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Georgia RB D'Andre Swift stands up for team, puts critics in their place
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Georgia RB D'Andre Swift stands up for team, puts critics in their place
Georgia football RB D'Andre Swift says the Bulldogs will do what they need to do to win games, regardless of what fans or critics think
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Swift is a DGD.
I do not think anyone was booing him or or team, but we all owe the team and the players an apology. No fans should boo during a game unless the boos are clearly in response to a bad officiating call or an atrocious unsportsmanlike penalty.
Our team is 6-1 and in the hunt. They deserve our cheers.
Never booed the dawgs, just the play calls.
we as fans deserve explaination as why they call the same play up the middle that isn’t working. If our offense would show some creativity we probably wouldn’t t be so upset. These players have to be as frustrated as we are. They are the ones in the trenches, I can promise there are eye rolls when in the huddle Jake has to look them in the eye and say” ok, one more time, half back dive on 2.....break!”
im sure no one anyone on staff reads or cares anything about what we say on here but I would love to publish the statistics on off tackle runs or hb sweeps vs those dives this season. Numbers don’t lie! Week 8 is enough time to generate trends and sig fig stats.
Vetdawg.. you "promise"?? The interviews from Fromm, Swift, and Thomas prove you wrong. The players knew what they had to do to win the game and they did it, the eyerolling was from you. If you keep doing body blows, it wears the other team down. Fromm is the one who said he didn't want to throw the ball, so that kind of means the only other option is to run it. If Fromm didn't want to throw, then that's on Fromm, which means your boos were directed at a player...
And the booing doesn't look good to all of the recruits who were at the game yesterday either.. but people don't think about what your boos cost Georgia. And trust me, it doesn't make a recruit think we have "passionate" fans when they are booing their own team, it makes them want no part of a two-faced fan base that doesn't cheer their team on through the good and bad
The boos were not directed at the players but at the play calls. Most fans thought the offense would be better without Chaney but even he wasn’t this inept as OC. As a big Dawgs fan, I take exception to the fact that these players and coaches keep saying that they don’t care about the critics or the boos and that they only play for each other, but they all forget that the fans are the ones that support them with tickets and/or donations so the ones they need to start playing for are all the fans that supported them last night by sitting in the deluge because we love our Dawgs. Evidently the players just don’t get how the fans feel just like what they think we don’t know about coaching or playing. Also, it was raining at the sc/fla game, albeit not like in Athens, and they were throwing the ball like it was normal weather conditions.
please go back and read Swift’s quotes from after the Carolina game. He stated himself about getting the ball to the outside. If you go back and watch the game when we ran to the outside it did work. This is the sec, and we can’t put talent people and hope we last longer ( rewatch sc game).
I understand recruits don’t want to hear the boos, but we as fans get fed lines about the Georgia standard and when the coaches call out players we support them holding the standard, but Dub......who is going to hold the coaches to the Georgia standard?
Internet experts. 21-0 and on to Jax.
Vetdawg, I have watched the S.C. game ten times. And the people I blame for that loss are:
Fromm: 13 of his 51 dropbacks had wide open receivers that he didn't throw to. Those choices Fromm made, not anyone else, resulted in two interceptions, missed first downs, and two explosive plays that would have been touchdowns.
O-Line: 3 sacks, missed assignments, getting straight up manhandled. Florida's mostly freshman O-line did better than ours against S.C.
Fromm was the main reason we lost that S.C. game, players play the game, not coaches. The plays were there, Fromm didn't make them. People with the guts to call out Fromm are: Zeier, Donnan, Dayne Young, and Hutson Mason. If Fromm makes one decision that we are used to him making then we win that game.
If you want to blame Coaches, then blame Pittman for the O-line play and Coley for the QB play, but not the plays, the plays were there and Fromm didn't see them or saw them too late. He is not anticipating well at all this year.
And recruits and players don't know why fans are booing.. they are left to guess what each fans intent of their boos are.. not a good way to sell your program.
As far as running inside to **** them in and set up outside runs, that's what we did against Kentucky. It worked, we won. What's the complaint? That it should have happened in the first half? I remember watching the 2012 SEC championship, we had the lead and BAMA kept running the ball even though they were behind. And run after run drew us closer and closer until BAM.. Amari Cooper. Body blows work, you have to trust the process and be patient.
But I agree with you that we need some get under center toss sweeps and some counter run plays.
I wasn't at the game. But if I had been there, I might have booed, too. Rain or no rain, that first half was pathetic. People pay for tickets and they have THE RIGHT to boo, cheer or sit there like a bump on a log. (That's especially true of fans who sit in a driving downpour for three hours). I love Swift but he needs to grow up and learn people aren't always going to be with you, especially when they believe they're seeing an inadequate product or effort. I get that it rained and was raining hard. Well, it wasn't raining the week before against SC. It wasn't raining the second half of the Vanderbilt game, either. As for as what recruits want, they're like 18 years old. They're still figuring things out. You could win 100-0 and not sign a kid, and then you could lose (as we did to SC), and they'll still want to come. Many of the fans who booed Saturday night were probably among the crowd that was widely praised for their support at the Notre Dame game. You can't have it both ways, D'Andre. If the team (coaches, players, other fans) don't want people to boo, "Do More," and do it better!
Funny they don't care what fans think this week but loved them at Notre Dame. The ones that booed are the most devoted fans, they sat through 50° rain to watch the same play calling at SCar. Sorry that after the 53rd half back iso that went for two yards again and everyone knew was coming, most of us were ready to explode. Speaking of which, swift was not explosive until it was a run to the outside. Not coincidental.
One last thing that has frustrated me, Smart quit recruiting and utilizing a lead blocker (aka full back) 2 years ago, and since then we couldn't pick up 3rd and 1s. Again, not coincidental. Just frustrating to watch in 50° rain.
They won the game....get over it and move on. If they win in two weeks, in the same fashion, then what? And if they win the week after in the same fashion, then what? And if they continue to win each and every week, what does it matter? You think the coaches are not aware of issues they have? Of course they are. This is the same coaching staff that was within one play of a NC and very nearly went back to the playoffs last year. They were the toast of the town in July and August, and now they somehow don't know what they are doing and need to be fired? Disillusioned fan base...
I agree Jim. The team played their hearts out. They are 6-1, ranked in the top ten and no one has gotten in any trouble during the season so far. I love our players and have no issue with CKS but only wish the play calling would take advantage of each player"s potential. I love Jake Fromm but it just seems like the opposing defense has figured out his audibles or his pre-reads. The receivers have no double moves to get open and Coley is using the same old plays time after time. Some examples are the runs up the middle with Swift and another was the screen pass to D-Rob during the Kentucky game. Anyone can see this coming before they even snapped the ball. Still Love My Dawgs ! Go Dawgs!
And they didn't say they didn't care what the fan base says or thinks. They said they block it out. DeAndre is a grown man and doesn't need to be called out by some armchair QB that probably last played a down of football in Pee Wee rec league. He simply said if you don't like it, don't go to the games. Sounds mature enough to me.
If people don't come to the games, or make their substantial contributions to the school they love, there will be no games to play, or scholarships to hand out. So thanks for the lecture D'Andre - I'll make a note. But if this young man thinks fans don't matter or that he is somehow the arbiter of all things related to UGA football, he is very much mistaken. Neither he nor his coaches are infallible gods to whom the mere mortals owe homage. Considering the adoration fans have for UGA football, to hear them booing at a home game is astounding. And they weren't expressing anything that the professional commentators in the booth weren't also expressing. Hubris is a dangerous drug - in the hands of a youngster - or a head coach.