Alabama for the tenth time in a row I won’t be disappointed. I will simply watch games between teams I have no interest in for the pleasure of watching football. And I’ll work in the yard a lot.
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Panning is OU’s new coach?
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EDITOR’S NOTE: Earlier Saturday night, SI Sooners inadvertently published a story reporting that Georgia defensive coordinator Dan Lanning was being hired as the next head football coach at the University of Oklahoma. As of 8:30 p.m. Saturday night, Oklahoma has not named its new head coach. SI Sooners regrets the error.
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So Lanning was interviewing all week with OU and that’s why the defensive game plan sucked?
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I did not interpret Quincy’s post as suggesting a causal connection.
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Even if it was a distraction, it doesn’t take heat off the offense for not getting 30 points. which was the minimum of what you expect in a SECCG if you plan on winning.
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Young was phenomenal. But straight up, the story of the game was the Bama OL. They were why Young was so great. I’m not sure how AU lived in their backfield last week, then they turned into a steel curtain this week, but THAT was where the game was decided. Not Young, not SB4, not Jameson. The Bama OL shut down our pass rush like no other team has. We all knew that our secondary was never elite, but it was ok bc no QB ever had time to throw.
We just found out what happens when a QB has time to throw.
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^^^^^^This. We never put any consistent pressure on Young, until we started all-out blitzing, and their O-line was able to pick most of those, too. They handled our defense like no one has all season.
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Who won that game last week?
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Not sure what point you are trying to make.
Which team between AU and UGA had a better chance of winning in their respective games against Bama?
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“Where’d he go? Where’d who go?”
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Nice Top Gun reference.
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Corch, quit busting our ass while we’re playing.
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Set down the square bottle with the black and gold label and back away slowly.
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Watching the Alabama receivers blow past our secondary? It fits.
How you gonna fix that?
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Blitz the passer. Make him be perfect. It’s what Auburn did. We have the horses to do it, Kirby just didn’t until it was 31-17.
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By playing JT.
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I thought this year was different. Maybe it still is, and I hope this loss is what gives us the kick in the pants to get us there. But tonight it feels like that same not-quite-there misery that’s become so familiar in recent seasons.
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You just don’t know what you got on d until you face a team that can throw it down the field. If your opponent has wrs that can beat your guys and has a qb who can hit them, its a problem. If he can extend plays and drives with his legs as well, you got lots of problems.
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You know what? Bama played a perfect game today. And we stumbled. They played their top game all year, and got all the bounces.
I hope we get another shot.
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I hope the Dawgs get another shot too. I figure they can’t play much worse. But what the fuck do I know?
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Well you can’t give Young time and trust our sub par secondary.
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How’s our depth at OLB? I hadn’t seen #32 Chambliss in a game until blowouts. He was in A LOT tonight.
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Tell me more about the Georgia Way, you fucking dipshits.
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Why don’t you ask your mom, that baboon ass whore. If she can keep a Dawg dick out of her mouth long enough to actually speak to her bed sheet shit-stain’s twin you might even be able to understand her cum-garbled babbling.
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Vulgar and juvinal. Your mind is better than this.
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Vulgar? Sure. Juvenile? I reckon that’s your opinion, MonticelloDawg. Possibly you haven’t read the truly pubescent pablum posted by the tech troll ccsimpson4 in the previous thread. I’ve never known you to back down from a challenge. I’m not going to take any shit online from a sniveling twat belittling GTP commenters at their low point any more than I would in person. I can assure you, were this a bar cankercuntsimpson4 would be much more impressed with my response.
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Hey jerkoff, kiss my ass.
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Concise and to the point!
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We been eating rat poison and Saban was delighted to be the underdog for once. Kirby coaches best following games like these (AU ‘17). Tonight sucks, but if we make the CFP I’m not throwing in the towel.
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I hate being a UGA fan…
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Some might view this as a bad time to post this, but what the hell:
Like your sports, love your life. It’s really that simple. Anything in life that you don’t have input or control over, you really should not be bothered by it all that much. And it’s certainly should not affect you much at all good or bad. I’m not sure about the rest of you, but when the game struck zero, I didn’t suddenly find myself in worse financial shape, in worse health, and with an unloving family and wavering faith. All those crucial things were still intact.
