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Georgia stock report: Coaching and star players failed to measure up in 41-34 loss at Alabama

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  • navydawgnavydawg Posts: 3,545 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Good and realistic take Montana. All we ask from our Dawgs is their very best and at the Start of games. If they do that they Will be better. How much better who knows ?? But I gotta Love Em been a fan far to long to walk away. And there Will be bad games and entire seasons along with the good games and entire seasons. Kirby has done to good of a job for us ( not saying You) to write him off. I advise all Dawgs fans let’s see how far we can go, maybe we won’t be a championship team this year ( but Maybe we will) but I Hope we can at least be respectable. Thx for your feedback !! Go Dawgs !!

  • navydawgnavydawg Posts: 3,545 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Git I always appreciate your posts !! You’re ever the optimist and your humor always makes me smile !! I’m going on 68 yrs. old and have been a Dawgs fan starting I think about six years old. No Way I’m giving up on them now !! Sure I’m Very disappointed about last night. But who knows Maybe these Dawgs can find themselves and go on to have a successful season, we’ve seen it happen before. We have two upcoming games that Should be very winnable. Maybe our beloved Dawgs can get better from the experience of those games And Start both games off fast and solid. I’m gonna enjoy them as best I can. As you said “Life is short” having a myriad of health problems I sure embrace that thinking !! Go Dawgs !!

  • YankeeDawg64YankeeDawg64 Posts: 54 ✭✭ Sophomore

    IMO it's not just ala's freshman, but i feel I see other newbies in the cfb world *making an impact*. Mentioned in another post, maybe these top tier recruits (and trans port) are not so good after all?? Nice come back but 1-6 vs tide ain't worth bragging. Maybe stop the off the field issues would help ;-)

  • Gibroni88Gibroni88 Posts: 505 ✭✭✭✭ Senior
    edited September 29

    When I read in the early preseason that Arian Smith was “going to be one of our leaders in the receiver room” and starting at one of the X or Y positions?

    I knew it was going to be a long season.

    I asked this last night after the game: Why is Kirby Smart unable to recruit 5 ⭐️ talent at WR?

    How about Mike Bobo? Does he not recruit???

    With the recruiting chops he has, and some of his staff???

    And why is he starting for the second consecutive season a sub par player that everyone that has watched Smart’s defense over the years knows that he cannot set the edge?

    #32 Chambliss

  • Gibroni88Gibroni88 Posts: 505 ✭✭✭✭ Senior

    @YankeeDawg64

    With respect, off field issues have nothing to do with all of the things that are wrong with this team and that game last night, IMO.

    Zero.

  • SufferinginAtlantaSufferinginAtlanta Posts: 91 ✭✭✭ Junior

    These Alabama games remind me of the Florida games 15 years ago. UGA saves their worst performances for Alabama.

  • Louis8478Louis8478 Posts: 290 ✭✭✭✭ Senior

    It really didn't work with Kentucky. We got lucky in that game and almost got lucky in this game. It's time for CKS to make Beck fear his starting job and look over his shoulder at the next guy up. Make him get unrelaxed and mad. Maybe he'll focus more.

  • lucydoglucydog Posts: 140 ✭✭✭ Junior

    I've always felt our LB's were the best in college football, but they seemed overmatched in this game. Very disappointed in many areas of the team's performance, but the one thing that really stands out to me is Young's total lack of effort to catch the ball on Beck's third interception. This was our chance to win the game, but it seems his lack of effort sealed our fate—-or perhaps he just doesn't have the talent to make that play.

  • navydawgnavydawg Posts: 3,545 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    I have nothing personal against Beck. And I’ll go ahead and admit up front I’m a bit of a Gunner Stockton fan. But early on last night I’d have liked to have seen what Gunner could do. And maybe even Pugs.

    And I confess I’m concerned that there’s a possibility Bobo is developing Gunner the wrong way, trying to convert him to a pure pocket passer instead of the dual threat he was in HS. Gunner has pretty decent speed and made allot of hay using his legs in HS. But he’s no slouch with his arm either.

    He has the Potential to be as good or Better than Milroe, IF he’s properly developed playing to his natural strengths. Forcing him to predominately stay in the pocket I fear might lead to his ruin.

