Out Coached, and Out

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The most 2024 thing about Georgia? Finally hitting Arian for a deep ball and having a practice squad kid get called for a penalty. And we appropriately responded to a special teams shift just to jump uncharacteristically offsides. Well played, Freeman. Kirby is taking notes.

Also, where are our turnovers? Why can’t a defensive minded team create turnovers?

Let’s cry together. 2024 has mercifully come to a close.

92 thoughts on “Out Coached, and Out”

  1. This doesn’t hurt as bad as other seasons when we were really good. 2013 in particular, knowing we were 5 yds from whooping ND in the natty instead of Bama.

    This is/was a flawed team. If we had won, we might have beaten PSU. But I don’t think we beat OSU or TU a 3rd time.

    • I feel the same way.
      I have no team to pull for in the playoffs so I’ll take solace in the knowledge that 75 percent of them are going to lose.
      I thought Gunner threw the ball well but made a few mistakes too.
      The offensive line wasn’t very good today. He needed them to do more.
      ET seemed tentative running the ball.
      How many passes were dropped?
      Why did Kirby not have Gunner take a knee at the end of the first half?
      Hats off to the defense. If the offense was as good, we’d be in the finals.
      I feel bad for the kid that caused The Official Karen to penalize the team for what amounted to an unfortunate mistake off the field. Should have been a warning but the ref felt dissed…pussy.
      Dawgs had their chances but ND just played a little better. Their QB’s running ability was a winner for them.
      Some days things just don’t go your way.
      At least I won’t have to stay up late to watch the rest of the games.
      Wins over FU, GT, AU, TN, TX TWICE and Clemmons is a pretty good year!
      (Maybe I should pull for TX…since the Dawgs beat them twice this year)
      Nah.

      • Two straight games where a knee before the half was the better call, in hindsight. A product of the type of season we had?

          • Well, in my defense, I was in Sylvester watching Worth Co’s season come to an end at the hands of Fitzgerald when the Tech game happened. So, yeah, 3.

          • Otis I don’t know if you know but we lost Bryce that night. He was at the Worth County game, came home and turned on the Georgia game and that was it.

  2. I can live with it but I don’t know why I was expecting something else. The O line has not been good all year. When I turned it off we had 67 yards of rushing. I think there was another game this year we didn’t hit 100. Or maybe not 100 in regulation. We beat TX and the refs TWICE while winning the SEC. The other 12 teams in our conference should be sending us thank you letters for that!

    I do wonder if the Beck haters will realize now that it wasn’t him.

    HBTD! 2024 SEC CHAMPIONS

    • I’m just going off the graphics on screen from early in the 2nd half of the game. They showed that UGA failed to gain 100 yards rushing twice this season…..both of them losses. Tonight makes it 3 for 3.

  3. Kirby shit the bed last few minutes 1H. 3-3 at halftime if he doesn’t get retarded. Or bobo

      • I don’t know who to pull for at this point. ND might be the lesser of 4 evils. Or better yet, I could ignore the rest of the games and engage in something actually good for my mental health.

        • “I could ignore the rest of the games and engage in something actually good for my mental health.”
          I suspect this is the option that most of us will choose.

    • Once you figure out nobody else in the conference wants you to win, it’s easy to not give a damn about the SEC flag.

      I’m rooting for 2 sinkholes to open up in Miami and Dallas.

      I won’t be watching either game or the title game.

  5. A game we definitely could have won, but I’m not even that mad. Weird season. SEC Champs. Go Dawgs.

    • Should CKS roll the game tape or even the season tape and believe he got out coached in 3-5 games in 2024, UGA football staff is under reconstruction and do believe there will be a couple of staff exits before the season is over…GO DAWGS!!

          • I’ll play, pretty obvious Bobo is stepping down. Can’t blame him. Can’t blame Kirby for letting him. They tried, didn’t work. Moving on.

          • Bobo moves into an analyst role. Monken was complementary of how he helped him after Faulkner left. The question is whether Kirby hires Faulkner.

          • Personally I don’t think Bobo is going anywhere. That seems like wishful thinking. And I can’t see why Faulkner would come back to Georgia as OC when people are wanting him as a head coach. Again, wishful thinking.

          • Apparently, his wife and kids are still in Athens, and she has said they aren’t leaving unless he gets a head coaching job or their kids finish school according to the rumor mill. He has been commuting to Atlanta.

            I personally don’t want Faulkner because he isn’t going to be the kind of OC that Kirby will give the keys to and stay out of it like he did with Monken.

          • I don’t know if he will or not. What I am saying is I would rather see Kirby go get someone like Monken who he told “go score points and don’t care how you do it.” Monken had successful NFL and college experience. He forgot more offensive football than Kirby knows.

    • And we beat all the Orange(and then some) and Tech when we needed to. SEC Champs and in the sUGAr Bowl, a season we dreamed about for years. Heyell, I remember going to Outback Bowls and trying to spin it into wait til next year

  6. Shockingly bad offense given the talent on that side of the ball. I don’t know whom Agent Coley is working for, but he’s worked his black magic once again. Get that man as far from Athens as possible. Bobo and Searels can go with him.