Your health, family, career, hobbies, financial bearing, etc are far more important than UGA football, so to place so much more importance on something you had no say over is totally misguided priorities, IMO.
Yea, the loss sucked. But you had nothing to do with it. Move on and focus on things you actually have control over. Due that ans you will be far happier. And successful.
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loser talk, tbh
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“Yeah, well you know, that’s just like your opinion, man.”
– a loser
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I get what you’re saying here, but I think sometimes it’s about makeup.
When I love, I love hard. I love the Dawgs. I love the Braves. When they lose it hurts. I don’t know any other way.
As an FYI, I divorced the fucking Falcons. I still see them on the side sometimes, and I’ll ride or die with Matt Ryan against the constant slander and libel he faces, but 28-3 fucking broke me. I’m a Dawg. I graduated from Georgia. I’ll never be a Falcon. So the Dawgs winning or losing will always fill be with more joy or more hate than any team, even my first love the Braves.
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I agreed, and always cherish the special things you love that you have no control over. Think Christmas snow, sunsets, no wind in a deer stand or offshore fishing trip, and the team you pull for winning.
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Well, Stingtalk has something to be happy about this season.
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And don’t forget Eric with a K over on Roll Bama Roll.
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Our defense was Ronda Rousey.
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It’s also a massive assumption that we beat Michigan if we make the playoffs should we happen to be paired with them.
The only playoff opponent I’d feel relatively comfortable with would be Cincinnati, but they took us to the wire last year.
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Pretenders. Always pretenders
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Soneone please remind me, did Saban ever pull his QB in a championship game vs UGA? Keeping Bennett in this game was just stupidity & coaching malpractice. In an age when coaches can pull in a transfer in the blink of an eye, they should also be able to pull a player from a game. But no, not at UGA.
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When you give the keys of the Corvette Stingray to the janitor and expect to win the Grand Prix.
Year six of Kirby Smart and he still hasn’t learned that you don’t win having a journeyman quarterback. You win because you have an elite quarterback. Some lessons seem to be hard to learn.
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Holy moly, Batman. I have never read so many whining idiots in my life. It’s one fucking game. Jesus,you’d think it was Tech y’all writing about. It ain’t over, you fair weather patriots. Gird your loins and get up, you weenies.
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It’s after 0130, otherwise known as zero dark thirty, and like I said would happen, I can’t sleep. The knot in my stomach hasn’t gone away. I haven’t been able to eat anything since a few hours before the game. I’m a fucking wreck, and I wouldn’t have it any other way even though I know when I do finally pass out, the moment I wake up I’ll still feel this bad.
I love Georgia with all my heart. All my heart. Graduating a Bulldog is the second best day of my life. Walking across the Parade Deck at Parris Island remains the first, and probably will be for the foreseeable future. But I digress.
I know some of y’all don’t like me, which is really strange to me because I don’t know you and you don’t know me. I know someone y’all like me, and I appreciate that. I wish y’all were as vocal as the other group, but I’ll take your silent approval, too. I’m forceful in my opinion, but believe it or not, I can be swayed. When I have a belief that runs contrary to what we all want to be true or wish were true, I don’t want to be right. But y’all have to understand; if you love something and you see the wrong decisions being made and you know, even in your layman’s way, that there are better decisions to be made, wouldn’t it drive you a little crazy? That’s what it feels like. It’s not in me to support stupid decisions like playing Stetson Bennett and refusing to get Daniels ready by allowing him more playing time the last month and a half. I can’t support that; that’s a set of stupid decisions that I know can only end in disaster. And it did, and that also drives me a little crazy.
