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Fair post - don't agree with it all but agree for the most part…well thought out and broken down. There are a lot of issues on backend of the D', they certainly are not in sync every game - more edge rushers would certainly help, possibly a coaching change on the backend. Would love to have another Carter and Davis, those guys are just killing it in the NFL. They will make any coach look smarter; trouble is…they just aren't that many of them - generational.
Would prefer a faster more athletic OL, bigger isn't always better - good points on Gaston, hopefully he gets better, he almost got Gunner killed this year. Quality depth is a huge issue - all positions. Seems as though all teams in this day and time have it. Playing an SEC schedule certainly doesn't help the situation, neither does a 3-week layoff, adding a 9th game or playing in a conference championship game. Would love to have Pittman back. Don't need or want a total overhaul - just a tweak here and there.
We just got beat by a better team, congrats to Ole Miss. The Dawgs fought and lost, that is all you can ask for. You can't win them all…when all is considered, a good season, looking forward to next season.
Thanks!
Bottom line: UGA got outcoached. Stockton had a bad day. UGA's defense could not contain the Ole Miss QB nor could they stop their runner. Lots of lost opportunities in the red zone for UGA. Even a missed FG. Just seems we are on a fairly steady slow decline every year since 2021…. Not sure Stockton can advance us through a CFP…. We also badly need a new OC.
Time for you press guys to stop cowering to Smart and lay the blame squarely where it belongs, on coaching both defensive and offensive. The 4 and dumb mess from our 33 is typical. And you guys let Smart, while eventually taking responsibility, ramble on about what his thought process was instead of calling him out for just a bone heading decision. As for the goaline plays at the end of the game, everyone let Kirby spurt out that gobbly gook about his decision(but more than likely Bobo's.) What they should have done, as many of the previous posts pointed out is run the ball with a Jumbo package undercenter. Smart did have Todd Monken for 2 NC's who ran those plays for great success. I guess he forgot. Throughout The this game when GA was behind they went undercenter and just blew the Miss D line back and opened playaction passing and went up tempo. But, of course, at the beginning of the 3rd quarter, back in the gun and 3 and out and, again, at the goaline at the end of the game. Why don't you guys call them on those decisions. I would love to hear from Smart and Bobo why they don't play more from undercenter. And finally with only 37 seconds and no timeouts why is your D not playing zone leaving Demello one on one. I do know you're jobs are dependent on keeping on Smart's good side but really it's time for the press to put a little more pressure on these guys.
Wow, incredibly well thought out and encompasses a lot of my (and my friends' and family's) increasing dismay about CFB. I really appreciated the nearly impossible results this hugely young (and less than top-tier-funded) UGA team achieved this year... it was a borderline miracle given the start of the season!
Yet, as you mention, the sport has devolved into something even more disheartening than the crass commercialism of the NFL… even the NBA.
Something has to change. Will it? Fingers crossed... and hoping it's for the better
Kirby is the man with whom the buck has stopped.
I've not yet mustered up the wherewithal to rewatch the Ole Miss playoff victory otherwise know as the Kirby Smart Error Montage, but memory serves, and should instruct. Far too many boneheaded coaching decisions sabotaged the Dawgs' chances. Taking nothing away from Ole Miss, the Dawgs, as a team, almost won, and had multiple opportunities to win, but were wounded by their own mistakes, and killed by decisions made on the sidelines.
To Kirby & Company, what were you thinking!
From too conservative when we needed to aggressively pursue more points to needless and foolishly aggressive at the wrong moments, a litany of coaching errors, a good many of which have already been pointed out, led to a too early season's end.
Not that the Dawgs had a bad season, but I'm sure the players weren't ready for it to end.
Go, Dawg
I see that the dissection of this game was not all that popular, but I find it cathartic as I probably won't truly move on from it until after the CFP. Ha, does anyone else watch Everette on that scramble and hope that he takes a slightly different angle. I can't debate much with what is said here, but will add to the pile the second UGA possession in the 3rd qt starting at mid field after UM had turned it over on downs. That is where UGA had the chance to really take control and perhaps put the game on skates…when it didn't happen, it felt like it would be a 60 minute game, and that was unsettling against a team that was "just happy to be there" as Chambliss was quoted as saying. One other thing, regarding the last play, I'd rather have seen Gunner air it out and hope for a PI and another play, but either way it would have taken a miracle.
Moving forward, definitely agree with some others that the OL has to improve and I like some of the ideas I've read here.
Regardless of all the things that didn't go well in this game Georgia was never out of it and with a few minutes to go actually had a chance to take the lead. When Gunner connected with Branch on 4th and 9 from the UGA 48 for a 1st down it seemed like this 4th Qtr drive was going to end up in the endzone like so many times during the season. Yet never used a single timeout during that critical redzone stretch. On the late pass attempt to Delp, Gunner had Branch coming back underneath with (I believe) Gushiken covering him ( the same OM guy had been flagged twice for PI and holding on this drive ) - gotta find your top hot receiver in these situations. Branch was clutch so many times. Did tie it but left way too much time on the clock (59 secs).
That is good perspective concerning the last drive…would have been nice to think about the play a little more for sure. Such play-calling decisions remind me a little of the last drive in the 2012 SECCG when Murray wanted to spike the ball but it was decided to run a play instead, or even in the first Bama game this season when Jones ran on 3rd and short. In both those cases, the coaches liked the idea of going fast against the on field defense, but it also short-changed player awareness, resulting in missed assignments and losing outcomes.
THis sums it all up. ……….https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NfphWQhZj9M?feature=share
Coaches MUST do a postmortem of 3 games after byes. We lost 2 of 3 & almost lost to FL w/ an interim coach. Why didnt they stick w/ seccg game plan, both QBs great passers and scramblers vs changing everything up. Im cornfused. Obviously playas were too!
Let's see which coaches get a raise or extension. That will tell us a lot about the future of this program.