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Thoughts/Rant on Columbia and the game (Long)

Posted on 9/15/14 at 7:56 pm
Posted by athenslife101
Member since Feb 2013
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Posted on 9/15/14 at 7:56 pm
I'll get to the game in a second.

I thought that people were kidding about tailgating in a loading zone, but it's so fricking true. I did! Surrounded by barbed wire and utility vehicles. That being said, I enjoyed myself tailgating. The gamecock park area was pretty cool and the cockabooses were pretty cool (I didn't go inside though). And my area was not scenic, but met some interesting people and everyone got along at this point. I was around a few of these people during the game and they turned real nasty real quick (bla bla bla every fanbase, one south carolina guy was yelling at me because Georgia fans are worse bla bla bla). I kept my mouth shut though. If you want to act like an idiot, you're only harming yourself.

Where to begin with the game. My thoughts are random and opinions from me watching the game in the stands and some of my opinions might change once I rewatch the game.

I would say that even with how poorly the defense played, we were the better team. I left the game feeling we should have put up at least 10 more points and for the record, there are people who agree with me on that. And that terrifies me for the rest of the road games this year.

The gameplan on offense was not good. I like bobo, but if this is his idea for the rest of the year . I haven't had a chance to rewatch the game but Bobo panicked, simple as that. He showed continuously that he doesn't trust the offense. That probably pissed me off more than the defense.

We know the South Carolina secondary was the weak point. We knew we'd have success against it. We attacked it in the first possession we had the ball in the game, but it seemed like we never attacked it again.

Mason isn't a world beater QB, but Bobo did him no favors. I might just be remembering it wrong but it seemed like we didn't use Mason very much out of the shotgun. Mason is a shotgun QB if there ever was one. I remember multiple times when we would be messing around with play action and Mason would be eaten alive by the SC D-Line.

And another thing is it seemed like we wussed out with just throwing screen passes and hoping that that would somehow work instead of attacking down the field where we could have spread them out a bit.

Because we didn't do that, our RBs got hammered. I don't know how TG didn't get fricking hurt. In the stands it looked like we were just running it right into them over and over again. There was never really much of an attempt to get the ball to the edge or that's how it seemed.

Also, frick the fumbles.

Now to the D.

The D looked as slow this week as it did fast during Clemson.

Sick to death of slipping. I don't know why we do it, but we seem to do it a lot more than any team around. If it's a cleats issue I have no idea, but this is just awful.

The secondary is young and all but what South Carolina was doing was pretty basic. I saw no adjustments.

One issue for the past two games has been the ILB corps in coverage. They've been awful. Pruitt seems fine with making our fat ILBs go into deep coverage where they're not fast enough to cover a WR or TE. We've given up two TDs because of that. Once it was Wilson and Saturday it was Herrera. Also, both Clemson and SOuth Carolina were effective in tricking our ILBs to clear the middle of the field. I don't remember this happening in years past, but it definitely stood out this year.

Also, blitzing secondary players was a very bad idea.

Ok, I've said enough.

Posted by WG_Dawg
Hoover
Member since Jun 2004
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Posted on 9/15/14 at 7:59 pm to
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The gameplan on offense was not good


It was good for 35 points, factoring in 2 missed field goals.

I'm not even talking about the 1st down play, that's whatever. But the gameplan itself was perfectly fine.

quote:

That probably pissed me off more than the defense.



you weren't bothered by 38 points and an inability to stop both the run and the pass?
Posted by athenslife101
Member since Feb 2013
18537 posts
Posted on 9/15/14 at 8:05 pm to
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ou weren't bothered by 38 points and an inability to stop both the run and the pass?


I didn't say the defense didn't bother me. I said the offense bothered me more. It should be much more developed than what I saw Saturday. We should not be seeing multiple fumbles from the senior center to the 5th year quarterback.

