No, I’m not referring to his contract extension, but to an argument Josh Pate raises in this clip:
He’s right — for a defending national champ, there hasn’t been a whole lot of hype about Georgia this offseason. Some of that, no doubt, can be attributed to all the shiny new toys that have deflected the attention of the media since January, such as NIL and conference realignment. Some of it is also a reflection that the Dawgs don’t have that resplendent player who’s on everyone’s mind as a Heisman candidate. And some of it is, to be fair, because of Nick Saban.
But from Kirby Smart’s standpoint, isn’t that just swell? The media isn’t putting him or his team on a pedestal the way it did, say, after Clemson took down ‘Bama for its first national title in decades. In fact, one emerging narrative (at least from the SEC Network’s talking heads this week) is to point fingers at Georgia’s (perceived) regular season vulnerabilities.
Forget about taking down Saban again. At the rate this is going, the perception will be that Georgia will struggle just to make it back to Atlanta.
And, again, I ask, could Kirby Smart have scripted a better offseason for his program? Where’s that bottle of rat poison, anyway?
Get The Picture 
Likely ranked #3 to start the season with a roster that clearly passes the blue chip test … and disrespected by all the “experts”
Kirby couldn’t have had a better SEC Media Days (other than the stupid Jacksonville remark) to take to his team during fall camp. GATA.
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These little predictions piss me off; can you imagine what it does to a player on the defending National Champions?
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Aaaaaaahhhh!!!!! Bulletin Board Material!!!
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Notice Takeo didn’t predict Auburn and Doehring didn’t predict the Gators to knock off the Dawgs.
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“We want to see Georgia lose, but we know our teams aren’t in Kirby’s zip code.”
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The teams they picked aren’t in Kirby’s zip code either. #HotTakesInJulyAreForgottenInTheFall
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Spikes and Doering need to wish in one hand and shit in the other and see which one fills up first. FTMF’S
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My Dawg!
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Ditch lizards and reform school citizens don’t have a lot of mental capacity.
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The offseason media perspective is also tied into the “Metchie/Williams” narrative out of the national title game.
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A microphone is so easy to use that even a moron can do it..
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Post of the day!
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Obviously, I’m not expecting either of those but, of the two, Takeo at least least gave a semi-plausible reason for his pick. I think Rattler’s extremely overrated, but if you buy into him, then Cackalacky is the type of team that could pull an upset. Kentucky, meanwhile, is probably a much better team than Carolina but is a horrible matchup against us. If you think we’re getting beat by a bully ball team with half of our talent, then you need your college football card taken.
However, while I’m sorry to be “that guy”, I’ll remind us that Bryant, Saban, Dooley, Spurrier, Dye, Vaught, Dodd, and Neyland had only 9 unbeaten, untied seasons combined. I get that we’re talking about the regular season only here, but winning all of your games is extremely difficult.
But if we’re looking for a potential upset on our schedule, we may want to ask Ohio State what Oregon is capable of. We should be more than ready for them, but they aren’t the typical Pac10 team.
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Rattler doesn’t have the supporting cast around him that he had at OU. There’s a reason he’s not in Norman or LA right now.
The only way Kentucky can beat us is with at least a -2 turnover margin.
Oregon has me nervous because you don’t know what they have. All I know is the Bo Nix experience is a ride that we can handle.
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Here’s a question for ya:
Just how good or bad is Sahkalinas’ defense?
Cause I think we may have a pretty good offense this year.
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I’m not an expert but I think the chicken D will be pretty good as far as the starters are concerned but like most teams, they lack quality depth. They may be able to slow us down for a quarter or so but I think as their D loses that half step we move the ball easily.
Our strength on offense is going to be that we really have no weakness concentrated in any one aspect of the offense. The tired old “stop the run and force them to throw” won’t work and neither will the “drop 8 into coverage and make them run the ball”. Monken seems to be a guy that can see what you are doing and almost immediately take advantage of it.
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Not afraid of the chickens. I think the two teams that have the closest thing to upset potential would be Miss State on the road and UT if they get a second year bounce under Heupel.
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On the road, amid the cowbells, the Dread Pirate with a 3rd year starter at QB, and an experienced, mature defensive unit, after Georgia plays Florida and Tennessee back-to-back. That’s the game that worries me and that’s why it’s the road game I’m going to.
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I’m planning to be there as well.
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I’ll be there too. I’ve posted this here before. My daughter is in school at MSU and my wife and I will be crashing at her apartment. I’ve already told her I’m hanging my 2021 NC banner off her balcony all weekend!
