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Georgia vs. Kentucky Game Preview
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carry the one ah i'm gonna go over on that one jim okay who there you see this this could be a separation saturday on the over on jp welcome to my gotta podcast i'm jim wood in this episode john powell and i preview georgia's homecoming matchup with the kentucky wildcats we talk through what we're looking for in the game and we answer questions from you our listeners As always, remember to check out the newly redesigned MyGottaPodcast.com to see our latest
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Memories and Traditions of Georgia-Kentucky
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All right, back for another homecoming preview against Kentucky.
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Yeah, we're back with the bourbon, the bourbon lovers from Kentucky. Mm. Mm. True. Very true. Uh, yeah, I actually, i will say I rather enjoyed, um, our bourbon stops in Kentucky on the way to the Natty a few years ago. when my My dad and I drove to Indianapolis and, uh, stopped by Buffalo Trace to and fro, uh, while, while driving through Kentucky.
00:01:25
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So, uh, yeah, man, you can get whatever you want there. You have to pay for it. Um, that's what I was told at least. We just got what they had at the distillery. Yeah, unfortunately, you don't you'd have to go through you have to go through Kentucky they get there. but and that's That's where we that's we're having the game at home kind of – this matchup is is annoying when it's at home. i yeah It's like one of the few away games I feel like people like would really enjoy going to.
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You know, honestly, too, like the other thing on that is i think that's why a lot of people wanted Kentucky to be one of the permanent opponents um in the new, you know, three team thing rotating thing.
00:02:07
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um Say like Kentucky and as opposed to say it South Carolina.
TV Show and Ratings Discussion
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um which I would have been cool with too. ah I know, I guess it kind of depends on time of year back. Like this game used to be played like right before the Florida game. And I think a lot of people would go up and go to Keeneland and watch the horses run.
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But at any rate, all the things are changing. Everything is changing. and So I guess we're going to play these guys a lot less, but we can still drink their liquids. Yeah. I guess it'll be like every other, year every other year, I think is how we'll play them going forward with this new, with the new format.
00:02:39
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So sure. Yeah. it is Actually, you know what I know that's right. We'll just make it up again tomorrow, next year. It'll be alternating every other year and then it'll be like home and away, home and away, but with a year between.
00:02:52
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So if they're here one year, we go to them two years after. That's how, that's how the new schedule is going to work. So, okay. At any rate, um, that just makes those trips to Buffalo trace a little bit more special.
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That's right. That's right. I like it. I like that. um Also, I have something for you, John. Since we do this at the beginning, do a quick entertainments. yeah We just saw Logan yeah last weekend.
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So I've got something. um And also, this around like similar time of year of when some of this stuff happened last year. So if you'll recall, last year when we hosted Mississippi State at halftime, ah we were told to like cheer because they were filming a TV show.
00:03:30
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And the TV show came out. right. So that Chad Powers. It's not all out, but the first two episodes are out. ah So Lily and I watched the first two episodes tonight before recording.
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Okay. I mean, and it's about what you would expect, but like it actually is really funny. I'm not saying it's like great television or anything, but it is pretty funny. um and like georgia is featured prominently in it you can tell like literally the opening scene is like him in the rose bowl playing for oregon against georgia and it's like hilarious just because you're seeing georgia out there it's pretty funny um so and like lily lillly was like ha but screaming at the tv and stuff
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ah Are they wearing black jerseys, Jim? No, they're in the red. They're in the red. Also, ooh, okay, so here's something else for you. ah Their numbers are Bulldog Bold in the game. Ah, nice.
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Which makes sense because it's supposed to be like eight years ago. so Eight years ago, there Yeah, so it actually makes sense. It's pretty funny. um I will say, though, like I'm watching with Lily. She's 16.
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um Like the language. There's definitely lot of sorry, Carter, like a lot. So I don't know. what So just be like, don't watch it with Camden.
Georgia vs. Alabama Game Analysis
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kind of thing like it's it's on fx right it's on hulu so it's on hulu and it's like and it said it was like tv ma and i was like well it can't be that bad and then like i was like oh language jim so tv ma is just well i looked it up you know went i went to the imdb parental thing and it was it said was because of language which okay i would i'll give you ah there's another crap i'm i'm totally blanking on now off the rails
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um what is it called common sense media that's what you need to look that's what you don't don't use the imdb oh gra okay so go to go to common sense media and then they break down like they have the ratings breakdowns that are like what kids say what parents say and like they have the overall recommendation about what's appropriate and it has like a green check mark if it's if it's like a good you might check it out it's a i don't want to say it's a christian based ratings website but like a lot of christian people use in our circles use common sense media to like suss out whether or not they should let their eight-year-old watch
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Okay. So it's the show or whatever. I just checked. It says check mark for 15 plus. So 15 plus. Yeah. So Lily, Lily is 16.
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So like I said, like I was okay with her. And again, like, that's crazy. Yeah. So it's, it's not for kids. It's not for little, it's not for young kids, like hundred percent.
Promotions and Upcoming Game Preview
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So just, just beware of that.
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Be prepared. Okay. Well, if I got the green checkmark for and that, does it say anything about the language on that? Yeah. Like it says like, that's why. Oh, okay. Got it.
00:06:29
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Yeah. Yeah. It's still 15. I remember back in the day when it was like an F word would get the R rating and you couldn't see that until you were 17 years old Right.
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And that is, it is littered with that. So like i said, sorry, Carter. Wow. Okay. Left it right. so yeah. Okay. Well, there's a game. okay well there's a game There is a game.
00:06:54
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I mean, yeah we're still dissecting film from the Alabama game. Oh my gosh, I know. As of today, like I feel like I get sicker and sicker the more Coach Hayes puts up his analyses because yeah there are things that I completely forgot or maybe I just blocked them out and had a blackout after Taylor Taylor's touchdown that I completely missed that there was a freaking...
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wide receiver screen that we had set up that I was just like, Oh my gosh, when I saw that, I feel like, I feel like a piece of me broke. I felt ah kind of proud of myself that I did remember when that happened.
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you Yeah, dude, that was, you totally called it. You totally called it. By the way, I did not Google that. I did not Google it or like look it up. that that was That was, I mean, I just asked coaches. He's like, yes. Yes.
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Can't confirm this next play. Uh, yeah, I don't know. We can, maybe we can dive into some of those things. Uh, I think we've got some kind of some like schematic type listener questions as well. We can probably use some of that there. And then when we're looking at the things we're looking for, I think there's definitely things to clean up from last weekend.
00:08:04
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Yeah, I mean, I feel like that it's one of those things where the coaches are probably doing the same things. And maybe that's why Kirby Smart was excited because he can see that it's out there. And, you know, we just got to clean them up for this is this is what they refer to as a get right game.
00:08:19
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Yeah. um I don't think that I saw any. I mean, do we need to get into the news and notes? Yeah, we can run through. We can run through. Let's let's ah let's do our normal rundown.
00:08:32
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00:08:58
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All right, so for the matchup on Saturday, kickoff is at noon on Saturday um at Duley Field at Sanford Stadium. The Dogs come into this game 3-1, 1-1 in the league.
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Kentucky is 2-2, 0-2 in the SEC. The Dogs are ranked... I think 10 in the coaches poll 12th in the AP. If I'm getting that right, Kentucky is not ranked. Uh, the broadcast, this game is on ABC.
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Um, the broadcasters are Joe Tessitore, Jesse Palmer and Katie George. So Jesse Palmer, both Florida quarterback and, uh, bachelorette contestant, as I recall, um, or the bachelor, don't know, both. Maybe he was a bachelor.
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um You know, something I noticed that I don't ever say this game it will be on Sirius XM station 84. If you have Sirius XM, uh, and then on Sirius XM 84, the game is on that channel.
00:09:50
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If you'd like to do those things, is it not normally on that? don't know. I just noticed that this week. So saying it. Okay. And then on the official hashtag is hashtag UK versus UGA.
00:10:02
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And we will forget to use it. We will 100% forget to use that. um Actually, I have an extra comment about that. the The all-time series record is Georgia 64-12-2. So a bit lopsided series with these guys. so And then the last meeting last year, the Dawgs won thirteen to twelve in Lexington.
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That was a ah wild one up there in Lexington last year. um Weather on Saturday looks like it's going to be great. ah Looks like partly cloudy. Looks like should be like in the 70s. So like high 76. So we're starting to transition towards that fall weather, JP.
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um
History of Lexington, Kentucky
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It is starting to feel like fall outside. I'll ill i'll definitely tell you that. Yeah. Remember two years ago, the Kentucky game was when we had to go buy blankets at halftime. um but That was a night yeah that is a night game.
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mean, the swirling winds got us.
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I'll say my official hashtag joke was going to be um my phone was really struggling in the stadium like last week for the Alabama game. um So I don't I think they were like there was something that I like usually tweet and like tweeted.
00:11:09
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Like when we've scored the first touchdown, I always use like the Munson Munson gif. And it was just like sat there and was like hanging. And like, I went back into Twitter later and it was just still sitting there and never posted. So sorry about that. and We had technical difficulties in the stadium.
00:11:21
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All right. That's what I got for the matchup JP. Um, where you want to go next? Um, I don't know. Um, I do, I don't have, I mean, we've done these guys so many, so many ways, but, um, I think that I was going to touch on the fun facts on the, on the history things, uh, a history topic of, of Lexington, Kentucky, if I can go for it.
00:11:49
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Okay, so i was curious about this and i kind of went down the rabbit hole of um there's a there's actually underground streams that are throughout the city of Lexington and actually were very important components to the original founding of Lexington, Kentucky.