      • Delp, Luckie, Frazier, Etienne, Dom, Nitro, the entire OL except Truss. More than enough talent to outscore Notre Dame on a neutral field, considering the level of the D’s play. No excuse for so poor a performance.

        • Did you watch the fucking o-line play? This game tonight? And our receivers?

          • I’m not claiming that the OL played well. I’m claiming that there is enough talent in the OL room to beat Notre Dame. Searels, as I wrote in my original post, needs to go.

        • There isn’t much talent in that group short of Frazier possibly. Maybe if Coley, Bozo and Searels left the talent would show up.

        • But your point is taken. We need a massive upgrade in talent at every WR position. We need at least one more RB to pair w/ Frazier. And we need a true dual-threat QB. Maybe Rashada is that guy. I’m not sure that Stockton is.

  7. Admittedly, I was tired of this season. Hence the “merciful” part above. Good season, SEC champs, but this leaves something to be desired.

  8. Hopefully Kirby will get his dick hard recruiting on the offensive side of the ball as he does on the D side….. Coaches and players

      • You’re a “next year” guy. lol. But sure man. Fill me in on all these “studs” that will start and make an impact next year.

        • CJ Wiley and Tylin Taylor will play. Elyiss Williams and Ethan Barbour will play. I’ll trust what a coach like Terrence Edwards says … the guy who said Ladd McConkey would become a star.

          I’m disappointed about how the season turned out, but I’m also like Kirby said in 2017, “We aren’t going anywhere.”

          • None of those will start next year and probably a good chance half of them aren’t around on year2

          • Ok, now you’ve gone from not being a Disney Dawg to just being an Eeyore retard.

          • I don’t have faith that the current OC staff can utilize talent properly so I’m hoping for sweeping changes on that side of the ball.

  9. Warning, hot take incoming. I wouldn’t be upset to see some coaches on the offensive side of the ball replaced. If there is a role that Coley can focus only on recruiting, fine, but he shouldn’t be a position coach. Searles should be gone.

  10. We sho managed to make them look a hell of a lot better than they are.
    Gave it away… plain and simple.
    Old Lady Luck can kiss my ass!!!

  11. From my preview post:
    “If the Georgia defense that put the clamps on Clemson, Texas, and Tennessee shows up tonight, I see no path for Notre Dame to win without a lot of help from the Georgia offense through mistakes, penalties, and turnovers.”

    Yep … throw in coaching and a special teams total blunder.

    SEC champions. Beat all of the traditional rivals we played plus Texas 2 times.

    Let’s go make March matter in hoops and then get to Omaha on the diamond. Asa Newell is a total stud.

  12. Wasn’t it a kickoff blunder last time we met in the Dome that changed the game? Karma’s a bitch.

  13. We didn’t belong, I’ll be okay with that. I am not okay with the offensive staff. The D staff and players did what they could but the perimeter runs killed us along with tackling. The offense has been awful most of the season.

    I’m too angry to present a coherent comment, I ripped my shirt and threw it away. Bobo and his staff truly sucked this year. The D wasn’t bad but they did not live up to the standard that CKS created going back to the ‘17 season.

    As others have said, I’m kind of glad it’s over. What a frustrating season. Next year will be like ‘17 all over again, no visions of championship football going in, whatever happens will be entertaining or excruciating.

  14. I agree with you Prosticutor, a game we could have won. I really thought we outplayed them early, just some bad breaks. I think the defense played a damn good game, though late we missed too many tackles. However, the offense needs an overhaul, starting with Searles. Is it me or did Kirby seem a bit cocky, perhaps overconfident that we could over come the points left on the 4th down tries and win the game late. Also, seemed like Kirby’s passion and fire was just not here for this game. Could have been earlier circumstances, I don’t know.
    Good year but disappointed. This team just never gelled. Kirb’s got some coaching decisions to make imo.

    • Agree with you. We gave up 3 FG’s, the kick off return, then the short field td after the fumble while I’m muttering “isn’t this exactly how we got Beck knocked out for the season??? Take a knee and start fresh with the kid in the 2nd half at 6-3. Geez.”

    • “… seemed like Kirby’s passion and fire was just not here for this game”

      His dad fell and broke his hip yesterday and I think had surgery. He may have been distracted, but I doubt he would use it as an excuse. Still…

      • If Kirby is calm on the sideline Georgia is playing like $hit.

    • Agree 100% 3legg. When Kirby was talking to the sideline eye candy, he seemed to have a weird affect. Like he was just going through the motions. The whole game seemed kind of surreal.

  15. From the other trenches- texting with a Notre Dame friend, even he’s kinda “whatever and happy for the win, but the atmosphere and emotion just kinda got sucked out of the games after yesterday’s events.”

  17. For me the whole thing is reminiscent of fans saying that Joe Cox and Faton Bauta were the answers and blaming the coaches when it was obvious they were not.

    That was a painfully poor performance from 14 with few exceptions.

    You can play qb with superior athleticism or smarts and sometimes a little of both. When you got neither, its ugly.

