Florida Vs. Georgia, Rapid Recap: Bulldogs Reverse Curse For A Year, Beat Gators 24-20

Yep. Sigh.

At this rate, what are the odds I can get some decent tixs cheap now for the FSU game?

And if Mike Gillisslee I don’t even ride back to G-ville. You know what? I’m ok with him transferring. And I hope Brantley leaves with him after seeing the comments tonight. These coaches dont deserve 2 players that work their fucking asses off. Brantley worked his ass off to be able to play tonight so for someone from our own fan base to say he hopes Brantley is taken out of the game by a UGA player is sad. Our fan base doesn’t deserve a player with heart like JB and a player who is our best RB but doesn’t get to play if they are going to say shit like that.

Is it out of line for me to say that we legitimately should have won this game? I hate hearing this line, that we “outplayed” them or that “we beat ourselves”. But… regardless of how bad our offense was DESPITE having the best field position game we’ve had in a month, the penalties are embarassing. Sure, those 2 pass interference calls were iffy, and if those two were called, why wasn’t the one against Reed called? It was just as tight…

But even beyond that. We led this game for 3+ quarters. If someone had told me we’d be ahead in this game going to the 4th, I would’ve laughed. Georgia tried so hard to lose this game. A FG kicker who couldn’t split telephone poles, let alone goal posts. An unbelievably reluctant game plan that didn’t involve running it up the middle on every play, when we clearly haven’t been able to stop a power O since week 3. And yet we led. We finally create turnovers and generate great field position. 0 points. Two just unforgiveable fumbles inside our own red zone, two touchdowns. Sure, they were covered, our DBs were there, but we didn’t make the play. Just one knockdown. One tipped ball. Hell, even a pass intereference. Just make a play… We were given a plethora of chances to get out of this one with a W…..

Now we face the prospect of losing to Vanderbilt and not even being bowl eligible. And Vandy’s almost pulled an upset in two straight weeks, and should have taken Arkansas to OT today… yea we’re at home. Yea, they’re Vanderbilt. But how confident are you really feeling?

Because I haven’t been this pissed about a game in many years.

- I sat about six rows behind Spencer Hall in the nosebleeds.

- The tailgating was as epic as it’s ever been.

- The UGA fans were far more gracious in victory than they were in 2007.

- The Gator fans were energetic right til the end. Far more than this team deserves.

- Sundresses are still sundresses.

- PRO TIP: unless you have oodles of money, DO NOT MAKE MANY PLANS OF ANY INTRICATE DIFFICULTY AT THE COCKTAIL PARTY. THEY WILL FAIL. The cell phones don’t work because the lines are jammed, everyone is wasted, the roads don’t make sense and are randomly closed. Everything is backwards and upside down and blackout drunk.

- Do not, under any circumstances, arrange to be picked up after the game. Every road out of the stadium is made into one way. I hauled a huge ass cooler 3 miles after the game because someone had the bright idea of getting picked up instead of just parking.

- If you find a bathroom that works for you, hold onto it for dear life. My kidneys almost exploded today in the porta potty line.

Is the offensive line just that bad that anything we try to run will go awry? Is Weis just too predictable? Is Brantley and Co. really just that bad? Are the players we do have being misused? I’d love to see what happens when if a pro-style RB like Gillislee gets 8-12 carries behind the so-called pro-style offense, and use Demps\Rainey as a change of pace, flankers out wide, get into open space kind of players. I would’ve thought we’d learn from the last 3 games that those 2 (or at least Rainey, since Demps has been hurt) don’t work as single backs. Demps opens the game on a quick screen. That works if you can pound them and make them respect the run. But if every time you line up with a back next to Brantley you run him to the flat, defenses will adjust. I just feel like it doesn’t seem that difficult to see what we have and where they are best used… then again I’m not being paid 6 figures to run an offense, so what do I know…

But our defense has improved, right? At least from an eye test point of view… So there’s that…

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- Do we not have a trained monkey we could put in at QB? A charismatic horse? A moderately drunk tortoise?