00:12:13
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the the river or stream is called Town Branch. And I was curious if that is where the term branch water came from. It is not. However, it's still kind of cool that the freaking one of the birthplaces of of whiskey or bourbon um and in the United States was ah has a has a literal stream that goes through it called Town Branch.
00:12:39
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Um, and that river that is, that kind of goes throughout and meanders, um, is where everything started for, everything started for Kentucky.
00:12:52
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And it actually wasn't Kentucky when Lexington was first founded. When Lexington was first founded, it was actually still a part of the state of Virginia. uh virginia did not kentucky did not become a state until after the founding of lexington so i thought that that was kind of interesting so basically we're we're still but we're still playing some yankees um if you if you really want to get down into it although i think virginia is still considered part of the south but i don't yeah
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yeah seriously they're the acc like virginia is so far north it's that's ridiculous um But yeah, the so there is a there's there's a river that basically started everything. So like there would be leather tanneries, slaughterhouses, mills, brick and lumber yards, distilleries, and factories all along.
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the banks of the town branch in in Lexington and actually like was a a large cholera epidemic hit Lexington in 1833 because that was also where they would empty their bathrooms into the town branch and killed about 500 people.
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Um, and then I had another outbreak a little while, like several years later and killed another 345 people. So the cleanliness of our, our founding, our founding fathers throughout the, throughout the years, uh, were not, not super great, not great, Bob.
00:14:23
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Um, but then they had a ah piping system that was damned 1885. that's where, you know, they didn't really have much of a problem after that. Um,
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but But yeah, they have these underwater, like under under Lexington, there's a and underwater or underground ah water source that was the source of the founding of of Lexington.
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um but yeah, that's, uh, that's kind of what I thought was, that's one of the things that I was, that I was most, most interested in and was, was when I found out about that. Um, yeah, but yeah yeah, there's a, I don't know that I, there's like a Creek or something that runs under Sanford stadium, by the way, too.
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Yeah. But this is like, like this thing was instrumental in founding yeah the city of Lexington. i don't know. i haven't really heard too much about that one, but no I don't know if it was a huge component of the founding of Athens. No, was not. It's just interesting that it's under the stadium.
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like yeah I don't know about that. Cool, man. It's actually gotten... been gotten they've gotten headlines over the years like the epa got onto them for the pollution of the town branch and other streams um because of ah again i guess they still to this day they they were still emptying their bathrooms because the sewers and everything still led to town branches like the the you know finding nemo like all drains lead to the ocean kind of thing
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ah But they had to they had to upgrade their sewers and storm systems because they got sued by the EPA for for polluting the town branch. So they were literally polluting their water. That's wild.
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That's wild. Yeah. Anyway, I thought those was that was interesting. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. For sure.
UGA Traditions and Anecdotes
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ah Let's see. You want to hit Hastings Harbor History?
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Let's hit it, Jim. Okay.
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Okay, here we go. I'm going to take it away for this week, if you don't mind. all right, so Jason writes to us this week, this Saturday is homecoming, which I was not aware of until I saw Hacy's Hargit history notes.
00:16:52
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And also saw the the the wallpaper Wednesday, which dude, how about the university being on on track with that? Dude, fire, passion, energy confirmed on the wallpaper Wednesday. At least at least on the wallpaper team.
00:17:06
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Yeah. Defense, not so much. All right. This Saturday is homecoming, and the week will be filled with celebrations around campus. In coming home to the university, fans and alumni will be reminded of campus traditions that date back generations.
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Some campus traditions can be silly, some solemn, and some change throughout the years while retaining the essence of what made them part of the campus experience. To begin with. One tradition, in fact, and the oldest extant tradition at UGA is so ingrained in the experience of generations of Georgia fans and alumni that it's difficult to imagine the university campus and downtown Athens without it.
00:17:45
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That tradition is the ringing of the chapel bell. Shout out, chapel bell curve. ah The current university chapel was constructed in 1832 and replaced an earlier an earlier wooden chapel that had burned down.
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When constructed, it could easily hold the entire population of the university, but both faculty and students. The chapel bell that we see today has changed very little since 1832.
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The only substantial difference is that the bell was originally housed in a larger tower on the roof of the building. In 1913, the tower had become structurally unsound, so it was demolished and the bell was moved to its current location.
00:18:33
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That's interesting. Georgia's football program began, as most fans know, in January 1892 on what became known as Hurdy Field, which is directly behind the chapel.
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In the early days of the team, fans would sit on ah sit or stand behind the walls of the chapel in New College. A large tree between the two buildings provided shade on sunny afternoons.
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The tradition of ringing the chapel bell began after a game against Auburn. It's appropriate that our oldest tradition is tied to our oldest foe, the Deep South's oldest rivalry.
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Going into the 1894 season, Georgia was completely winless against Auburn. Brutal. Granted, there had only been one game played, but even so, Georgia's fans and students were irate at having a losing record against Auburn.
00:19:26
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Same. The 1894 game was played at Piedmont Park in Atlanta, which had been the site of the first matchup in 1892. The game was tied at a score of eight to eight with darkness settling onto the field when Georgia's Rufus Nally recovered an Auburn fumble for a safety and Georgia won the game ten to eight The result was telegraphed to Athens and it set off a party on campus.
00:19:55
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The earliest reference to the chapel bell being run and and the earliest reference to the chapel bell being rung in celebration of a victory is found in the red and black edition of December 1st, 1894. And I believe, is this an excerpt from the article, Jim?
00:20:13
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Yes. And I believe that we have some some documents that that are showcasing this. Is that right? On the on the YouTubes? Yeah, i've got I've got the red and black up on the screen.
00:20:25
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I can neither confirm nor deny, dear listener, that this is an actual red and black from Jim's attic.
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Okay, here we go. and So here's here's the article from December 1st, 1894. The varsity special left at 7 o'clock, and the people of Athens awaited the arrival of the party at the Athens Depot with a brass band and plenty of enthusiasm. Okay.
00:20:52
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Merchants opened their stores and told the boys to help themselves to boxes. Soon a large bonfire lighted up the campus and the college rang out on the night air and the college yell was heard on every hand.
00:21:07
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The night had far spent itself when the last echo of the bell was heard and the dying embers of the great bonfire was all that was left to remind the pastor by that the great day was over. Georgia had triumphed three years had she waited. And now the defeat that had once befallen her by the hands of the Alabamians was blotted out.
00:21:31
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Love it. We should do bonfire. Can we do bonfires after games? Like instead of rolling tumors corner and all that kind of stuff, we'd have a giant bonfire. Probably not. Probably not. Probably not.
00:21:42
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Josh Brooks does not approve. all right. It should be noted that the enrollment of the university in 1894 was only 212. So this party must have involved almost all the students at the university.
00:21:56
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The America's Times recorder added a few more details on December 2nd. The chapel bell was ringing and the campus was ablaze. Amazing. A sick lady in the vicinity sent them round a request to cease their jolly tea.
00:22:10
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They did so out of consideration for her. The bell was hushed, the fires put out, and the boys went home. Despite the early end to the party, the tradition took hold quickly and it soon became the job of freshmen to ring the bell throughout the night to celebrate the ah Georgia victory.
00:22:27
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When the bell was moved to its current location behind the chapel, it became easier for students to ring after passing a difficult class, graduating, or to celebrate any significant occasion.
00:22:38
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Now it is common for visitors to campus to ring the bell and orientation groups are given the chance to ring the bell during tours around campus. Though the bell rarely rings all night anymore, few Georgia fans will forget the scene on the night of January 10th, 2022, when a crowd of hundreds descended on the chapel to celebrate our van vanquishing of the Crimson Tide and our first national championship since 1980. Those fans that night...
00:23:04
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were, whether they realized it or not, adding to the latest chapter to a tradition that has been part of campus life since 1894. Wow.
00:23:18
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that regel and nice cream And now you know where that came from. And now you know where it came from. Dear listener, suck it all. i feel like I feel like this is where we need to drop the sound.
00:23:33
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I'm getting faster. I'm getting faster.
00:23:38
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Oh, man. Awesome. And if you are listening, there's several other and several other nice items that Jason sent us to to view. If you were a viewer on YouTube, check it out.
00:23:51
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Yeah, for sure. For sure. um And just a reminder, you can always head over to the Hargit Library on Fridays if you're in town. So at three o'clock, ah Jason gives a free guided tour of the latest exhibit, which this year's exhibit it or this fall's exhibit is called Sustained Excellence, a History of UGA Swimming and Diving.
00:24:08
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That's led by the tour we led, led by Jason Hastie and legendary coach Jack Bowerly helped Jason curate ah this exhibit. So be sure to go check that out if you're in town.
00:24:20
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Yes. All right. Let's hit the news and notes. So nothing like major out of Kirby's press conferences, honestly. um Actually, haven't even seen anything from his Tuesday press
Team News and Injuries
00:24:31
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conference. I didn't see a recap posted of that. But on Monday, like nothing major, everyone was still asking questions about Alabama.
00:24:38
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Um, so like, um, so what I was going to do was talk about the injury report a little bit. Um, so nothing like shocking on the Georgia side.
00:24:51
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Um, I think the only like notable main notable thing is like Ernest green is listed it as out. Still um on, on the Kentucky side though, there, there was something there. So their quarterback who started the season, Zach Calzada, Calzada.
