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AceDawg
✭ Freshman
I expect the defense to recover with injured personnel returning and some introspection in the offseason. The offense is a QB away from throwing for 300-400 yards a game. Alas, JTD must be a myth, OR the coaches are making a historically bad choice.
As is, Beck should be trotted out there since JTD is apparently not an option. It would feel good as a UGA fan to even watch him play regardless of whether he did well or horribly. We'd either have an uplift or would have more closure on the choice of QBs seeing the field so far if he doesn't do well.
For now, a healthy Bennett does look superior to Mathis.
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Eric_C
✭✭✭ Junior
Thank you Bill as always for your cathartic posts. I must say I struggle to believe that Daniels is a worse bet on the field than Mathis. I'm not just talking about the inaccurate throws to wide open receivers, or the sloppy ball handling, but some of his decisions just go against the grain and make him seem aloof...like not throwing the ball away on 2nd and 8 with 4:30 left to go when he was forced to run out of bounds. Sure the clock stops briefly when running out, but then it winds up immediately, and over half a minute was lost as a result of him not throwing it away. And then on another play, he runs straight (and I mean straight) into a 240 lb linebacker (James Houston) and gets his clock cleaned. I just have a hard time believing Daniels is not capable of being better than Mathis (and perhaps Bennett as well), not only with mechanics and completing passes, but also with game management skills. I have to wonder if some of the chatter I'm hearing about the legalities of playing are true concerning Daniels.
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GoodLife
✭✭✭ Junior
Richt essentially had no chance while at UGA during his latter years. We were getting lapped many times over with our sub-par facilities, coaching salaries, program support in comparison to the top eschelon programs in the SEC and around the country. It was nearly impossible to recruit at the elite level. Imagine if Kirby had to work under the same circumstances and had the same type of rosters? I had no problem with a change in coaches in 2015, but with a program like UGA, you would think the university would have taken a hard look at other candidates too.
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randyglass14
✭✭✭ Junior
Our WR are better than last year, but we are far from elite. WR is still an issue for us to be at a Natty level. I watched Liberty play Saturday and they have a better QB and WRs than we do. How does that happen? Kirby has taken his eye off the ball with the O and over invested in the D.
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UGA66
✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
Another shot of truth serum from Bill King. He and I think alike on this one. Bill: "However, that still will mean the Dawgs will wind up in one of those bowls Bulldog Nation grew so bored with during the latter years of the Mark Richt era.
"And, that’s not what Georgia had in mind when it hired Smart."
I give Smart two years tops....yeah, you more sober-minded posters will disagree, but wait for it before you jump. We do not want another Richt...Mr. Bridesmaid. That is where we are headed...Pudding Bowl after Pudding Bowl. Some say "we are fine." No, UGA is not fine. They proved it Saturday.
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DeppDogg
✭✭✭✭ Senior
Clearly, there's an "issue" with JT Daniels. Is he not great in practice (which Kirby is suggesting)? How could he be worse than what we've been putting on the field? Is he in the "Dawg" house for some reason? Hey, we fans won't settle this and KS isn't talking, as usual. It was only H.S., understood, but on a National Championship team (Mater Dei), he threw for over 12,000 yds., 152 TDs, 14 INTs. Only played through his junior year - 52/4 TD/INT and a QBR of 144.0, before leaving for USC (a year early). Ranked #1 at MaxPreps. Played in a Todd Monken type system in both H.S. and at USC. Has he suddenly lost the ability to play the game? Why did UGA recruit him to transfer in the first place? Had they not seen him play, watched tape, met with the kid, talked with coaches? Last comment from me on the subject; it's pointless. Maybe KS will play him and he'll stink it up but the odor's not so great at the moment so maybe grab some Fabreze and try something else?
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SAVY
✭✭✭ Junior
You won’t find anything. But I have reliable sources. I just find it strange that the media hasn’t even hinted to it. It’s a rather big deal, regarding his previous school. And it’s why he hasn’t been on the field. It’s not cause he’s not impressing the coaches or that he’s not fully healthy. Eventually, you’ll read about it and you’ll remember this post.
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ShoottheHooch
✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
Also consider the SEC adjusted the Dawgs schedule to accommodate UF although UF and the clown brought their COVID problems on themselves. UF played one game in three weeks and came into yesterday’s game at 100% while the Dawgs had Bama and KY and the D was at 60% or less.
If, as Bill and the delusional fan base suggests and Kirby is the one hamstringing the offense, how did Monken manage to “abandon” the run game per Bill and have so many open receivers missed by the QBs? It was Bill and the same bunch that demanded that Mason be replaced by Bauta because they know so much more than the coaches that are at practice everyday, that lead to Richt finally giving the fans what they wanted and led directly to their “good man” being kicked to the curb.
Also Bill, I cannot disagree more with your assessment of Kirby’s WR recruiting the past two years. Two years ago we had two five stars and last year was a great WR haul with several freshmen making great contributions this year. I expect the fan base to allow their emotions to make them delusional and to spew baseless crap, but it does seem that even on DawgNation, a “guest columnist” would try to base his opinions on research and facts rather than baseless diatribes.