Posted by thomass
Member since Jan 2014
3526 posts
Posted on 9/15/14 at 8:09 pm to
defense is pretty much a lost art in college football. these offensive coordinators need to be perfect in big games. unfortunately, bobo was not perfect on saturday.
Posted by WG_Dawg
Hoover
Member since Jun 2004
86428 posts
Posted on 9/15/14 at 8:09 pm to
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We should not be seeing multiple fumbles from the senior center to the 5th year quarterback.


then blame the center. A fumbled exchange has nothing to do with bobo.
Posted by athenslife101
Member since Feb 2013
18537 posts
Posted on 9/15/14 at 8:15 pm to
I didn't say it did. I said it should have been further along. A lot of that is Bobo's fault. I'm a Bobo supporter. At the end of the day, I think that our offense left a lot of points on the field Saturday. I think a lot of that is play calling and gameplan, but not all of it.
Posted by thomass
Member since Jan 2014
3526 posts
Posted on 9/15/14 at 8:16 pm to
we could have easily scored 50 in that game. Bad play calling, penalties, missed field goals... it was just a combination of everything.
This post was edited on 9/15/14 at 8:17 pm
Posted by wdhalgren
Member since May 2013
2990 posts
Posted on 9/15/14 at 8:20 pm to
I agree with you on the game plan, but it's possible that they just don't trust Mason to make a real passing game work . We played a team with known severe issues in the secondary, who lined up to stop our running game and screen passes. Good quarterbacks would have torched that defense until they were on their heels, but we either couldn't, or wouldn't.

Yes, our defense has problems, but that makes it more imperative that our offense not leave points on the field. Sure, Mason had a few completions, but our game plan with Mason has been to run and throw short dump passes, no matter what the defense does or what they are capable of defending. I'm not looking forward to watching us try that against Florida.
This post was edited on 9/15/14 at 8:38 pm
Posted by Damn Good Dawg
Member since Feb 2011
47325 posts
Posted on 9/15/14 at 8:23 pm to
Posted by dawgsjw
Member since Dec 2012
2114 posts
Posted on 9/15/14 at 8:26 pm to
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we could have easily scored 50 in that game. Bad play calling, penalties, missed field goals... it was just a combination of everything.


^this, and scoring 35 points is not going to win us games. We all know how shitty our d was last year, and it looks the same so far this year. Plus we kicked off 3 starters from last year's DB group. So yeah, I dont see how anyone can realistically thing that 35 points on offense will win us games, at least vs good teams.
Posted by bwood
Member since Jan 2013
438 posts
Posted on 9/15/14 at 9:01 pm to
Blame the offense all you want, 35 points should win the game. We lost because our defense couldn't get off the field. Secondary was exposed because we couldn't get pressure on Thompson. The call on first down inside the five is criticised because it didn't work. The drive before, we ran almost the same play and hit Rome for a TD. Bobo didn't call his best game, but that's not why we lost.
Posted by wdhalgren
Member since May 2013
2990 posts
Posted on 9/15/14 at 11:31 pm to
I don't understand how people can say a certain number of points "should have won the game". Teams win by scoring more than the other team, whether it takes 5 or 45. If Steve Spurrier had said "34 points should win this game", UGA would be leading the east right now. Our coaches knew, or should have known, that the defense was going to be vulnerable, especially early in the year. You don't hire a new defensive coordinator, kick three quarters of your starting secondary off the team, replace them with noobs and expect to come out guns blazing. Plus we were missing three DL and at least one LB'er who were expected to contribute this year. This type of game was expected from this defense with a new scheme to learn.

So, yes, the offense bears some blame. They made some bonehead mistakes, players and coaches. They missed some golden opportunies to score more points, and more than one of them. They couldn't fully take advantage of an opposing defense that has some weaknesses of it's own. And if Coach Bobo wasn't aware before, he should be now; 35 points will not be enough to win all of our games so he has to do better. He'll have to do what all successful offensive coaches must do from time to time, like the one standing across the field from him last weekend, and just outscore the other team.

