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Georgia football-Georgia Tech instant observations as Bulldogs win overtime-record game
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Georgia football-Georgia Tech instant observations as Bulldogs win overtime-record game
ATHENS — Georgia just needed to wait until SAturday to beat Georgia Tech. The Bulldogs used eight overtimes, an SEC record and a late fourth-quarter rally to put away Georgia Tech 44-42.
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Dan Jackson defensive mvp
Cash jones offensive mvp
Talent can’t replace heart
Instant observation is UGA is a novelty, not a serious playoff contender. No way to argue around it.
Wow, what a game! There's a lot of folks who have been dismissive of Chambliss and Jackson, but they were worth their weight in gold, IMHO, tonight (or was that last night... or this morning? Hard to remember 😁).
As to some points above, "going x receptions for xx yards" is almost as impressive as the fact that "Georgia Tech has had issues with mobile quarterbacks all season" and continued to do so against... the Yellow Jackets!? Guess all the excitement got to the DN crew too!
I give Carson a TON of credit. With the most butter-fingered WR corps in all of CFB, his struggles of mid-season are starting to seem more-and-more understandable... can we open up the Transfer Portal before the SEC championship, please? 🤣🤣🤣
Again, many thanks to Carson, Cash, Dominic, Chaz, Dan, and a few others who really stepped up when many of the rest of the Dawgs clearly had cold fingers... or something.
See you all next weekend for a hopefully better performance in the warmer confines of the SEC-CG! 😎
PS: can we please end the Arian Smith experiment? So many good young folks who don't seem to have drop-itis 🫤🤯🤬
You know, folks on here love to talk about how bad we are. They say we don’t deserve to play for the SECCG. or the NC but the fact is, we are sitting at 10 - 2.
Yes, I complain and get angry at the drops and that our defense needs to visit a summer long retreat on tackling. The call for the 2 point conversion was possibly one of the worst coaching decisions I have seen, on par with Ray Goff calling a timeout against auburn and I will call it as such but I will never, EVER say we don’t deserve to be there or that we are a novelty.
They find a way to win, which is better than following through on a way to lose.
I’ve give Beck allot of grief at times this year. But it would be extremely interesting to see him work with receivers that actually catch the ball much more consistently.
On a consistency basis and for that matter getting open basis I’d tend to think Bell and Cash are the best two, but Cash is considered a RB. Even Bell has had a couple of drops this year. But he’s easy to forgive because he’s most assuredly helped the Dawgs win games.
Poor ole Arian Smith, blazing speed and bumbling hands. His hands are more like my near 68 year old hands bless his heart. It’s to late in his career now I’d think but he needed to be a CB or a Safety.
Any way Beck probably would be a true Heisman candidate if he had more consistent receivers. So glad the Dawgs got the W against a very tough and hard fighting GT team. I might get down voted allot, but for THIS game ( this game only) they earned my respect. Go Dawgs !!
I got Hot Mad at our Dawgs tonight on the game thread. But you’re absolutely right, a W is always, always better than an L !! And yep being 10-2 with an opportunity to play in the SECCG and the Playoffs ain’t a bad thing neither !! Go Dawgs !! P.S. I do want to sue them for cardiac stress sometimes !! Just kiddin !! 🤣
@navydawg I have been calling out the UGA WRs all year. Dawgnation has FINALLY started to acknowledge it a bit. But it isn't really the drops. Instead - and hopefully Dawgnation will finally acknowledge this too - the main problems are they don't get open and don't make plays on the ball. If the WRs consistently got open and made plays on the ball, the drops wouldn't be a big deal. Arian Smith would drop a long pass play on 2nd and 8. A shame, but Lovett would get open on 3rd and 8 to give another set of downs to give Smith another shot downfield. Instead, Smith, Lovett, Humphries, Young, Bell etc. go long stretches without getting separation from defenders so Beck has to force them the ball in traffic all game long. And it is because the WRs can't get open, even against single coverage, that UGA has so many issues running the football. UGA allegedly runs a pro-style offense but the truth is that they run a 3 WR base - meaning no fullback - and the TEs aren't big blocking TEs either. Without Mecole Hardman and Javon Wims down the field or Brock Bowers and Ladd McConkey in the intermediate game to open up the defense, it makes it a lot harder for UGA to run the ball.
UGA was able to get by Tennessee and Georgia Tech by getting the RBs and TEs more involved in the passing game as part of the designed offense instead of options in progressions and checkdowns. When Etienne gets healthy, maybe that gives them a shot. Either way, I hope NFL scouts were watching the Tennessee and Tech games, because if they did then Beck should be back in the 1st round.
You’re absolutely right. They can’t get open and coupled with drops it’s a recipe for losing football. Bell and Cash seem to be the only ones that can get open at least with some consistency.
Lovett is off and on, sometimes he can get open other times not so much. The rest of the WRs have to have the ball forced to them so it can hit their hands and drop it.
Your also right about Etienne he offers opportunities to catch the ball out of the backfield and usually makes longer plays than the other RBs catching the ball with the exception of Cash.
So yeah I agree Beck has had a tough row to hoe no doubt about it. Kirby has Got to get out and get some high quality receivers, through HS or the TP or both for next year. Hoping Tuggle will develop into a go to WR.
The receivers can’t block either.
What about getting Jackson 1 more year to play from the NCAA.
Our perimeter defense is terrible. The jackets used our DE's like a tool. They looked confused, fooled and were completely dominated by Tech's end game. No wonder they had so many yards and were able to control time of possession. I tip my cap to Haynes King—gutty performance. How about a little "enthusiasm" UGA sideline. Last half of the fourth quarter was the only time I've seen it this year.
A win is a win..