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Alabama Review | 2025 Georgia Football
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Jim and John review Georgia’s 24-21 loss to Alabama.
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Episode Introduction and Georgia vs Alabama Game Overview
00:00:00
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We get the ball. We go three and They run out of play and then...
00:00:14
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Welcome to My Got a Podcast. I'm Jim Wood. In this episode, John Powell and I review Georgia's 24-21 loss to twenty one law the Alabama Crimson Tide. We talk about our experiences on Saturday and what stood out to us during the game.
00:00:27
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00:00:43
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Now, let's join the conversation in progress.
Game Analysis: Missed Opportunities and Historical Context
00:00:49
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Just as we predicted. oh man. Okay, so that is, it is kind of funny because I was looking at that because I, you know, that's, that's usually the joke that we, that we open with.
00:01:01
Speaker
um Dude, we're actually pretty close. um You had, 28, 25? but twenty eight twenty five Yeah, had us basically by a field goal, which have we gotten? had us which I will say. So I hit Alabama's score.
00:01:20
Speaker
Exactly. Nailed nailed it. And then if we don't drop a touchdown, i mean, things wouldn't have happened this way. But let's say Taylor catches the to pass, scores, and then we kick a field goal.
00:01:32
Speaker
Score would have been Maybe. I don't know. Who knows? Maybe we wouldn't have. They may have scored again. But anyways, we weren't too far off, I guess is my point. Like, it wasn't like we were thinking we were going to totally like totally dominate or anything.
00:01:44
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The game felt it would be a tight game. It was just, um I mean, just came up short. It's frustrating, especially because it was against them. Yep, it was just it's just the opponent.
00:01:56
Speaker
like if If you insert that game on any other opponent, and it doesn't feel as and terrible, but maybe it does. I don't know.
Social Interactions and Pregame Activities
00:02:06
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Well, not in like in today's college football, right? Because like like we we said it we've said it. like In the grand scheme of things, like one loss doesn't matter.
00:02:14
Speaker
um Last year, we lost two regular season games and still won the SEC, and we're number two in the playoff season. So like not the end of the world, but it's just the narratives that go along with it and that they ended yet another one of our streaks is just.
00:02:28
Speaker
Yeah. It had to be, it had to be them that ended the streak and yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. It was, ah it was suboptimal on an otherwise amazing weekend.
00:02:43
Speaker
ah of friendery. The weekend was amazing. The weekend was amazing. um We saw so many people. yeah Maybe we should just just start there and kick kick it off that way.
00:02:57
Speaker
right so I was coming in hot for Coach Trill's party Friday night. ah Thank you again to Coach and Shelby for having us out.
00:03:08
Speaker
A fine evening Friday night. Really started the weekend off with a bang, honestly. Yeah, that was that was great. the all the The restaurant that we were at, the food and you know everybody with their cocktails and stuff, like that was um that was super fun.
00:03:25
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really Really enjoyed it. Yeah, was incredible. Congratulations to the happy couple. 100%. And then over to Ponda's famous bed breakfasts.
00:03:38
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um I was able to convince you to to make the drive over, which I'm curious. I never asked you this, but how did you net out on that? were you were was it Were you glad that we did? or i think it, well, considering how Saturday morning went and that we did the on-campus pregame run, i think I think it did work out for the best.
00:03:57
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Yes. Yeah, so so what we got over there Friday night, caught the very end of the Florida State Virginia game, which we thought was like maybe a good sign for us on Saturday, not to be.
00:04:12
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um Hung on my parents a bit, and then yeah Saturday morning over on the campus, did with ah with some more omens. We had everything go on our way. Yeah.
00:04:25
Speaker
I mean, we're we're we're running it. I'll tell my version of it. You're like, Jim, did we just pass Scott Sinclair? I'm pretty sure that was Scott Sinclair. And I was like, I mean, he was a bald man, ah like running around, looked kind of like him. And then what, we run into him again. You're like, coach, looked at us.
00:04:42
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Coach Sinclair confirmed. Yes. And then we ran into him again. Again. Yeah. Apparently if you go for a jog on campus on game day in the general route we did, you can run into Scott Sinclair like three times.
