re: Shoulda been a 3peat year

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It's amazing what they can do when they watch someone else's game film...

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Underrated Comment

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Our last 2 offenses were good but we won the last 2 national championships due to excellent defense.

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Yeah this is incorrect

'21 was a generational defense, '22 our offense carried us

Meh, I'll be happy with 3 Nattys out of 4.

2022 was a great defense and offense and frankly, the offense would have had better stats both years if Smart wasn’t playing chess and eating clock.

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I guess it did on Jan 10, 2022.

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i suppose so.

the injury to jameson williams was certainly very bad luck.

however, the luckiest fricking thing i may have ever seen on a football field was the stetson 20 yard "fumble" that bama accidentally recovered without even trying.

i would chalk that game up as us just being better than them, but i definitely see how bama would disagree and could probably make that same argument in some of our losses.

EDIT: holy shite i dont know why im doing this today and admittedly im only watching clips where we get fricked over, but the 2017 and 2018 games are complete jokes. how the frick do they keep getting away with this?

2017: tyler simmons onside, insane missed facemask, fromm helmet interception

2018: josh jacobs recovers his own fumble in the end zone somehow after losing it just short? wtf is that? rodrigo misses a 30 yarder???? i have zero recollection of that happening, holy shite.

good lord, i have repressed much of 2017 and 2018 (both games technically in 2018) and thank god for it. maybe 5 years from now i will have repressed this 2023 game.

the tua/hurts dynamic which i obviously do remember is beyond sadistic. whoever wrote that script is a sick fricker

Michigan watched our game and they learned they could confuse him on coverages. The playbook wasn’t as deep with him. They got after Milroe, but he also wasn’t seeing what he liked down field a lot which lead to a sack. Michigan also kept good lanes and kept him contained

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We made the same mistake that we made in the 2021 SECCG. We schemed to contain and not aggressively attack Young in 21 and did the same thing in the 1st half this year. Our scheme was completely different in the Bama rematch in 21 and we were flustering him throughout the game.

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My man.

I make this argument occasionally when the topic comes up but everyoen (specifically bama fans) act like I'm speaking mandarin, or flat out making it up. We played defense a certain way in 14 out of 15 games in 2021, but for some reason in the SECCG we went full derp and fricked ourselves. I am 100% convinced that after losing to them several times Kirby tried to play 4d chess and ended up screwing us. I guess his thought process went like this: "Ok, saban is a genius and they have an army of analysts that have seen what we've done on defense for 12 games. They're goin to look at that and try to exploit it by doing [ABC]. So...if they are going to do ABC, to combat that we'll then need to do [XYZ]!" Only it turns out that as is usually the case, the other team didn't do ABC at all they just played their normal game, so our defense doing XYZ didn't combat anythign it just looked ridiculous. Jordan Davis and the DL was standing straight up at the snap and just hanging out and we played a lot more zone. Idk why we were so terrified of bryce's scrambling considering he was absolutely lethal as a passer. Then as you mentiond, in the natty we just got after him and played like we had all year and prettymuch stoned them.

Milroe is a LITTLE different. He can't throw for shite unless it's a bomb, has trouble reading the field, but is dynamic as a runner. We also say him copmletely torch teams and practically single handledly win games for bama by running. So I guess i kinda get spying him, but two spies? Seems kinda overkill.

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I really believe we were 10-14 points better than Bam

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I do too even though ti sounds like sour grapes. I don't think michigan or washington would hang on the same field with us. But alas..we had our chacne and didn't take advantage. People will point to the no call (which is truly BS) but we also missed a FG we should've made and handed them the ball inside our own 15 too. Oh well...after 2021 and 2022 I don't really sweat losses much anymore lol

You don’t technically have to spy of you hold your lanes

Glad someone else had the same analysis. I felt 21 SECCG vibes after a couple of series during this years game. We did adjust by the 3rd quarter but we should have been up a TD or more at half. Below is what I wrote on the eve of the 21 re-match against Bama.

sted by Dirk Dawgler online on 1/6/22 at 8:28 am to TexanTiger68
The result will hinge on Kirby’s defensive approach. He got double out thunk by the Master in the last game.

Saban’s likely thought process planning for the last game: Kirby is going to drive full speed with the d-line into the gaps and try to wreak havoc with blitz pressure from all over, just like he had done all year. Therefore, we challenge our OL and give extra help blocking with RBs and TEs.

Kirby’s actual plan: we need to contain Young and avoid him burning us with his mobility and play DBs off the ball to keep everything in front. We will not rush the gaps with our DL but will maintain gap control and clog escape lanes for Young. Pressure will come from the LBs slipping through cracks in the A and B gaps.

What happened: Bama and UGA displayed a dance show at the LOS and Sabans prep for the all out rush with extra protection played out better than even he could have expected. UGAs rush was almost always stoned due to the dance show congestion and the extra protection. Young had even more time to find his excellent WRs running rampant through UGAs zone coverage.

Double backfire on Kirby. Pure fortune for Saban that he prepared for one scenario that ended up being even more beneficial with Kirby’s complete 180 turn from what had been effective all season. One can review any UGA game (most recent being Michigan) to see the stark contrast in scheme between what they did all year vs the SECCG. IMO, the UGA staff bunked that game plan by overthinking it instead of trusting what had worked all season.

This game: UGA must employ what worked all year to have a shot at winning. They will have to go all out with the front 7 and play man and press far more often. If Young can beat what you do best, tip the cap. But make him do it and don’t give him the time to sit in the pocket and pick your average DBs apart. We all know thatYoung is exceptional, make him prove it once more against what you do best.