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3 things: Georgia football perfect where it matters most, but Bulldogs have their warts
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3 things: Georgia football perfect where it matters most, but Bulldogs have their warts
ATHENS — Georgia football has been perfect in the only place that matters, specifically, the won-loss column.
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Might want to throw in poor pass defense. Looked like we were in a prevent defense on several occasions. I understand the wind element but flat passes and quickies to TE's should have worked. Every pass can not be a TD.. Hope this NIL stuff isn't going to SB4 head.
Imagine that! The head coach of the #1 team in the country playing to the team’s strength. Perhaps, just perhaps, that is why he has the #1 team in the nation!
Smart seemed a bit defensive about the short yardage problems. I'm no expert, but it looks like Jalen Carter's huge talent base doesn't include short yardage blocking.
Four or five yards here and there and the Dawgs would have been at the point spread.
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Well, all we can hope is that the Dawg's warts continue to come with resiliency. Once again, Dawgs will need to regroup and get their heads on straight for wrecking those Bees.
Yesterday was a wild day all across college football. Sure as heck glad we didn't play THAT same South Carolina team with Rattler on fire that those Vols faced....phew.
Yeah, that intercepted pass may have been one of the worst decisions Bennett has made in awhile. He had an easy open short range pass and instead passed it to the receiver who was pretty much assuming he wouldn't do something so foolish.
I'll comment more when the "winners and losers" gets posted, but I was very disappointed in the play calling. I believe that a more aggressive playbook (like against more difficult opponents) would've had a much better score.
But, given the fact that just about EVERY Top 25 team had a crappy performance showed a lot of overconfidence.
“Georgia has literally been unbeatable when Bennett is playing at his best, but when he goes bad, the team quickly becomes susceptible.”
@MikeGriffith I believe you have been very fair in your coverage of SBIV. Bennett plays at his best when he plays within his limitations. There are times when it seems like he’s trying to prove that he is worthy of the hype, and tries to go beyond his abilities. He is very effective as a quarterback and the leader of the UGA offense when he plays within his limitations. This team doesn’t need the best QB in the country to reach their goal, they just need Bennett to do what he does best.
As Inspector Harry Callahan very famously put it: “A man’s got to know his limitations.”
GO DAWGS!
Loved almost every minute of that. Never like to see a player injured that significantly. That's definitely an acl or something else major. But loved watching them run up the score like heupel did against Missouri. Instant karma.
the KING of negativity, nobody does it like you........a win is a win is a win, they all count the same.
Dawgs are just the 3rd SEC team since '92 to post consecutive 8-0 league marks, Alabama ('08-'09) and Florida ('95-'96) are the other two. It's a tough neighborhood out there, quite an accomplishment by the Dawgs.
Oh well, JT is no longer starting, so I guess you really can't go there.
Keep up the good work, it's appreciated.
Re: short yardage: poor/unimaginative play-calling. With 9 guys in the box, straight ahead is a tall order against a good defense. The toss sweep to Kenny worked all night. Maybe try that at the goal line, especially when you have WRs who are willing to block.
Rat poison: 5 INTs in 4 games is bad and a sign that SBIV is trying to do too much (almost always with McConkey). TAKE THE CHECK DOWN - let Big 0 do some damage. Not sure if this applies to Daijun Edwards, but he's dancing too much in the hole.
Mike's article seems fair to me.
Georgia football has been perfect in the only place that matters, specifically, the won-loss column.That statement captures the bottom line perfectly, but perhaps there's more going on.
Kirby told us before the game how the game was going to go. It was going to be a Kentucky team different from the team which lost to Vanderbilt. Kentucky was going to be the most physical team on our schedule. It was going to be a slobber-knocker. He told us to expect what we saw in Lexington. Did anyone expect anything more than an ügly win?
My guess is this: Kirby got exactly the game he expected, and wanted, and planned. This was the game he wanted and the game he determined our Dawgs needed at this point in the season. This game was a product of both what Kentucky brought and what Kirby designed.
We ran up the gut over and over because that's what Kirby and his band of evil geniuses decided we should do. It was about more than winning the game. Think of the coaching opportunities. Think of the AntiRatPoison™ value of a game such as this. Winning was vital and accomplished as expected, but we can't possibly think of ourselves as some sort of amazingly invincible got it made in the shade so let's coast to the Natty team. Everyone involved sees what needs to be done, and gets it deep in their bones.
My belief, based on statements made by players and by what my eye's told me, is losing to Alabama in the SEC Championship Game last season was a springboard to greater effort, much harder work, and success. I think this win over Kentucky was designed by Kirby & Company to be much the same sort of experience.
Kirby didn't want to make it easy.
As they say, we're not trying to beat one team, we're trying to beat every team. Why wouldn't Kirby manipulate all the variables towards that effort? Everything about yesterday's game looks engineered by Kirby to take advantage of situations he designed. Kirby got what he wanted - a meaningful win + a team reset due to a stressful and revealing practice session.
After the game, Kirby Smart said. “Regardless who we’ve faced, we stood up to the test that we’ve been asked to and am proud of what they’ve done. But we’re not where we need to be.”In terms of the season, that's the bottom line. We're not where we need to be. We weren't last year and we're not now.
Taking nothing away from Kentucky, but they were cannon fodder in Kirby's grand plan.
Go, Dawgs!
Every team is beatable if their QB doesn't play well, not just Stetson.
On another note, no team wants to turn the ball over but clearly we see the dreaded negative turnover margin is not the death knell to winning we've all been told. Just win and let content creators inundate us with statistics.
Go Dawgs!!
Going up against the worst pass defense in the country (or thereabout) might have had something to do with Rattler's transformation. Georgia, playing the way they did against SC, still probably beats the team that showed up against Tennessee by 2 scores. I know I'm wading into off-topic territory here, but Tennessee was a heavy favorite with their season on the line, and completely caved, and I for one am glad we're not going to have to hear any more about them. Their best team in decades went nowhere. Just some good perspective, I think, on a day like today.
Kirby likes the trenches...sawing wood..etc. Stetson was out of his element with the wind, so to the trenches they went. It worked pretty well, but those red zone clinches were lost running up the gut. Kenny Mac made it through once. UGA must improve or suffer a possible worse fate in future contests. Nonetheless, UGA won the game anyway. Pod split the uprights beautifully. KY was out to win that one....but the game was really never in doubt. UGA proved its mettle mano a mano. Stoops even admitted....UGA most physical team he had met.
On to Tech...whose defense surprised #17 North Carolina with a solid win. Tech is "hot" right now. UGA cannot take them lightly.