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Georgia football winners and losers as Bulldogs enter College Football Playoff mode
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Georgia football winners and losers as Bulldogs enter College Football Playoff mode
Georgia football now enters the College Football Playoff with a game against Michigan.
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Is JT the answer? In his last 2 starts where he played the entire games (Clemson and Cincinnati) we scored a total of 2 TDs….against weaker opponents than Bama. In fact, our offense only scored 3 points against Clemson and JT had 135 yards passing. Please quit thinking he will come into games and blow away opponents. Go Dawgs and I agree with Connor that this was a “team” loss, not a “Bennett” loss.
So let me get this straight, if we beat Bama in the playoffs with Bennett at QB then Bennett gets 100% credit for the win and no one else. Not the receivers, not the defense, not the running backs, not anyone. Seems like Bama has passed for almost 1000 yards in their past 2 games against the Dawgs. Certainly this was Bennett’s fault. Were the passing records broken by the Bama QB this past Saturday all due to Bennett? OK, you convinced me with your brilliant logic that we lost the game due to Bennett and Bennett ALONE
Great article... and spot-on, IMHO. And how in the heck did I miss that Nakobe got the Butkus Award!!!??? Really deserving for not just a great player, but a great person, too 😁👍
Looked pretty good the last game he started. Can't say the same for Stetson. Yes the defense took too long to adjust, didn't attempt pressure till mid 3rd quarter, but throwing picks and incompletions doesn't help the defense. Should have been 2 more picks that were dropped. There is a reason he is a 2 star walk on.
QGs always get the credit. Who are they crediting with beating us? 31 points is not insurmountable but 14 points won't beat Bama.
Kirby should have players from the 2017 team come talk to the players on their experience in playing in the playoffs, how they prepared, and why the came up short on being National Champions.
You do whatever it takes, legally, to win. JT was an option, and Smart didn't use him. Smart has stranded two five star qb's while playing lesser talent. It's great that smart can get walk-on's to play at a high level, but that isn't his job. It was all fun until he lost to Bama, again, by the same score, with the same production, from the same qb. Mullen was fired because of his unwillingness to recruit. We already know what Kirby is unwilling to do. Can he ever learn? I see all these comments supporting the walk-on and the coach. But, what has changed - same score, same outcome.
As a side note - maybe you should try another blitzing approach. They've seen the one's you have used. Well prepared for that.
How JT was (not) used in the second half of the season was disturbing then, and even more so now that he might be especially needed. No matter whether you thought he should have started any of those games, he still should have been deployed in meaningful ways in those lopsided wins to keep him as sharp as possible (yes, as Saban is known to do). In other words, whatever physical skills and gametime IQ he had are surely rusty after riding the pine so long. One can only hope we get Michigan, and then Bama, on one of their lesser days, and our QB won't need to be spectacular to pull off two upsets. Go Dawgs!
Brock Bowers was the only one that didn’t lose this game, but Bennett is clearly not the qb we need to win the next game or two. He did fine against what evidently was very mediocre competition, but against elite teams, he stumbles every time. Most people forget the 2 or more 3 and outs we had in the 2nd quarter when he missed open receivers while the other team was scoring at will.
Losers:
fans expecting to see the team they’d cheered on the past 12 games.
The dawgs played so flat. There were no leaping High Fives, Jordan Davis bows, or Nakobe Dean Fraternity signs. To add insult to injury, now Alabama can say they neutralized the Butkus winner.
good grief Charlie Brown.
I am extremely proud of Dean for what he did to earn the award. That young man is going to encounter generational wealth for his hard work.
Theres this nagging part of me that can’t get past how flat we were in that game and the fact JT was never warming up or had his helmet. There are things going on right now with this program that aren’t being addressed or acknowledged publicly.
I know Bama played their best game of the year and had the chip on their shoulder…. Blah blah blah. But come on! This team gave up 7 sacks to Auburn and needed several OT’s to win. There’s no secret formula to flip that kind of switch.
First off, could you guys PLEASE fix the site problem where on some articles (I guess ones with long names), you get an error while posting? If there are no comments on an article, try posting one - I bet it'll fail. It's irritating to create a long post and then not have it go through.
Second off, Congrats to Dean!
If you're going to have a Winners and Losers list, I guess you have to include us (the fans) in the Loser list. We did not handle the loss well. It's understandable, but still, we are losers in the group. Yes, that includes me.
Now, in reality, there was only one loser in the game. Coaches. People are misunderstanding the anger. We're not mad at Bennett - he did his best and did a decent job for himself. We are mad at the coaching staff. JT deserved at least a shot. Down 1 TD + Bama with the ball to start the half? He deserved to at least have a drive. Down 2 TDs? Yeah, put him in there. Down 3 TDs late in the game? At this point it's just arrogance and attitude to not put him in.
We knew we needed to score massive points (since Bama would) and we had no solution for that. Clearly, a zone defense wasn't going to work and that's what we did.
You can look at our losses and I think you'll see a common pattern. Teams beat us because they prepare to PLAY US. They just don't prepare a vanilla game like we do, they focus and exploit our weaknesses. They load-the-box when they know we will run.
Georgia has been able to use it's raw talent and depth to beat weaker teams and with a weak year (Kentucky is the only other ranked SEC East opponent at #22) that was enough. It's not enough to beat the best with it. Saban was prepared to play us and shut us down. Michigan will be analyzing every play we've done and will know how to shut us down - we either do the same or we just continue to "work on getting better" and get embarrassed again.
It comes down to one word. "Adapting". You either adapt or you don't. THAT is the key to an "elite" coach. Be stubborn and force the "right way" to do (like Richt always did) and you aren't going to win the big games. Talent isn't enough. Coaching brings home the trophy.
Negativity is to be expected as all of us are disappointed with the SEC Championship game results. I am staying positive as almost never in life do you get a second chance to win it all. Alabama should beat Cincy handily as we should be Michigan as well. The championship game will demonstrate what we learned and if our coaches can adjust to what Alabama did in the SEC Championship game. I love the Dawgs and am confident we can make adjustments to win it all. Plus now Alabama will be overconfident when we play them for it all.
Is JT the answer? CKS thought he was before he got hurt. No one on this blog didn't think SB couldn't run the table against every team we played this year, with the exception of BAMA. Several on here myself included questioned or even doubted we could beat BAMA with him at QB. Now I won't put all the blame on SB. But as it stands today, the doubters and naysayers were right. SB is 0-2 against BAMA. That pick 6 sealed any comeback chance.
Some seem to think he won't go 0-3 against BAMA, given another chance if we get to face them again(a big if, with the way Michigan is playing). Is that where you stand?
Naturally. if the defense pitches a shut out or a shut down of sorts, keeps the score under 30 , maybe there's an outside chance, but are you so sure JT wouldn't give us a better chance? Has he ever lost a game for UGA? DIdn't he bring us back from defeat with a final drive against CINCY? DIdn't he not lose the biggest game of the year, til the BAMA game? Wasn't he the GATORAIDE HS player of the year his JR year of HS? Didn't he start at USC when most kids were still playing their Sr year of HS?
By my calculation, SB has lost the 3 biggest games he's played in, FLA and BAMA last year and Bama this year. Will KS give him the opportunity to lose another big game against Michigan? Probably so.
SB, isn't a horrible QB, I happen to think he's pretty good. I just don't believe pretty good is good enough to beat BAMA or Michigan for that matter.