    • Derek, you usually have reasonable takes but no way was this on Stockton. Blocking was non-existent, both pass protection and run blocking.
      He threw absolutely dimes many times. Etienne was too tentative. Frazier is #1 RB in my mind. Even the receivers caught better than usual. The drop by Bell didn’t hurt in that we later scored a TD on the same drive.

      We lost this game along both lines of scrimmage. What happened to spying on the QB?

      • Spying the quarterback is defensive malpractice. We should’ve done all game long what we did with King in the fourth quarter, bringing pressure in the gaps because he couldn’t pass to save his life.

        Offensive line play was repugnant. Searles has some great studs coming in and it remains to be seen if they can develop. If they can’t, time for a change. Our OL was a liability all season long. Not on Beck, Stockton, or the D, not being able to sustain drives or run the ball consistently is on the OL.

        • Agreed on the OL. The OT play is horrible. Greene is still hurt. Need a new OL, WR coaches and OC

        • The O-line has been just a step above putrid this year. I saw a stat late in the year that had us 15th out of 16 teams in the SEC in rushing yards PRIOR to contact. Without at least a mediocre running game we are not going to go very far w/o some real luck. In years past, the road graders opened up holes and our backs were at the 2nd level prior to contact. This year they are VERY lucky when they were not getting hit in the backfield. Getting to the line before contact seemed like a victory.

      • Well, that was true on the way to a sec championship and a #2 seed.

        What changed?

        • Nothing changed. We weren’t consistent running the ball all season, and we were inconsistent stopping the run. Today we ran into a team that made us pay for it. If you think Beck makes it different today, we’ll just have to agree to disagree. But I’m sure your opinion is the only qualified one here. 😉

          • FWIW, I’ve never thought Beck was the problem, although he did press a little at the beginning of the season. But he wouldn’t have made a difference today. Not with his line calls or his passing. I saw only one time where Stockton was confused by the line, which is about the same for Beck. Plus Stockton never put the ball in harm’s way on passes.

            Tell me where Beck would have made an obvious difference today.

        • What changed? Our LUCK finally ran out. We should have lost to TECH (perish the thought). We should have lost to Texas in the SECCG (but pulled a rabbit out of the hat). It’s a miracle that we left Lexington without a loss. Struggles all year with mediocre teams that prevented the backups from getting meaningful playing time in the 2nd half. Ole Miss and Bama exposed this team for it’s biggest weakness. NO RUNNING GAME. 80 yards against BAMA…loss. 59 yards against Ole Miss….loss. 62 yards tonight….loss. Even in the wins, it was a struggle. As I alluded to earlier, we were 15th out of 16 teams in the SEC in rushing yards BEFORE contact. Our receivers have a hard time catching a cold. Gunner may be garbage, or he may be a superstar, but unless we have a line that can block, a halfway decent running game, and receivers that can separate and then catch it, we’ll never know. Look at Becks numbers form last year to this year. He went from a sure-fire 1st round draft pick to possibly a second day pick (or worse). What changed? Last year he had a pretty decent O-line, a running game and he had Bowers and Ladd. This year without them he struggled. Is Beck better after >20 starts in the SEC vs Stockton in his first time out. I sure as hell hope so.

          • Well said. Anyone that thinks Beck was the answer tonight thinks the question was who suffered the most due to bringing back Bobo, Searles, and Coley.

          • Gunner made his throws as well as Beck does. But the reason Beck could have made a difference was the way Texas defended the run. They probably wouldn’t have sold out to stop the run the way they did with Gunner had Beck been playing. They would have had to play it a little more honestly..By the time Gunner had demonstrated that he could make the throws, the Texass coaches knew we had no one to catch them…and they knew they could pressure the QB at will. Also, Gunner is heralded as a duel threat but he’s not really. His running is straight ahead like a fullback, likely because his size let him just run over people in high school…But the kid had a good game for his first start..esp considering the competition. His line and his receivers let him down. Blaming the QB won’t fly on this one…it was a complete offensive failure.
            BTW..refs suck.

  18. Beck wins us this game, just like he performed in Tuscaloosa. The stage was too big for a first time starter. Fumble at the end of first half and Kick-off return to start second half killed us. I expected more from Gunner’s foot work, but clearly he has a lot to learn. Line did not help. This game was win-able but agree with an earlier post that we would struggle with OSU or Texas again.

  19. Chaz Chambliss and whoever the fuck (looking at you Glen) replaced Jalen Walker with him for most of the season… then took him off the edge and put him at middle spy and quit blitzing …and number 7 at corner I can’t care enough to look up his name…the only person on the field who was happy he was there is Everett so he wasn’t targeted as much…and fuckin Bobo won’t use the tight ends even to help block…much less catch…

  20. Time to clean out some offices and get to work on 2025. A Georgia team that can’t block or run the ball just lost a game in the CFP. Think of the possibilities with a competent offensive staff. Go Dawgs!

    Btw, I’m rooting for ND but feel like OSU might not be beatable by a college team at this point.

  21. Yep, we’ve been livin on the edge pretty much all season…. Better to happen now than against Penn State [barf emoji] or to have to play Texas for a third time or get the doors blown off by Ohio State….

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