I’m also only operating on known variables. Some of y’all have made wild accusations about the kid’s character that do not mesh with the information we know about him; I’m not saying it’s not true, but it’s highly unlikely to be. I’m also pretty sure you got them from Rivals or Junkyard, known hives of scum and villainy. Anyway, I’m not the guy who can accept, “There must be a reason,” without actually being told what the reason is. I take one thing in my life on faith, but for everything else that doesn’t involve a man rising from the grave on the third day, I need to see the receipts. It’s just how I’m wired. Some of y’all want to trust Kirby because he’s the coach, okay, fine. That’s not me, and that I could see tonight’s outcome way back when Daniels was cleared to play but Kirby wouldn’t play him is not something to celebrate. I hate it. I’ve hated the dread and the pall it cast over the entire back half of the season. If we lose with our best players out on the field and the coaches put those best players in the best position to win but we come up short? I can live with that. What makes 2017 and 2018 so difficult is Kirby didn’t put his guys in the best position to win with his coaching decisions, and now here, he left his best player on the bench and we don’t know why. Saban pulls his previous year’s SEC Title-winning QB at halftime of the National Title Game, benching him for a freshman, and Kirby can’t be moved to bench the ineffectual try-hard guy and then never gives any indication of providing a reason why.
I hate not knowing why, because when we don’t know why we have to make intuitive leaps based the information we do have available to us, and what we know is Kirby is stubborn. We know Kirby will always revert to playing not to lose instead of playing to win, based on his past coaching decisions with regards to offense. Yada yada yada. We have to try to make the information we have fit the reality we’re suffering through, and sometimes it’s a missed fit.
We are a bunch of misfits. We come here and we talk and argue and yell and disagree and vomit our feelings about the Dawgs in digital ink all over the Senator’s blog because maybe we have nowhere else to go yet we’re compelled to share our love for Georgia in our own ways. Maybe we refuse to pay money to support certain other commenting arenas for whatever reason we have. Maybe we really can’t stand the Disney Dawgs in other places that are free. Whatever the reason, we come here because the Senator allows us to, and we’re always here first and foremost at his leisure. I’m grateful for that. I know I’m a bit of a misfit. A miss fit. A missed fit.
Regardless, I love the Dawgs. It feels like I always have, and I know I always will until a draw my last breath and hopefully beyond. If the choice were mine to make, would I avoid this constant heart break? I don’t know. All I know it’s not a choice, it’s inside of me. I can’t not love the Dawgs. I’m never going to let the Falcons hurt me again, and I swear to God if Liberty Media lets Freddie walk because they won’t give him the 6th year he deserves I may have to let the Braves go, too. But the Dawgs? They’re part of my soul. The streets of Athens I have trodden so many times are found in the bottoms of my feet. I know no sweeter sound in my life than the Chapel Bell ringing in my ears. If I close my eyes and remember the sweetest smells and tastes, it smells like coffee at Jittery Joes or the taste of pizza fresh from the oven at Little Italy’s. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Dawg, and I swear he looks like Lewis Grizzard but with Larry Munson’s voice!
It’s now after 0200. I’m exhausted. I wanted this year to be different. It’s killing me that it probably won’t be, and that Kirby is probably going to start Bennett in the Playoff if we make it. Again, I hope I’m wrong and Bennett can lead us to two playoff wins, but I just don’t see it happening. Go Dawgs!
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You need to seek help.
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Cactus Jack was better.
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Corch, I rarely sleep more than fours. That’s just how we maintain watch here at FOB Bonnie. Damn Comanches. A few weeks ago I wrote my thoughts down in what the Senator referred to as “righteous indignation at 3:30 in the morning”. My apprehension toward SBIV mirrored yours. Regarding Kirby? Not so much.
There is a certain amount of deserved shit slung your way. It’s not as much about your opinion as it is how vociferous, frequent and untimely you post. I appreciate your passion and never think that makes you a bad Dawg or even a rare thing amongst Georgia Bulldog fans. It’s not my place to tell you to shut the fuck up; but, as your friend and a fan of some your other comments I wish you would lay off SBIV.
If we were hitting the beach during an invasion you’d be the #1 on the Bangalore as I know you’re dogged determination would get you to the wire. Also it would allow for some peace and quiet as the arty bursts and MG chattering were being drowned out by your incessant second guessing.
Love ya Dawg. Mean it.
