Best Of

It’s a strange thing to me to read and hear some of the takes people have. We’ve only lost One game by Three points to as much as I Hate to say it Bama. With the exception of FSU they’ve beat every team they’ve played so far. NO I don’t like that but that’s the reality. And Mizzou in particular seemed to be a pretty good team.

I Know we All wish we could have that game back but it was a Team Loss INCLUDING Kirby Smart.

In my 63 years of Listening to then later being able to Watch Dawgs football or Any football. It’s always appeared that the Slow, Methodical, Efficient Offenses tend to gas the rival Defense much more than a Zoom down the field in just over 2 minutes Offense. Those usually reside on the west coast where the scores resemble basketball games with 70-60 scores.

Now I Know a Beautiful Deep Spiral to a receiver who catches it cleanly and goes in for the TD or is Already in the end zone is a thing of Great Beauty. I get that. Hey I enjoy them to.
But if you Really want to demoralize an opposing Defense have a Running Game with short to intermediate passes mixed in that They Can’t Stop !!

I also Know that YES you have to at least attempt the occasional deep throw to keep the rival Defense from crowding the LOS. I get that to. But you Don’t have to have a Mega number of those to Win football games. The Most important Stat of All is that Win/Loss column !! NO ONE at the end of the season is gonna care very much How you got there, just WIN !!

We have a banged up and patched up O Line that deserve credit for playing their hearts out !! But if KS and Bobo start Forcing Gunner to stay in the pocket and look for not just open but Deep open receivers that O Line could leak. Now he Can, he Has got Many first downs and even TDs that he Rarely gets credit for. Especially by those who Insist on comparing him to a pure pocket passer. But if he’s gonna get Chewed for gaining a critical first down with his FEET by KS and Bobo then Gunner might become Gun Shy. And we might well start losing games as a result. But at least we’ll get to see Allot of deep passes thrown.

I mean what he’s been doing has cost us Allot of games and INTs. Oops that’s right we only have One loss by three points and only One INT. Maybe GUNNER should have told them to kick the chip shot FG to tie the game. But No I’m sure telling Cash to run in it from behind the LOS was a much better decision. 🙄 Credit and Criticism go hand in hand. Sad that Gunner gets much more of the Criticism part from Some folks.

Love Gunner and Coach Bobo

"All plays work when they are executed"

With the OL performing the way they are, thinks Bobo & Gunner are working miracles. Thankfully, the OL is improving each game - but youth and quality depth has made it all challenging this year. The D' on the edges and safety play have made it difficult also, more concerned with the defense than anywhere else…we just don't have the overall talent we use to.

So, au contraire, thankful we have the staff we do - including Bobo. We are lucky have to have who we do, it seems like we are holding it all together with chewing gum & duct tape. The NIL has bled this team - they are the devil imo. But if there is a ray of sunshine, all teams have that issue. Dominance is long gone, and parity is here to stay…get use to it.

More like "Any Given Saturday" now. We may just not have over130 teams when all is said and done, or whatever the present number is.

I don't know if this team has turned a 3-3 season into 5-1 or if they turned a 6-0 season into 5-1…what I DO know is that I haven't seen any other team play with as much passion, heart and a never give up attitude as this group. Keep on chopping, go Dawgs!

In all honesty until a recruit actually signs and shows up on campus it’s sort of risky to get overly excited. Sign of the times it is what it is. If he follows through he sounds like a great get for Kirby and company though.

Wonder who the coach will be when he arrives on campus.