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Clemson is in the South.
So, some think that Fields walks on water and would have won 3 NAtties with UGA and some think he wasn't any better this year than Jake was for us at his best, or they'd just as soon have Stetson Bennet than Fields. LOL! Talk about a polarizing figure. He's either God or the devil.
No he's a mere mortal that will be the 2nd QB taken in the draft. He was a Heisman finalist last year and would have been this year if they had played more games. He led his team to back to back playoffs, throwing 6 TD's against a very good Clemson team. He took a hit in that game that would have broken Stetson in half but gutted it out throwing for 2-3 TD's after that hit. He sustained a hip pointer and bruised ribs and that stuff doesn't heal in 8 days. His 1st hit last night showed the pain he was playing through for his brothers. Their star RB goes out on the 1st play of the game and I believe(not sure) they had other players out with Covid.
It would have been nigh impossible to beat BAMA with Fields and Sermons at 100%.
BAMA is a machine like someone else said. Players change and go to the League. Coaches get promoted to Head-coaching gigs and they just reload and press play.
Kirby's response to all of that is "they get good players." Duh! I believe we do too. They also have the best coach who ever coached in the modern era. He is the engine that makes everything run efficiently. And I believe he just won his 6th Natty in the past 12-13 years.
Be nice as a UGA fan to wake up and say if we don't win the Natty this year , we'll get it next year and it's not a dream but a reality.
"Even if you take out the QB in the equation (because Daniels has some very serious talent), we still couldn't match up to Bama."
I think that's a questionable assessment. To point it out for the umpteenth time, we had a halftime lead with Bennett putting together a decent performance for 2 quarters. He struggled in the second half, and things fell apart. Replace walk-on talent with 5-star talent at the most important single position on the field, and that game looks pretty different. Maybe they still win, who knows. But I have a hard time imagining that it wouldn't put us on their level.
I agree with your point about the importance of getting upperclassmen to stay. I think it's sort of a rich-getting-richer situation. If you're winning titles, guys want to stick around to win more titles, and you win more titles; and repeat. I think that dam will likely break for Georgia if/when we get that first one...
It simply shows me AGAIN how far and above superior Nick Saban is from the entire coaching universe of college football...in recruiting, coaching, and development...and you can't help but be impressed by Bama's ability to simply reload their ranks - both players and coaches - and rarely skip a beat.
7 National Championships for Saban...good gosh. 13-0 with an entirely SEC schedule and playoff game domination blowouts against Notre Dame and Ohio State. There were none of the usual soft spots in the schedule, no opponents from the FCS or low-FBS levels. Alabama played 11 Southeastern Conference games, two more than usual, and faced all the best competition in the nation’s best league. Six teams other than ‘Bama finished .500 or better, and the Tide whipped them all. This is all the more remarkable when you consider that the Tide lost Waddle to a broken ankle on the first play of the fifth game of the season, and lost All-American center Landon Dickerson to a torn ACL in the SEC championship game. More impressive season in my eyes than LSU's run last year.
Many of these Bama star players were freshman in 2017 when the Dawgs came up just short of beating the Tide in the CFP National Championship. And look how many of the Bama players decided to forgo the NFL draft and come back for one more season. Just like the # of Dawgs who have committed to coming back next season, there was "unfinished business"...the question is will the Dawgs finish their business or fall short?
Now let us please move on from Justin Fields as he moved on from us.
Why do you keep the narrative flowing about what might have been if JF had stayed at UGA? ITS TIRESOME!
He was and is a traitor and a liar. His lawyer, his father, and himself perpetuated a lie that he needed to leave due to racial issues. It was FALSE! Besides...plus Jake Fromm should never have been replaced by this ME first player.
Jake too the program to cusp of a NC but the defense gave it up in one play in 2017-2018. In the 2018-2019 season, he had the team on the cusp of the CFP only to see the defense again collapse. In two games vs Bama...he played better than JF did last night.
Jake is and always will be a loyal and stellar face of this program's history. Nothing he did on the field should have led to being replaced by deer in the headlights JF. Every time he played...JFields ran scared.
Tired of this narrative from you and some Georgia fans that Jake needed to be replaced. Don't even go there about last year. 6 new receivers, inconsistent receiver and OL play, and injuries across the offense. Not to mention Colley was a disaster OC.
J Fields....A D. Liar!
Jake Fromm....A DGD!
87Dawg....you said it better in your few words than I did. Great post.
Think these knuckleheads will quit writing about J Fields and his UGA ties.
Geez it gets freaking old
So, how many Heisman Trophy's has the great Justin Fields won? Answer, NONE. So, how many Natty's has the great Justin Fields won? Answer, NONE. So, how many Maxwell Trophy's has the great Justin Fields won, the trophy that goes to the best QB? Answer, NONE. So, all you armchair coaches that have been, and still are on the Justin Fields bandwagon, please just let it go. Remember, he was the one that quit on Georgia, and not the other way. Alabama, showed last night you must play as a team to attain the goals of playing for, and winning a Natty. Until UGA gets the players that put the team first and not themselves, we will always be looking up at teams like Alabama.. The closest UGA has come to winning that elusive Natty, was when Nick Chubb and company decided to come back for one more shot at it. Yes, they came up short 26 to 23, but I bet Ole Nicky's backside was all puckered up, and did not get relief until Devontae Smith caught the winning TD.
Alabama did not win every game by two touchdowns. The SEC Championship Game was the exception. They won by six points over Florida.
It's funny how emotional some Georgia fans get over the name of Fields, a TEENAGER, who transferred from UGA. I imagine some of the comments are from people well over the age of 20. Lol! You would be naive to think that Fields would not be associated with UGA until he left college. It's natural and it's okay. It really is. I think the feelings have more to do with our lack of accomplishments. It's not his fault. I wish him well in the future. Going to OSU did improve his stock because they have a better history of using QBs. I hope UGA gets its act together to make a championship run next year. We have the talent we just need to get everything clicking...that includes the coaching.
Go Dawgs!!!
Justin couldn't have become with UGA what he became at Ohio St. just a fact. Last year was Coley , a freshman receiver, a banged up transfer and an offensive line that struggled to convert 3rd and 1 and 4th and 1 . Might have faired better this season, but with Covid and a new OC whose to say? In the end his leaving worked out well for him. Seems like a good kid and a low key cerebral kind of guy. He isn't Ra-Ra like Jake. I don't even remember seeing him talking too much with anyone on the Ohio St. sideline. Heck of a competitor.
Looking back at the intricacies of this offensive performance by Bama, did Sark just put together the best offensive game plan and schemes in the history of college football?
Me think so.
Texas must be smiling right now...