00:25:07
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Yeah. Why does that name sound familiar? He was at Texas. And he used to play at Texas A&M. That's what it is. Yep. Um, and so he was their starter to begin the season, got injured, um, in the Ole Miss game, I believe.
00:25:20
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Uh, so they've been playing a ah freshman since then. Um, and it sounds like the freshman is still slotted to, to start is my understanding. Um, but I guess like Calzada could come in and play if, if needed.
00:25:36
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um So definitely something to watch for. Sounds like Cutter Bowley will still get the start, but Kelzada is probable to be available. So we're going to keep eyes on the backup quarterback for Kentucky now.
00:25:48
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I know, right? Yeah, what is going on? What is going on? Okay, that was all I got from the news and notes. um Didn't see anything of note from Stoops press conference either. Okay.
00:25:59
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Nothing earth shattering. yeah Yeah, no,
Georgia vs. Kentucky Gameplay Analysis
00:26:02
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nothing earth shattering. Like I said, it was all about Alabama with Kirby on Monday, so shocking. um we good Poor guy. Yeah. Yeah, know.
00:26:12
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um I know we talked about in, we actually talked about this in the Bama review, but for those who didn't listen, in the net yards per play for Georgia, not looking great. We're at 0.87 net yards per play on the season.
00:26:23
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ah Thankfully, Kentucky is even worse. They're at negative 0.45 yards per play net on the season, which is wild. How's that possible? um I will say we are both equally not great, Bob, in the turnover margin.
00:26:37
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We have both given away the ball two more times and we have ah turned it over. So that is a wash between the two teams. um So we can talk about the Georgia offense versus the Kentucky defense, kind of what what we're looking for when Georgia has the ball.
00:26:56
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um I'll hit some notable kind of defenders for Kentucky really quick. So Alex Safari is a senior line but inside linebacker. He's a leading tackler on the team with 31 total tackles and one sack.
00:27:08
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ah Ty Bryant Jr. is a defensive back. He's a leader for interceptions with two. will say both of those interceptions came at South Carolina last week. And then McLeese Humphrey grace is a junior defensive lineman leads the team with two sacks.
00:27:25
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So just some players to watch out for, but um JP, what are do you, what are you looking for when the Georgia for this Georgia offense matching up against the Kentucky defense? Jim, it's it's going to come down to one thing for me, the offensive line.
00:27:38
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Like I need, I need, ah we have, we have entered the era or the time of the season for me ah moving forward. It's show me, show me that we can get consistent blocking schemes that when the plays are called that we're blocking the right guys that cost us dearly against Alabama. It's cost us opportunities and other games.
00:28:00
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um I need the offensive line to come out and boss someone for once. Yeah. Yeah. You want them. You're calling for the show. me Exactly. Yeah.
00:28:11
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Yeah. Do you want it? you want it Show me. Yeah. Yeah. I'm with you. Yeah. I want to see, can we clean up, can we clean up the things we struggled with last week?
00:28:21
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You know, mean, can we, can we block based on how the play was called? um and i I want to see us get the ball in the hands of some folks that had the drops last week.
00:28:34
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um yeah and Honestly, i like and i would like to see, but can we have this be begin to be a get-right game for Nate Frazier as well in the backfield? um But I also, man, like I want to feed Chauncey Bowens early and often um and continue to get him going and and and you know keep his keep his confidence up because he was a man last week.
00:28:55
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i will be I will be interested to see who the Heat trots out there as as running back one for the first play of the game. So that would definitely give us a little bit of an indication on um where things are going. I do agree with you on the talent here Taylor thing. like Let's get the ball back to him.
00:29:10
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um Get him some some confidence. um And yeah, ah the... we saw some drops from the tight ends from the tight end department. Um, we'd definitely like to see the tight ends get some, get some action in this game for sure.
00:29:27
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Um, yeah, that's, I'd say that that's, that about sums it up. I mean, um the drops, the drops were definitely frustrating, last week. So, I would love to see us have a,
00:29:41
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I'd love Gunnar have a virtually perfect game. i don't think that it's realistic to consider, you know, ah have have him pitch 100.
00:29:52
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um But I'd like to see him in the 70, 70-plus percentage completion. that's That's usually Bobo's target is like that 72% completion percentage is like what what he's had past quarterbacks targeting.
00:30:11
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, just kind of looking at the numbers, it looks like they're a little bit softer in the past. I mean, they're in the bottom, like half of defense regardless, um but like 73rd ranked and yeah yards rushing per game and, but 106th in passing yards a while per game, 102nd in overall defense. So I think the opportunity is there for a get right game.
00:30:32
Speaker
um And I watched, i't I'm not going to sit here and say I've watched a ton of Kentucky. I had the Ole Miss game on when they were them. um And then i I watched like the key plays, YouTube TV highlights um of the Ole Miss game and the South Carolina game.
00:30:47
Speaker
And I mean, they got pretty gashed by South Carolina. So that I think the opportunities will be there. Just got to execute. Execution. Yep.
Defensive Strategies Against Kentucky
00:30:57
Speaker
All right. ah Let's see. So let's talk about when Kentucky has ball.
00:31:02
Speaker
So their are offense, our defense. um So again, kind of some notable players. I mentioned Zach Calzada, the transfer, has been injured. So Cutter Boley is a freshman. He's been playing.
00:31:17
Speaker
Uh, ever since then, he is 23 of 43 for 402 yards passing two touchdowns and two picks. Uh, their leading rusher is Seth McGowan senior running back, uh, 387 yards and seven touchdowns and 68 carries.
00:31:31
Speaker
Um, he, he, from what I have seen of him, he actually, looked he does look pretty good. Um, Dante Dowdle will also see run the ball. 49 carries, 238 yards and touchdown. and Their leading receiver is actually a tight end.
00:31:44
Speaker
Willie Rodriguez, seven catches, 134 yards and a touchdown. And then Jamori Macklin is a senior wide receiver, six catches, 113 yards. All right, JP, what are you looking on that?
00:31:55
Speaker
What are looking at for out of the Georgia defense? The defense has got to get pressure. i This is moving forward. Everything is show me the trenches. Show me the trenches. Show me that you can get a push. Show me that you can get a sack.
00:32:10
Speaker
Show me that you can make the quarterback like uncomfortable and get them out of kicking back and sipping whiskey and smoking a cigar back there at times.
00:32:22
Speaker
um i'm i'm tired I'm tired of seeing our defense give up the third downs. We'd love to see us get off the field when we get them into third third down.
00:32:34
Speaker
um I'd like to not see the second down music. um
00:32:42
Speaker
ah But yeah, yeah just ah turnovers, line of scrimmage, get off the field on third down. like Those are three things that I'm looking for specifically. um and i guess if i had to like critique you know on the on the secondary side of things i'd love to see you guys like ellis robinson come back um from their debacle of a game last last last game um trying to think is there anybody else that i'm looking for specifically to come back from i mean ellis robinson got burned pretty pretty bad but
00:33:17
Speaker
Um, was it, uh, was it Jones that kind of, you and I were talking about that maybe might've lost his job? Um, no. Chiron Jones?
00:33:28
Speaker
Yes. No. I, well, I was no oh no, no, no, no. Sorry. DeMello Jones came in and played corner. Yes. Um, yeah. So I was wondering, does he start to play more? Right. Right.
00:33:42
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. That, that I do think that's something to watch for. Whatever we did in the second half to cause them to, you know, not score like let's do a little bit more of that, but I'd like to see it with sprinkled in some, some turnovers, get that turnover margin going in the right direction for once.
00:33:58
Speaker
Yeah. um Yeah. Yeah, I mean, i i think I think you nailed it. I mean, I i think we've been we've been stopping the run. So, you know, keep that up.
00:34:08
Speaker
I don't think any major changes needed there, but it's, again, it's the quarterback pressure. um From what I saw, so that the freshman for Kentucky, ah yeah he didn't play at all, he didn't start the first game. he started the last couple of games.
00:34:22
Speaker
He's already been sacked seven times, though. um And so from what i watched, like in the South Carolina game, which was on the road, it like it really got away from them. um They had a ah sack fumble that was a scoop and score for a touchdown.
00:34:38
Speaker
He had to pick six. And then I think he was sacked like five times in the game. So I think, I think, you know, Kentucky has been playing better at home, struggling on the road.
00:34:49
Speaker
um i think it's going important for us as fans, you know, I know it's a 12 o'clock game, but, and we're coming off a loss. So I think for us fans, it's important for us to get there and be loud. ah you to affect Kentucky. Let's see what we can do to make it like that, you know, 2021 Arkansas game at a noon kickoff.
00:35:06
Speaker
um Cause it looks like they're going to have a freshman quarterback, you know, trotting out there between the hedges. So I think we could definitely make an impact there, but yeah, man, I, I want to see like, what is, what is human and Kirby dial up? Do they dial anything up to manufacture some pressure?
00:35:22
Speaker
Because whatever, what we've been doing thus far, don't mean, i think it's safe to say like, it hasn't cut it as far as pressing the quarterback. So that's what I'm looking forward to. No. Yeah. Yeah. I'd like to see. so one thing that I would like to see that Davin Bellamy was good. I feel like Davin Bellamy has kind of taken the pissed off alumni stance right now. yeah um I think he speaks from authority of you know, having been a very successful collegiate um and ah to I don't know the extent of his NFL career, but.
00:35:59
Speaker
I mean, he made the NFL rosters, right? But at least in college, you know, he was he was a force. um He was a force for us. He won a lot of lot of matchups.
