Georgia’s best

[LittleVol]

He let off the gas.

You keep saying this but not really explain how?

So it's not a remote possibility that Tennessee actually adjusted?

UGAs defense was dialed in all night with the crowd and weather at their side, not to mention they're really good.

If they "let their foot off the gas" that defense would have given more points to Tennessee. They didn't want to risk throwing with a lead and the rain.
So they tried to run and THEY COULDN'T RUN ....

 

[SLODAWG]

Respectfully I don’t buy this at all. Any coach who takes their foot off the gas against our offense is either dumb or inexperienced. Kirby Smart is neither. They put up 55 on Vandy, half of those were in the 2nd half, were they taking their foot off the gas then? If they could’ve scored more on us yesterday you’d better believe they would’ve.

Rain came in the second half. Following the Tennessee fumble, UGA fumbled it right back. Kirby went conservative in the second half. I think Georgia threw about 4 second half passes. Kirby was content to eat clock and play defense. He knew he didn't need any more points. Don't be fooled by the late trash TD.

 

[WingT]

I've played professional football.
Ive scouted and helped recruit college athletes.

Yes, I know football and YOU clearly are missing WHY UGA couldn't do what they wanted. It was our 10th ranked run defense that finally showed up.

You act is if no adjustments were made based off the big plays early in the game.

The rain affected our passing. The noise meant they could time up their blitz every single time. They had these things in their control with a lead. To try and pass would have caused turnovers from them. So they tried a variety of run formations and NADA.

The game was 24- 6 at half. Should have been 21-13 but Hooker got impatient. Because we were moving the ball that drive.
Then the rain came..2nd half and nobody could do anything they wanted to do except UGA'S defense with a lead with the noise and rain in their favor.

The run defense that showed up and couldnt force the 3 and outs when they went to clock management mode... got it scout

 

[TennesseeTarheel]

Just not true. Did you not watch the game. They threw all over us the 1st half and barely through it the 2nd half. It was raining and they knew the only way to let us back in it would be turnovers. They knew they could shut us down and didn't respect our pass game at all. If they wanted to keep throwing it would have gotten ugly. It's not rocket science..anybody who knows football will agree with me.

..."back in it..."

 

[sechamp2012]

Hate to be this guy , but Ga could have won by 40.

Like somebody said but they didn’t, they could have played liberally with the lead and turned the ball over numerous times like they did vs UF. It’s a game of inches and yards & with them being at home & us getting 8 pre snap penalties it not only put us behind the chains. It also got in the head of our Oline & credit to UGA they smelled blood and played clean. It may be the same on a neutral field . I don’t think so but if we play then again as a 1vs 4 it will be in Atlanta a quasi home field for UGA although we will supposedly get a equal ticket allotment.

 

[Volbrando]

the game felt like they stomped us but... when checking the stats... we were actually pretty even with them (they even had more penalty yards surprisingly) the biggest stat that stands out, us not stopping them on 3rd downs

in reality they got lucky on a few long ball passes, we missed ours - things could have swung the other way and I know that's silly to imagine considering how good Georgia looked and how out of sorts we looked... but we had some chances in that game, even with them outmanning us

 

[Orange931]

Rain came in the second half. Following the Tennessee fumble, UGA fumbled it right back. Kirby went conservative in the second half. I think Georgia threw about 4 second half passes. Kirby was content to eat clock and play defense. He knew he didn't need any more points. Don't be fooled by the late trash TD.

You can spin it however you want, but your starters were in the entire game and we scored. The final score was 27-13 with starters in for both teams the entire game. There would’ve been more passes from UGA if our offense would’ve woke up, I guarantee it. Smart wasn’t gonna take a chance on an INT in the rain unless he absolutely had to.

 

[LittleVol]

Rain came in the second half. Following the Tennessee fumble, UGA fumbled it right back. Kirby went conservative in the second half. I think Georgia threw about 4 second half passes. Kirby was content to eat clock and play defense. He knew he didn't need any more points. Don't be fooled by the late trash TD.