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I concur Ranger. Corch, this a football blog. Our job is to give our opinion as fans, not to figure out how to fix the team. Do you think if Kirby read your comments he would have an epiphany and think: “thanks Corch, I should have thought of that”? I think you are referring to my comment that a friend told me that the word is “JT is a pussy”. It’s pure rumor and I have no proof, but it does come from a guy who has had reliable info in the past. I don’t read Rivals or Junkyard. It probably could be stated less crudely, but that is what he said.
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Well said.
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Secondary is trash. Bama’s offensive line won that game. Guys like Dan Jackson are a damn liability in coverage. We were really lining up a walk on in man coverage and hoping for the best.
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Akil Smith is a 2020 All-American safety that played 2 plays for us in 2021 because of injuries. Jalen Kimber was a 4 star, number 8 cornerback recruit who got injured early and is out for the season. We missed them yesterday.
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Very true. Not his fault, but Dan Jackson cannot match up with NFL receivers. Was Brini hurt or did they simply lose all confidence in him after the Tennessee game?
Given the busted coverages and inability to match up I’d have just given the young guys a shot. David Daniel, Javon Bullard, Kamari Lassiter. Gotta grow up at some point.
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We haven’t had a starting white safety since Kirby played. There’s a reason also.
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I think we’ve reached the point where it’s clear that Kirby will happily run the program into the ground before he’ll admit he was wrong about the qb. Either that are JT’s lat is actually torn and they simply won’t tell us that.
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Hard to explain the reps JT has gotten since if that were the case.
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One day, we’ll find out the entire story behaving JT. Maybe he truly just got too far behind and they were rolling with Stetson and didn’t want to upset the apple cart.
Or maybe Kirby just loves his South Georgia guys.
At this point, neither would surprise me.
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Dawgnation had an article recently that said Daniels, or his family, can’t remember which, flew Daniels’s personal QB coach to Athens to work on JT’s mechanics. I have no information as to why JT needed that work but it is consistent with a conclusion that he wasn’t practicing well.
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Maybe it’s because Monken couldn’t work extra with him due to the 20-hour rule. Daniels needed extra coaching, so he brought Palmer in to help him out on his own.
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My point was that if he needed extra coaching the second week in November then maybe he was not performing in practice as well as Bennett. I don’t know, however.
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Maybe. But since we can only look at results, maybe JT is not the same QB he was last year. Outside of SBIV’s 3 pass performance against South Carolina, his lowest QB Rating was 118. (http://www.cfbstats.com/2021/player/257/1086977/passing/gamelog.html) JT started the season with a 104 against a Clemson which was about the same that GT did against Clemson 2 weeks later.
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You hit the nail on the head … Kirby didn’t want to upset the apple cart of the team’s chemistry by reopening the QB competition late in the season. After the Florida game (when SBIV didn’t play great either), Kirby decided to let it ride. It was an absolute head-scratcher that Kirby only gave JT one series with no passing against Fech and only a couple against CS before putting in Beck. This feels so much like Fromm/Eason in 2017, but Fromm at least was a high 4-star/low 5-star himself as opposed to a former walk-on.
All of that and still the defense as a whole and both lines of scrimmage were extremely disappointing. I’ve learned not to be cautiously optimistic with a game against Alabama again.
The bill came due last night in the biggest game of the year. I hope we make the playoff, but I won’t be excited about it (I put in for tickets and almost hope that I don’t get them now). I wouldn’t be surprised for the committee to say Georgia got their chance and we don’t believe Alabama should be in the position to play Georgia twice. I won’t go to New Orleans. I may go to Atlanta if I could pick up some cheap seats.
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That would be inconsistent with what they just did last year with ND, but point taken.
We’ll see I suppose. There’s only so much that can be changed in the middle of the season, but there are at least 2 offensive coaches that need to be invited to experience success elsewhere.
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ND and Clemson beat each other once last year. I take nothing from 2020 as a harbinger for what they do in any other season.
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That’s fair. Had okie state won, we’d definitely be out. I think we’re in, but idk.
The thing in our favor is that ND and Baylor don’t have a slam dunk case. But, if they play like they did yesterday, Michigan will house them too.
