Monday, September 10, 2007
Can someone please offer some perspective?!?!?
I feel like a kid who thought he was going to Six Flags for the day and instead, just stayed in the car while the other kids got to go. And Steve Spurrier was driving the car and had eaten a sack full of Krystal's and he kept farting and wouldn't let me roll the window down.
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Kyle King wrote an article that made me feel a little better.....I think I'm just pissed that I drank the kool-aide after week 1. The game was actually really close.......we just didn't get it done and they did....it's early and we're young....we'll be ok.
All I know is that I hate Spurrier. He's a cod of the greatest magnitude....and I hate him. I know those are strong words....but I just hate him. Oh, did I mention that I hate him.
What other person could be so classless in comments made after a big (I don't care what he says) win in the SEC East. I don't know that another such person exists. Such as. He should be shot in the Iraq and the Asian countries.
On another note....Tommy, at least you aren't locked in the car with him after he ate Gator Tail.
Shaq
I will say this......after watching the replay I counted 4 touchdowns missed with a possible 5th......Of the four I counted....3 were Stafford's fault
1. Missed Chandler wide open underneath with nobody on that side of the field (he threw to Moore in the middle)
2.Missed KnoMO with 5 steps on a LB
3.Missed Chandler again in the endzome wide open (threw to Moore in the corner)
4. Moore dropped the ball in the endzone
And the 5th was missing Sean in the middle around the 7....he might not have scored but it would have been close
I still have a problem with some of the calls but not as many as I felt like right after the game....I think the issue was more that they were bad calls that came at the worst possible times....
This game reminds me of UT in Athens in 2004. The superior team, with no sense of urgency and freaky ineptitude until panic sets in, and the offense starts clicking. Only it was too little, too late. (remember the pass to Pope?)
Granted we didn't turn the ball over until the last drive, but that aside, everything that had to go wrong, did go wrong. I take comfort knowing that this is the state of UGA football - you really have to lay an egg to lose and even then, you're still around late in the game.
I ain't watching the replay, it's already gone from the DVR. Bobo was intimidated, I think, and he got tight after the play action debacle on 4th and 2. I thought he would be more patient with the run but I guess I was wrong. Also, what would SS have done? Not saying it would have worked but SS would have pulled Stafford and put Cox in for a series or two. Granted, that might have proven catastrophic, but I don't think so. Richt talks about not wanting to hurt Stafford's confidence, but I think that is more of sending a "look kid, you ain't arrived yet" message. I'd like to think Cox either provides a spark or Staff comes back and says, "now, I'm ready." I think we need to consider doing that from time to time to wake everyone up, especially when we're in a funk.
A few observations from one who was watching at home...
1. Spurrier beat Bobo. Bobo assumed that Spurrier would not expect us to throw quick screens again, and again, and again, even though that's what worked against OSU. In reality, after the 5th one for a loss he should've realize how ill-conceived the double-pass which forms in the same manner was a disaster waiting to happen.
2. USC corners dominated our WRs. They were men against boys in size, speed, and football ability. All day long they were in single coverage and blitzing, and we could not shake them.
3. Blake Mitchell was better than Stafford. He made the right reads and he protected the ball. Stafford missed some of his reads, choosing to throw in traffic to a covered receiver when another was wide open.
4. Dropped balls killed us. No need to elaborate.
5. Knoshawn is the man. He had more passion than the rest of the UGA sideline combined.
6. We have a schizophrenic D. They dominate one series and then they can't tackle the next. At times, USC drove at will, and I would've taken myself out of the game, injured or not, had I been left standing still like Kelin Johnson on that TD run.
7. If you can't score a TD you don't deserve to win a game. Ever.
8. Toom - I think Spurrier read your Spurrier/gas/bag of Krystals/locked car analogy and decided to turn the heat on Full and order extra onions by minimizing the win and saying that UGA wasn't really a threat in the East.
9. Alabama will determine the rest of the season.
I was home sick yesterday and so I watched to game again...I know, I know....I like pain......anyway, It was, like Tommy said earlier, a game where we laid an egg and still could've won the game...the difference in the game in my opinion was SC executed at critical times and we didn't....they are not better than we are but they nutted up when it counted and that was the difference...the drop that Tony Wilson had (now that I have watched it a dozen times in slow mo) was the ballgame for us....
I still think that we win more SEC games than they do this year...they are not ready to compete but we might not be either.....we will see I guess.
CT
One more comment that I left out. This game illustrates something I've said for awhile. That 3rd down conversions may be the most immportant stat (that and turnovers) in football.
When it doesn't factor in, the game usually isn't close enough for it to matter but in these tight ball games that are decided by a touchdown or less, the 3rd down conversions are huge.
As the flip side to USC, last year's Auburn game. Everytime I watch it (and I've watched it a bunch) I'm struck by the 3rd down conversions we kept making.
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