This post was edited on 9/15/14 at 11:54 pm
Posted by Spaceman Spiff
Savannah
Member since Sep 2012
17439 posts
Posted on 9/16/14 at 4:41 am to
That 5th year QB is a backup at best.
Posted by davesdawgs
Georgia - Class of '75
Member since Oct 2008
20307 posts
Posted on 9/16/14 at 6:44 am to
Tend to agree. Any objective observer expected our Secondary to be the weakness of the defense and of course it was. However, A&M provided the template for owning SC which was to exploit THEIR weak Secondary. SC took advantage of our slack Secondary but we did not take enough advantage against theirs. So yea, we probably could have put up 50 in the game with a smarter game plan but then again maybe part of the issue is our OL, lack of stud receivers (most of whom are were not playing) and Bobo not having confidence in Mason to throw the ball down field. Or maybe Bobo just thought we would dominate with our running game which of course is not what happened.

Bottom line: SC limited our running game enough to win the game and we didn't take advantage of their weak Secondary while they exploited our weak Secondary. Our defense wasn't good against their running game either so yea, our defense sucked.
Posted by WG_Dawg
Hoover
Member since Jun 2004
86428 posts
Posted on 9/16/14 at 7:13 am to
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Fundamentals and Execution have nothing to do with coaching? Astute observation there, sport.




God you fricking suck.

By your logic, every play that doesn't go for a touchdown or first down is a failure to execute, which by extension is a failure of the coaching staff.

The coaches have taught them how to snap the ball. Just because they mess up doing it, doesn't reflect on coaching you stupid arse motherfricker. I guess our coaches coached morgan to aim right too huh?
Posted by samson'sseed
Augusta
Member since Aug 2013
2070 posts
Posted on 9/16/14 at 7:23 am to
Well, I think you are just another stupid idiot.

Georgia should have potentially scored 41 points including the missed field goals. Anybody who understands anything about football would grade that offense an A.

Georgia couldn't pass vertically with proficiency because the dawgs are missing their 2 best deep threats. The reason Mason is forced to throw a lot of dump passes is because the receivers aren't getting open.

One of the two fumbled snaps was bad luck. Andrews had to leave the game for a play because his helmet came off, and there was a screw up with the replacement center.

Jeez, the criticism of the offense on this board is just stupid and unwarranted.
Posted by dawgsjw
Member since Dec 2012
2114 posts
Posted on 9/16/14 at 7:44 am to
On that last fumble on the snap, when they showed the replay, Mason was already turning his body before the snap happened. So that frick up is on him. I dont know what happened on the 1st bobbled snap, but the 2nd one was all on Mason. He was already turning his body before the snap. When a receiver does that before the ball gets to him, it usually ends up as a dropped pass. So yeah, that 2nd one, even with a back up center, is all on the 5th year qb.
Posted by GtownDawg
South Cackalacky
Member since Sep 2013
1213 posts
Posted on 9/16/14 at 8:37 am to
You think tailgating is bad at Willy B now, shoulda seen it 20 years ago. They have come a loooong way.

As far as the game, I think Bobo called a decent game that shoulda resulted in a win but our secondary and linebackers killed us on the 10 to 15 yard routes. They will get better.

On a positive note, on some of the deeper routes we had guys in the area.
Posted by FaCubeItches
Soviet Monica, People's Republic CA
Member since Sep 2012
5875 posts
Posted on 9/16/14 at 12:58 pm to
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an inability to stop both the run and the pass?


Hey, at least it was a complete game, rather than our more traditional inability to stop either the run or the pass. Look on the bright side, man.
Posted by RD Dawg
Atlanta
Member since Sep 2012
27288 posts
Posted on 9/16/14 at 1:11 pm to
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Bobo just thought we would dominate with our running game


I think he wanted to manage the game by keeping the ball on the ground.He saw that our defense couldn't stop them so I believe he was trting to keep their offense off the field. Especially after the 1st 10 mins of the game.

We didn't have A&M's passing game or confidnece to get into a shooting match with them.
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