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Sometimes in life there simply isn’t a good explanation.
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Can’t rule out the possibility that Daniels is a malingering, west coast pussy. Toughness is mental as well as physical.
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He’s been playing in games as the backup. If he was still “hurt” I doubt they’d be putting him out there.
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Sorry, RR, but I don’t buy that. He took a ton of hits in the games he played in last year and got back up.
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I ain’t trying to sell it, EE. Simply searching for an explanation for why JTD got little to no PT during blowouts. He was doing something that was not impressing the hell out of the staff. Malingering at practice is as bad as jobbing it when you toss a pick six in garbage time.
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Ranger, I mentioned earlier that I heard exactly what you stated. The guy who told me that has had spot on information in the past. I don’t want to believe it and that is why I haven’t mentioned it in the past. But I haven’t heard anyone say something that makes more sense.
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There has to be some rational explanation, GurkhaDawg, and it ain’t that Kirby is a dumbass. I guarantgotdamntee you he’s doing everything possible to place the best players on the field. All this chickenshit that he favors a South Georgia boy because of shared roots is simply ridiculous.
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Bingo. I’m not trying to sell anything either. Just speculating like everyone else. Another thing I don’t understand is how Bama can look like shit against Arkansas, LSU, and Auburn the past month and then look like the fucking ‘72 Dolphins yesterday.
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I’ve heard that JT has been documenting his mental health issues this season with the intent transfer. If we go by the idea that the best player in practice plays, it is possible that he has sort of checked out at practice and that’s why we aren’t seeing him in games.
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I don’t care what equipment JT has between his legs, ANYONE would
have been better than Stetson when it was clear to all he was out over his skis last night.
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What happened to the team that got them there? They didn’t show up! Last night gave me the same bad vibes as when we played UTexas. That game the Dawgs played as if they didn’t give a fuck. Last night was as if they didn’t know how! Lots of missed tackles and looking clueless.
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We ain’t played nobody….until last night….no need to bang your head against the wall trying to figure it out.
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No defense is unbeatable, you better max out your offense. And max out your offense doesn’t mean “stay efficient”. The bama offense looked like they were just skipping over or front, Bryce young played a game ten yards downfield and on. Uga took a couple shots but didn’t have that wide ope, the entire field is always in play feel the way bama did. Maybe it’ll be different in round 2.
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Pretty much the truth and it gives me hope if we meet them again
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ncaafb/nick-saban-bryce-young-speak-on-the-offensive-line-s-performance-against-georgia/vi-AARtx0I?ocid=windirect
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How much longer before the advanced stats people try to tell me we really run but it was some bullshit number besides the scoreboard?
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I love all this Stetson (is terrible) vs JT (is awesome) talk. That (awesome) JT y’all speak of got us all of 3 points vs Clemson. Come on y’all. Neither quarterback gave up 41 points to a team who scored 7 in regulation last week. This one was all on coaching. Especially our defensive strategy.
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So we are supposed to be able to win championships with a team that scores in the 20s at the end of the season?
Please refer to the last few years and let us know who did that.
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You would aksi think the top scoring defense would keep opposing offenses in the 20s at the end of the season.
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January 8th, 2018. Alabama 26, UGA 23.
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Sounds like we all agree that dawgs d backs laid an egg in first half.
Is it possible that bama scored enough points in first half for committee to vote them into playoff, even if we pulled Stetson for JT and came back to win.
If that’s the case then we would play bama again regardless.
And if that’s the case why would we want to give bama time against and tape on JT to prep with.
I’m sure part of it is JT is a pussy and Kirby loves Stetson. But the minute Kirby saw our D couldn’t hold them I think Kirby gave up.
Play JT and he plays well enough to get close or win and you’ve still given bama a leg up for the next game.
With all of that said, should have started JT from the get go. I’m sick of people saying the qb doesn’t have to be that good with a defense like this.
For you idiots that think Stetson did anything great last night. Receivers made great catches on shitty throws. Jt is more precise. That’s a fact and you are stupid and blind if you think otherwise.
Stetson was checking down to shitty run plays. Jt doesn’t put us in bad plays.
