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re: Heupel made some major head scratching decisions.
Posted on 9/14/25 at 12:06 pm to SaturdayNAthens
Posted on 9/14/25 at 12:06 pm to SaturdayNAthens
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Georgia scared??? Get real
So your answer to why tenner abused uga's secondary is that uga's secondary was that overmatched?
I was giving them the benefit of the doubt.
They were terrified of 17. Nobody could cover him. He could've had 500 yards receiving.
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Posted on 9/14/25 at 12:07 pm to ugasickem
I think UTk heard Georgia yesterday. Loud and clear.
Posted on 9/14/25 at 12:11 pm to VolSquatch
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The penalty made him go conservative there. He wanted to at least make it an 8 point game. Defense had plenty of chances to stop them from bringing the game back even and he put them in position for a very manageable FG. Too much focus on Heupel when a lot of guys in orange had chances to seal the win.
15 yards in 3 plays was not an impossible ask with how much success we had throwing yesterday.
Their DBs were in hell and I like our odds of either drawing a flag or getting the 1st.
Posted on 9/14/25 at 12:11 pm to Gideon Swashbuckler
I’ve been following UGA since I could walk. I have never seen them play scared. Not even during the Goff years. It’d be pretty funny if they were scared of Tennessee. A team they have owned for 20 years. Yeah! Right!
Posted on 9/14/25 at 12:12 pm to SemperFiDawg
Credit to GA HC for burning timeouts during the plays instead of waiting for the kick. It created drama and anxiety from fans and players. Fans just wanted to kick and celebrate and were nervous as frick. That permeated into the players as they sensed it too. Those last 4 plays took an eternity and the kicker had way too much time to think.
Once GA knew Tenn was going for FG vice TD that made it one dimensional and allowed him to burn timeouts to rattle them. To me that was the difference in winning or losing for Tenn. all that extra time also rattled the olineman who false started, he too had too much time.
Once GA knew Tenn was going for FG vice TD that made it one dimensional and allowed him to burn timeouts to rattle them. To me that was the difference in winning or losing for Tenn. all that extra time also rattled the olineman who false started, he too had too much time.
Posted on 9/14/25 at 12:14 pm to OU Guy
Kirby is the best.
Posted on 9/14/25 at 12:17 pm to Rrrrroger
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Only drive I had issue with was after the strip sack up 35-30 with what like 8 minutes left?
Your DBs were chasing shadows all game, attack there and try to make it 42-30 and essentially put it out of reach.
Instead we run it 3 times, take 3, and hand it right back to a Georgia offense that had run ~75 plays already and had been driving basically the entire 2nd half with no answer from us defensively.
Yeah this I agree with.
Posted on 9/14/25 at 12:21 pm to Smokeyone
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Smokeyone
Melt
Posted on 9/14/25 at 12:38 pm to Rrrrroger
I personally would have gone more aggressive but I get his mindset
Posted on 9/14/25 at 12:40 pm to SaturdayNAthens
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I have never seen them play scared.
OK. So the only other explanation is that they were completely overmatched. OK. Either way. Doesn't matter to me.
I don't follow uga that closely, but assumed their coach could recruit and coach secondary. Yesterday didn't really prove that.
Posted on 9/14/25 at 12:43 pm to SaturdayNAthens
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scared of Tennessee
Not scared of tenner per se. But scared to get best deep because they had absolutely no answer for 17.
Heupel bailed Kirby out by not throwing to 17 more, because Kirby had no answer for him.
Posted on 9/14/25 at 1:21 pm to Smokeyone
Stop making excuses. You had multiple chances to win. You played not to lose.
But one has to ask for the Vols and Heupel, if not now, when?
Anywho,
44-41
9 in a row
1998
But one has to ask for the Vols and Heupel, if not now, when?
Anywho,
44-41
9 in a row
1998
Posted on 9/14/25 at 2:50 pm to Dawgs2122
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Stop making excuses. You had multiple chances to win. You played not to lose.
Kicking a field goal with less than 10 seconds in the game in a tie game is a head scratcher for UGA fans.
Take your incredibly fortunate win and move on. I swear yall should pool brain cells and walk away from this one.
Posted on 9/14/25 at 3:01 pm to SemperFiDawg
He learned from the best, stoops
Posted on 9/14/25 at 3:25 pm to Smokeyone
Yawn
44-31
9 in a row
1998
If not now, when for Josh Heupel?
44-31
9 in a row
1998
If not now, when for Josh Heupel?
Posted on 9/14/25 at 3:45 pm to Dawgs2122
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9 in a row
If we get to 10, Tennessee fans will run out of fingers to count.
Posted on 9/14/25 at 3:51 pm to SemperFiDawg
Good game guy
Posted on 9/14/25 at 3:53 pm to SemperFiDawg
Yep. He hamstrung his gunslinger QB. That is not the way to beat a team like UGA. You need a kill shot, and he refused to even try -- twice. After the recovered fumble and then on the last drive after it was tied. Play not to lose, and, well, you get what you deserve.
Posted on 9/14/25 at 3:59 pm to DawginSC
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Heupel's offense works by running the ball a lot and using short passes to bring up DB's so he can take big shots downfield. He's struggled in the past against UGA because UGA was able to stop the run without bringing guys up into the box, so the downfield shots were mostly covered.
UGA was struggling with the short passes and runs and had to bring the DB's up this year, which led to the down field plays. But on the last drive UGA didn't bring up the DB's... they were essentially playing a "prevent" style defense.
And Heupel runs his system. His system says that when your opponent drops DB's, you don't challenge them... you run the ball and throw short passes.
That's exactly what he did. It wasn't being scared or going conservative. It was what the system he developed said he should call. He's never going to call deep passes into a prevent defense unless he's down late and has no other option. Ever.
Sorry, but if the UGA DBs were playing off, you take what they give you in the passing game, you don't just give up passing and run 3 straight times. That's still stupid. He didn't even try short passes. You take the short to medium passes your opponent is giving, get 1st downs and actually try to score a TD.
Posted on 9/14/25 at 4:10 pm to Rrrrroger
I'll never understand after the strip sack running it 3 times in a row & settling for a field goal when a td at that point would have sealed the deal. Again Heupel got too conservative.
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