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Right on Mr. Griffith! UGA cannot play with the big boys any longer. Kirby will need the portal this year…Developing young players is of the past pretty much. NIL has turned college football into an industrial complex. I will say coaching is a factor. Kirby got thrashed by a rookie coach !!!
Right on Mr. Griffith! UGA cannot play with the big boys any longer. Kirby will need the portal this year…Developing young players is of the past pretty much. NIL has turned college football into an industrial complex. I will say coaching is a factor. Kirby got thrashed by a rookie coach !!!
Totally agree Mike.
And after looking back at every team in the SEC this year, the ones that we beat just weren't that good. Indiana destroyed Bama, and is simply the most complete team in the playoffs. Ohio State last season was dominant in the playoffs. Both teams have elite playmakers, dominant defense, and great QBs. Even if Indiana loses in the playoffs, that's the kind of complete both-sides-of-the-ball team I want. No crazy peaks and valleys, no inconsistent play, not so much school yard football. Just a well-executing, well disciplined team.
biggest difference was as you mentioned. The offensive line.
They were solid and our blitzes could t get home. Watching that qb runaround and have 7 seconds to pass the ball was worthy of a bag over our heads in shame.
don’t know if it was jimmies and joes or X’s and O’s But the LOS was the difference.
Also, let it be said that stockton is one tough dude! Got leveled multiple times and got back up.
Also, the end of game play calling debacle was worthy of firing an assistant. We should have **** pushed three downs in a row. No one can argue against me on that.
Well, what will Kirby do… Same mindset, stick his head in the ground, stubbornly refusing to do anything about his coordinators, his QB, his lack of talent? Or will he finally make some changes. Dabo has refused and Clemson stinks so bad, I can't believe they haven't fired him. Kirby bought himself 5-10 years with two national championships. But let's not forget, Kirby is just Mark Richt without Todd Monken - same record. The shine will start to rub off after a couple more years of this. And the recruits will go elsewhere.
Perhaps I'm being to hard. But keep in mind, these guys are paid Millions and Millions to give this their best effort. This isn't your local high school coach.
Georgia lost because Kirby didn’t have them prepared. He didn’t have any where near a good game plan. Offensive and defensive play calls were terrible. In game coaching decisions were the worst since his first year as head coach. Time management at the end of both halves is still a major concern ten years into his tenure.
If the destruction of college football (NIL and portal) had happened prior to 2021, Kirby would not have won two national championships. Yep, I said it and the facts of the last two years back it up.
I respectfully disagree Mike. I think we lost this game in the late second quarter and early third quarter when our offense had a chance to extend the lead and the play calling was atrocious. We completely gave away momentum through incompetent offense. We did not play with an attacking mindset and use our many weapons to put them away. I liked this bunch of kids. Think they played super hard. They deserve better coaching.
Just weird how that game unfolded. We came out sluggish, seemed to pick up in 2nd quarter. Stockton (QB) trying to do it all himself (back-breaking, death defying flip into the end zone). Somehow we were ahead at halftime. Third and fourth quarters we looked like a JV iteration. (We used to have those team versions in the program.) And then miraculously one last gasp near the end looked like we pulled it off and then “poof” it was over and we were on the short end of the stick. We didn’t look like the same team that played the regular season. 😳
Give Ole Miss credit where credit is due, they made the plays necessary to win the game, but, we didn't have to assist them with the offensive game plan coming out of halftime. We lost two series with Bobo and Smarts decision to continue trying to run the ball up the middle when it wasn't working, and don't get me started on the fourth down play in the shadow of our goal post.
Overall a good season for the Dawgs….
How about the McCray outside run on 2nd and 9 with game in balance!? Holy smokes! Three years with this OC and 0 playoff wins.
Exactly. Could have put them away, but we get those chances and play calling & lack of urgency kills those opportunities. Let's Ole Miss hang around, then win.
THe bad Bobo showed up again last night. You kind of figured he might. Just when I had started writing positive things about him, there were several "what the hell" was that moments last night. Seems like our offensive game plan was run up the middle and sidescreen passes(who saw that coming?), and that was the creative genius of having 3 weeks to game plan?
Kirby's decision to go for it on our own 29 gave off the vibe of desperation. Wy not trust your defense? If we hadn't given them momentum on the 4th down stop (did we learn nothing in the 1st Bama game?) and the short field, better chance we win last night. Taht poor decision helped Ole MIss.
In the end they had the better QB who had the mojo and rallied his team around him. I give Gunner and A for giving it all he had(he almost self-willed us to a victory) but at the end of the game with a chance to score the TD, you just have to find a way to get it, and he didn't. HIs magic last night fell just a little short. THere were several times when he had a receiver open but either didn't see them or just chose check it down. And hitting D-linemen in the facemask several times with your passes? Not great.
In the end they made 2-3 more plays than we did. They were better than us last night. THeir coaching was too. As far as being the better team? We were down our best DL, our 2nd best LB went out early in the game and then we lost our 2nd best safety in the first half. Oh and I almost forgot we were without our starting center. The ole injury bugaboo for playoff games reared it's **** head again.
I thought and another I spoke with last night thought we looked flat to start the game while OLe Miss came out in high spirits. We weren't flying around on defense like our hair was on fire like we did against BAMA in the SECC game.
Better luck next year. oh and as someone else posted on here our OC is 0-3 in playoff games. It's a thing until it isn't.
We lost because of poor coaching. Play calling was horrible. After watching Indiana play a mistake free game, I once again realized just how valuable good coaching is. Kirby has often said you must have better players to win because you can’t simply out coach teams to win. Gotta call BS on that. Indiana has ZERO 4 and 5 star players. I said ZERO 4 and 5 star players. Bama has as many 4 and 5 star players as any team in the country. Indiana played flawless football in embarrassing a team loaded with superior talent. That’s coaching.
Both of our coordinators are substandard. Having good play calling about half the games isn’t good enough.
I would definitely try to hire Indiana’s DC and O Line coach. But I’m whistling in the grave yard because Kirby isn’t going to fire his old college roommate or his current DC. When you’re being paid $13,000,000+ a year to coach a football team, you gotta do better than what we saw last night. It was humiliating.
As a result, we will continue to be competitive because we have better players, but it will continue to be frustrating as we struggle to win many of the games we win. Finally, we will lose because our play calling on both sides and our play in the trenches won’t measure up.
It’s not complicated, it’s football.
The Ole Miss QB played the 2nd half of his life. UGA settled for FGs when they needed TDs.