00:04:58
Speaker
Yeah, dude, he was doing his, he was doing a walkabout. He was doing a walkabout the stadium, um much in the same way that we did. Although that we we decided to make it a we decided to make it was like, hey, we're not going to hit quite three miles on the route that I was planning to go. And so I was like, hey, why don't we just go and run and and check out Logan's tailgate and we can just do the Vagabond.
Tailgate and Game Day Experiences
00:05:20
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We just did the Vagabond tailgate five k Yeah, it was pretty sweet. It's pretty sweet. It got us a little rest, uh, able hydrate. Thanks, Logan. Um, yes, that was pretty cool.
00:05:34
Speaker
It was pretty cool. Yeah. was, that was, that was a great, that was a great pregame run. Um, yeah. And then we went, then we went back to, back to Ponda's famous bed and breakfast.
00:05:45
Speaker
Um, and we we brought home, we brought home the breakfast. Um, And, okay, so not only did you get to experience the country cupboard again, and then you got to introduce me to an item that I had never had. had have Also, i was saying it was called something something else. We learned, like, all the lore of country cupboard. Oh, yeah, Carol's country cupboard.
00:06:04
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Now, yes. So, and it is still owned by the same family of what I knew as Two Cousins Cafe. So it was pretty, was pretty funny. So same, same thing. um Fantastic.
00:06:16
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Not a sponsor yet, but got all the lore of country covered where it came from about the building it's in and the food. Holy moly. Highly recommend the, what is it? The TEC?
00:06:26
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Yes. The TEC, the tenderloin egg and cheese. Phenomenal. Absolute unit of a biscuit. It's like a fried pork chop on a biscuit. Exactly. Incredible.
00:06:38
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Oh, man, that was such a great start to the day. Such a great start to the day. Yeah, man. Then, you know, my, we, we kind of went over in, in parts over onto the campus. My, my sister, you know, drove us over there.
00:06:53
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Then my parents met up with us later on campus for tailgating at two tailgates, which were again, phenomenal, outstanding. Thank you as always, you know, Scott, Greg, Zach, ah rodeo, um Jason over at his spot.
00:07:09
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ah Appreciate everyone for, for, for hosting us. um Heck of a day. Yeah, Zach and DT, all those guys doing the setup. Yeah, man. And then got a hit a little special collections.
00:07:21
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Saw front of the show, Tim Riley. That's right, yeah. And Brother Mark as well. So it was a good time. Man, it was the boys were back in town. i feel like we we saw just about everyone. a Shout out to Daniel Hicks, Pastor Daniel. I did not see him. that was the i actually texted him on Sunday that I blamed him for the loss because we didn't actually meet up. because He was in the high dollar seats and was ah went into the stadium much earlier than he normally does.
00:07:51
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And I didn't get a chance to see him before going into the game. That is the first time first game that we have ever that I've been on campus and not run into him somewhere. That's funny.
00:08:02
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That's funny. Yeah, dude. it was It was incredible. um Anytime you have like a smoked whole hog and live music at the tailgate, it's a good day. I mean, dude, the the the live music was not only was it like cool, it wasn't just like some dude just playing a guitar, but like he was playing medleys yeah and and cover songs that just did not, didn't think that they would go together, but they did.
00:08:26
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. It was amazing. It was amazing. Dude, we met people. had to meet people that we had met like online, but so got to meet some new people. um As promised, ah we saw Chris from SEC unfiltered, as we discussed preseason. He was there.
00:08:43
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was a good time. That was great.
Game Challenges and Alabama's Strategy
00:08:45
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i actually introduced him into, he was he was perusing the bourbon and I made a recommendation for the 107. Not many tailgates you go to have 107, Weller 107 on the offering. And so I pointed him in the right direction there. And he said later on, he's like, this this is fantastic. And I said, I know.
00:09:05
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So Chris Phillips saw Daily Joy, SEC Pretty herself was in that was in the house too That's right. That's right. That's right. um Yeah, man. It was a great day. um We eventually were able to connect up with, with coach as well. And we had the building bonus in person from one bread building.
00:09:21
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um Do we like, we saw the Jones was in town. Got to see Hunt the Jones at the tailgate. It was incredible. It was incredible. Oh, we got a Matt Key like dating like meeting his wife origin story, which was incredible.
