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re: What's the luckiest play you can recall in our football history?
Posted on 7/25/16 at 2:27 pm to djsdawg
Posted on 7/25/16 at 2:27 pm to djsdawg
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Are you saying any 4th and long completion is luck?
apparently. Nevermind it was from the 19 yard line and it was a pretty simple, standard fade route.
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Posted on 7/25/16 at 2:53 pm to Dawgman77
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play. Ga is lucky there wasn't instant replay in those days or the receiver would probably have been called down and UGA would've lost to Bama rather than upsetting them.
Good call. No doubt he was down.
Posted on 7/25/16 at 3:36 pm to WG_Dawg
After thinking about everything, the only conclusion that I come to is that Richt was one unlucky son of a bitch.
Posted on 7/25/16 at 3:43 pm to HinesvilleThrill
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Richt was one unlucky son of a bitch.
when you consider that 96 UF, 01 NU, 03 LSU, 06 UF, 07 LSU, 08 UF, 11 UA, 12 UA, 13 AU, 14 UA, 14 OSU, and 15 UA all lost a game yet still got to play for a title..
yet richt didn't in 02 or 07..
yeah it does seem like he was a bit snakebit.
Posted on 7/25/16 at 4:30 pm to WG_Dawg
And we were on the wrong end of the "forward lateral" against UF in '02, the Edwards dropped pass against UF (02?), 4th and long against Auburn in '05, Prayer at Jordan Hare, ball going directly to Conley in the SECCG, among others.
Posted on 7/25/16 at 4:52 pm to Dawgman77
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1965 the flea flicker play. Ga is lucky there wasn't instant replay in those days or the receiver would probably have been called down and UGA would've lost to Bama rather than upsetting them.
I was at that game and for about 40 years I thought we won the game fair and square but a few year's ago I saw the video of the play and we were definitely lucky they didn't have instant replay in those days.
Posted on 7/25/16 at 5:39 pm to VADawg
I was there with my late uncle right in front of that endzone....
We Georgia fans went nuts..... Rocky Top was in pure disbelief at what they just witnessed.... and after that..... the game was ALL DAWG..
We Georgia fans went nuts..... Rocky Top was in pure disbelief at what they just witnessed.... and after that..... the game was ALL DAWG..
Posted on 7/27/16 at 7:04 am to AlaCowboy
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The Tennessee RB fumble at the goal line (in overtime?) that saved a TD. Was that in 2013?
That was luck. Pig Howard had an unforced fumble (we didn't touch him). He dove and stretched out for the goal line and his little hands couldn't keep the football. Even if he fumbled at the 1, we lose that game. But it went into the end zone and gave us the ball.
Posted on 7/27/16 at 7:14 am to meansonny
Another one... 2013 South Carolina. We had a lead, but our offense had stalled for several drives. South Carolina had figured out our defense and was running the ball down our throats for points.
We held them to a 4th down on the goal line. They called an option run. Jordan Jenkins has the QB and he is left unblocked (he is the pitch man). At the snap, he tangles his right foot onto the left foot of the offensive tackle. The tackle trips.
Jordan does his job crashing down and forcing a quick pitch. The right tackle is supposed to chip or block Ramik Wilson. Any contact on him slows down his momentum and the tailback has a great shot at the endzone. But with the tackle on the ground and the early pitch... Wilson comes in like a bullet untouched and stuffs the play. Ramik looks like the hero, but obviously there should not be 2 unblocked defenders on an option play. Jordan Jenkins saves the game for us by tripping their tackle and forcing the quick pitch.
We get the ball back and finally manage to put points on the board again to put the game out of reach and win by 11.
We held them to a 4th down on the goal line. They called an option run. Jordan Jenkins has the QB and he is left unblocked (he is the pitch man). At the snap, he tangles his right foot onto the left foot of the offensive tackle. The tackle trips.
Jordan does his job crashing down and forcing a quick pitch. The right tackle is supposed to chip or block Ramik Wilson. Any contact on him slows down his momentum and the tailback has a great shot at the endzone. But with the tackle on the ground and the early pitch... Wilson comes in like a bullet untouched and stuffs the play. Ramik looks like the hero, but obviously there should not be 2 unblocked defenders on an option play. Jordan Jenkins saves the game for us by tripping their tackle and forcing the quick pitch.
We get the ball back and finally manage to put points on the board again to put the game out of reach and win by 11.
This post was edited on 7/27/16 at 7:16 am
Posted on 7/27/16 at 8:44 am to meansonny
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That was luck. Pig Howard had an unforced fumble (we didn't touch him). He dove and stretched out for the goal line and his little hands couldn't keep the football. Even if he fumbled at the 1, we lose that game. But it went into the end zone and gave us the ball.
1. Clemons touched him, which could have been just enough to help force that ball out before he could cross the goal line.
2. Uga would have had a chance to match their score, so no guarantee we lose.
This post was edited on 7/27/16 at 9:19 am
Posted on 7/27/16 at 9:13 am to WG_Dawg
The Pollack USC play and the Pig Howard OT goal line fumble against UT have been brought up a couple times, but the responses of "yeah but that took skill" and "yeah but fumbles happen all the time" sound really homer-ish to me.