Let’s hope it’s not a jinx.
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Twitter comment threads are like Vent threads with no moderation. A race to the bottom. They make you wonder how some people cope with their fellow man day to day.
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Dawgrading is nothing new and to be expected…Kirby will have these young men ready…instead of rat poison he’s going to use this negative hype as rocket fuel…Brock, Arik, Mr. Washington, and Mr. Delp, you are the 4 Tightends of the Apocalypse…soon you will go do, that voodoo, that you do, so well
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The Clip of the Day!
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That’s hilarious
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“The 4 Tight Ends of the Apocalypse”
Congratulations, Frozen…that is pure genius!
Someone needs to take a picture of the four posing together with that caption on it!!! I’d buy that poster!
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I sure as shit would buy it too
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I mean we are ranked #3, are #3 in SP+ (as part of a tight top 3 cluster that are basically even and miles ahead of rest), have the third best odds to win the natty (and basically even with OSU +375 vs +400) and are 17.5 point favorites against a ranked opponent in the opener. So the experts have absolutely have hyped us in all the tangible/measurable ways they can! We are just boring as far as the narrative, so the intangible narrative machine has largely ignored us. Too many other juicy topics like jimbo/nick, conference chaos, etc as Josh said.
It’s perfect from Kirby’s perspective. No rat poison here, but still have the head start of starting at the top.
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Now, how could a narrative about SBIV, who grew up declaring he would start for UGA, walked on at UGA, toiled on the scout team, played a year in Juco, got a scholly to come back, rode the bench, took us to the brink, hung in there on the bench some more, and won a Natty, <whew!>, be boring?!?!?!?!
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Just to add to that a bit, I understand the desire for a talking head to make an outlandish prediction if for nothing else to get clicks (or in the old days, readers). But would they take say $10k and place a straight up bet on either prediction. I think not. Money talks and bullshit walks.
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Josh, allow me to introduce you to Jalen Carter and Brock Bowers, two players on the Georgia team that are the best at their respective positions in the entire country. Those are stars, and you should be talking about them. A lot.
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Had the same thought, esp. Bowers.
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I get that Kirby has to be loving how he can use this blatant disrespect as a motivational tool, but as a fan, I’m pissed off that ESPN has robbed us of our victor lap, you know?
I said this in another blog post here, but we got absolutely no Victory Lap, man. We got not DVD / Blu Ray of our championship. EVERY SINGLE OTHER TEAM THAT WINS A NATIONAL TITLE GETS A DVD / BLU RAY!!! We did not. We still don’t. The Braves got one. Bama and LSU and every title winner before us got one. Their’s we’re released less than 2 months after winning.
WHERE IS OUR FRACKING DVD / BLU RAY???
WHERE IS OUR VICTORY LAP???
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They still make DVDs?
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Did you watch the Year of the Dawg on SECN? It’s an NFL Films type of equivalent.
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I don’t give a fuck what a couple of envious assholes predict about the Dawgs nor do I care if they’re held accountable when they’re proven wrong. I do worry that QB1 will have a bad day as Jake Fromm did against SC in ‘19.
I want to believe Kirby has risen above that. Even he felt his team wasn’t ready to play that day. He doesn’t make the same mistake twice very often.
Yeah, Kirby is still learning; but, he seems to have a handle on this winning thing.
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RR, I think Stet has a much better supporting cast than Jack had. Maybe not being asked to do as much. Less chance of a “bad day.”
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Jake
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Stetson isn’t immune to having a bad game, but good news is James Coley isn’t our OC anymore. We also have quality (and seemingly controversy free) depth in that room finally.
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I like the silence. That’s the Kangs way.
Remember what he said in the WLOCP halftime?
“Don’t say shit to em. Just laugh and point at the scoreboard. Don’t say shit to their undisciplined ass.”
This is what he’s doing .
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I can’t think of any other national champion team that could rightfully play the next year with a chip on it’s shoulder. Might be real good for us.
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Imma steal this.
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“You don’t spit into the wind, you don’t pull the mask off the old Lone Ranger and you don’t mess around” with UGA. One telling point from the Kirby speech was that these guys have not have not won anything, it was last years team, now it’s your turn. They will be breathing fire by the time the games start.
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Oh, the irony of Spikes mangling Rattler’s name while saying that he’s disrespected.
To hell with Auburn.
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“Sphincter” Rattler kinda has a ring to it…
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I heard that and wondered how he missed Honky McFailson being disrespected
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Chris Doering can eat the biggest bag of dicks possible.