00:09:36
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It was awesome, man. It was awesome. Yeah. It was like such a good day. Such a good day. Yeah. And the food was fantastic and at every place. Shout out, Hug Dog. the Garrett gart gave me, a she just handed me, she was like, what do you want? i was like, i don't know. what she she i got I got you. And she just, she handed me a plate of food and it was amazing. And the hog was great.
00:09:57
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Mac and cheese was great. All the food, all the food and the pageantry. a Yeah. all All the things that you you look for in and an experience on game day, you had it there.
00:10:11
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Yeah. Yeah. Oh boy. Yeah. I don't know. but Then there was the game. Then there was the game. There was the game, which although I got to say again, shout out to my mom because they went, they all went into game before you and I did. We hung back a little bit.
00:10:25
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We get in, we walk in the stadium, we get, you know, I don't know, 50 feet in or whatever. And I was like, Oh, the wristbands. And so we go back and the wristbands were gone.
00:10:35
Speaker
The wristbands are gone, but shout out. My mom had snagged some extra for us. Man, she had... That that that was like mom mode engage. Yeah, seriously. I'm going to get wristbands to and make sure they have some.
00:10:47
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is It was incredible. So, yeah. ah well We had NoSean calling the dogs. Everything ready. That was cool to see. Free game had to fly over. were ready to go and then kind of but quickly...
00:11:03
Speaker
Yeah. Well, first we go three and out, right? Yeah. We get the ball. We go three and out. They run out play and then.
00:11:18
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is that going to be, is that going to be a thing? Is that going to be a thing on the soundboard now? I think it probably shouldn't because I think everyone, I don't. Yeah, probably not. But hopefully like one, I don't know. Everyone I feel like is probably going to yell at us. Yeah.
00:11:30
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Well, you know what? Now I'm wondering, like, maybe we should tell the punt and pass guys, maybe we should tell Drew Butler to have that for a second down.
00:11:40
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um Sorry, Drew, you got to change your second down music. That's funny. Oh, that's good. Because it literally was second down every single time.
00:11:51
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Like, every single time they had second down. No matter if it was, like, second and one, no matter if it was, like, second and 19, that was the music. i've I've seen, do so like i I'm sorry because I'm like perpetuating it by doing it on the soundboard. I can't get the sound out of my head. i don't know about you.
00:12:07
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like It keeps just like popping into my head. It's Monday. It's still happening to I mean, not to not to like belittle what happened in World War I. If you didn't know, that sound is from a movie that is based on World War one It's a very dire movie, um as the sound probably indicates.
00:12:30
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um The scenes where that sound shows up as are pretty intense. If you haven't seen it, definitely go check it out. Netflix, All Quiet on the Western Front. um But yeah, dude, I have PTSD.
00:12:45
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I know. Much like people that were in that war. like We've been through the same thing kind of thing. like We just got bombarded with that sound over and over and over again. Yeah, I'm totally wondering if it's going to be like a thing now. Like, is that the new second down music? Or is it only a night game thing? Or was it just for that game? I feel like it's probably not just for that game.
00:13:04
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but like I was a little disappointed that SEC Shorts didn't tackle that topic on our game. Like, I feel like that they had a golden opportunity and just totally sidestepped it.
00:13:18
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Yeah. I feel like that's a fair criticism. Have you seen the video? i I saw that it was out. i like i didn't I was like, I don't think I want to watch this. You didn't have the stomach for it? Yeah. Yeah. I'll watch it eventually, but I haven't watched it yet.
00:13:30
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Like, is it funny at least? It was pretty funny. Okay. I mean, i'm i'm I'm definitely one of those, like, if you can't laugh at yourself, who can you laugh at kind thing? So I'll watch it. I'll watch it tomorrow. So knowing that that guy was a Bama fan, like I was not surprised that how it transpired. But at least he had the self-deprecating way to to end it the way that he ended it.
00:13:50
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Okay. Or i guess I guess they ended it. Okay. Fair enough. Fair enough. um Yeah, mean we got to like stop spotting teams 14 points. And that's, um I mean, and guess that's a good segue into into the game itself.
00:14:05
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um Yeah, man, I don't i don't know. We've we've entered show me territory. I think you you kind of coined that like. Yeah. After the game, like from this point forward, like I'm just, I need, I need, I need someone to step up and show me that they want this. Cause right now but and we're we're just a good, we're just a really good team.