Late trarsh TD?

They beat a right down the middle safety blitz!! Connected with Hyatt for 28 yards, and then punched it in with Wright next play.
They weren't playing a prevent defense. They were still playing aggressively on defense because they were still playing against the top scoring team in the nation!!

 

[DaddyChad]

Georgia’s best game plan was to bleed the clock when they got up a bunch. Could they have went through the air and scored more? Maybe, our secondary hasn’t been great but the idea that they turned off the offense is dumb. Georgia did what they needed.

 

[SLODAWG]

You can spin it however you want, but your starters were in the entire game and we scored. The final score was 27-13 with starters in for both teams the entire game. There would’ve been more passes from UGA if our offense would’ve woke up, I guarantee it. Smart wasn’t gonna take a chance on an INT in the rain unless he absolutely had to.

I'm not suggesting UGA gifted or gave Tennessee a late touchdown. I am saying by the time the touchdown came, the outcome of the game was determined. UGA wasn't helped by the bone-headed face mask call on the 4th and 90 miles, just prior to the score.

 

[LittleVol]

The run defense that showed up and couldnt force the 3 and outs when they went to clock management mode... got it scout

THEY DID!!
UGA had SIX OFFENSIVE DRIVES with no points earned....
This is the 7th best scoring offense themselves!!

 

[xpsyclonex2002]

We didn't score 21 in the first quarter so the team was in unfamiliar territory.

 

[esarmstrong]

All this alternate take stuff about what could have happened is so facinating. All of it is pure bu!!$hit and unprovable, of course.

 

[VOLnVANDYland]

Final was 27-13, so that's 14 points.

Dawgs only threw the ball 4 times in the 2nd half. They went ball control and clock management. Game was over at the half.

A team that averages 50 points scored one total TD in garbage time.

Vols are one of the best teams in the country but they are not beating Georgia with a mediocre secondary.

congrats on the win. But Hooker played awful, yes a lot of that was the pressure you threw at him. But I don’t think he’d play like that in a rematch on neutral field

 

[njvols]

Tennessee did not "play" bad. We could not execute our plans because Georgia was too big and physical with our kids. We have to be bigger and stronger and tougher. Mentally and physically. This is just like Alabama when Kirby & Scott Cochran were at Alabama. We never rose to that challenge. We never beat the real Alabama.

And if we intend to beat the real Georgia, then we have to play big boy football. Or we'll never win the East.

Yeah but we're in Y2 and ahead of schedule. If we've gotten to the point where we're disadvantaged against only 2 teams, we're making progress from the cellar 2 short years ago. Bama had 11 pp on offense and defense, the same opportunity to win in Neyland as TN and Saban was the coach...seemed pretty real to me.

 

[sgtwebb1]

Hate to be this guy , but Ga could have won by 40.

No, if they could have, that arrogant weasel Kirby Smart would have run it up.
He's absolutely not above it, he's Muschump 2.0 in that regard.

 

[EverythingOrange]

yeah, plus we were playing our 6th super hyped up game. That's a huge emotional drain. They were playing their 2nd one and the first one was in week 1. Give us time, we'll see them on a neutral field in the playoffs and it'll be a different story.

THIS! Plus bad weather in the second half - And just a couple of over-thrown balls! - It happens….. But, I still say we were IN THAT GAME…….

 

[GVF]

Hate to be this guy , but Ga could have won by 40.

Kirby was "Smart" enough not to go head to head with our offense. Part of saturday's scheme. He played a time of possession game, and when we did have the ball, the D went lights out on us. Prob could have scored more, but that didn't appear to be hte game plan. At the same time, I'm pretty sure it wasn't in his plan to only get a field goal the entire 2nd half and leave us an opening all afternoon. All we had to do was hit on one cylinder on one play in the 2nd half and we would have clicked on. He didn't put up enough points to cover that if it had happened. I would say all things considered, our D looked like it had a pretty good day. We had 2 deep over throws to two open receivers. I also saw two very wide open deep throws in the 4th when there was time to do something that HH didn't even recognize. Yes, UGA beat us fair and square, but they were highly vulnerable to getting knocked off rather easily if UT had any wits about them at all on offense.