Comparing those plays to the gold standard (Ricardo Louis's catch in 2013) - it was a fortuitous tip, but it did require skill for him to stay locked onto the ball.
I will be the first to say that play was the luckiest I've ever seen, but Pollack's play results in the ball being fumbled 99.9% of the time - it was sort of lucky that he was able to control it without it going to the ground. And Howard's fumble was EXTREMELY lucky - he was clearly going to score and the ball squirts out literally inches from the line. Yeah, fumbles happen, but given the situation and how close he was to that TD, we got verryyyyy lucky.
Comparing those plays to the gold standard (Ricardo Louis's catch in 2013) - it was a fortuitous tip, but it did require skill for him to stay locked onto the ball.
I will be the first to say that play was the luckiest I've ever seen, but Pollack's play results in the ball being fumbled 99.9% of the time - it was sort of lucky that he was able to control it without it going to the ground. And Howard's fumble was EXTREMELY lucky - he was clearly going to score and the ball squirts out literally inches from the line. Yeah, fumbles happen, but given the situation and how close he was to that TD, we got verryyyyy lucky.
Posted on 7/27/16 at 1:23 pm to ATLdawg25
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Pollack's play results in the ball being fumbled 99.9% of the time - it was sort of lucky that he was able to control it without it going to the ground
I wouldn't say sorta, I'd say it was very lucky. It was one of those things that just kinda miraculously happened, great suggestion.
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And Howard's fumble was EXTREMELY lucky - he was clearly going to score and the ball squirts out literally inches from the line. Yeah, fumbles happen, but given the situation and how close he was to that TD, we got verryyyyy lucky.
Y'all are still letting circumstances cloud your judgment of what's lucky or not. You even admitted as such in your post by referencing the situation.
With au '13, if that play happened on the first play of the game or the last, it woudl still be a completely and utterly lucky play. No 2 ways about it, it was 100% pure luck.
If Howard had dove for a 1st down sideline marker on 2nd and 3 from the 45 on their first drive of the game, would it still be as lucky? No, obviously not. The actual PLAY ITSELF was not lucky. Of course the circumstances around it were unbelievably fortuitious, but the play itself wasn't lucky. It was a guy diving and the ball came out. First play, last play, 2nd quarter..whatever...the play should stand on its own as far as luck is concerened.
The 65 flea flicker would be lucky at any point in the game, since our guy was clearly down but we scored anyway. The pollack play would be lucky at any point in the game because...well, look at it. You can't say the same for howard's fumble.
Posted on 7/27/16 at 4:21 pm to ATLdawg25
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Pollack's play results in the ball being fumbled 99.9% of the time -
So it could have easily ended up a fumble TD.
Posted on 7/27/16 at 6:19 pm to WG_Dawg
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With au '13, if that play happened on the first play of the game or the last, it woudl still be a completely and utterly lucky play. No 2 ways about it, it was 100% pure luck.
Well,if our guys were coached or told to knock down the ball we wouldn't be having this discussion.We certainly contributed to their "luck"
It would have been a much luckier play had the ball bounced off our guys and helmet and into Ricardo's hands.
Posted on 7/27/16 at 6:29 pm to RD Dawg
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been a much luckier play had the ball bounced off our guys and helmet and into Ricardo's hands.
Nope, A crazy bounce is still crazy no matter the reason. Nothing changes the fact the ball was under thrown and the WR caught it 10 yards further downfield because it was originally uncatchable.
Posted on 7/27/16 at 6:40 pm to djsdawg
And we caused the "crazy bounce" to happen.Big difference between not having a chance to make a play
on the ball and having a chance to knock the ball down.
on the ball and having a chance to knock the ball down.
Posted on 7/27/16 at 7:09 pm to RD Dawg
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Well,if our guys were coached or told to knock down the ball....
....from the enabler coach with the suicidal policy of letting criminals who get expelled go to any SEC they want.....
You're right though. The "luck" on that Nick Marshall play began long before it ever happened.
Posted on 7/27/16 at 8:04 pm to RD Dawg
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we caused the "crazy bounce" to happen.Big difference between not having a chance to make a play
on the ball and h
The fact is their WR didn't have a shot to catch the ball directly from the qb, and it took some crazy fortune for him to catch it off a deflection. What caused the deflection, even if it was stupidity, doesn't change how lucky it was.
Posted on 7/27/16 at 8:25 pm to djsdawg
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What caused the deflection, even if it was stupidity, doesn't change how lucky it was.
Good God,you still don't get the point.Fact is,we had an opportunity to change the outcome of the play and we didn't do it...no matter how bad the ball was underthrown and how much the WR was out of posistion.
Once again,big difference had the ball deflected off a helmet or a shoulder pad.
I know you will go on forever with this discussion so lets just agree to disagree.
Posted on 7/27/16 at 8:41 pm to RD Dawg
The ball did deflect off a shoulder pad. The point is we DID change the outcome of the play. That mistake WAS part 1 of the luck. Part 2 was the fortuitous bounce. It was a double whammy of luck that went auburns way.
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