00:14:25
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We're a really good team. And we may sneak into the playoff, but I don't, haven't even looked at the, the revised stats or anything like that. But like, you know, the net yards per play numbers that define an elite team, we were already like well off that mark.
00:14:42
Speaker
Yeah. and I can't imagine we got much better. Probably stayed a little flat if I'm if I can recall. um Maybe even got a little worse. Our red zone numbers are just atrocious.
00:14:56
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um Our defensive numbers. I mean, we had we had less pressures on their quarterback than Louisiana Monroe. Yeah. um So I did. I had already, already pulled our stats for the next game. ah So I'll go ahead and tell you our net yards per play on the season is 0.87.
00:15:14
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So not, that is not elite atrociously bad for Kirby smarts. is That's it. That is by far the worst in the Kirby smart era. Yeah. um And normally you'd think that like one side of the ball would like help the other, but like we're both not great.
00:15:32
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Yeah. 100%. That's the thing. is like That's the thing that like Jeff Dantzler always talks about is complementary football. and like That is exactly what we are not doing. it's like It's like whenever we do one good thing on one side, it's like we can't follow through on the other end.
00:15:50
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like Case in point, you know where we go three and out. We punt. They just march down the field. but um Then we have to punt again. They go down and score again.
00:16:01
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Then we score with the, the shot, the shot play. um We get, the know, the the deep ball, the Colby young, get the shot play score. And then we finally get them. Then we finally get a stop, right? We finally stop them.
00:16:12
Speaker
We get them to punt and then we fumble and turn it over. It's like, you know, cause like at that point that could have been like a huge turning point. um And you know, the, the offense, it looked like it had started to kind of come alive. And then, i mean, that, that fumble, mean, those three points right there, i mean,
00:16:29
Speaker
There's so many, like, you know, one thing, two thing here throughout the game, we ever point to a specific plays, but we lost by three. And they got feel a field goal off the fumble. was only turnover of the game. And you could argue that's the difference in the game right there.
00:16:41
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, we're but just, to ah as with every game that we play against these guys, you're a couple of plays away from being, we're we're a couple plays away, like six six different plays away from having a significantly better record against these guys.
00:16:56
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There's so many across, across the entire, across the entire like rivalry, but in this game specifically, you know, three or four plays away from it being a much different story.
00:17:08
Speaker
um Yeah, it, it is what it is. I'm just glad that there wasn't like any super egregious um referee situations that came into play. Yeah.
00:17:21
Speaker
it was it was an aggressive It was an aggressive game all around, um and I'm glad that there wasn't a ton of nitpickiness, if you will. yeah I would agree.
00:17:33
Speaker
Or agree just missed calls, like just flat out missed calls. Yeah, there's nothing like the drop catch in the SEC Championship a couple years ago. Or the offsides that shouldn't have been called. Yeah, or Tyler Simmons was onside. There was nothing that I recall that was...
Evaluating Georgia's Defense and Offensive Strategies
00:17:50
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that i recall there was Along those lines. Um, so yeah, I'm with you. Even, I mean, we benefited, I benefited, I guess, but from the, the post play targeting, like from the review, which I mean, I've i've watched it like in this stadium, I was kind of like, really? Like, I mean, I will take it. I'll always accept stuff like that, but like right seeing it, I mean, I, I mean, I get like, yes, by the letter of the rule that was targeting, but I don't know, kind of in the scrum, like that was interesting, but whatever.
00:18:18
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Um, But yeah, no, I agree. I agree. I mean, at least there, are there was that. um But I, I think ah like we hit after the Tennessee game, we talked a little bit about like, is there, should we be concerned about the defense? And I'm concerned about the defense.
00:18:36
Speaker
Yeah, I'm real concerned about the defense. Our inability to get push in times of dire need. I mean, they converted more third downs than any other team in the history of Sanford Stadium. Yeah, yeah.
00:18:53
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the The clip that they were able to convert third downs was embarrassing. Like, just flat out embarrassing. 13 19 third downs.
00:19:05
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um third down Yeah, dude. Like, that's crazy. Which, I mean, and that's the thing. is i mean the They ran 77 plays in this game, which is just insane.