00:36:10
Speaker
um The guy knows how to play defense. So when he sees that what this but these players are doing, ah just like George, when he sees the offensive line and is able to kind of provide his expertise, having all these alumni on these social media platforms that are providing their insights from their own perspectives,
00:36:28
Speaker
um He kind of hit the nail on the head. Like these these players have just got to execute. um And that's just not getting it done. This ain't it, bro. um And then ah he mentioned something today that I kind of was like, you know what? You're right. This is kind of what I was.
00:36:47
Speaker
I kind of alluded to this on the offensive line, but the defense is kind of just as. Just as culpable, you want to have that Ben Jones psychopath um on the offensive side, you know, that that David Andrews like this. Let's let's let's ah rip up the turf at Georgia Tech and just go berserk.
00:37:06
Speaker
um You need some meanness. you need ah you need a You need some meanness on this team. And we talk about fire, passion, and energy. But ask yourself that question. Like, have you actually seen it this season?
00:37:20
Speaker
Have we seen the fire, passion, and energy? i feel like I've seen brief glimpses on the offense on some players. But, like, don't know, man. I need to see some meanness ah from the defense. Like, we got bullied recently.
00:37:33
Speaker
We got bullied on defense, and I feel like that Alabama did a really good job of showing some fire, passion, and energy, and to his credit, Kalen DeBoer, when they were showing him on the sideline, like, dude, he was he was animated. he was He was getting after it, and you could see him encouraging and and getting getting fiery. um I would love to see the return of Raidstroke Kirby.
00:37:59
Speaker
I'm going to, I'm going to bring up now, I'm just going to shout out Ryan Heincoe. Cause that his listener question was along those lines. He said, have you seen any fire, passion and energy in the team as a whole? Slow starts feel like a lack of energy.
00:38:10
Speaker
We get some fire and passion out of a few individuals when we're trailing and need some urgency, but it feels like we are missing fire, fire, passion, energy as a team and coaching staff. So I think JP, you just, you just spoke to that.
00:38:20
Speaker
So yeah. Yeah. I mean, there's been a couple of times this season. Wasn't it the first game of the season? Was it Ellis Robinson that had the interception and then like ran it back? But the whole team like ran down the field with them.
00:38:34
Speaker
right We talked about that. um That was a great example. um When Zachariah Branch did his Ronaldo celebration in the end zone, I felt like that that was a pretty big um pretty big moment for everyone.
00:38:47
Speaker
um But aside from that, like I don't feel like I've seen it. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, and I think, I mean, part of it too is is like you you call it out the Ellis Robinson, right? You get the interception, everyone's celebrating, like what gets the defense really fired up. It's getting to the quarterback and we haven't done it, you know, like as far as like reacting after the play.
00:39:09
Speaker
um But I also think too, like back, like last year, Last year, i think it was kind of similar. And we would see it in spurts, like Texas game last year, like the defense came out, like just like hair on fire, just getting after didn't matter which quarterback was in the game for Texas.
00:39:25
Speaker
And it's like, i want to see that again, you know, along like with consistency. Yeah, the the swarming, the swarming to the ball, yeah which Alabama did that in spades. Like there were multiple times when you had, even when you were missing your assignments, like, and their players had no hope of ah getting in the in the game. Like on that on that third down run, when Gunnar was getting trying to get to the seven yard line,
00:39:50
Speaker
um You know, we obviously had some missed assignments and those players were like turning around and like looking at the game as opposed to just, okay, so you missed your assignment, but don't let the next guy get past you kind of thing.
00:40:04
Speaker
um Some of that was going on. And then on the defensive side of things, when you know on other plays on offense, you know we would get tackled behind the line and all of a sudden there'd be three or four Alabama players around the ball.
00:40:19
Speaker
and I feel like I don't see that as much on the defensive side. Right. Right. um Chris Cole was leading the team in sacks with three. So, you know, um I think he's, he's an inside linebacker. I think that's kind of interesting. um So, you know, between bringing, whether we need to bring more pressure up the middle or whatever, but I'd love to see some of the guys coming off the edge, pressure the quarterback.
00:40:41
Speaker
So, right. I mean, yeah, I'm with you. I think we're on the same page
Kentucky's Special Teams Review
00:40:45
Speaker
there. um I got a couple of special teams things. Okay. So on the special team side, ah they've got a freshman kicker, Jacob Coway.
00:40:58
Speaker
He is perfect this far in the season. Eight of eight field goals, 12 of 12 extra points. um And then their punter, while they do not have an Australian punter, they have a South African punter.
00:41:12
Speaker
His name is Aiden Laros. He's a senior. ah He's ah averaging 46.13 yards per punt. um And he was like one of like the weekly Ray guy ah ah award, whatever watch list or whatever's at least once so far this season.
00:41:30
Speaker
So he's pretty good. Yeah. So they don't take planning as seriously as we do with no Australian. They do have a South African. i don't know that do have a South African. yeah Yeah. I was about to say, that's like bizarro Australian. I feel like I'd be curious to know what Brett Thorson's opinion of ah the South African punters are versus the Australian punters.
00:41:50
Speaker
Yeah, we seriously. we need See, this is where we need Mullets on the mic to come back so we could hear this kind of analysis. We could submit that question to Mullets on the mic. Exactly. Man, I do miss that. We need to bring we need to get Thorsen back on the mic for something.
00:42:06
Speaker
Yeah, seriously. How do we make that happen? we We need to figure that. We need to put some glasses on it and figure out. I mean, if anybody out there and in in in podcast world can can get in touch with Brett Thorson for us, and maybe he can just rekindle his passion for podcasting with My God, a podcast.
00:42:24
Speaker
I actually know how to get in touch with Brett Thorson, so we can. Well, Jim,
00:42:33
Speaker
uh, moving on the next. my
00:42:40
Speaker
oh man. Too good. All right. Uh, that's all i got for the special teams. Um, although, you know, like I'd still, I would love to see branch like do something big with a punt return.
Listener Questions and Game Predictions
00:42:53
Speaker
That'd be, that'd be sweet. And we have a history of returning some big kicks against this team. So maybe something watch out for. Maybe something to watch out for. Okay. All right. ah Let's ah head to the listener questions.
00:43:08
Speaker
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00:43:18
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00:43:33
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00:43:50
Speaker
All right, we hit one of the listener questions already, so we can we can continue them, and we'll kick off, as we always do, with Brett Belding and the Belding bonus, TM, TM, TM.
00:44:01
Speaker
ah Brett, again, it was great to see you on Saturday, and as well as your wife and your father-in-law. ah Good time. It was a good time seeing you all.
00:44:12
Speaker
Let's see. Great to see everyone in Athens. That's where started with. Number one, if you could only drink one Kentucky bourbon for the rest of your life, what are you drinking? um I think for me, if there's one Kentucky bourbon for the rest of my life, I'd probably go to the Weller Special Reserve, the Green Label, guess.
00:44:30
Speaker
I don't know. Because I feel like as far as like you never you're never getting to change it, that's one that i is a pretty consistent one for me. I mean, this an easy, easy question for me.
00:44:43
Speaker
It's Weller 107. Wow. That is true. I mean, you asked me which one would I want. so Yep. Yep. That's fair.
00:44:53
Speaker
Not one can I actually get. Right. True. But yeah, that's what I'm going for, for sure. ah but yeah and that's that's what that's what i'm going that's what i'm going for for sure Okay.
00:45:05
Speaker
Okay, cool. um And then two, who will so who will get the Arkansas job? Are they going to keep Petrino? What about Gruden, Malzahn, or Mullen? Any others? I imagine this is going to be a yeah it's it's but's say it's an audition for Petrino to get the job permanently it would be my guess.
00:45:26
Speaker
man can he keep can they give him that job again mean they freaking gave him the offensive coordinator job and it was effectively like a head coach in waiting role because of how old bitman is does it does it does the job come with a motorcycle like what's going on like don't know it's just interesting me at any rate i don't know how these don't know how these schools just keep retreading people it's like the wildest thing ever I do think like I would say no to Gruden. I think I think Gruden is having too much fun, like opening boxes of stuff that schools send him on on social media and unboxing them.
00:46:03
Speaker
um I think in he's I think he's having too much fun in life to go back and coaching personally. um I think um Mullen is an interesting one, honestly, to me.
00:46:14
Speaker
Because like if you look at Florida, i mean, what have they done since they parted ways with him? I mean, i think there's Florida fans who probably wish they never fired Mullen. um I think he did pretty well at Mississippi State.
00:46:25
Speaker
i think I think Mullen at Arkansas could work. So I would say that's an interesting one. Ultimately, you're probably right It's probably like going to be Petrino. But if I was them, I mean, I would but i would take a look at Mullen.
00:46:36
Speaker
Anyone else you could think of? Rhett Lashley, maybe. Okay. bret lashley maybe okay Yeah, that's a good one. um The SMU, he's at an SMU, right? and i getting that right?
00:46:47
Speaker
I honestly don't even know where he's at right now, but I'm i'm just looking at the the some coaching names that I haven't really heard on some articles over here. um I'm curious. like How is he doing at UNLV? I don't even know.
00:47:03
Speaker
I don't either. ah he he Rhett Lashley is the SMU coach, by the way. I don't know. they were They were a playoff team last year. so and do you leave ah Do you leave an ACC playoff contender for Arkansas?
00:47:16
Speaker
Probably. But I mean, I would imagine, i would imagine that the, i would imagine that that job pays more, right? Like would imagine Arkansas pays more than. Yeah. I think, yeah.
