2020 first year of 100% Kirby players. Why doesn’t our offense look like Bama & Clemson?

I wish someone would ask Kirby that. We have a Mac level QB starting for us, and I hate saying that because he's a DGD.

Well, we had one transfer, one leave early stupidly, Kirby realized what trouble we were in and went out and got 2 transfers. One opted out who was the presumed starter. The other hasn’t seen the field on the assumption he isn’t fully ready without being limited (he was wearing a brace until this week).

Stetson is overachieving in this system and asking him for 42 points in Tuscaloosa is too much.

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It seems like every year we have one missing link keeping us from being elite. It’s certainly QB this year. We’re up the creek without a paddle if Bennett > Daniels

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It's been the QB spot his entire tenure.

I know; I think even Fromm wouldve won that game tonight though

You answered your own question when you commented on the quarterback. Yes, this team was stockpiled with 100% Kirby 5 stars and 4 stars. Except at arguably the most important position: QB. Smart bungled the Fromm/Fields situation and then Fromm made a dumb decision to leave...and then who knows what happened with Newman...and then JT's knee just wasn't happening by August. So we wind up with a 2 star/3 star scout team QB as our starter.

Hence the reason our offense doesn't look like Alabama or Clemson at the moment.

Did Clemson or Bama have a QB opt out because they couldn't win a job and claim racism?

That would have been the "in line" starter...but....you know....UGA is racist and toxic.

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Did Clemson or Bama have a QB opt out because they couldn't win a job and claim racism?

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Both teams benched the less talented starter and played the young guy.

I just want to see Mathis and I want to see Daniels. I don't want to hear we kept Fromm in because Fields wasn't showing it in practice, but we're keeping in Stetson even though months of practice landed him forth on the depth chart.

With any QB on the roster this team's floor is 1-2 loses and no SECC. Problem for Stetson is that's also his ceiling.

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Whoever pissed off the Gods after 1995 needs to apologize.

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Looks like he did, and ahead of Saturday's game, but it didn't seem to matter.

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Dear Bulldog Nation,

I owe you a long overdue apology. In 2007, I single-handedly (and accidentally) cursed the University of Georgia’s rivalry with Alabama — and the weight on my shoulders has become more than I can bear.

That year, I was a junior at UGA and I traveled to Tuscaloosa for the biggest road game of the season, where Georgia won 26-23 in overtime. I traveled partly to see the most anticipated matchup of the year, but also to pay my respects to my late grandfather, who was a four-sport athlete at the University of Alabama in the 1930s and played football with the legendary Paul “Bear” Bryant. Despite the fact that my blood runs red and black, it’s laced with a touch of crimson, too, and I wanted to pay homage to my “Grandpa Ruff.”

As I crossed the Georgia-Alabama state line, I began passing “Saban is our Savior” signs almost as frequently as the mailboxes dotting the roads leading to the campus. When I arrived, I traded tailgating for a visit to the Alabama athletic association’s archives, where I watched old footage of my grandpa, and then spent a few quiet moments at the Denny Chimes, a bell tower in Tuscaloosa, which he walked by daily over 80 years ago.

When game time came, I took my seat in the Alabama Letterman’s Club section, proudly wearing the correct shade of red despite the disgusted reactions of those seated nearby. It was a nail biter of a game — a back-and-forth shootout — that went into overtime. When Leigh Tiffin nailed a 40-yard field goal to give Alabama a 23-20 lead in overtime, I thought it was over.

So, I did what any devoted Georgia fan would do. I started to pray.

As Georgia took the field for their answering drive, I mouthed a silent plea to my grandfather: “Please, Ruff. Just let the Dawgs win this one. I don’t care what happens after this — just let us have this game. Do it for me!”

Within seconds, on first-and-10 from Alabama’s 25-yard line, quarterback Matthew Stafford launched a pass to Mikey Henderson for the game-winning touchdown. The scoreboard briefly flickered 26-23 before going dark as a hush fell over the crowd of over 90,000.

“Thank you, Ruff!” I shouted, looking to the night sky with a grin from ear to ear.

Now, it’s been an unlucky 13 years since I made that desperate appeal, and the phrase sandwiched in the middle — “I don’t care what happens after this” — has continued to haunt me. Why did I say that? It would seem that Ruff has taken it literally.

I was reminded of this in 2008, as Georgia fell to Alabama in a blackout matchup Between the Hedges, which former Alabama strength and conditioning coach (and current Georgia special teams coach) Scott Cochran prophesied would be Georgia’s own funeral.

Then again, in the 2012 SEC Championship, tears streamed silently down my cheeks as time expired and Alabama edged Georgia 32-28.

It plagued me when we lost in Sanford Stadium again in 2015, and I was heartbroken in 2018 as I watched quarterback Tua Tagovailoa throw a 41-yard touchdown to DeVonta Smith to secure another Crimson Tide win in overtime, but this time with the 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship title on the line.

So, here we are with another fateful matchup on the horizon. UGA, I’m asking for your forgiveness, and Ruff, I’m asking for your mercy.

I want to break this curse for the Bulldog Nation.

I had originally made plans to return to Tuscaloosa this year to perform penance, but due to the pandemic, an at-home sacrifice will have to suffice. I’m issuing this public apology, and I’ve agreed to wear my grandfather’s gold football letterman’s lapel pin and a few houndstooth accessories on Saturday in hopes that Georgia’s momentum will shift this year. I’ll also send up another prayer to my grandfather for good measure. It’s about time we had a bright spot in 2020, and this could be it.

As the Dawgs prepare to travel west for another tough meeting under the lights at Bryant-Denny Stadium, I can only hope that my atonement will spark a “change in the tide” — both this Saturday and for years to come.

So, may the best team win.

And Ruff, please let it be the Dawgs this year.

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