00:19:17
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um The first quarter... They converted third downs better than Gunnar Stockton completed passes. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, they had the ball for like 12 minutes in the first quarter, I think.
00:19:29
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, this game was definitely a game of two halves. I mean, clearly we we we we did our what we normally do. And I think the broadcast was even talking about it. my Kirby Smart is the king of adjustments in the second half. you know we shut We completely shut them out in the second half. Now, I will throw a caveat out there about that. If you haven't watched...
00:19:51
Speaker
The second half, you know, Bama scored, and they must have been feeling pretty good about themselves because they came out at halftime, and I think that for probably 12 minutes of game time, Ty Simpson threw one pass that was beyond the line of scrimmage.
00:20:09
Speaker
I think he really only threw two passes, period. One of them was a little swing pass out out wide to... um Williams or Holden, I can't remember who it was, but I mean, it didn't really do much, but, and then another, the the one like obvious downfield passing opportunity was when we got, we had them in third and long where we got the stop.
00:20:31
Speaker
um And it was an incomplete pass. um If you fast forward it to about two minutes left, it was only with two minutes left in the third quarter. Did he throw a third pass? So yeah,
00:20:44
Speaker
Like they got really conservative. And if you look at some of the plays that they ran, like they, we we got tackles for loss. We got stops. Like they got cute. Like, as you like to say, Jim, they got cute on some, on some plays and they got conservative in my opinion.
00:21:01
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And I think that if they had, you know, not taken their foot off the gas, which is what, you know, the common phrase is, is like they took their foot off the gas. I feel like, um,
00:21:13
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And I think that if they didn't just continued to do what that what what Ty Simpson was doing in the first half, where they were just picking us apart in the middle of the field. um Yeah, I will say that pretty much the whole game, like they really played like a ball control style like that was what was shocking to me was the fact that they were able to beat us the way they did like their offense against our defense like I was expecting them to be taking shot plays like like what Tennessee does because that's what they did to us last year like last year Ryan Williams like bailed them out with these crazy circus catches and runs and that didn't happen and all I mean he got he did get wide open the one time and then he I mean they had a touchdown job as well i mean his
00:21:56
Speaker
That was right in his bread basket, the drop that he had. That should have been touchdown. They ended up scoring anyway, so it didn't really matter. But, like, the fact that they just played ball control and, like, bullied us, like, that's what we do.
00:22:08
Speaker
You know? Like, that looks that looks like what Alabama and Saban did, not what DeBoer did last year. that's So that's what was so surprising to me is like,
00:22:19
Speaker
And I, you know, i mean, like hats off to them. They had a bye week. They spent two weeks preparing and had that game plan and it worked. And you you know even though, I mean, I know we held them scoreless in the second half, but they still dominated the time possession.
00:22:33
Speaker
um So they had the ball eight minutes, eight and a half minutes to six and a half minutes in the third quarter, basically both. So third and fourth quarter, they, they didn't score, but they played keep away and they kept the ball still for, you know, over half of both of those quarters. so um Like they kind of,
00:22:48
Speaker
I mean, like you're saying, they kind of sat on it. And ultimately, it worked because we couldn't capitalize on opportunities. It shouldn't have worked. It shouldn't have. It should not have. And I know you like to look at the ESPN win expectancy percentage throughout the game or whatever. And I mean, right there, end of third quarter, beginning of fourth quarter, it had gone our way. Georgia should win this game.
00:23:11
Speaker
um That's right around when we... I mean, that that was that drive. The drive that resulted in the... Opted not to kick on fourth down, went for it. Cash Jones gets tackled. that like That moment right there, we score.
00:23:23
Speaker
like we They were expecting us to win. The win probability says George going win this game right there. When we get down to first and 10 at their 17, we should win the game. John was john shared shared the Bill Connolly post-game win percentage like numbers.
00:23:41
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yeah Alabama had a 19% chance of winning this game in the post in Bill Connolly's numbers there, which I was shocked by. um Me too.
00:23:51
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I still am. it It felt like if we, it's such a weird game. Cause like I, I like it, it's like we should have won, but it also sitting there felt like we were getting dominated. So, but it felt like, man, like we should have found a way and had we found a way to would have felt like we stole it.
