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If Kirby doesn't make major offensive staff changes in the off season, then he is basically saying he's ok with where the offense is and that won't be a good look. Mike Booboo and sorry Searles need to leave. Even a major sports writer said so in his article today. Kirby will not get a top notch QB, O linemen, or WRs from the portal with this offensive staff.
The offensive line and play calling lost that game last night, not Stockton. He did everything he could do to run the sorry plays being called by Booboo. No plays were called to enhance Stockton's strengths. The offense and special teams gave up TDs last night, not the defense. I know the TD was scored on the defense at the end of the first half, but that goes squarely on the offense and the play call. It wasn't Stockton's fault he fumbled. He can't block and throw at the same time. This loss cannot and should not be placed on Stockton.
On the fourth down shifting of players in and out, ND's receiver flinched before Walker jumped off sides so we have another Tyler Simmons moment on our hands. ND did have more penalties than Georgia, but they should have had so much more.
That poor Jones kid, I wonder where Kirby will send him. Kirby's already gotten rid of the kid celebrating after the ole miss game.
Sports outcomes are usually a function of momentum. Especially football. Georgia conceded so much of that with drops, turnovers, and play calling. The result is a disappointing loss to a decent but nowhere-near-great Notre Dame team. At significant times this season, and despite their abilities, both Georgia players and coaches did not perform at an elite level. It was a team or collective thing; and it’ll be a team or collective thing to get back to natty. Go Dawgs!
Amen! Wrote a big article on this and lost it! I really like Matt L. Energizer bunny. Good schemer. Let's get him back…pay him!!! The same staff will get you …generally…the same result. I am also with Hemingway on this ..WR studs and mongrel tackles. O line is weak for the most part. WRs cannot get open and when they do they drop!
I'd give the LB room a C on this game. Made some big plays, and gave up big plays. On the latter, too often lost the edge and/or took bad angles on runners when we really needed a stop. Go Dawgs!
I eat my words….as most of us sec fans took punches as ND,PSU, OSU for an "apparent" soft schedule…..Humm, we can ALL be quite now 🤦♂️
Finebaum callers should be fun to listen to in the coming days.
Maybe I'm off topic….just angry today.
The Dawgs were extremely fortunate to even make the SEC Championship game much less win the conference & earn a spot in the CFP. College sports, especially football, are a raging dumpster fire. With NIL, the transfer portal, unrestricted free agency, timing of portal windows & early signing day, opt outs, tampering, conference realignment, variable rosters across conferences, scheduling inequities, etc… game prep, roster management, player development & so on has become a hot mess. Forget about traditions, loyalty, & the atmosphere of a college campus Saturday, the game has become big business where greed rules the day at every level & position. My concern is we have just scratched the surface of how far down the rabbit hole the game is going to sink.
Living here in Bham, I can tell you since Saban left, Alabama is a major train wreck in progress. We lifelong Dawgs need to do whatever it takes to keep & support Coach Smart & whomever he decides to have on staff. If any Coach can figure out how to navigate these turbulent & changing times, it’s Coach.
GO DAWGS!!!
I'd also question labeling Notre Dame "one of the best teams in the country". Not top 5, maybe not top 10. Georgia should have been "fortunate" to have that pairing. But that's why you play the game and how the ole football bounces. Go Dawgs!
@khummel The NIU debacle aside, all Notre Dame has been guilty of is beating the teams on their schedule. That includes 2 SEC teams, Texas A&M and UGA. ND beat both SEC teams by double digits. Notre Dame doesn't have very many future NFL players due to a combination of being located in Indiana, their religious school honor code and academic requirements. But it looks like they have a coaching staff that has mastered recruiting - both from high school and the portal, as note that their QB and the LB who forced the fumble on Etienne came from a similar school in Duke - and coaching to build a team that maximizes their limited potential. This is in contrast to their last 3 coaches, who tried to get blue chip talent to South Bend and failed.
I have to tell you, the ND/PSU game is going to be very interesting. If James Franklin - you may remember him antagonizing the SEC for a few years as Vanderbilt's most successful coach basically ever, and the SEC was tougher then than it is now - repeats the absolutely horrible coaching job against ND that he put up against Boise, then yeah ND is in the title game. But if PSU makes the title game, it is interesting to remember that PSU's only 2 losses this year were to Ohio State and Oregon, and that both games were close.
Offensive line: This group gets a flat 'F'
I think we're in agreement… ND is currently an over-achiever, and Georgia is an under-achiever. And I certainly prefer the former. 😉 Go Dawgs!
ND is a decent team, but the loss yesterday was more about Georgia not rising to the occasion. ND does NOT have an offense that can bring them back from a deficit. They MAY beat Penn State because usually Franklin's teams choke the big games…BUT, if ND plays tOSU, you will see just how weak the ND team is. They will be wacked off the field the way they usually are in the big games (except this year when Georgia decided not to show up). That game will be over in the 1st Qtr. Wait and see….
Heard it from some Dawg bloggers at the game that the NOtre Dame fans and the team had more "juice"! They were louder and the team seemed more fired up. I wonder if we have now become so accustomed to winning that it doesn't mena as much as it did when we were hungry.
They, and we, didn't start off that way. Per my comment below, momentum is contagious. They got it/we gave it to them over the course of the game, and it snow-balled. But I don't necessarily disagree with your hypothesis that Georgia might be becoming too complacent. Go Dawgs!
Blaming that fumble on Gunner is wrong. That should go on Freeling. I would give Gunner a solid B, maybe even a B+. He played well enough for us to win. O line did not. Not taking a knee with 39 seconds remaining in half was a bad idea. A bad idea that arguably costs us the game.
Soooo, we need a new O line coach and better thinking by our coaches. For $13,000,000 a year, Kirby should have learned something from the last play of the first half of the Texas game. But no, same mistake two games in a row. Unacceptable. Many folks, understandably, want to blame Bobo for such a boneheaded decision. While he deserves some blame, the buck stops with Kirby. He wears a head phone for a reason. Simply say, “Let’s go in down 6-3 and regroup.” Not complicated.
Finally, our tackling was horrific. That goes on coaches. 4 and 5 star recruits should be able to tackle better. You don’t learn to tackle by knocking a pad over. Gotta go live one on one. It seems to me like we haven’t been doing that. Coaching changes need to considered.
It was a very odd year. I think there has to be an honest evaluation of how the program puts together the team ie recruiting vs the portal and what the proper mix is. Absent the TE position I can't think of a position group on offense that ended the season stronger than when the season started. That would suggest players aren't being developed on offense. Player development is critical more so today than in previous years because NIL and the portal has taken away the depth we enjoyed. I don't think overall the program has slipped but I think other programs are playing "the new college football" better.