You can’t rely on your defense to win every game for you. We lost this game before the first snap. Stetsons a great story, but he is the equivalent of not trying.
If JT doesn’t play in playoffs then I’d rather watch Georgia basketball.
When Kirby punted rather than go for it on 4th 15, we still had time to come back. He opted to give defense more time on field against Bryce young. That was practice. He knew we’d play them again anyway.
If we have to play bama twice, I’d rather lose first game.
That said, bad game plan, wrong quarterback in first half is where this game was lost.
Jt should have started. He gives us a chance. Enough with the after school special feel good story. Everyone, including all of you that post on this blog need to pull your heads out of your ass. In closing…,,
Fuck Bama.
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Agree with the sentiment. I would agree that the JT circa Dec 2020 should have started. The problem is that I don’t think JT 2021 is the same player as JT 2020 — for whatever reason.
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Fuck Bama.
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UGA (offense) 3, Clemson 3. But yeah, tell me again how great JT is.
Look, we’re all frustrated and we’re all looking for something to lash out at and something to latch on to. At the end of the day, those of us who were concerned and got mocked for it ended up being correct in our worries. But at the end of the day we just got the shit kicked out of us and no QB on our roster changes that. I don’t know what the answer is and you don’t either, but to call stupid idiots for not slobbering over JT is churlish. JT wasn’t going to win that game any more than Stetson was. To think he would have is asinine.
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The secondary has been my biggest concern all year and it finally got exposed and worse than I expected. If you can’t pressure the QB, you better be able to cover. We couldn’t do either yesterday and to make matters worse there often wasn’t a defender to be found on plays. So no pressure, no coverage and no coaching on the big stage.
I’m not even gonna harp on Bennett. I’ve seen JT make the same bad throws. Maybe he would have made a difference but I don’t believe it. It seems we just aren’t very good at QB and/or can’t develop them.
All of that, against Bama, again…it’s disheartening. Georgia football.
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Suck it up and drive on, Dawgs! This season is far from over.
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Two thoughts today:
Extremely disappointed in our defense, obviously. While Bryce Young and Alabama’s receiving corps are extremely gifted, this isn’t LSU from two years where you could just tip your cap and say that no one was able to slow them down all year. Auburn damn near shut them out last week. LSU gave them major problems. Florida made them look pedestrian for much of the game. We’re better than all of those defenses, by a mile, but you would have never known it from seeing how comparatively poorly we matched up with Bama’s offense. I can only hope we get a rematch with them to try to atone for that uncharacteristically embarrassing performance.
My argument all year for going back to J.T. has been simple: If I’m going to lose, I want to lose with my most talented QB on the field, not sitting on the bench. I know J.T. isn’t perfect, but I also know he brings a lot more to the table than Stetson does. If Bama beats us again with J.T. running the show, I can live with that. But if we roll out Stetson to lose to Bama for the third time in two years while J.T. rots away on the sidelines, that will be very hard for me to accept.
I can only assume there is something going on behind the scenes that explains the seemingly bizarre decision to continue starting a former walk-on over a future NFL QB who is undefeated as a starter at UGA. But because Kirby is so tight-lipped, all we can do is speculate. Just an incredibly frustrating situation from a fan’s perspective.
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I see “Lather. Rinse. Repeat.” on JTD. I thought last year he looked injured and people said Kirby was being a blockhead. JT was fine. When JT did play, he was fine but his mechanics looked rough. I can only assume that JT’s injury in 2021 is playing a more significant role in him not playing that anything else.
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Our defense looked slow (maybe tentative?)
Stetson is good, not elite.
Bama looked poised, we didn’t.
I would get the ball to Darnell every play until somebody stops him.
Good to see Pickens.
I figured on Bama hitting a couple of long one and Stetson to have a turnover or two. I did not figure on an all out ass kicking and being taken to school like that.
Oh yeah,
Kirby is stubborn.
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Joe Blow. Is it really just 1 game that folks are upset about? Is it really? Seems to be more than “just 1 game” for the teams that found ways to win a championship. Amazing its always “just 1 game” over the last 40 years & counting. SMH.
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