00:47:28
Speaker
Cause I think like SMU is like not even their ACC deal is different than most schools. So when they got, when they joined the ACC, I don't think they get red share or something like that. It looks like UNLV is four and O. Yeah.
00:47:41
Speaker
Interesting. Yeah. They're averaging 36, 37 points a game and they're giving up 28, which sounds about right for Dan Mullins. Yeah.
00:47:53
Speaker
Hey, that's how Arkansas, that's how they do it. It could be. I mean, I could see Dan Mullen working. I mean, either have if I were sitting in and Arkansas's seat, I would be looking for someone that knows offense and knows the SEC and knows how to recruit. That recruiting component is probably what will hurt Dan Mullen the most. That's true.
00:48:13
Speaker
Petrino seems to have a little bit more success in terms of being able to get the most out of his recruits, but um he's also a bag. and Sorry, Carter.
00:48:28
Speaker
i don't know. I would say that that job is, it it would not surprise me to see literally anybody take that job. Yeah. but It's like the South Carolina game. It's like the South Carolina job.
00:48:40
Speaker
um I'm trying to think. ah Somebody, think it was Josh Pate. Somebody used to say that the Kentucky job was one of the greatest jobs in the country because you win nine games. You're just hanging out until basketball. Yeah, if you can win nine games, you're going to build a statue. don't know.
00:49:01
Speaker
Um, all right. Thanks Brett. Uh, building bonus is always legit. Um, let's go to Herman Wood. I think this was funny since Brett building jumped my bourbon question. And then Herman said, guess I need to trademark it.
00:49:12
Speaker
He said, what, what will Kirby, what will Kirby learn from this loss? How will we attack Kentucky on offense? I think he's going to learn that, um, they've got a lot of growing up to do along the trenches.
00:49:27
Speaker
Um, My hope would be that they simplify the blocking schemes for the freshmen that are make up our right-hand line, which has cost us dearly on multiple occasions in the last game.
00:49:44
Speaker
So I'd like to see them get back to basics on the offensive line and just just run a perfect ah perfect game. Yeah, think that makes sense. ah like It's kind of like take what the defense gives you merged with. Let's run the plays that we are fully confident that everyone's going to execute correctly.
00:50:04
Speaker
Right. Yeah. Let's see. 51-7 we to toss sweep more often?
00:50:11
Speaker
ah do we need to see the dogs run the tos sweep more often That's a simple answer. Yes. And also let's layer in run the toss sweep with a fullback on, i don't know, on, on the touchdown um on Chauncey bones, touchdown run on toss sweep, which was what second quarter of the Bama game.
00:50:35
Speaker
um Josh McRae was in a fullback and like, He actually, he was out there and he like, didn't have anyone to block. He was like looking for someone to block. I was like, there's no, uh, yes. Like, what do I do? What do? i do Um, but yeah, dude, like it's a, you don't know, man, it's a staple Georgia play. It's been the playbook forever.
00:50:54
Speaker
It works well. Uh, and It works well ah with this team as well, in my opinion, because, you know, one of the things that we always talk about when your offensive line is struggling, like what are some, what are some things that you do? Well, you, you try to execute some screens, some quick, quick passes, which is unsurprising why Bobo has been calling a lot of those this season is because they're quick and there's no opportunity for any any blocking breakdowns on on the line.
00:51:24
Speaker
Um, the other thing that they do is they move the pocket um let's let's move the pocket so they they can't just pin their ears back and and dial it up on us um yeah yeah Yeah. I remember, was it last year or two years ago? I remember Graham was talking a lot about like zone blocking versus like gap scheme for zone scheme, et cetera. And like what the, like like doing what the line is good at.
00:51:52
Speaker
Right. So why don't we run this? Well, maybe they're struggling with it. And I know like, for example, the fourth down play was like zone blocking and our guys got mixed up. So I don't know, maybe don't do that as much if, if they're not ready for it.
00:52:04
Speaker
Like if they've got nailed down, cool. But if, yeah, seriously, if not, let's hold that little bit. Um, Okay, let's see. Let's go to Will Garland. ah this This one's awesome. ah So Will says, my 13-year-old son will have his official start to his Georgia story this weekend with his first game day experience in Athens.
00:52:23
Speaker
I'll be taking him down to Athens early on Friday. What all would you recommend for any out-of-town family coming to Athens for a noon kickoff? yeah Get there early.
00:52:34
Speaker
Get there early. Also, if you're coming down early on Friday, just reminder, 3 o'clock, Hargit Library on Friday, you could go check out the – you could see Jason Hastie and see the ah swimming and diving exhibit there at Hargit.
00:52:48
Speaker
John and I have done that before. It's a lot of fun to go to go see Jason on a Friday afternoon. So there's that. Yeah. I think, you know, taking your 13 year old son, i would say would love to go to little Italy and get a slice of pizza and like half a sub, you know, maybe, maybe for lunch one day.
00:53:07
Speaker
That's always a, that's always a favorite of mine. Yeah. South, South kitchen and bar. That's a good one too. you go into Check out that, check out the restaurant, get the Brussels sprouts and pretty much anything else on the menu.
00:53:22
Speaker
Yeah. the Those are a couple of things that get there that are fun to do with kids Yeah, i would say that those are fun. you can always do the walk walk through North Campus for sure would be on my list.
00:53:33
Speaker
um If you're feeling really adventurous, you can go for a jog around the stadium and maybe run into some coaches.
00:53:42
Speaker
um I would also say that it's probably not the official start of his Georgia story. it I imagine you've been watching these games with him, so it's more so an enhancement to his Georgia story, i would like to think.
00:53:55
Speaker
That's good. um because you're actually continues yeah so the legend continues you get to touch it feel it smell it now um yeah i would say that uh those are all good you could always you know check out some of the tailgates around town that's that's always fun um look for jim i think he'll be there I will be there. Going to be coming in hot because we're coming in from North Carolina. the day I still don't understand the math that work that makes this make sense. but
00:54:29
Speaker
Here, I'll briefly explain this, and then I'll get back because I've two more things for for Will. Lily wants to go to her high school's football game Friday night, and but here's where it gets kind of funny.
00:54:42
Speaker
She wants to go to because it's the homecoming game. She doesn't want to miss the homecoming game. Which leads you to ask, well, what about the homecoming dance? Is that not also this weekend? It is. It's Saturday. Over the summer, she was like, yeah, I'm not going to go to homecoming. like none of My friends and I, like we're not going.
00:54:56
Speaker
like Whatever. like she So she had announced this a while ago. But I was still am just like, are you sure? like and She's like, yeah, I don't want to go to dance, but she wants to go to the game. So we're going to come down Saturday morning because she's going to be at a, she's going to Friday night lights.
00:55:11
Speaker
She's got her, she's got her priorities straight. She doesn't care her about dancing. She wants to watch football. That's right. That's right. um Uh, I'm trying to get some other stuff. Well, what I was going to say is too. So 13 year old son, mean, he might want to go to the dog walk dog walk. Yeah. So double check on the times for that. I think it's at nine 30, um, for this game, I think.
00:55:34
Speaker
Uh, but double check that it'll be on Georgia dogs.com. Um, and then the other thing is whether you do that or not, um, I definitely recommend, Walking. don't know where your seats are, but get in. So let's say like if you're in like the 300 level, I would say come in early, get in early enough to where you can, you're not going to be rushed to get up to your seats, but I really recommend walking along the hedges, like walking the track along the bottom. So I'll often go in the gate.
00:56:02
Speaker
um like down there by Tate Center, like by the Tate parking deck, go in that gate, walk underneath the stadium, and then come out on either side, walk along the hedges. And so if you're doing that pregame too, you're up super close. You can see ah you always see the players like warming up.
00:56:18
Speaker
The cheerleaders are out there. The band's coming on and off. You're going to you know come across alumni, students. This is homecoming. So you know there's going to be all kinds of stuff going on. So I definitely recommend. I love walking along the hedges.
00:56:30
Speaker
before the game, getting that up close view. Um, that's always a fun thing to do. Yeah. I wholeheartedly agree. Be down there for the, for the lone trumpeter and Bob O'Reilly.
00:56:42
Speaker
Um, I enjoy being down down there for for all that and the pomp and circumstance. And then you just kind of scamper up up to up to your seats from there.
00:56:52
Speaker
um It's usually not too bad to get up there but that point. um I was going to say something. you you mentioned something that I was going to going to elaborate on. um Yeah, I would say that, that oh, um you got to partake in a tradition since 1894. Yeah.
00:57:11
Speaker
yeah ring that chapel bell and walk through Hardy field. See, you know, kind of walk through where it originally all started. yeah i would say that would be another, that'd be another cool thing to do.
00:57:23
Speaker
But just wait until after we win before you ring the chapel bell. Yeah. would say if you want to give, I would also say if you want to get the student experience, you can maybe go to a dining hall.
00:57:36
Speaker
That's always kind of fun. ah I loved going to the dining halls when I was a kid. So there's that. um I think that there are most of them are open on game days, right?
00:57:47
Speaker
That's something I do not know. I'll have to ask my niece. Yes. and sofiia Sophia listens. um She always listens. But Sophia, if you're listening, let me know. Let us know if the dining halls are open on Saturday. Yes.
00:57:58
Speaker
Just go to Snelling. Ask for a patty melt. like Double patty melt with cheese. and um We almost had to stop on our run when we went by snow. and and a plate ah And a plate of fries.
00:58:13
Speaker
Will, you'll have to report back to us how it goes. um Say hi if if you if we run across you. But and I know your son will have a blast in Athens on Saturday.
