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For Kirby Smart and Georgia, it’s no longer a Nick Saban issue but an Alabama problem
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For Kirby Smart and Georgia, it’s no longer a Nick Saban issue but an Alabama problem
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Kirby Smart has done it all in his time as Georgia’s head coach. He’s won multiple national titles, conquered rivals and reached the pinnacle of the sport.
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Congrats, Conner. It's clear you've been wanting to write this piece for a while.
'I just feel like we did not start how we wanted to start. And that will kill you,” wide receiver Dillon Bell said.
Excuse my language but no ****. Dillon Bell can be the key to a better season. Put the ball in his hands more. Use him at QB also in certain situations of course for a little variety.
I agree with the article written. It is no longer a Saban problem. It has become an Alabama problem. Until Georgia can overcome the defeat to Alabama every time they play...Georgia can't see themselves as the new gold standard in the SEC.
Two words about last night:
Cash Jones
Apparently the depth of the running back room at RBU is so thin that Cash is taking snaps at critical times during the game.
I am still trying to understand what we watched last night. How do you judge this team?
“I just feel like we did not start how we wanted to start. And that will kill you,” wide receiver Dillon Bell said."
Exactly! So how many more games are we going to come out like this?? Behind the 8-ball. Shooting ourself in the foot. What gives Kirby?? Let's face the facts: BAMA OWNS KIRBY and by proxy, Georgia. I thought Kirby has good players? Yes, but they are not great players. They (Carson) will not light up the field against Bama. They (WRs) will not burn through the secondary of Bama to score at will. They (OL) cannot open lanes so that our RBs can get huge gains (think Chubb, Gurley, Swift). What gives? Kirby's excuse is that Bama has great players. So, is he admitting he doesn't have the same type of great players since his record is 1-6 against the crimson monster to the west? OR, is the problem that the coaches cannot scheme the team to a win against Bama? What is the answer here? Bama already denied Georgia of the 3 straight nattys in a row, and the SEC consecutive win streak is over as is the consecutive overall wins streak. Bama is Kirby's kryptonite. No doubt. If Bama is standing in the way, we ain't getting through. The faces change, but the story remains the same. The sooner we deal with that, the sooner we have success. Anyone have answers? Or are the usual trolls doing to down-vote me because I am being truthful and everyone knows I am right?
In my mind, it comes down to one word: Adaptation. I bet if you were to watch video of the practices and coaching planning sessions (if such existed) for both teams, it would be pretty clear to why we got a butts kicked. I'm quite sure Bama was scheming and planning specifically for us and potentially long before the off week. I guarantee you that while Georgia's practices were intense, they did not FOCUS on what they needed to focus on. They NEEDED to be working on their tackling and other items exposed by Kentucky. They needed to be watching EVERY SINGLE PLAY Milroe had completed and had a plan to force him to fail.
PLEASE stop waiting till halftime to make adjustments.
That's the problem here…if ANYONE says ANYTHING negative about Georgia, there is someone that wants to lash out at reality. Just live in a world of bliss where there is nothing to see here. Nothing wrong, all is rosey. E-Roc, you are whistling past the graveyard here - Georgia is not going to see another natty until certain things change. Connor is just stating fact. Bama OWNS Georgia.
Excellent article Connor. You hit the nail on the head.
Yep, it's a GEORGIA problem, not anything to do with Nick Saban.
Funny that Auburn fired Malzahn even though he was the winningest head coach against Bama.
This is the only thing you’ve gotten right about this game. That team is in his head. Does he subconsciously still feel loyalty to that team? Does he just think with a different coach, he would just show up and win? He evidently didn’t learn everything from his former boss. The streak of wins doesn’t need to be mentioned anymore either. We’re 4-2 in the last 6 games and are one play away from being 3-3. Think about that for a while.
I was referring to the fact that for months, Connor has been priming this subject. Whenever this scheduled matchup with Bama would come up, he would consistently frame it this way. And now he finally got his chance to write the article about it. If Georgia had won, what would he have written? Headline: Georgia doesn't have an Alabama problem? No, he probably would have just let it go at that point, or maybe worked it in as an observation in one of the site's many summaries of the game. It's just kind of an awkward topic for a full article - one regular season win and it's all behind us now; probably not much meat on that bone. But since Georgia lost, he got the opportunity to more directly expand upon on a subject that he clearly likes to talk about. That was my point. And I think it was pretty clearly expressed the first time.
I don't know where you're getting this "whistling past the graveyard" nonsense. Or that I object to "ANYONE" saying "ANYTHING" negative about Georgia. Or that I'm opposed to someone stating facts and am "lashing out at reality." I have no idea how you could have gotten all that from the two short sentences that I posted. Maybe from other posts I've made elsewhere? But if you're following me that closely, you should have noticed by now that my rejection of negative reactions typically takes the form of attempting to provide some broader context which shows the incomplete picture that the negative reactions so often depict. It's nothing so simplistic as a rejection of any and all negativity for its own sake. I'm an optimist when it comes to this stuff, and I think there's a strong, objective case to be made for that. So that's my starting point. When I can make a specific argument to that effect, I do so.
You, on the other hand, seem to take more satisfaction in all the doom and gloom, so easily agitated by any statement to the contrary that you see and react to things that aren't even there. But hey, that's just the truth as I see it. Don't you dare vote me down for it haha.
The Dawgs are also one play away from being 5-1 in that span, and clearly the #1 team in the country, having just beaten Bama in Tuscaloosa despite spending most of the game playing as poorly as they're realistically capable of playing. I'd say that's also worth considering.