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Dawgs fall short in ABC’s very strange ‘Nick Saban Show’
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Dawgs fall short in ABC’s very strange ‘Nick Saban Show’
What a strange game it was as Georgia lost to Alabama again Saturday night.
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Yep. I'm done with Game Day and the Finebaum show on the Alabama channel.
the problem isn’t Alabama in Tuscaloosa, it’s Alabama with SEC referees.
Yep, it was definitely the Bama show down to sequences where they had the Alabama drumline doing something while not having anything like that for Georgia. I don't think Kirk was allowed to make his pick (as everyone else picked Bama) but I DO give credit for Kirk being consistent in his view that "Georgia could come back". It may have just been the most professional thing to do, but I think he was genuine as well.
Yeah, I couldn't listen long to Saban's muttering about how absolutely "Great" each Bama player is and the significant impact they were going to have in this game, and how only "Good" Georgia players were with a reasonable amount of potential. Some things never change, which is all the more bizarreness of the assignment. Go Dawgs!
The whole Ms. Terry thing, etc….the pregame came across as completely biased.
That having been said, Alabama came with a game plan that worked and dug one heck of a hole for our Dawgs to climb out of. Hopefully we'll see them again and poetic justice would be served if Ms. Mary Beth was the guest picker for the game and a different outcome was achieved. It's hard to beat a team twice in the same season, better to have lost now vs. hopefully a future then.
Thank you, Bill. This has been the most reasonable commentary I’ve read about this game.
slow starts and missed tackles are a direct reflection on coaching
One good thing came out the last two games. Kirby came really close to becoming Mark Richt, a really good coach who would lose 2 games annually. One he was favored by 3 touchdowns and one he would be totally embarrassed by an SEC rival. The win at Kentucky and the comeback loss to Bama kept that at bay for now.. But these slow starts are really tempting fate.
Go Dawgs!
Tony Tyson
You know, I was in another room while that intro was playing, and I thought I heard them say "here at Bama." But I assumed my ears were just playing tricks on me. Surely they wouldn't be that blatant about it...
Also, I noticed that the last thing that played before GameDay started was something about Bama winning a title, with Saban lifting the trophy being the final image.
Also, during GameDay, they put up this graphic of the two teams' records since 2009, which wouldn't you know it, happens to be the year of Saban's first title at Bama, 7 years before Smart began coaching at Georgia. I wonder why they wouldn't have put up the records since Smart's first title at Georgia? You know, since he was actually coaching in this game?
I guess I shouldn't have been so naive about the content of that narration.
Home Field advantage Does matter the vast majority of times not every time but most. And I think the pregame hype got to Beck and our Dawgs in spite of Kirby trying to blanket and filter it away from the team.
Having Saban there on Gameday was insulting. I can't stand McAfee and especially Saban.
Excellent article, Bill. Yes it was truly a strange broadcast with a decidedly Alabama bias. It seemed almost a salute to the Alabama program where the broadcast should've been impartial. I could see it coming from the start when they didn't even show the Dawgs running onto the field!!
I listened to the game on my little battery powered emergency radio (having no electricity thanks to the hurricane) and have not seen the game or even the highlight film of the game. That said, we almost won one the most amazing comeback games in history, one the road, against Alabama.
One of the hallmarks of Kirby Smart teams has been improvement as the season progresses. To me, that gives me hope.
Another hallmark of Kirby's teams has been excellent preparation such that the players seem ready to play, look like they know what they're doing, and look to be up to the moment. That is certainly not the impression the Dawgs gave me on Saturday night as they dug themselves into a deep deep hole. It's also not the impression they created at the end of the game when they almost had the game won.
Frankly, I don't yet know what to make of this game. It does seem clear to me that this Georgia team is not close to as good as the preseason hype might have suggested. Perhaps they have potential for greatness. It is a long season.
My son who did watch the game said for me, when I next talk to Kirby, to remind him that the saying it's a 60 minute game doesn't mean the first 30 minutes don't count.
Go, Dawgs!
Those offensive pass interference calls were all legitimate. UGA's WRs were unable to get separation so they pushed off. UGA's WRs weren't able to get consistent separation against Kentucky and Clemson either.
UGA needs to get better at WR. It has been a problem for years, and bringing in 2nd, 3rd and 4th WRs from middling programs in the transfer portal doesn't fix it. Missouri didn't miss Lovett at all, they had their best season since joining the SEC last year. Miami has gone from 7-6 last year to a 5-0 start without Colbie Young. The only big time WR recruit UGA has landed under Kirby Smart was Pickens and that was because Bama, Ohio State, LSU and Clemson backed off due to grades.
The same with RB recruiting. UGA hasn't had a 1000 yard rusher since D'Andre Swift, recruited way back in 2016, and won't this year unless they get a ton of extra games by way of the SECCG and a long playoff run. Kirby Smart seems to prioritize every position on defense, but on offense he only seems to care about OL and TE. The other positions, he is willing to go with personal favorites and "good enough." That means the WR, RB and QB talent is going to go elsewhere.
Smart's getting 2 titles to Athens was outstanding, but that was with a historically great defense in 2021 followed by a great defense and an outstanding OL/TE situation in 2022. You just aren't going to have defenses like that every year, nor are you going to have Washington/Bowers TE combos every year, which only happened because Washington sacrificed being a 1st round pick and NFL starter for being a 3rd round pick and NFL backup by not transferring. If Smart is going to continue to contend for titles, he is going to need to make the changes necessary to get big time talent into Athens at WR, RB and QB.
Right on Bill. This ABC telecast was more one-sided than the presidential debate. Can only imagine how one-sided the Vice-presidential debate will be. ABC has zero integrity.