00:24:06
Speaker
But according to his metrics, that's not really the case. You know, it's interesting. Right. Yeah, no, I agree. i mean, I have a feeling that those metrics had to have just overwhelmingly factored in the running the running place. Like we ran the ball down their throat.
00:24:25
Speaker
Like, you know, I always like to throw out the if I'd have told you this, like, what would you have said about the game if you had had told me before the game? that the University of Georgia was going to have over 200 yards rushing against the University of Alabama, I would have told you that we were absolutely going to destroy them.
00:24:46
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, that was one of the things we talked about in the pregame is like, usually the team that wins the ground game wins this game. Correct. Correct. 227 yards on 33 rushing attempts. We averaged seven yards a carry.
00:25:05
Speaker
I mean, it's no wonder Gunnar Stockton only only attempted 20 passes because, number one, we didn't have enough opportunities. But number two, you know... Chauncey Bowens established himself as running back number one in this game. 100%.
00:25:21
Speaker
and but From my perspective. um I think that Josh McCray is going to be a close number two. I think that he should be a third down back. I don't know. I know that we've got Cash Jones in there on our third downs apparently.
00:25:35
Speaker
um Josh McCray fights for those close yards. Like I said, if, you know, having watched what Josh McCray has done on goal line situations in the last two games, when you need one yard, you know,
00:25:50
Speaker
um one ah hundred percent like I'm 100% like I'm handing the ball off to Josh McCray and I'm daring the defense to stop it because i haven't seen anybody stop it when he's got when he's needed, you know, goal to go yard to go kind of situations where i mean, he it took like he was fighting off two guys to get his touchdown.
00:26:08
Speaker
It was amazing. It was amazing. Um, okay. So what you were saying there is reminding me of, and I, I feel like we should just kind of talk about the whole, the whole situation, early fourth quarter, we get down to their 17 end up with third and don't remember what it was. was like third and five or something like that. Um,
00:26:28
Speaker
where a gunner needs to get, or we need to get to this, their seven yard line and gunner runs. So a couple of things here. So first off, I want to go back to when, when McCray scored his touchdown, because this, I am going I don't want this to sound like I'm blaming the officials on anything, but I have a point here.
00:26:44
Speaker
It's just, this is just like, of course this kind of thing happens. So McCray runs at the middle and we go tempo. This is ah on the touchdown. So when we scored to get to 21 points, that drive.
00:26:56
Speaker
So McCray runs at the middle and like dives in the end zone. and They rule him down. And then we go tempo and we run him up the middle again. And he walks into the end zone, but the play never happened. They blew it dead because they needed to review to see if McCray had gotten in on the plate before.
00:27:10
Speaker
And so they review. So then it's like, it was like, Oh my gosh, like, why are we reviewing? We already scored. This is frustrating. Right. So then, then they review and they confirm the call in the field. he was
Coaching Decisions and Game Execution Critique
00:27:19
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down. So he run another play and he scores right then. So it didn't really matter, but it was kind of like, like, why are we reviewing this?
00:27:25
Speaker
You know, he didn't get in and we had already scored. That's kind frustrating. So now you fast forward and like the opposite happens. So then Gunner, you know, takes the, he run design run, um which I didn't realize until i told you right. Cause we hopped on, I was finishing my rewatch of the game.
00:27:42
Speaker
Honestly, like r right tackle was pulling and like kind of ran into Gaston and tripped a little bit. I mean, Gunner, if that doesn't happen, I think Gunner scores in that play, by the way, on third down, I think he walks into the end zone.
00:27:56
Speaker
Yeah. to go and left. um He has to cut in because of this one guy's missed. Dude, it was close, man. Like he had to get to the seven. The ball was at the six and a half when he hit the ground. They never showed a side replay because we ran hurry up and went so fast. So I don't know what a replay would have said, but man, like,
00:28:14
Speaker
feels like they you know you took but they've been taking a look at all these first down marks all night long. I have to wonder if we didn't go hurry up and we waited two more seconds, would they have buzzed? I wonder if they didn't buzz because of what happened on the Josh McCray touchdown because they realized that they stopped a play that ended up being a scoring opportunity for Georgia.
00:28:36
Speaker
Yeah, I don't. Yeah, I get that. A damned if you're due and a damned if you don't situation for the refereeing crew. But, I mean, that was a pretty important spot.
