Heh. It looks like the Gators took my advice.
Seriously, is the OBC even relevant to today’s players anymore?
Daily Archives: October 24, 2023
Back to Amelia Island PSA
It’s Cocktail Party time, and that means it’s time for my annual plug for Mocama Beer Company, located on Amelia Island. Friend of the blog Hamp Tanner is an owner of Mocama and sends me a list of what’s on tap every year. Here’s what Mocama’s got going this week:
We have an exciting list of beers on tap including a few special seasonal releases.The Core: Cosmico IPA, Rare Cargo DIPA, Prosim Pilsner, Moder Vienna Lager, Evoke Porter.New to the Core: Dune Garden American Lager – crushable and delicious. This is a tailgate beer!Seasonals: Briar Road Berry Bruin Flanders Brown (made with Wilsonville, GA blackberries and blueberries), 3 O’Clock Bock – German Doppelbock, Idle Daze – watermelon sour, English Mild on Nitro.Small Batch – Belgium Golden AleLive music and food trucks Thursday and Friday. Food trucks Saturday.We also have great coffee at Mocama Coffee as well from 8:00 am until 3:00 pm.
“Tailgate beer” caught my eye. I asked Hamp what’s available in cans and here’s his answer:
Dune Garden is sold in cans at the brewery and probably at ABC and Amelia Liquors. It is not in Publix yet. Cosmico, Rare Cargo, Prosim, and Moder are all sold in cans as well. Publix currently only stocks Cosmico and Prosim.
Somebody needs to post a picture of some Dune Garden on the beach, methinks.
Anyway, support a damned good Dawg and drop by Mocama sometime this week. Beer is good!
Filed under GTP Stuff
Money down, Cocktail Party edition
Interesting pair of stats here:
Mertz is completing over 70% of his third down pass attempts and yet the Gators suck at third down conversions, only making them a third of the time. He’s completed 33 third down passes and only 16 of those completions have moved the sticks. As you can see by comparison, Beck’s converted 25 out of 32 completions for first downs.
One thing: Florida is very good at defending third down conversions, only allowing opponents first downs 29.11% of the time. That’s third best in the conference and tenth nationally.
Should make for an interesting chess match Saturday.
Filed under Gators, Gators..., Georgia Football, Stats Geek!
“I’m not sure they can make it through that stretch unscathed.”
My, how the turntables have turned.
Remember when everybody was talking about what a soft schedule Georgia had this season? Well, they’re not talking about that anymore.
Now the narrative is that the No. 1-ranked Bulldogs might have the toughest remaining slate of all the SEC contenders. That starts with Saturday’s game against Florida in Jacksonville (3:30 p.m., CBS).
The Gators are among six conference teams that remain legitimate contenders for the 2023 SEC crown. Florida (5-2, 3-1 SEC) and Missouri (7-1, 3-1) each control their destiny, per se, in the Eastern Division with one league loss each. That’s because each gets a shot at Georgia (7-0, 4-0) over the next two weekends. A win by either team gives it the head-to-head tiebreaker…
“Georgia looks much more ‘gettable’ than they have the last two years and that schedule looks more difficult than it did,” college football analyst Chris Doering said on the SEC Network this weekend.
Of course, if the Dawgs make it through the next four games unscathed, you can expect the original narrative to return with a vengeance. Right, Heather Dinich?
Filed under Georgia Football
2023 Mumme Poll, my Week 8 ballot
I’m sticking to my criteria of undefeated teams with a net ypp of 2.0+, which means my list has shrunk to four teams in the wake of Penn State’s loss to Ohio State.
This week’s ballot:
- Georgia (2.74)
- Michigan (2.69)
- Ohio State (2.66)
- Washington (2.90)
In case you were wondering…
Filed under Mumme Poll
Find your happy place, Dawg fans.
This should do the trick.
Smiling yet?
Filed under Georgia Football
The high cost of failure
By any measure, Dan Enos’ tenure as Arkansas’ OC was a failure. The Hogs 4.71 yards per play figure is not just the worst in the SEC by a wide margin, but the worst since Vandy’s feeble 4.52 mark in 2021. KJ Jefferson, widely expected to be one of the top quarterbacks in the conference this season, has notably regressed. His passer rating has fallen from second in the conference last season to ninth in 2023.
So, by any reasonable standard, Enos has been a flop. In a normal professional setting, he’d be unceremoniously dumped and left to fend for himself.
But as we all know, P5 college football isn’t a normal professional setting. Enos won’t be missing any meals in the short run.
Nice fucking work if you can get it, eh? And they say there’s not enough money in the sport to compensate players…
Filed under General Idiocy, It's Just Bidness, SEC Football
First time?
Georgia’s last three first time starters in the Cocktail Party didn’t fare too well.
Jacob Eason (2016)
Jacob Eason’s first and only start against Florida would be one to forget. While the at-the-time freshman took relatively good care of the ball. He completed just 15 of his 33 passes for only 143 yards and one touchdown. The Bulldogs would be outmatched throughout the day as they fell to the Gators 24-10.
Jake Fromm (2017)
The outcome of this year’s game was vastly different than the two teams meeting in 2016. However, freshman Jake Fromm’s role in the Bulldogs’ 42-7 victory was minimal, to say the least. Fromm attempted only seven passes on the day and tallied 101 yards through the air and one touchdown. The Georgia quarterback would have a much more prominent role in contests moving forward.
Stetson Bennett (2020)
Despite the fact that Bennett would eventually reach legendary status as Georgia’s quarterback, The Mailman’s first appearance against Florida was nothing short of disastrous. Bennett completed a meek five of his 16 pass attempts for just 78 yards and one touchdown. It would be his last start of the 2020 season as he would be benched for JT Daniels for the remainder of the season.
It was Fromm’s good fortune that little was needed from him other than not to fumble the snap. But I digress.
I expect that Carson Beck’s start will turn out differently.
He’s having a better season than he’s generally been given credit for and Georgia’s offense, it’s fair to say, is a pass-first scheme. Put it this way, if Beck follows in line with his predecessors, Georgia’s in for a long day.
Filed under Georgia Football, Stats Geek!
Musical palate cleanser, life at 80 edition
So, I picked up the Stones’ new release, Hackney Diamonds, a couple of days ago and I have to say I’m more than pleasantly surprised. No, it’s not like it’s the second coming of Exile, but I wouldn’t have been surprised to spin it and find it to be a half-assed attempt. It’s anything but that. You can tell they’re engaged and having a great time, and that makes a world of difference.
It doesn’t hurt that the songs are pretty good, either.
It’s too early for me to figure out my favorite, but I will say that I love the way the album is bookended with “Angry” and the closing track “Rolling Stone Blues”, the Muddy Waters song from which the band took for their name. It’s just Mick and Keith, vocal, harmonica and guitar, much like you might have expected them to jam back in 1962 as they were getting their act together.
By the way, if you buy this, don’t waste your money by playing it on a pair of cheap computer speakers. It deserves to be blasted on a decent audio rig.
Filed under Uncategorized
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