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MontanaDawg
✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
Excellent article as usual Bill. You hit the nail on the head. Structural deficiencies, poor coaching decisions, and really a lack of vision for the future of the program and where college football was heading. Smart has tunnel vision. Effectively ignoring the future dual-threat star Fields just shows where Smart's priorities were. And that was just one of the many bad decisions as you stated. Now it will take us at least a couple of seasons to try and catch up.
And yes, I agree, injuries definitely hurt us but all teams have injuries. We probably would have played a closer game against Florida, but with no offensive fire we still would have lost. And remember, we got torched by Bama with our full starting defense in the 2nd half of that game. There's no excuse for that loss.
I'm still not convinced that Kirby has bought into a high flying offensive scheme just based on his comments and actions with Bennett and Mathis. We need to be moving to play both Beck and Daniels in the remaining games so we can have some kind of QB experience and foundation for next season. If Smart continues to start Bennett or Mathis I will completely lose ALL faith in him as a head coach.
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David1
✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
And how can we be 19-1 vs East teams the last few years when we embarrassingly lost to sc last year? Wouldn’t that be 18-2 or are we not counting the sc game from last year like fla doesn’t recognize the first ever game we beat them in 1915?
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1SICemDAWGS1
✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
What about the losses against teams like Vandy, Carolina and other teams considered inferior than UGA talent wise during those years also??? And I remember auburn beating
UGA senseless in the regular season before the DAWGS got their revenge a few weeks later..
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David1
✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
JimmyBob. The rose bowl win and sec championship was with Richt’s players, not his with the exception being Fromm, and he regressed every year. Every time we played albarn, they were over rated. Why don’t you stop ignoring the facts now, JimmyBob?
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1SICemDAWGS1
✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
And the SECCG berth was with several of Richts recruits. Chubb, Michel and others don't return, they never make it that far..
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randyglass14
✭✭✭ Junior
Sorry friend but you're in denial. Kirby walked into a program ready to win a Natty and he has underperformed and cause this program to significantly regress from what he inherited. Dabo walked into a mess. Not even a reasonable comparison.
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JimmyBob
✭✭✭ Junior
Just Googled. Found absolutely nothing. Share it if you have it, which I serious doubt.
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JimmyBob
✭✭✭ Junior
Off and very weird year. Get a grip. Look at Dabo’s first 5 seasons. More than a few butt whoopins there. LSU was dumpster fire during first two seasons of offensive transition before it all came into place (and they’ve reverted, BTW). Plenty of great coaches had a **** on their back for years before winning multiples Osborne, Bowden, Paterno. Coach K and Dean Smith. We’ll be fine. Read Jake Rowe’s article on TOS for some perspective.
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JimmyBob
✭✭✭ Junior
Nice job ignoring Rose Bowl win, SEC championship game, and beating brakes off numerous Top 10 Auburn teams.
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SWDawg68
✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
Not to be gloom and doom, but they are, who we thought they were, comes to mind.
This is very typical of a Kirby Smart team, it is going to stay this way as long as he is here. He does what he knows and when he does step out and try to be different, it slaps him in the face. Typical outcome, like the 4th and 8 against Alabama and he calls a fake punt and the rest is history. Unless we are head and shoulders above our opponents, this will be the outcome.
Maybe we can generate some momentum next year, but this is the battle cry for UGA, "Maybe Next Year"! 4 decades of next years and still we are without a Natty! It is tough being a Dawg, but why give up now!!!
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FalconUGAFan
✭✭✭ Junior
Spot on. Time to stop making excuses for Smart. He is highly paid, has the facilities, and the recruits. Time for him to nut up and figure this out.
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David1
✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
Yeah, good get at qb. Where is he now? Oh yeah, he QUIT. And he got a 2nd option with Daniels, but he didn’t get many reps in preseason because Kirby didn’t think he would be eligible. One big awful mess.
We knew coming into this game with our defensive injuries that our offense would need to make plays to keep them off the field and after the 2nd drive, we couldn’t do that because both of our options at QB have hit their ceiling, or the basement floor would be a better assessment.
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Eastmandawg
✭✭✭ Junior
Nice article, probably the best I have ever read from you....and I have been reading them for 100 years.
The article is spot on in my opinion.
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RxDawg
✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
You're being to hard on Kirby. He did go out and get us a QB. Jamie Newman straight up hosed the UGA program by quitting on us a couple of weeks before the season. DGD he is certainly not. This year is a wash.
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David1
✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
This season is over and wasted. We’ll go to a sorry bowl that most of our players won’t play in for fear of getting hurt and we’ll lose to a team that we have no business losing to. Smart better get smart quick and find a way to fix this mess. He’s now 3-2 vs fla, 0-2 vs Lsu and 0-3 vs bama which equals 3-7 in the biggest games we’ve played since he arrived. That ain’t gonna cut it. And we start next season vs clemson. I can already see how that will turn out. “We’ve got to get better.” Ray Goff said that, too.
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SAVY
✭✭✭ Junior
Daniels has a legal issue. Go do your homework on the subject. Unless you are gagged, just like the school. But stop telling us that “he’s not impressing the coaches”. They want to play him. But they aren’t allowed.
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1SICemDAWGS1
✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
Beck's knee? Florida also had several injuries, so I'm not buying the injury excuses. Next man up, time to show why you were so heavily recruited. Florida's players did that, UGA's players didnt..