00:58:25
Speaker
Yes. Oh yeah. check out the the new bookstore, which I haven't even checked out yet, but that is look it was always fun. Definitely go to the bookstore.
Coaching Changes Speculation
00:58:33
Speaker
That's a good call. Go to the bookstore for sure. You can try and you don't even have to buy one of the big hats. You can just put on your head.
00:58:39
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i don't know if those are still in there, but that's always fun. Seriously. All right, let's go to John Michael d ah Hashtag little stitious, maybe too late for the pod. Not too late, ah John. You're all good.
00:58:52
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The question, has the pregame run been done together in the past? And I think we responded with like the Vince Dewey, like, eeeeee. Give us the response.
00:59:05
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You know, this is where we like to say like what we do doesn't really affect anything. So I don't know, Jim, our, our, maybe if we didn't run together, the offensive line and defensive line would, would have played better.
00:59:20
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People are talking. Yeah, I mean, like you can't, you can't like specifically definitively say that's not the case. So I don't know. Yeah. But man, we did the things like we did so many things.
00:59:35
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We did. We did so many things. I thought there was another omen. and We saw Josh Brooks before the game too, by the way. We forgot to mention that. um we're yeah i don't know that In retrospect, i don't know if that was a good or a bad omen because I feel like everybody we've talked to were like, doesn't he need to like be somewhere?
00:59:50
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he was He was walking into the stadium. um spain a za um so I stadium. think he was there. he would have been there before though. I mean, the dog walk hadn't even been started yet. This was pretty early.
01:00:02
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I thought it had started because we were walking. couldn't get through because they were waiting on it to start. Yeah. So at any rate, so no, the answer to the question is no, we had not done that.
01:00:12
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So I guess never again.
01:00:16
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You have to run you to run by yourself, Joe. It's going to go ah away with the second down music. by but No more. hope. you hope But I don't know. We'll see. It was nice to it was nice to run together. I will say that.
01:00:33
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like I mean, it actually, I had a great time. Yeah. It was fun. We had a good time. You know what? Yeah. we're Screw you guys. We could do it again. Maybe we just, we need to break something like that in against a lesser opponent. Maybe.
01:00:47
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I don't know. Yeah, seriously. Sorry, John McElde to be, to elevate this dishes things. That's hilarious that he brought that up. ah Fair fair game, fair game fair question. ah All right, let's go stes let's go to our friend Greg at DogsFanForever on Twitter.
01:01:08
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ah We struggled last year against Kentucky with a one-point win, and they historically play us tough. Stoops will watch Alabama tape and see short pass game and yards after a catch hurt us, particularly on third down. Thoughts on secondary playing more aggressive and coming upfield to make tackles.
01:01:24
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um Go ahead, John. Yeah, was going to say this is one of the things that Davin Bellamy was talking about was the secondary playing more aggressive, like the first touchdown that Jeremy Bernard scored where he basically just crossed.
01:01:37
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He was allowed to cross Ellis Robinson's face, and was – playing press coverage and didn't get a hand on him. I saw London Humphries get manhandled multiple times.
01:01:50
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um But I mean, I saw a lot of people get manhandled. Like just, I want to see people, i want to see ah us bully people. um But yeah, I would say getting more aggressive.
01:02:03
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And making tackles, making open field tackles. I mean, like I said, Ellis Robinson did not have a great game um in that in that game. Missed some tackles, missed some opportunities, made some made some mistakes.
01:02:16
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um I'd like to see them get a little bit more aggressive, but not to the point where we're jumping on piles that are already over. Fair enough. Fair enough. um I'll say, i think two things. One is we know Kirby Smart and company are watching the same tape as Kentucky and self-scouting and hopefully making some corrections this week.
01:02:35
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So that's one thing. The other thing is the whole like struggling with Kentucky that tends to happen when we go there. So that's the only thing I'll say there. Like we are definitely a struggle bus when we go to Lexington.
01:02:46
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If you look at the recent matchups at home though, that has not been the case. So if that makes you feel any better, I just want to throw that out there. All right. um Let's see. Let's go to Shinobu at UGA hope Hoops Shinobu on Twitter.
01:03:01
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Do you like Scott's call of 2008 Georgia first Kentucky? It's one of my favorite calls. I actually have part of that queued up, JP. We're going to listen to a little Scott Howard from Georgia at Kentucky in 2008. He got on his donkey.
01:03:18
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this Before he yelled about donkeys.
01:03:23
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Shotgun snap to Stafford in the pocket. Throws it over the middle. It's caught by Massacroft. Massacroft breaks the tackle. 40, 50. Go, go, go, Muhammad. Cuts it to 30, 25, 20. Avoids another tackle all the way down to the eight-yard line.
01:03:37
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Maybe the seven. Okay, so i I grabbed that because that was actually my favorite part of the clip. It definitely has shades of Munson. Yeah, yeah. um Actually, you know what? I just remembered something.
01:03:50
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Hold on. and I didn't let it run long enough. I'm so so glad you said that. Hold on a second. Oh, my gosh.
01:04:01
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I forgot that he had said that part. um That game ended like that was like a come from behind win at Kentucky in 2008, which is wild. it ended up with like a Stafford to A.J. Green touchdown pass in the corny end zone.
01:04:14
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That game has so much talent on that's du the the the footage i can get that team. The footage from that game, is you can see the header it said Raycom Sports.
01:04:25
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um I want to say that game was like on pay-per-view or something. There was one game like around that time that was like only on the radio. That might have been 2006. It was a 2006 Kentucky game, which we actually lost like at Kentucky. but and Different times, man. That game was on Raycom.
01:04:42
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Kind of wild. At any rate. I do think that was that was, I would say in the annals of Scott Howard, I actually do. I do like that one. I think that was good. That's a good one. I like the Munson reference that he did as well.
01:04:54
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ah Agreed. and also he also referred to him just like Massaquah. It's true. It's true. um Massaquah. Oh, man.
01:05:04
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um Let's see. Keeping it with the hoops theme, we're gonna head over to Fletcher Proctor. It has been 2,091 days since Kentucky basketball won Stegman. It has been 5,790 days since the Kentucky football has won in Sanford.
01:05:18
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UK, more like you suck. Dogs by 30. Also, we need more Spike at the football games. Spike is greater than Harry. Something else he forgot to talk about it in the review. We did forget to talk about that one. Spike was at the game.
01:05:31
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Didn't. And like you, i know you, you have some like lengthy commentary. You were like, it's Spike. Spike. Yeah. Yes. I loved it. I loved it. But Spike was there.
01:05:42
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was just bouncing around, doing his thing. too good. If I'm making this up, I swear you were like, Fletcher's going be happy or like something like that. I don't know. I don't know. We did. We did talk about taking pictures in front of the segment and given Fletcher a basketball minute on game day.
01:05:57
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Oh, that was true. That was true. we When we were on our pregame jog, there was the like that the basketball, was it called? There was like a club. It wasn't like the Letterman's Club or something, but oh the tip-off club.
01:06:08
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It was like a tip-off club tailgate outside Sanford. And I was like, where's Fletcher? isn't Fletcher here? Outside Stegman, yes. Yeah, as outside Stegman, sorry. Oh, man. Yep, and then we were walking over to meet up with the Tony and Scott and those guys. And I think we talked about taking a picture, but we never did.
01:06:27
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We did not. We did not take a picture. Yeah, we were goingnna ask right we were going to take a selfie at where it said UJ Tip-Off Club and say, Fletcher, where are you? That was one. But we didn't do it. Sorry, Fletcher. Hey, basketball, getting close to basketball season. So I know ah Fletcher getting getting excited.
01:06:43
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Didn't he just sign a, didn't didn' Mike White sign an extension? i guess that's a news and note. He may have. very I believe that he signed an extension recently. They announced the extensions of several coaches. I thought that I saw Mike White was one of them.
01:06:58
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Nice.
Team Focus and Strategy Reflection
01:06:59
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Nice. I mean, it was it was good to go back to the NCAA tournament last year. We'd love to do that again. Let's see. Let's go to all school um at all school on Twitter. Does Kentucky have a good enough offensive line and passing game to use a similar game plan to Alabama and Tennessee?
01:07:15
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Stoops usually seems to prefer rock fights based on the run. Doesn't he? Yeah. i mean, as they know, they don't to be able to run the same kind of game plan. um He does. i mean, remember like, like he, when they play us, he just tries to slow the game down.
01:07:31
Speaker
Like that is like the ultimate goal. Remember they like death marched themselves a few years ago we're really up really big and they ran like a death march and shoot up like 12 minutes o'clock and like the game was over. what just happened So yeah. Yeah. I remember that.
01:07:48
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Uh, i here was the thing in a i mean All right. um Let's go to Matt Key. Matt, as we said, it was great to see you on Saturday. Loved ah getting some of the lore.
01:07:59
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It was great. Also, he opened with like, okay, dot, dot, dot. Because with the day when we posted the question, like, give us your questions. Matt was like, I'm not ready yet. going to need a few days. um So first off. ah Take pause.
01:08:12
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Right, right. ah First, Bowen's running back one now, question mark. I think that's a resounding yes, right? Agreed. Yeah.
01:08:23
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I like this. When we talked about this a little bit earlier, actually, how soon do we throw back to Taylor to get the kids confidence back up? um I totally think we should. I think, I think fairly early in the game, I'd love to see that happen. I would say first half.
01:08:38
Speaker
Yeah, I would agree. We've got to get go to get the get the ball to these guys. I would say Delp would be in that in that vein as well. Yep. Because he had a pretty big drop. Yeah, would agree.
