by Rex Robinson
Bulldog Fans Find Muddy Water Hard to Swallow
Stillwater was pretty clear. The Georgia Bulldogs have a lot of work to do. The Dawgs really did disappoint in their first game and I have waited to see if the water would clear up. After Saturday’s loss in Stillwater, all the questions supposedly answered during pre-season practice have been dredged back up again. Is Joe Cox the man to lead us at quarterback? Who is our running back? Can we cover kick-offs?
I don’t know, do you?
What I do know is that if it’s still a question mark at this point, it’s falls back on the coaching staff. Whatever your criticism of choice; play calling, conditioning, or choosing to directionally kick-off, it all comes back to the staff and particularly Coach Richt.
I understand that Joe Cox was under the weather. To what extent, I don’t know. If he was physically unable to perform, he should not have been put in that position. COACHING. If he had recovered sufficiently to play near 100% of his abilities, then we have a problem. Joe is a fifth year senior and did not look it at all. From decision-making to telegraphing his passes to his throwing motion, it was not good. COACHING. How can a young man be in our program for four plus years and have such bad mechanics? It’s not about MS vs. JC, it’s about doing it the right way and if MS was stronger then so be it.
Richard Samuel looked good at times, but he runs hard and goes down easy. He looked very much the same to me, minus the fumbles, which is good. Carlton Thomas had some flashes but got blown up and fumbled. He definitely needs more touches whenever possible.
The kickers looked pretty good. I think Blair Walsh did all that was asked of him. Drew Butler had a great punting average but needs more hang-time for sure. The other aspects of special teams were fairly poor. Too many return yards and too many penalties really hurt us, obviously.
To be going into the SEC schedule with this many question marks is very scary, but most of these issues are fixable. COACHING.
Until further notice muddy water is all we have.
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Jones would have flagged regardless. Those were Big12 refs. They don’t allow tackling to the ground.
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I’m being reminded of what was fed us about Joe T. He’s a 5th year man, he won’t make mistakes, he’s a leader. I sure hope that I’m wrong?
That offense looked pretty vanilla to me. Did anyone notice Joe C. check off at the line??
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Looking at the forest, not the trees for the last 9 years: The biggest glaring difference in a CMR team and a CVD team is that CMR’s teams have a knack for a bringing a totally unprepared team on the field that looses to a team that it had no business loosing to. Rex you and I were at UGA at the same time. CVD lost his share of games too, but the big difference was his teams were prepared, and they won the games they were supposed to, plus a few more here and there. If they got beat, they got beat by a better team, pure and simple. They were hardly ever out prepared, out coached, or out hustled.
This one fact concerns me greatly. Damn, we had how many months to prepare for this??????
Concern #2: Why does the current coaching staff NOT learn from their mistakes? A 9-year learning curve? We are repeating the same mistakes year in and year out…not smart at all….
I truly believe the Bulldog Nation is now growing tired of this and will not be as willing as they were in years past to give CMR a pass on some of these issues.
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Not to knock Vince, but come on………..
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1979 A Wake Forest team that had a combined record of 2-20 in 1977-78 came to Athens and beat Georgia 22-21. A Virginia team that had a 5-37-1 record from ‘75-’78 beat the Dawgs 31-0.
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about 12 months ago
i agree about the coaching , i am most disappointed with the offensive play calling. and i am real worried about joe cox if thats the best we got we are in trouble bad
about 12 months ago
We should not be in this critical moment, this should have been just reload and shoot. CMR has been here too long for our offense to be this inept.
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As the driver of the “Fire Willie” bandwagon, I must admit that the defense was perhaps our bright spot of the game…. AND THAT IS SCARY! I have been reading about how Willie’s defense held the “High Octane” OSU offense to “only” 24 points, far below their 2008 average, and limiting(?) OSU to 172 rushing yards, and 135 passing yards, and for that to be considered a bright spot for a UGA team is, for this DAWG fan, unacceptable.
If the bright spot of the game is unacceptable, imagine how I feel about the rest of the game….
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I think I have a pretty good idea…lol
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As far as I’m concerned our Defense held OSU to 7 points. The remaining 17 points were scored after 2 turnovers deep in our own territory and a 70+ yard KO return. Defense held strong all day.
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That’s pretty much how I see it. That LB and DE for the Chickens are really making me nervous.