00:28:48
Speaker
I think, i don't know, people are going to hate this, but I think he was down. um He may have been. as is saying I feel like I never really saw the good side angle. Yeah. yeah I feel like that the ball may have been extended and it might have been close, but i mean for me, it looked like his knee had to have gone down but but just based on his body physics.
00:29:09
Speaker
Here's my deal with that. This is what heard people talk and this is what ah what i've heard most people talk about is that okay If you're going to go into a situation where it's third down and five, and Kirby Smart said that they were going to run ah fourth down, they were going to go for it on fourth down if they got any yards whatsoever, I think is what he said, right?
00:29:36
Speaker
Yeah, I believe so. I know he said they had, they were going to go for it and for it down. So my issue, my issue with that decision is that the personnel grouping that we chose to run with in that sequence was not ready for the sequence.
00:29:53
Speaker
Yeah. um And even if they were ready, like it was Kirby, le Kirby said that if if if Juan Gaston, you know, carries his block, you know, cash walks into the end zone or it was a touchdown. Like he said that he said that.
00:30:08
Speaker
Yeah. My thing is is that what if Chauncey Bowens is out there? Does that stiff arm that he throws to the defender, does that get better? What if Josh McRae is out there?
00:30:19
Speaker
Is he able to fight past that and and move on? we won't We won't ever know, but both of those guys were the quote-unquote hot hand, right? Nate Frazier didn't perform and never saw the field again after his fumble, which I feel like it's something that we should also talk through.
00:30:37
Speaker
yeah We didn't have our number one and number two guys and our, our hundred yard running back on the, on the, on the play for two of the most important plays of the game. Yeah. That's, that's on the coaches in my opinion.
00:30:53
Speaker
Well, then they did it again. They did it again later. Like the last time we had the ball on ah offense, we had like third and nine and we threw like a lateral to cash Jones and third and nine and lost yardage. Like, um, not to Nick pick on like certain play calls or whatever, but I, I mean,
00:31:10
Speaker
Yeah. Our last series was was awful. Everything about our last the last time that we had the ball was was not good. The only good thing was... Because we had to. I mean, you can... you can you can you know, okay, so that that play was awful, right? Like that not getting any points there or a first down was terrible. But we still had almost the entire quarter to figure it out.
00:31:34
Speaker
I actually, yeah, and i want to I want to call out something that you said to me in the stadium. um When we went, because I mean, I'm a conservative person when it calls to calling things like I would kicked a field goal, just saying that, but I'm not saying that that's like the right thing, but that's how I am.
00:31:49
Speaker
I take the points. Um, but I remember you, when we got, when we went for it on fourth down and we got stopped, you said, I'm going to, this will be a paraphrase. I don't remember exactly what it said, but you were like,
00:32:00
Speaker
Like Kirby must feel but like Bama's offense is done. Like they've got nothing left. If he's going for it on fourth down there, like he must be confident that they're not going to score again. ah So, which, you know, and I don't know. I still feel like that would even would mean like do kick the field goal, but whatever.
00:32:16
Speaker
Yeah, isn't there isn't there like a play card that like tells you what to what to do? you Yeah, probably it probably says go for it. I don't like those. I don't like the analytics. I mean, i like – mean, dude, like Gunnar Stockton, like he he runs the ball. Like how many times did we – last season – Did we run Gunnar Stockton up to the line of scrimmage and just sneak the ball across for one yard? How many times did we do that last year? That's in our playbook.
00:32:45
Speaker
Quarterback sneak is in our playbook. Gunnar Stockton is a running quarterback. He's not a small dude. Yeah, that's true. I just, I just like... Asking Cash Jones to run six yards to gain one just seems insane to me. I will never in in the life of me in the SEC and a team like Georgia that hurts four and five star players left and right.
00:33:06
Speaker
Why we feel the need to play like we're, you know, Lincoln Riley on the West Coast or whatever, where we're just constantly running things out of the shotgun or whatever. whatever that's that's the other thing that i have with this game how many we talked about this like and even in um even in some of the other reviews that i listened to what sets up what sets up the past jim the run the run if you've got the run game going yeah what do you run what do you go to to get the passing game going you go to play action how much play action did we run in this game at all
00:33:42
Speaker
Yeah, i don't no I don't recall seeing one true play-action play. It was all like this like pretend zone zone thing. And I guess that that's a play-action, but not like a true, yeah let's get under center, run a drop back, and run play-action.
