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Georgia confident Alabama loss won’t beat them again: ‘Win the game’

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edited September 30 in Article commenting
imageGeorgia confident Alabama loss won’t beat them again: ‘Win the game’

Georgia football takes on Auburn this Saturday.

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  • benzonebenzone Posts: 18 ✭ Freshman

    UGA's second halves against a tired Clemson defense and an Alabama playing not to lose versus their first halves all season plus the entire game against Kentucky makes me think that the latter is closer to reality than the former. Here are the problems.

    1. This IS NOT a 2017, 2021 or 2022 UGA defense that is capable of making the offense appear better than it is by giving it leads or close games, good field position and the option to simply punt rather than force things on 4th and long.
    2. This is not an OL like 2021 or 2022 that could impose its will on defenses and make things a lot easier for the QB and RBs, or even the 2019 OL that had first round picks at both OT spots plus NFL draft picks Trey Hill, Ben Cleveland and Solomon Kindley.
    3. We should stop pretending transfer portal guys who would have been 3rd or 4th WRs at their previous schools (Dominic Lovett, Colbie Young) or were even starters at horrible programs (London Humphries, Trevor Etienne) all of a sudden became difference-makers when they got to Athens. As for the UGA recruited, Bell is a junior with one 100 yard total offense game. His next multiple TD or 6 catch game will be his first. The "another Deebo Samuel" talk comes from people who have chosen to forget how Samuel carried a horrible South Carolina program that fell apart as soon as he left. Oscar Delp and Lawson Luckie are just guys. Arian Smith … we can only hope that he puts it together this year.

  • benzonebenzone Posts: 18 ✭ Freshman

    Part 2 of below. Here is the reality that folks are avoiding. Early in Smart's tenure, he chose Jake Fromm over QBs who could get the ball downfield. As WRs need to develop and show downfield receiving skills to become high draft picks and succeed in the NFL, the only big time WR recruit that UGA has landed since is a guy that the other contenders backed off due to grades (George Pickens, who notably WAS NOT a first round pick). Later on Smart chose Stetson Bennett IV over QBs who could run a pro-style offense and then put in a gimmick spread offense for Bennett. UGA hasn't signed a big time RB since. If you don't like Beck, Arch Manning and other big time QBs didn't like what UGA's offense either.

    For years a steady stream of WR, RB and QB recruits avoiding UGA because they don't like the offense. UGA fans have called them selfish prima donnas and claimed that they would do fine without them, but this is the result: an offense built with lower profile recruits and transfers who showed they weren't difference makers at their last schools.

    So it isn't Bobo. Name the OC who can build a championship offense without difference-makers. Don't say Monken. Without Bowers, Monken didn't even win the SEC East. As for the Beck bashers, Bennett was the QB that year. Lost to Bama 41-24. Kirby has to prioritize recruiting WRs and RBs as much as he does pass rushers and safeties, and that means an offense that big time talent wants to play in. Not an offense designed to let whatever QB he likes succeed at everyone else's expense.

  • VetdawgVetdawg Posts: 801 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    I miss the UGA death machine.


    this team has two options. Get better or let those bammers get what they want, a season without having to play us again.

    As the shirts in the program say

    “Nobody cares, work harder!”

    We will never be able to go back and in do the first half but what UGA can do is let these last two games galvanize them and re engage the work ethic and drive that established that winning streak.

    As a fan, I can’t think of anything worse to allow Alabama than the satisfaction of ending our streak. But what would be glorious is a rematch where we play the whole game like the second half.

    Only time will tell

  • reddawg1reddawg1 Posts: 3,794 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Funniest SEC shorts to date albeit at our expense.

  • 97GradyDawg97GradyDawg Posts: 355 ✭✭✭✭ Senior

    A few thoughts:

    1. If we have the same slow offensive start against Auburn and/or Miss. St., it will be a major red flag as we head into the Texas game.
    2. For whatever reason, it feels like we haven’t been firing on all cylinders. Need to see better on both sides of the ball.
    3. I'm hoping this loss gets put to good use and that we see the Dawgs come out mean and focused on Saturday.

  • DoggoneDoggone Posts: 121 ✭✭✭ Junior

    It is pretty simple. If we can learn how to play the first half like we do the second half then we would probably be unbeatable. So, perhaps there is a first half practice that we have been missing. LOL

  • CWdawg1979CWdawg1979 Posts: 510 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    #benzone

    Dominic Lovett was not a "3rd or 4th receiver" as you stated. He started 12 games for Mizzou and lead them in receptions and receiving yards in 2022. As far as running back recruits, while we have missed on some, Nate Frazier was highly sought after and any school would have loved to have signed him.

  • SnakeScott13SnakeScott13 Posts: 117 ✭✭✭ Junior

    When you don’t win the first half it’s the game plan .

  • navydawgnavydawg Posts: 3,289 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Dawgs CAN go on to have a successful season and it starts this Saturday !! Go Dawgs whup up on them Tiggers !!

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