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Get The Picture · Bloviation for the Dawgnation
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Lost in all that is how, even for all his faults, Boom is an amazing recruiter.
Happy he’s on our side now.
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FSU still managed a top 3 to 6 class over all those years and has been irrelevant since 2013? How is this possible?
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That’s what I noticed too.
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Because recruiting rankings are meaningless.
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That’s definitely not it.
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What this displays is that we are still not on Alabama’s level. Not that we needed yet another visual to further hammer home this point, but there it is. Kirby has done an incredible job on the recruiting trail and I feel confident that he will continue to do more of the same. It is now time for Kirby to alter his offensive philosophy and open up the offense. He is getting closer, but not quite there yet. I am hoping that next year will be the year.
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Geez Skeptic! THIS year may still be the year! Playoff games haven’t even started yet. If we win 2 in a row we win the national championship! Be optimistic………wait……….I forgot for a moment who I was talking to.
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Our offense was 5th nationally in yards per play this year. If you want to point out the multiple issues with our SECCG, I wouldn’t disagree. However, I am not sure how much more open the offense can get — unless by more open you are referring to going full on air raid.
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Yeah, the offense was more than good enough… until it wasn’t. Same for the D.
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It ain’t over yet.
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It will be soon if we don’t start worrying about Michigan.
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Not worried about Michigan…nor Bama..not my job.
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Russ, how does my mental attitude affect the team`s preparation? At the moment I am worried about shedding this viral infection and getting my work done by Christmas, but no one in Butts-Mehre knows that.
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It just seems like if everyone outside of BM is still obsessed with Bama then I wonder if the players are still obsessed with Bama. If so, we will get beat by Bama again on 12/31.
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Beating up on the SEC East by running the ball a lot doesn’t win national titles. You need to have an offense that can win ANY kind of game it finds itself in, not just the one kind of game you prefer to play. You need an offense that can win shootouts. You need an offense that can pick up your defense.
No, Georgia does not have an offense capable of winning a national title because Kirby’s preference is to have an offense that can win only one kind of game. He still refuses to understand that no matter how great his defense is, it will never be good enough to beat the best QBs running the best offenses, so he must have an offense that can keep up. Until he gets this lesson through his thick skull, he’s going to keep making the same mistake.
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This sums up my point. Not sure who posted the link of Brooks Austin this week, but he hit the nail on the head. The Georgia offense is has enough talent to roll through the East and the majority of the West. When it turns to the SECCG or CFP, Kirby and the DWgs face a philosophy issue which will be our undoing until there is a change. Kirby will not win titles until he realizes that throwing the ball 15 times a game results in disaster. When faced with changing pace and throwing the ball to win, Kirby fails time and time again.
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This team threw 350 times for 3,223 yards and ran 480 times for 2,543 yards. This was despite only two games (Clemson, Alabama) being remotely competitive after halftime with two more where passing was still useful to keep the gap increasing (Auburn, Tennessee). I don’t know where to find the stats with garbage time removed, but needless to say if you looked at them this comment would make one scratch one’s head.
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Stetson averaged 19 attempts per game. That’s not gonna get it done come postseason time. Besides, who says we have to be in a rush to get to garbage time so we can shut the offense down and run clock? Why not keep attacking?
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Some folks have forgotten that we are IN the fucking college football playoffs.
oh wait i forgot that tool is just a troll.
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We haven’t forgotten that we are the only non conference winner.
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Recruit. Develop. Deploy.
Saban’s program does a fantastic job at all 3. So does Kirby’s. Saban’s program has just been much better at it at one position so far.
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Not so sure how FSU maintained staying power as well.
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Overall talent won’t matter a single bit till we have QB1. Some have even suggested that it’s a requirement to have a really amazing QB to win it all…
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Having a great QB doesn’t mean anything if he’s only throwing the ball 19 times a game for 12 games a year until the SEC Title Game.
It’s more than not having a Young or a Watson or a Lawrence.
It’s Kirby’s overall risk-adverse, play-not-to-lose offensive philosophy that is the problem at Georgia. Until that changes, until HE changes, the likelihood of winning a national title is extremely low.
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Corch, that’s what you get when you hire a HC that was a DC. The DC’s that succeed are the ones like Erk. When he took over GSU he ran the Triple Option because he knew he had trouble stopping it not because of his “philosophy”. Kirby, bless his heart, even with an OC as good as Monkin wants to defeat his opposition using defense. Unfortunately it works really well winning the East but not the SECCG. Our only hope is that SB4 decides to retire to high school coaching and we get a 4 or 5 star dual threat QB so Kirby will have no more excuse to play offense the way we have been playing it. Van or Gunner fit the bill so to hell with Bama and wait til next year.
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Vandagriff is on the roster. If he gave us that sort of threat, he’d be playing.
He could very well make that leap after year one, but it’s obvious that the leap from single-A private school to top level college ball was too much for him to excel as a freshman.
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Vandagriff got hurt at the end of last year, so he was already behind before his first day of practice.
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The Dawgs can still win the NC this year, 69Dawg. I believe they will.
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What’s really crazy about this is that the team that is #2 to Bama over that period starts at the bottom of this list, disappears for a while, quickly surges to the middle and then starts dropping again. If you asked me who was going to be the biggest challenge to Alabama over that period I definitely wouldn’t say Clemson.
There have also been some teams on there who really managed to underperform. LSU put all of their recruiting karma into one magical season, I guess, which is more than you can say for Texas.
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Clemson isn’t a mystery. They maintained their success with elite QB play. The most important position on the field.
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Plus wave after wave of elite D-Linemen.
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They had that with two great ones, but they had elite talent across the field on those teams. They just seemed to hit better than anyone else percentage-wise during their run. You can’t win with just a great QB. Having Mitch Hyatt types there to protect him helps, and the D-line was usually dominant. Great RBs like Spiller as well.
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