01:08:49
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um There's something not quite right with Thorson. You think ACL fears still? Um, I noticed in one of the games recently, like Fowler said, had commented that Brett Thorson's told them that he feels like he's almost healthy. Like he's almost hundred percent. So I think he's admittedly not feeling a hundred percent.
01:09:11
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Um, I think still great on like the hang time and the, they're not returning his puns, but I think you had talked about in the review, like we'd love for him to get a little bit more distance, pin them back a little bit deeper inside the 20. Right. Yeah.
01:09:24
Speaker
Yeah, instead of instead of we're talking about inside the 20, we're talking about inside the 10, potentially inside the 5. That's where he's been able to do that in the past. um I mean, you say that, but like me his his punts are averaging you know pretty decently. even and Even in the limited time he's been back, he's still on the Groza list or whatever.
01:09:49
Speaker
Ray Guy Ray Guy Ray Guy sorry yeah you're good yeah he's still on the Ray Guy awards yeah he's averaging right around 45 yards a punt so yeah I think he's still doing pretty good I don't know there's any necessarily fears maybe strength yeah because when you sit out for that long there's a little bit of atrophy here and there so you just got to build that that just takes time to build back up Yeah. um
01:10:20
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And then last, how involved will the crowd be with a noon kickoff and coming off a loss? And I accident i inadvertently talked about that earlier too. I mean, i think I think it should be really loud.
01:10:32
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I mean, it is homecoming. so that's the only thing I'll say. Like homecoming tends to be late arriving crowd, et cetera. So I guess my, I think that's where we just all need to talk amongst each other. If you're going homecoming,
01:10:46
Speaker
you know Get there early, in the stadium on time, and and and be loud for that kickoff. Like I said, let's let's see if we can replicate that Arkansas game from a few years ago. I like it. All right, let's go to BossDog at TJ Witten on Twitter. If you could pick one thing to see out of this team against Kentucky, what would it be?
01:11:06
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I'll let you answer this one first, Jim, and depending on your answer, I may pivot. Sacks. Okay. I want to see pressure on the quarterback. Okay. So you want s sacks as opposed to pressures?
01:11:17
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um You know what i i want the quarterback to be uncomfortable. Pressure is the great equalizer. I want to see some like legit pressure. I want to like the percentage of, I don't know that I have like a target, but like we pressured like we pressured him.
01:11:31
Speaker
What? Like five drop backs, I think last week, which is just way too low. I think he was like one out of five passing when we did pressure him. um i I need to see that pressure rate go weighed up. Okay. Since you're going with pressures, I'm going to go with Interceptions.
01:11:48
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Turnovers. I want turnovers. Okay. Hey, and those things work hand in hand. If we get pressure, I think those will come. I don't disagree with you. All right, let's go to friend of the show, Tim Riley.
01:12:03
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Again, Tim, it was great to see you last week, last Saturday before the game. um He's at T-Ride the Dog on Twitter. Give us your thoughts on our lack of tight end focus. Eight catches across four games.
01:12:14
Speaker
Also, give a download of one month reflection and where we go from here in October. Good seeing y'all in Go Dawgs. Good seeing you, dude. Um, one month reflection and where we go from here. Well, do you want to start with a lack of tight end focus?
01:12:30
Speaker
I'll start there and I'll maybe, it'll maybe get us to the tight end focus. Okay. Okay. That works. So um I think the offensive line needs to step up.
01:12:41
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um Again, the defensive line, we've talked to I mean, we've talked ad nauseum about this the last two seasons, because it's been ah symptom of, in my opinion, it's a symptom of the coaching on the offensive line, which I felt very strongly about since day one.
01:12:58
Speaker
As the talent that Sam Pittman brought, pulled into the, you know, pulled into our circles has dwindled. um yeah The text thread was just popping about, you know, Tate Ratledge and how he's seemingly dominating in the NFL, but,
01:13:15
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struggled at at at Georgia at times, even though it was hurt or whatever. But like, I think if it comes down to coaching, um I think that we struggle at that position from a coaching
National Championship Aspirations
01:13:24
Speaker
standpoint. So I'd like to say that um that's going to get better. um And maybe it will, if we can get some consultants in here named Sam Pittman.
01:13:33
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um But, but I don't know. I think that we just are are having to work with what we've got. and I'd like to see us just get good at doing simple things. Well, you know what I mean?
01:13:48
Speaker
Yep. Waffle house is great because it's amazing food that's cooked simply and consistently every single time. It's not going to win you a Michelin star rating, but it's going to put a smile on your face and, know,
01:14:02
Speaker
and good food in your belly. um And it's, and it tastes good. and And I think that we can ride this team to a national championship. We just have to do what we do, find some, find the things that we do well and stick with it.
01:14:16
Speaker
Um, and that includes if you can get the, if you can get the offensive line gelling better, working together better. Um, I think that that frees up the tight ends. I think that we've been asked to do a lot more. I don't think that Lawson lucky had a single pass thrown his way last game.
01:14:35
Speaker
Um, I think you and I were talking about that. You pointed that out to me, uh, I think on the, after the podcast, but, um, Yeah, I think that they've been asked to to block a lot. I mean, you saw in one of coach's breakdowns, Coach Hayes' breakdowns, like they brought in Oscar Delp as a blocking H-back at one point. Yeah.
01:15:03
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ah I think that, I think that they're, i think that they're using and leveraging those guys as, as blocking tight ends. Um, why they haven't used six foot seven, you know, 300 pound manch child, Ellis Williams or whatever.
01:15:16
Speaker
Um, I don't know, but, uh, he, he seems like he was more like the Darnell Washington. It's kind of like, it reminds me of the, when Darnell Washington was used so heavily to block, um,
01:15:28
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when he was here. Yeah. he didn't really get to showcase a lot of his, you know, other skills. And i think that a lot of that has to do with some of the blocking deficiencies that we have on the offensive line.
01:15:42
Speaker
Yeah, I agree with you. I think, I think like for me and the one month reflection, i think we've got a, we've got a young team and I think, I think most teams in college football are young. I think we're in a new day and age in college football.
01:15:55
Speaker
Um, and i think the days of, of like seeking perfection and that perfect season, Um, are probably gone. Um, I think to make it through, you think about as close as the last two games are to split those two games is not the worst thing in the world in today's day and age. Um, you know, to go 500 across to, ah nail biters. Um, I think we can live with that.
01:16:22
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Again, last week just hurt so much because of who it was, theyre not not the result and the loss in the loss column. That does not kill you these days. um so i think ah But you know you learn a lot from loss.
01:16:35
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We've talked about it multiple times. You you keep saying this, John. Kirby talked about how he was excited um on Monday when he when he watched the film and saw a lot of things that it excites him. um And we could we can see there you know the miscues that were so close, like the plays were there.
01:16:49
Speaker
and think we have the talent. We've got the players. ah They just need to grow up. And these freshman linemen, in a few weeks, dore not going to be freshmen anymore, right? they're going to be They're going to continue to get out there and and learn more and begin to yeah hopefully play like veterans.
01:17:04
Speaker
um So that's kind of where my head's at right now. I think plenty of runway left in this season. um i think we're Honestly, I think we're sitting in a and a pretty good spot. so I would agree with that. All right, John, we got one more.
01:17:18
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Ready to hit it? let's hit it Let's
01:17:25
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hit
Coaches Over/Unders Segment
01:17:26
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it. Oh, my God. My God, a freshman. Trying to put glasses on. 90-80. Who, brother?
01:17:34
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It is time for Coaches Over Unders Kentucky Edition. JP, you have taken the lead and Coaches Over Unders by one whole pick. You get the honors. Would you like to go first or do you want to defer?
01:17:48
Speaker
What's the first question? What's the first one? I'm trying to find the notes there. it is I'll let you go first on this one. Okay. Um, so we are going to start off with the offense.
01:18:01
Speaker
Uh, first question is over under four and a half rushing attempts for Gunnar Stockton. I'm going to go over. Hmm. Plurifying question, Jim. Hmm. Are these, are these, uh, including, scrambles?
01:18:17
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Yeah, I would say if he, I think that counts as a rush. And sacks. Does a sack count as a rushing attempt? That is a good question. I do not. I don't know the answer to that question. and Okay. I'm going to say that these are designed runs, and I'm going under.
01:18:33
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Okay. and Then over to you, over under 55 receiving yards for Colby Young. I've got over on that one, Jim. Okay. I actually agree. going to say over.
01:18:44
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um And then over under two and a half rushing touchdowns.
01:18:52
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I'm going to go over. I'm also going to go over on that one. Okay. Okay. All right. Let's see Hitting, switching over to the defense and then over to you again, We'll start it off ah over under 95 rushing yards for Kentucky.
01:19:08
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This is to me. um going under on that number, Jim. Oh, man. It's like scintillating. I love that.
01:19:19
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Man, I'd love to do that. I'm going to go over. It's a low number. I'm going to over. And then next, over, under, two and a half sacks. um Part of me wants to say, I'm going to say under until they show me.
01:19:36
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But.
01:19:40
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but I think based on what I saw from their offensive line last week, I'm going to say over. So you, you believe that they're going show you.
01:19:52
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Yes, I do. I've got it on the over there on that one, Jim. Okay. um And then over under one and a half forced turnovers for the Georgia defense. This is to me. I've got it on the under. Yeah.
