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Now comes the silly season with the portal opening and players deciding if they are going to the NFL or not. I would go find about 10 to 15 million on top of what they have and get Young, Branch and CJ Allen to come back. Stockton needs to take a step because I know he is not going pro at this time. Defense as a whole needs to be back because that cannot be the lasting image they put out on the field.

I do not question the team fight…I do question coaching…as usual. I will say I wish we had Chambliss. Every since Bennett, UGA has had mediocre QBs. Stockton tries hard…but simply not elite. Beck would not have lost that game..IMO. Miami could win it all. Ole Miss is not that great…Georgia is just worse. Cannot get past even the first round of playoffs. Josh Brooks did not sleep well last night. Kirby needs to think long and hard about this program's coaching. UGA has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into football and NIL …for what? Win in the season, lose in the big playoff games every time..routine. Look at Bama…Sabin leaves and down goes Bama. LSU the same. Now, with Kiffin, and purloined Ole Miss coaches, LSU will climb back to the top. Georgia may lose many games next season. Kirby talks physicality…Ole Miss out muscled Georgia. Very dissapointing game…IMO!!!

I do agree about Stockton, but I thought he had taken a step forward with the defense, but he just did not last night. That reminded me of an Aaron Murray game. So many oppotunities just to be good enough to make it interesting and lose. I thought we were past that. I hope has another level in him and last night was the long layoff of which I said before is too long. Not the same team last night on offense or defense.

I just watched the last drive again. Stockton was under no pressure, but it seemed as if he did not read through his progressions. Young was open on the slant and the running play before was just another bad read. He did not change plays or protections at the line of scrimage. Such a wierd night.

So now, we're back to Bobo being the problem, huh? It's interesting that when a play doesn't work, the first response is to question the play caller. Sometimes it is a bad play call but most of the time the players don't execute properly. Sometimes our kids make a play at crucial moments and sometimes they don't. 34 all with less than two minutes left, make a play defensively. Everett got both hands on an INT but didn't hold on to it. Ole Miss won this game by outplaying is in crucial moments.

Go back and watch the game now that it is over and tell me if the play calling was not bad. Yes, the players need to execute, but you cannot run the same play over and over from the game in October with a month to prepare. Exactly what were we trying to do last night. We had established the run and went away from it. They took Branch away and we did not have a counter. We had access to the same game film as Ole Miss. They counter all of our plays and we did nothing new. On that play when he went to delp in the back of the end zone, that should have been an interception, he had Young open on the slant but he had to be decisive with the ball something he was not all night. You must have a play for that moment something they had never seen before or something that isolated your two best recievers. Then the QB decides on which one was more open. He had time. He just chose wrong, but Bobo did not help him on that play because he should have a top target and then a secondary going into the play. He look at delp from the start. If I cannot hit Young on the slant then I looking for Branch. Maybe even Branch first but I am not drawing up a flat pass to the back of the endzone. Keep in mind I am just analyzing the lost nothing negative on the players.

Kirby and his buddy Bobo got their @$$es handed to them by Golden. He said he was going to make the Dawgs punt, and did he ever. The D played well enough to win but the offense looked almost as bad as the Tech game. That crap won't cut in the playoffs. It was infuriating to see the camera turn to Branch waiving his arms at Gunner, only not to be seen. Hell, Beck would have hit Branch on that play. I don't pretend to know what Kirby has planned to fix this, but for the highest paid coach in college football, and his over paid cohorts, they need to work 18 hour days until they come up with something.

Not much sleep for me after that loss, whew. I keep thinking about a few plays that could have gone differently, but will mention the 3rd quarter here. 99% of the time, the Dawgs score on that second drive of the 3rd quarter starting at mid field and really start pulling away. They had the momentum, were up 21-12, and Ole Miss had just failed to convert a 4th down. It was set up perfectly...you just have to tip your hat to the Ole Miss defense. I didn't expect them to play like that for a full 60 minutes. Young, Branch, Gunner, Cash, etc. made incredible next level plays...the Dawgs had to scratch and claw for everything they got, and so you have to give their defense a lot of credit.

Kirby lost this game, plain and simple. They weren’t prepared. The game plan was awful. Offensive and defensive calls were suspect at best. Kirby’s in game decisions were the worse since his first season. The coaches did not have a game plan that our players could be successful with. Kirby let a 2nd game head coach beat him and made him look like saban. 8-4 looks promising next season.