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I've just been bummed out about the game. We battled Georgia toe to toe for 58 minutes. We had the ball with 3 timeouts around midfield 2 minutes to go. Our offense looked like it was getting more push on the D line and our wide receivers had been getting open all day. Kirby had melted down into an incoherent wild man jumping and screaming on the sideline. WE HAD THEM!

I just knew we were going to score a touchdown...then coach decided to play for a long field goal.😒. I don't know why. WHY! The field goal was the BACKUP plan if we didn't score a touchdown. We could always have kicked it with about a 60-40 chance, but why not just seal the deal? Score and take their glory.

Coach, I am so glad you are here. You've done a tremendous job bringing the program back and you deserve credit, but that last 2 minutes hurt a LOT. In the future, show a little more confidence in the team. Give them a chance to get the job done. This is the BIG one that got away. All we can do now is suck it up and move on (and learn to never pull the horns in again).
 
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Cause he coached not to lose instead of going for the win in that moment and it cost us a monumental victory. Look we were underdogs at home where we rarely lose so you go for the jugular there when you get the fumble on their side of the field with under 9 minutes to play. We score a TD there and go up 42-30 then we win the game. But still Heup turtled up again on the last drive of the game not getting closer to help our kicker. He mismanaged the situation and let Gilbert overthink the moment ahd he choked. Yes it was a make able kick not a chip shot but still any decent SEC kicker can make it from that distance.
 
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The team was dialed in, just very clearly missing key pieces on defense. Those guys playing for the injured starters will need to grow up in a hurry and, who knows, maybe they started that Saturday? This team has the '22 feel to it to me: Fun offense and a shaky D that can be better if they can just get healthy.
 
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Volnanza said:
I've just been bummed out about the game. We battled Georgia toe to toe for 58 minutes. We had the ball with 3 timeouts around midfield 2 minutes to go. Our offense looked like it was getting more push on the D line and our wide receivers had been getting open all day. Kirby had melted down into an incoherent wild man jumping and screaming on the sideline. WE HAD THEM!

I just knew we were going to score a touchdown...then coach decided to play for a long field goal.😒. I don't know why. WHY! The field goal was the BACKUP plan if we didn't score a touchdown. We could always have kicked it with about a 60-40 chance, but why not just seal the deal? Score and take their glory.

Coach, I am so glad you are here. You've done a tremendous job bringing the program back and you deserve credit, but that last 2 minutes hurt a LOT. In the future, show a little more confidence in the team. Give them a chance to get the job done. This is the BIG one that got away. All we can do now is suck it up and move on (and learn to never pull the horns in again).
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because both drives we started w/ penalties. We needed to run for 1st downs and milk the clock for the game winner. We just didn't execute.
 
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Volnanza said:
I've just been bummed out about the game. We battled Georgia toe to toe for 58 minutes. We had the ball with 3 timeouts around midfield 2 minutes to go. Our offense looked like it was getting more push on the D line and our wide receivers had been getting open all day. Kirby had melted down into an incoherent wild man jumping and screaming on the sideline. WE HAD THEM!

I just knew we were going to score a touchdown...then coach decided to play for a long field goal.😒. I don't know why. WHY! The field goal was the BACKUP plan if we didn't score a touchdown. We could always have kicked it with about a 60-40 chance, but why not just seal the deal? Score and take their glory.

Coach, I am so glad you are here. You've done a tremendous job bringing the program back and you deserve credit, but that last 2 minutes hurt a LOT. In the future, show a little more confidence in the team. Give them a chance to get the job done. This is the BIG one that got away. All we can do now is suck it up and move on (and learn to never pull the horns in again).
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I could not agree more, you said it better than I could have
 
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Georgia has been our weakness but we came damn close. We will beat everyone else. Little worried about Ty Simpson and his accuracy of late. But we will see
 
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Volnanza said:
I've just been bummed out about the game. We battled Georgia toe to toe for 58 minutes. We had the ball with 3 timeouts around midfield 2 minutes to go. Our offense looked like it was getting more push on the D line and our wide receivers had been getting open all day. Kirby had melted down into an incoherent wild man jumping and screaming on the sideline. WE HAD THEM!

I just knew we were going to score a touchdown...then coach decided to play for a long field goal.😒. I don't know why. WHY! The field goal was the BACKUP plan if we didn't score a touchdown. We could always have kicked it with about a 60-40 chance, but why not just seal the deal? Score and take their glory.

Coach, I am so glad you are here. You've done a tremendous job bringing the program back and you deserve credit, but that last 2 minutes hurt a LOT. In the future, show a little more confidence in the team. Give them a chance to get the job done. This is the BIG one that got away. All we can do now is suck it up and move on (and learn to never pull the horns in again).
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I don’t like the whole second guessing thing, but Joey Swags played his @$$ off and deserved an opportunity to go win that game.
I would’ve put the ball in his hands.
 
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Eastknox865 said:
The kicker lost the game period
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Nope. 1 play does not win or lose a football game. If we execute better down the stretch, on offense AND defense, we wouldn't have needed to kick a game winning FG.

I have a bigger issue with not going for the jugular after the strip sack and instead just running 3 straight times. THAT was when we should have finished them off.
 
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