    I’m a transplant here to Rabun County been here a little over two years. They are only a Class AA school BUT they are Very competitive and are either in or sniffing of championships nearly every year. The people from here swear that Gunner is the best QB to Ever come through this school !! At a minimum I’d love to see him get more snaps as the season progresses as either him or Pugs will be our starter next year more than apt.

    Gunner has the benefit of much more real game snaps than Pugs does so one would think he’d be The Man but it’s possible Pugs could just flat out outplay him. NOTHING against Beck at all. But when he’s not clicking I wish Kirby would put the Team first and at least give Gunner a try. AND take any harnesses off Gunner and let him play His game. Just my humble opinions.

  • BeachwagonBeachwagon Posts: 277 ✭✭✭ Junior

    I hope that the Dawgs learn from last night and get their heads straight. Beck was responsible for at least five turnovers from my count. Kirby Smart needs to take away to keys to his Lambo and Beck needs to get back to work asap if he wants to play in the NFL someday.

    It is obvious that Bobo and Schumann are a level or two below Monken and Lanning. Our best year was 2021, and each year since we have slipped a little. The Dawgs need to rededicate themselves to winning the Natty. Beck needs to study Tebow's leadership after they lost a big game but ultimately won a Natty. The team deserve active leadership from Beck. From a career student of leadership (31 years active duty Army), I can tell you that 90% of leadership is learned behavior and setting a personal example at all times.

    I developed a robust dislike for DeBoer the more I have watched him this week. I am very glad he is not our head ball coach.

    GO DAWGS!

  • BeachwagonBeachwagon Posts: 277 ✭✭✭ Junior

    When Bobo left UGA for Colorado State, I was so thrilled that we would finally be out from under Vince Dooley's overpaid and politically entrenched son-in-law. But low and behold, after being hired and fired 3-4 times over the next five years, Kirby Smart let his former teammate back in the house where he has dug in like a termite. Again.

    It is bad policy to hire friends and family.

    We will not ever get back to the promised land as long as Bobo is in charge of our offense and our game plans. Period dot com.

  • Louis8478Louis8478 Posts: 290 ✭✭✭✭ Senior

    It does seem that CKS loves traditional drop back passers. He's a defensive coach that loves ball control and gives his defense time to rest and regroup. He saw what SB could do being a dual threat. Gunner is built like that. I believe the transfer they got can do it too.

  • KudzuKudzu Posts: 434 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    edited September 29

    Dont disagree with much here, except for Arian Smith. With him just doing his job (i.e., catching a wide open pass that had the audacity to hit him in the hands and then actually listening to his QB's audibles), Georgia wins. No exaggeration. And those plays were still early enough in the game to swing momentum.

    A separate observation: we saw something in Carson's eyes the first half of the last two games that I've never seen since he's been at UGA: fear. He looked confused, uncertain, and then out-of-sorts at the beginning of each play. As one DN poster said after Kentucky, Carson seemed afraid.

    The big question: why? I'll propose a possibility: maybe the in-helmet comms is actually confusing CB more than helping. I can't think of a single thing to cause him to have such zoned out eyes at the beginning of each snap, at least in the first half 🤔

  • Georgia67Georgia67 Posts: 255 ✭✭✭✭ Senior

    I'm not going to criticize or blame anyone for the result last night. Change is clearly necessary. CKS knows this. If some egos get bruised then so be it. Will keep CKS in my prayers that he will have the courage, forsight, and strength to make the hard decisions that lay ahead and lead us forward.

    Go Dawgs!

  • E_RocE_Roc Posts: 1,315 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    edited September 29

    This touches on a reason that I'm still optimistic about the rest of the season. For several years now, Smart's teams have consistently responded well after losing. For as much as they win, it's like they need that reminder every now and then. The lack of focus on the field that we saw in the 6 quarters beginning with the start of the Kentucky game, it's like they had it in their heads that going through the motions was enough, which might have been reinforced after beating Kentucky. But if there's one thing we should all be able to agree on, it's that there's no way they could possibly still be thinking that now.

    I don't know, maybe this is oversimplifying it. But it seems plausible. And I think this game was a good microcosm for the concept. The issues that plagued them in the first half were correctable, and for the most part were corrected.

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