 

[Rocky Top T]

Can't miss 3 wide open receivers. Bru, Fant, Hyatt all wide open for TD.

 

[GVF]

You keep saying this but not really explain how?

So it's not a remote possibility that Tennessee actually adjusted?

UGAs defense was dialed in all night with the crowd and weather at their side, not to mention they're really good.

If they "let their foot off the gas" that defense would have given more points to Tennessee. They didn't want to risk throwing with a lead and the rain.
So they tried to run and THEY COULDN'T RUN ....

Agreed. It's not Kirby's nature to decelerate and accept ONLY a 2nd half field goal against a team he knew could explode at any time if they hit a couple plays and get going. It's not in his nature to not put any game away. THat's why he spent two weeks on us and ad-libbed the UF game, according to his comments. And he still only had a 14 point gap. THat's nothing for this UT offense and anyone can see that. I don't begrudge HH at all. He's been stellar for 2 seasons. But, he didn't check in at all Saturday. Had he recognized open receivers when he had them deep and open, those two over throws would have had no impact. It was there for UT to walk right on past GA, and we didn't. AS good as their D was prepared for us, it was our own demise that helped it work so well. We're talking about a 25 year old, mature senior QB. Nothing about Saturday should have rattled him. IMO, our D had a very good day. Take away Bower, and UGA is pretty vanilla. THey had one other player step up and have a great game. THe only thing close to a juggernaut on the field was a solid GA defense.

 

[tncolt55]

Hate to be this guy , but Ga could have won by 40.

It def felt that way to me lol, not sure they didn't throw it deep more to prove a point. We could not stop it.

 

[joshwa]

Just not true. Did you not watch the game. They threw all over us the 1st half and barely through it the 2nd half. It was raining and they knew the only way to let us back in it would be turnovers. They knew they could shut us down and didn't respect our pass game at all. If they wanted to keep throwing it would have gotten ugly. It's not rocket science..anybody who knows football will agree with me.

Bro, nobody takes their foot off the gas at halftime. Maybe in the fourth quarter but, even then, not when you're only up by a couple/ few touchdowns.

 

[Ned Ray McWorkher]

Yeah but we're in Y2 and ahead of schedule. If we've gotten to the point where we're disadvantaged against only 2 teams, we're making progress from the cellar 2 short years ago. Bama had 11 pp on offense and defense, the same opportunity to win in Neyland as TN and Saban was the coach...seemed pretty real to me.

They weren't the real Bama, and haven't been in several years. They just lost again. Georgia is now Bama. And we have to rise to meet that challenge, or never win the East. No way around it sir. Progress is cool. But the mountain top is that program we just saw. They're not going to get out-schemed. We will have to face them man to man and beat their asses. That is what we have to progress towards. Nothing else.

 

[Ned Ray McWorkher]

It def felt that way to me lol, not sure they didn't throw it deep more to prove a point. We could not stop it.

They scored 55 on Vandy. They would have scored 55 on us if they could. Throwing deep is not the only way to score. I give all credit to our defense. 27 for Georgia should have been a win for us. But our offense did not make the trip to Athens.

 

[OrangeInMyHeart]

The point was y'all scored what you could. There is no garbage time. Each quarter has 15 minutes.. One field goal in the second half was not that much. Our defense stepped up. Our offense stepped out....

Nobody is beating UGA unless they have comparable talent. Which is to say top level recruiting (like Georgia has) or else. And that was made CRYSTAL clear on Saturday..

UGA fan... yall wouldnt accept my normal tag... But UGA scored what they wanted. We are a banged up squad and getting the clock too 0 was the goal once it became apparent that yall didnt have enough to beat us.