Believe it or not, Saturday will mark the one year anniversary of Michael Brochstein’s, aka The Senator, passing. I won’t say much here, as we have a post scheduled for Saturday to serve as tribute to the man who educated, entertained, and enthralled us for so long at Get the Picture.

The post will go live early in the morning on Saturday, and I’ll add a link to the “mirror site” where I know commenting functionality allows everyone to comment with ease (more about that in a separate post tomorrow) and leave their thoughts, if desired, on the tribute post.

In case anyone is new here, I’m adding a couple of links to help inform any of our newer followers of who the Senator was, and why his impact was so important to us all. The link to the original Get the Picture blog is up above.

Michael Brochstein’s Obituary

Tribute from Marc Weiszer, Athens Banner-Herald

Twitter Post from Seth Emerson

Let’s see if you’re a college football “expert”. Without looking…can you name the three Georgia football players that made the Pre-Season All-American list?

As a bonus…can you name which team (first, second, third) that your choice found themselves in?

A picture is worth a thousand cuss words.

It’s been a long time, hasn’t it, Nerds?

Go ‘Dawgs!

Obviously, you free all of the criminals who beat Capitol police officers and then you systematically retaliate against the people who participated in the investigation of those criminals.  That’s just good, responsible Government.  

Is there any doubt that when someone feels the need to report any allegations of crimes or misconduct committed by members of this administration that they’ll feel very confident in calling this new and improved FBI?  Of course, I’m not sure any agent or other personnel who even records the name and number of any such complainant, other than to forward those to the “enemies list,” can be trusted to carry out “the agenda.”

Feel free to add any and all “sane washing” of this story until it is no longer frightening.

Discuss. 

It’s the slow season, so here’s a question to keep us talking:

If given the option of having seven home games, albeit two are cupcakes, versus six home games with all P4 teams, which would you take?

Also, if we had a standing home and home series with a P4 out of conference program (aside from Tech) which conference and which team would you want it to be?

In case you were watching the Senior Bowl narratives, you might’ve noticed there was some concern over Jalen Milroe, particularly his hand size.

Depending on the outlet you followed, Milroe’s performance was spotty, at best, and he did little to improve his draft potential. As a casual observer, I opined many times that Georgia should’ve never lost to a Milroe lead Alabama team, since he has the accuracy of a blind octogenarian and was under impressive with his ability to read defenses and hit receivers when needed. He could run, though, and had a stable of talent around him, so selling out to stop the QB run wasn’t going to be the magic bullet to beat the Tide.

Anyway, it makes me wonder if Milroe didn’t play into the decision making with DeBoer’s staffing for year one in Tuscaloosa. Regardless, it looks like DeBoer is getting a critical piece back for 2025.

Color me worried. For all the hype around offensive prowess, DeBoer’s initial year wasn’t anything to write home about, but that looks to change with the addition of Grubb to his staff. Insert narrative around coordinators here, if you wish.

Also of note:

Both coordinators leaving Columbus after winning the Natty…thankful that Monken hung around for another year in 2022. Good for Brock Bowers…not so good for Ryan Day.

In all honesty, I have to agree with him. The 2023 Ole Miss game was the high water mark of the season on offense.

Bowers returning was certainly a catalyst, but it was a glorious display of balanced offensive football dominance.

300 yards in both statistical categories is something to behold. Not sure if that’s where Judkins determined he needed to head to tOSU, but it was where Freshwater determined his portal strategy had to change. I guess it worked, at least for one game, anyway, in 2024.

So much for the Spring Game QBR at Nebraska.

Granted, I don’t think anyone is looking to poach Mahomes Jr from the Huskers, it must be the litany of other players that Rhule took the time and care to recruit himself. You know, the players he poached from the portal himself.

In other context:

Let’s hear the contrarian bullshit from Coach Rhule himself:

Yes, everyone is looking at a barely .500 program and thirsting for talent, Matt. How about you just do a dunk contest like they did in Oxford. It seemed to work out well for Joey Freshwater, after all.

Interesting graphic, if you can make sense of it:

Looking at it, the four teams that made the “final four” had about a 50% rush rate for offensive plays (balance) but Georgia’s was below 40% on the year. Unfortunately, I don’t have this for earlier years, but I didn’t realize we were passing as much until I see data like this.

A few things – one, more passing means more opportunities for interceptions and drops. Mybwondering is if we started to get more balance around the Tennessee game and if Beck’s interception rate began to drop because we started to get more balance (I’ll have to look into that). Second, though rushing was down, the RPO/PA rate was high, which makes me wonder if this feature became too predictable and lead to a lack of success on plays utilizing this concept because of heavier use.

What’s your thoughts on a slow Sunday?

Dirty Dan hasn’t been the only Dawg showing out at the Senior Bowl. Etienne has been in good form, as well.

I noticed in the film review of the 2022 Auburn game that the running backs caught a lot of passes from SBIV, and I wondered if we’d moved away from the running backs as a receiving option. Apparently, the injury bug affected this stat this year:

Injuries are a bitch.