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It’s been a great off-season for Smart and the team. I wonder if the decision to not take any transfers was in part guided by wanting to be able to have the same message to everyone on the team.
My breakdown re the top 4 teams is this;
1) Alabama- No Mitchell or Williams and also no Evan Neal. Anderson will have 20 sacks because he’ll be in the games while teams are throwing the ball on Bama late into games. Saban is the best ever by a lot but I’m contra to the idea that this team is a world beater based on what we saw last year and the relatively weak lines on both sides of the ball.
2) Ohio State- their QB is great but that defense was UGA 2013 last year and that usually takes a while to really fix. They play a bunch of less talented teams and will likely beat Notre Dame by 40 to really get the hype train rolling.
3) Georgia- We will likely have a tough time with Oregon at least on the scoreboard. Stetson will throw for a lot of tds as it’s going to be really tough to guard Bowers, Gilbert, Mitchell and McConkey. If the Offensive.line is as good as it can be Milton, Edwards, McIntosh and Robinson should run wild. The defense will not be as good as last year but the secondary should be awesome.
4) Clemson- I’m not writing Dabo off yet. They should have an unreal defense and if DJ can be as good as Kelly Bryant they’ll likely be in the playoffs.
Go Dawgs!
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The flip side of the South Carolina game is that it’s at noon. Typically, that negates about half of the home field advantage. Think about the times we have blown teams out on the road (Missouri 2014 when Gurley was suspended 2 days before). We played at noon eastern. The visiting team is all business, and most of the time the home crowd is late coming and sleepy. If Arkansas beats the Poultry the week before (as I expect), the Columbia crowd will be thinking same old Cocks.
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Supposed to be a replay to D.N.
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The students pack into the cockroach in Columbia late – but they pack in. That place will be (literally) rocking before the game is over. It is a tough crowd and the Dawgs better have their big-boy pants on when they play the poultry.
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I could see SCAR swinging the upset in 1,000-degree WBS but UK? Kentucky is a team built to get mashed by Georgia.
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See reply above.
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I feel like 2019’s inexplicable upset will fuel Kirby to have those boys’ minds right for that game for a long while.
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MARK MAY PICKED HAWAII
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Everyone of those asshats except Granny picked Hawaii, if I remember correctly. Granny Holtz laughed at Mark May and told him, “You guys are about to get schooled”…or something to that effect. They did. At halftime they all looked stunned..Holtz was very smug about the whole thing.
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Team gets the flu, rash of injuries, off day, lucky bounce. Could UGA get upset. Sure, they could. We see it every year that some team gets knocked off by someone they have no business losing too. Could ANYONE reasonably predict it. HELL NO. These guys will predict an upset by TN, KY, SC and every other team UGA plays (not named Vanderbilt or GT). Were it to happen, they will thump their chest and crow “see I told you so”. It would be equal to me buying a lottery ticket and winning and yelling “see I told you so”. The odds of each happening is roughly equivalent.
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“Team gets raped like a yard dog by game officials”.
(fixed that first sentence for you)
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Since Penn Wagers is no longer officiating, I don’t concern myself too much with that….unless we are playing Bama, then I EXPECT that.
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Only little issue with your take is that “lucky bounce” thing. If it comes down to a lucky bounce, either way, it’s a damned sight closer game than it has any business being.
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Off day, combined with injuries, combined with the flu. combined with a lucky bounce. Could be a Bama/TURD kind of game
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I pick up what you’re puttin’ down,Tex, but that’s why we have depth!!
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Bama could have easily lost two more games last year, and that’s with Mookie Wilson. What will they do without him?
They lose 2 in the west and don’t return to ATL or the CFP. There’s my prediction.
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I’d hate to see it but Old Myth could be in ATL in December. I think Kiffin may have found his groove in Oxford. They’re coming off the only 10 win season in history and they’re being written off too. Could be they play with a chip on the shoulder.
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From your mouth to G-d’s ear!!!
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They could have lost 5 — UF, UT, AU, AK, and A&M. Why Saban gets a pass for not having quality depth and his freshman ready is beyond me. All they want to talk about is winning in Atlanta and whining about injuries.
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I listed to CKS opening remarks at media days, and I was kind of shocked at how positive he sounded and how much he built up his team. And, especially, how he basically said complacency is no issue for this team.
If I was the rest of the SEC, this would make me nervous.
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Kirby could not have planed this any better.
GO DAWGS
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