01:20:04
Speaker
I'm less confident in that side of the coin. This also filed under the umbrella of... Show me! Yeah. I think that's that's fair. All right. Let's see. Then we've got special teams.
01:20:18
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um right, so I think this is me. Sorry, I was trying to count. i lost I lost track of who was going. um Over, under, two and a half punt returns for Zachariah Branch. ah Two and a half.
01:20:31
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That's a fair catch a lot. I'm going to go under. Carry the one.
01:20:38
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going to go over on that one, Jim. okay Okay. See, this this could be a separation Saturday on the
01:20:50
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All right. And then the last one is not technically an over-under, he clarified. He had a clarification. This is, I think, just this is kind of just for fun.
01:21:02
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um He said bourbon, ah not an over-under, but a brunch drink of choice, if not a Kentucky bourbon. So I said ah Kentucky bourbon or other, and you can state your other if it's other.
01:21:14
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Okay. So like it could be a cocktail of Kentucky bourbon. Yeah, it could be anything. Mint Julep. Ooh, okay. Okay. I guess that would technically fall under other.
01:21:26
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It doesn't matter. um For me, honestly, like I'm not a big brunch cocktail person. like I'm not huge on mimosas, and I don't like and't like Bloody Marys either.
01:21:40
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I don't know. do you like bloody no i was with your taste of like not liking pickles and stuff i kind of assumed um figured double check okay yeah um i guess i would probably do like an irish coffee is probably because generally because like at a brunch i usually just drink coffee so i'll go with an irish coffee that's a good one i like that All right.
01:22:03
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Well, coach, thank you as always for sending those in. ah Appreciate you. Great to see you last weekend. Got to see you a couple of times last weekend. It was awesome. But as always, appreciate you doing this for us.
01:22:15
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Yes. Thank you, sir. All right. So heading into prediction time. um so let's see. Looking at odd shark, Georgia is favored in this game by 20 and a half points. yeah Big line. The over under is 48 and a half.
01:22:29
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That gives an implied score of Georgia 34 and a half to 14. ah Their predicted score is not far off of that. 37.1 to 14.2. We looked out at Parker Fleming's CFB graphs again. He's got Georgia 27.05.
01:22:41
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parker flemings cfb graphs again he's got georgia twenty seven point zero five to Kentucky 16.34. And then I looked at our scoring impact that we do and our spreadsheet that has Georgia 36.65 to Kentucky 16.2. So not far off from that other stuff either.
01:23:01
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um I don't know, Johnny, did do you want you want me to go or you want to go? Where you where we? What do you think? I've got 31 13,
01:23:10
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Okay. Okay. Yeah. I'm, I'm not far off. Like I said earlier, I feel like we, the, the struggle bus against Kentucky tends to be up there.
01:23:21
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We've handled business at home the last few times we played them here. So I've got dogs 37, 10. Yeah. o
01:23:29
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I like it. I like your score better to than mine.
01:23:33
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Nice. Nice. um So based on wait, what was your, and just to, just to back up for a second, what was your over under on rushing touchdowns?
01:23:45
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It was two and a half. But what was your answer on that? Um, I thought I said over. Okay. I'm not changing my answer coach. No, no. I was just trying to think like, so if you had under, I was just thinking that you're, you're confident that Gunner was going to have a big day.
01:24:00
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So honestly though, that is why I hesitated answering that question because, and also because I feel like Kentucky's past defense has been struggling. So that, that's why I was kind of teetering on that, on that question.
01:24:11
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Cause I do I, I kind of do think that could happen. and Okay. Cool. We've got a couple of games around that Coach gave us for our Pick'em games.
Game Predictions and Wrap-up
01:24:23
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ah We can hit those. um The first one he's got here is number nine, Texas. Travels to play the Florida Gators in the Swamp.
01:24:34
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um It's a 3.30 kickoff on ESPN. Texas is favored by six and a half points. I feel like number nine, Texas on the road at Florida and an unranked Florida and the lions only six and a half seems odd to me, but that's just me.
01:24:52
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Vegas knows Jim. Yeah. there's something I I'm going to take Texas to win, but I do think, I think Florida might keep this pretty close. Yeah. So I've got Texas. I've got Texas in that matchup as well.
01:25:06
Speaker
It feels like a 10 point victory. Okay. Next one. Huge matchup. up Number 16, Vandy. at At number 10, Alabama. 330 kickoff on ABC.
01:25:21
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mean, again with this, you got Texas, Florida at 330 on ESPN and Vandy, Alabama 330 at ABC. again Come on, Nate. Come on, SEC. CBS would never. CBS would never do that.
01:25:32
Speaker
Alabama is favored by 10.5 points at home. Can Diego Pavia pull it off again? JP. I think he does. Ooh, it'd be delicious. I think he does. But ah my gut my gut wants it wants that answer to be the question, but I'm going to go with Alabama on this one.
01:25:50
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Okay. Okay. But if you just woke up, if you just woke up from 2000, you're not going crazy. That is number 16 Vanderbilt playing number 10 Alabama. Okay.
01:26:01
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i i lost the stat. I saw it like online. This is the first time this has been like a top 25 ranked matchup in like it was some insane amount of Like 100 years.
01:26:12
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Yeah. It was wild. Yeah. Where's game day at this? is Are there there and they at Miami FSU? No, game day is at Alabama for Vanderbilt. Oh, it is. Oh, okay.
01:26:23
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like, like Rip Van Winkle, like you're not going crazy. That is, that is college game day on the campus of Vanderbilt. I mean, are they going to have Theo Vaughn be the guest picker and like talk about whether or not he's dating?
01:26:37
Speaker
Can I take, take Pavia's mom out on a date? That would be so funny if they had him as the guest picker and they brought hurt his mom out. Oh man. Dude, Giovanni is such a weirdo. All right. Just because I'm going to have fun with this. I'm taking Vandy.
01:26:54
Speaker
all right. Okay. I want, I want Vandy to win just because at this point, just let chaos ensue everywhere else, except for Athens. For sure. um And honestly, i mean, it now, you know,
01:27:08
Speaker
There's no East and West, right? So like Bama losing a game helps us, um, like an sec standings. So, yeah, I mean, does it, or cause if they ended up with only one loss, then they would hold the tiebreaker.
01:27:19
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True. But, and then also if Vandy has a beats them and then Vandy has a tiebreaker for Alabama, I just said that. Um, okay. And then the, the last one, we've got the night game, the game lost a little bit of its luster, uh, after Florida state lost, uh, at Virginia, but, um,
01:27:37
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Number three, Miami, four-and-a-half point favorite at number 18, Florida State, 7.30 p.m. on ABC. So Carson Beck gets another crack at if if Florida State after having a previously defeated them as a Georgia quarterback in that Orange Bowl a couple years ago.
01:27:54
Speaker
I have a feeling this game is going to be pretty good. Yeah, I think they do. I think four and a half. I mean, that's still they're thinking it'll be pretty close. Yeah, I think if anything that Miami squeaks that one out you know, three or four points.
01:28:08
Speaker
Okay. Okay. um I'm going to take a bounce back game for Florida state at home. They beat Alabama at home. I think they, ah I think they got a little too, I think they ate too much rat poison ah before a game at and Virginia. um And we're going to make this separation Saturday and pick them as well.
01:28:30
Speaker
Wait. oh oh yeah. cause You're going for FC. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I would love to see Miami lose the rest of the way just to go ahead and kick that narrative to the curb. The narrative.
01:28:41
Speaker
Yeah. yeah Yeah. A season of narratives. Seriously. All right. Well, shout out coach again for the pick, sending the pick them games. Also always a good time. um So yeah, so I, I will be there.
01:28:55
Speaker
I told that story again. So be back down there. kind Probably be coming in kind of hot, um but looking, looking forward to another day between the hedges. Homecoming is always a good time as well.
01:29:06
Speaker
So should be fun. What's a weather outlook for, It looks good. the six Yeah, that's where it's kind of heading towards fall a little bit, like mid-70s. Right, right. Yeah, that's good.
01:29:17
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um I will not be at this game. um i will probably be watching from the golf court, Jim. Oh, okay. Carter has golf practice followed by a makeup golf round um that he's going to have starting at one. So...
01:29:35
Speaker
I believe that I'll get an hour of uninterrupted time to be able to watch it. Otherwise I'll be watching the second half in the, uh, in the golf cart probably. Okay. Okay. You didn't have like an elaborate setup.
01:29:48
Speaker
I'm just kidding. Uh, why do you say that? Cause, uh, maybe I need to figure out a way to jerry rig the computer or something like that. um like the phone is pretty good these days you get like one of those magnetic mounts and mount your phone on the golf cart just kind of that's true that's true kick back relax and watch it just figure out figure out something yeah yeah um yeah so okay that's that's what it's also a homecoming weekend here too so Okay.
01:30:19
Speaker
Okay. Not sure what they're doing for that. Yeah. so and Apparently we are not partaking in our household except for the football game.
01:30:30
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Amazing. Well, cool, man. um I mean, I'm um'm i'm looking for bounce back game for the dogs this weekend. Hope we get to see that.
01:30:41
Speaker
Get it right. Get it right. Dogs just dominate on those trenches. That's all i want to see. Yeah. We just need show me.
01:30:53
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There it is. And then less of the. by So yeah, I, it's, I didn't remove it from the soundboard, but I also intentionally didn't press the button.
01:31:04
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Yeah.
01:31:06
Speaker
just Just go ahead and do it. Just do it once. Just do it once. You want it like once for old time's sake? Just for old time's sake.
01:31:19
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dogs. Go dogs. go dogs