I’d suggest my labrador, but she’s got bad hips. Any option would be preferable to whatever it is I saw at QB in the second half.

- What does Chris Rainey have to do to get benched? He muffed punts that led to Auburn scores, and we lost a close game. He fumbles and that leads to a Georgia score, and we lose a close game. If I am Mike Gillislee, I’m filling out the transfer papers this second. Screw next year. What on Earth have we seen that would suggest he’ll be used properly next year?

- The collection of handicapped giant sloths we call an O-Line is going to give me cirrhosis.

- That was a moronic gameplan. That was Adazzio-level idiocy. No attempt to establish the run. Every run was a ridiculously stretched sweep play that had no chance. You’ve got a QB in the process of melting down in front of your eyes, and you go to him 34 times in a close game you were leading for most of the way? Did I miss something? Did they re-work Playcalling 101 at some point?

- My patience is officially gone with this coaching staff. I was willing to write off this season as rebuilding (see: Watkins, Jaylen), but the extremely undisciplined play has nothing to do with the lack of talent, and everything to do with coaching. The penalties, the fumbles, the simple mistakes, all of that is coaching. You better figure this shit out, Muschamp, because the “Zook” catcalls aren’t far away now.

That 2nd half was the worst bag of piss I’ve ever seen!

This might take a while.

You know, because I’m only semi-incompetent.

But this program is in the middle of a long-term rebuild. There’s absolutely no depth (60 scholarship players on the roster that were recruited), the receivers and running backs are woefully ill-suited to run anything but a spread offense, the team is loaded with freshmen and sophomores, and it seems like nobody on the offensive side has been coached during the past two seasons.

It’s become apparent that Meyer mentally checking out the past two seasons has rotted out the core of this team. Addazzio was taken away from doing the only thing he was good at – coaching the offensive line – and forced to act as o-line coach, offensive coordinator, and head coach. In this position, he wasn’t able to do any of the three effectively. Muschamp has a huge job ahead of him on the recruiting trail and on the practice field if he wants to bring this program back. We need a few more years of solid recruiting classes with adequate numbers before we can be competitive again in the SEC. We need to give him patience, because I don’t think any of us really knew it was this bad when he took the job.

Clearly there is a problem at the top.

What are the two most important things to develop with college players? In my opinion, it’s discipline and fundamentals. If you can pound those two things into players at the college level who are way more precluded to messing up, you will have a substantial advantage over every team you play. The ability to not beat yourself in college is such a huge deal.

I’m willing to give a full year before I see a level of discipline that’s just necessary because even the guy who is probably best at it, Nick Saban, took a year to do so. 12 penalties. A complete lack of both technique and ability at so many positions. There’s a lack of a recruiting and then there’s that. Petersen at Boise does this every year with recruits he somehow scrounges up.

Honestly, I’m feeling kind of dubious about the Saban coaching tree. Is it really possible to out Saban Nick Saban? If it isn’t, are we all just playing catch up constantly?

I thought this before the game… and sure, during the game, I got the delusional thought that we were better than we were. But this was the year Georgia was going to win the east. They had the schedule, they had the experience in the important positions, and then Garcia pulled a, well a Garcia and Lattimore went out for the year, but for f—- sake. If UGA was going to beat us this year, fine, but this way? It just sucks. So enjoy it Georgia, enjoy getting the gift of the schedule, enjoy the gift of the injury bug, but most of all, enjoy getting absolutely embarrassed by LSU\Alabama. And I can only hope that it is 18 times worse than So Car got last year. I hate you Georgia. I hate you.

We desperately need a “power runner” to run the ball up the middle ONCE IN A WHILE!
It is inexcusable that we don’t have at least a functioning big man. Convert one of our linebackers if need be. We are a “one trick pony” offensively. WTF. If I can see it, why can’t Muschamp address it?

Time to be HAPPY!!!

Yeah……no! Fuck! :(

“How do we fix this team?”