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Georgia 2021 ‘No-Name Defense’ shorted on ESPN all-time defense list
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Georgia 2021 ‘No-Name Defense’ shorted on ESPN all-time defense list
ATHENS — The 2021 Georgia defense deserves better than what ESPN is doling out when it comes to its assigned all-time ranking.
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Yeah, when I read that a couple of days ago, I was really disappointed in ESPN. I figured since the picture of Walker was on the website main page, we would be at least top 5. But I think it was just lazy writing and he just lumped the years together of the same team so he didn’t have to spread them out!
That list will be great motivational material this season.
No surprise. Everyone just needs to understand that UGA has ALWAYS been snubbed by sports media for whatever reason, and probly always will be.
I guess it's not an official stat for some reason, but it should be, and I'm surprised it gets as overlooked as it does in these discussions - net scoring defense. This Georgia defense made it like halfway through the season before permanently surrendering more points than they scored. I'd be curious to see how any of the defenses supposedly ranked ahead of them compare in that.
It's the against UGA bias, again...😎
UGA is motivated regardless, but yeah this adds to it for the season. As diehard fans we never say die and we never give up. Go Dawgz Sic'em.😎
A generational defense and supposedly there have been 16 generations of defenses better than UGA's last year? Come'on man! Again ESPN just loses even more credibility when you think they couldn't lose any more. LOL!
See, this list is why freedom of the press is not that good of an idea/s
Yeah, this list is total garbage. It doesn't have any of the 1990s FSU or Nebraska defenses on it. Those 1990s FSU defenses were crazy. Their backups would get drafted and go on to have long NFL careers. And as for Nebraska, let us just say that SEC fans remember their defenses well after they crushed Florida and Tennessee in a pair of title games. And those weren't fraud products of a weak SEC, as the Gators and Vols both won national titles the next year.
Also, everyone knows that the best defenses the Miami Hurricanes ever had were in the Jimmy Johnson era. One of Johnson's teams was upset over being passed up for a national title game so they took it out on poor Arkansas in a bowl game. Miami racked up more penalty yards on personal fouls that their defense racked up on purpose than Arkansas generated on offense! And finally those Warren Sapp/Ray Lewis defenses in the mid-90s were better than the 1991 squad.
A combination of recency bias and clickbait.
the defensive feat that last year’s Team pulled off is even greater than the numbers say. Look at the landscape of cfb now vs 2017. The sec was smash mouth in 2017, now it closer resembles the fun n gun. Maintaining those stats in a league that was offensive minded further cements Georgia’s D as the greatest ever in the sec.
Exactly! And imagine last year's stats if the 1s played the whole game.
How many yards and TDs when the 1s were on the sidelines?
First don't bite my head off ... I take a contrarian stance often but it is difficult to argue that perhaps the best front seven ever combined with 1st rounder Lewis Cine, draft pick Derion Kendrick and Keelee Ringo and several veterans in the alleged weak link secondary isn't one of the best all time.
With that being said, 2021 was NOT a good year for the SEC offensively. And by playing in the SEC East, UGA avoided 2 of the 3 best offenses in the SEC (the Mississippi schools).
Another espn "expert" at work..🤡
It makes no sense to rate three years of defenses as if they were the same squads -- especially with all the year-to-year turnover nowadays. It makes even less sense to rate defenses from two different schools in the same year as if they're the same "defense."
The whole list is riddled with inconsistencies. In rating the '16-'17 Bama defense No. 1, Connelly writes that he's more impressed with "allowing a few points in an era of offensive explosion" than "allowing almost no points in an era when points were a rarity." Yet he rates at least 10 defenses from pre-explosive-offense era ahead of Georgia. AND Georgia actually gave up fewer points than either of those two Alabama squads -- the fewest since 2011 in fact! Maybe, he should have been plainer about it by writing that he's impressed with "allowing a few points in an era of offensive explosion, except if it's Georgia."
I'm not one who believes the media has a built-in bias against UGA. Our own biases make it difficult to evaluate the slants of others and natural for us get chips on our shoulders. But it does irritate me to see such obvious misinformation at Georgia's expense. I don't know if Connelly was just going out of his way to write something controversial or was just sleepwalking through the article. But ranking last year's generational defense outside the five or so -- and outside probably top two in this century -- is ridiculous.