Don’t Be No Prima Donna

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Lovett and Smith had respectable combine performances yesterday, and raised some talking points around their – wait for it – lack of dropped balls.

There’s also been much discussion about why Georgia doesn’t attract the Ryan Williams-type receivers in Athens, and why we don’t seem to have those high speed, slippery pass catchers that make the big plays. Again, not surprisingly, it’s been more about the little things, or big things in Kirby’s mind.

“Honestly? Don’t be no Prima Donna,” Lovett said on Friday. “Kirby is kind of old-school, he likes the tough guy, he likes smash-mouth football, so he wants the guy that’s going to block when they don’t have the ball.

“He wants the guy who’s going to dig out the safety, and he wants guys on special teams.”

I think there will be lots of questions and wondering about the 2024 season, and the debate will always center around the blame laid to Bobo, or the question of Beck’s chemistry with the team.

Guess we will never know. But I dare say I never saw the exuberance during the season:

15 thoughts on “Don’t Be No Prima Donna”

  1. An apparent lack of leadership/chemistry was evident all season. You could even sense Kirby knew it but couldn’t find a way to develop it.

    I think I wrote this back in September…he should have taken them to the pool.

    • I wonder if the “great wait” in Beck’s decision making and the huge NIL payout he received didn’t contribute. Seemed antithetical to the Kirby Way, and may have resonated more than we know.

  2. I’m with Kirby in that there’s nothing more annoying than these prima donna wr’s with personalities that fit better on a basketball court or on a track than a gridiron.

    What I don’t get about some of the “chemistry” issue and connecting it to money speculations is how that explains how our best game was our first game. I don’t doubt that there were issues along the way, but my guess is that between the injuries and people not doing their jobs that a tension slowly arose and contributed to some of those issues. Finger pointing and hurt feelings are bound to happen when things aren’t going well.

    Beck is a helluva qb talent. He may have some leadership issues to work out. I’ll take talent at the position over a guy everyone likes but can’t win games.

    I kinda have that Stafford to Cox transition feeling…. I remember a lot of folks saying that losing Stafford and Moreno would be a net plus. I countered with: where’s the offense coming from? We have AJ and not much else.

    We don’t have AJ now. Of course, we do have a better defense so who knows?

    I just hope they can figure out an offensive identity that works with what we have. Tech and ND did some damage with the designed qb run game. OSU was able to augment that with downfield passing to good effect. I thought Gunner was that kind of player. I don’t know why we didn’t see any of that in New Orleans though.

    What we can’t do is repeat 2024 and put Stockton in shotgun and let him try and play Tom Brady. You could survive with Beck doing that. I don’t see Gunner doing that unless he really improves a lot this off season.

    • First game was moar talent and adrenaline against a not very good Clempsun team. We played with our food the first half against TT, then really fell apart at Kentucky. That led to the Bama debacle where the light went on in the halftime locker room for Beck and maybe a few other leaders to get their shit together. Sort of did, but too little too late. Then they take care of business other than OM who abused both OL and DLs. I’m confident that whatever happened…or didn’t happen…Kirby has his finger on the pulse and won’t make the same mistake twice if it’s anything within his control.

      And leadership isn’t all on the players. I’m a Bobo defender vis-a-vis playcalling (for now) but there is a bit of history about leadership issues. Not laying all that at CMB’s feet, but just pointing out that the coaches need to be part of the leadership/chemistry formula too.

      If Gunner is our starter hopefully it’s because we deploy his skill sets which is running. Otherwise, Rashada needs to be in that preferred shotgun formation.

  3. HJ thread for second. Almost everything about the reset has been great for me, but – and you knew there was a but coming – I still can’t see who liked a post no matter what I try. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not worth messing anything up to fix it, but if there is a way to fix it without breaking the rest of it that would perfect.

    • I’m in the same boat as this fella. And I agree, it’s not worth messing anything up to fix it.

      I use the app on iPhone.

    • FWIW I did the email notification thing. I got a DDB “liked” your comment email from another post. Thanks Buddy.
      Not as easy as hovering the mouse but meh, JP and co are working on it…

  5. Ockham’s Razor says disconnect/distrust between Beck and the WRs was the reason the offense struggled….

  6. That’s not on Beck. We didn’t trust them either. There is no dodging the WR corps led the NCAA in drops. That’s DROPS as in got your hands on it and should have caught it.

    My biggest shake my head this offseason: how Coley is still the WR coach and did Kirby even think to reach out to Hines Ward?

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