00:33:58
Speaker
like what is all what's that that those are Those plays have been in Bobo's arsenal for for years. Yeah. I mean, I think back to the flea fuckers that we've run under Bobo. I think back to, um you know, David Green's ball fakes.
00:34:14
Speaker
You know what i mean? Like where where are all of these where are all those play action plays? And I feel like that we were we were primed for that because we were doing so well with the running game.
00:34:27
Speaker
Well, and and let's look at the others. Let's look at the other team and what they did to us on their last meaningful play of the game where they totally, free they totally tricked us and made it look like everything was going left. Then quarterback with a run quarterback rolls out to the right.
00:34:42
Speaker
Dude was wide open. um And like to your point too, like, yeah, he could have thrown into deep to the tight end. They didn't need to, because all they needed was a yard. um But i don't know. That's, that's again, like you said, ah it was coaching. And mean, I,
00:34:56
Speaker
I feel like the same thing. And I feel like it's both sides of the ball. You know, they had two weeks to prepare. We had two weeks to prepare the way that game started. Who looked more ready? Yeah. I mean, the other guys.
00:35:07
Speaker
Yeah. So I, I don't, it it's as frustrating is frustrating. And I know we were like, we're focusing on the missed opportunities on the offense because that's, we needed more points. um But the defense really, i mean, I know they held them out. of it They held them scoreless in the second half and that's great.
00:35:25
Speaker
But just the way the game started, and I know the offense didn't help with the three and out to start the game, but like, holy moly, like they're just, you know, gashing us almost at interception on the first drive, right? KG Bolden, and it would have been a tough catch, but he, you know, possible he could have made that catch, um get off the field.
00:35:43
Speaker
And then there's just so many times where ah guys were just wide open, just wide open down the field on those third down conversions. Yeah. Like, especially the one, like the U point, I think was the one that we were discussing on Twitter a little bit ago where our defense looked totally confused and you were like, call timeout, call timeout. That was, I think that was the first drive of the game.
00:36:02
Speaker
There was like a third and 11 or something like that. And yeah, it was, it was a huge, it was a, it was a huge, it was a huge like issue on the defense. Like they very clearly, i don't know, maybe they were making, don't know. Sometimes they have the, like their hand signals and all that kind of stuff.
00:36:17
Speaker
I mean, it looked like everybody was flapping around bird bird. I don't know. Maybe that was something i don't know. Like, but they look confused as heck. And if you look at the snap, our two of our defensive linemen run right into each other.
00:36:28
Speaker
Like, yeah, to me, it looked like everything was confusing. And I think that they should called a timeout. And in retrospect, I feel like that there are a couple of situations like that. But Kirby doesn't like to call timeouts when he doesn't have to.
00:36:42
Speaker
And I feel like that sometimes he's okay with his guys making mistakes on situations like that. Whereas, I mean, Alabama called a timeout and they didn't need to on on some of those situations too, where i was like, Oh, why why are they calling a timeout?
00:36:57
Speaker
Yeah. They, they burned through their time as fast in the first half. Right. Exactly. And i remember in the, in the, when we were rewatching it in the first half, like, I was like, why are they calling a timeout? And you're like, ah, you can't, you can't use it. If you tell you, you use it, you lose it.
00:37:14
Speaker
I got to say, uh, the, the Sunday morning remont rewatch with pond is famous breakfast was kind of amazing. Other than like what we were watching wasn't great, but again, the company, the food, fantastic.
00:37:25
Speaker
Agreed. Thank you so much to to Lou and Panda. You guys are amazing hosts as always. um i did not want to wake up from the cave downstairs.
00:37:36
Speaker
um It is such a great place to sleep. um yeah no um bacon Bacon and eggs and strudel. Are you kidding me? That's amazing.
00:37:48
Speaker
it was made Sorry. Yeah. yeah um and in the running bar ras
00:37:59
Speaker
that'll never that'll never not be funny off the rails uh side break i woke up like in the middle of night at like 3 30 or something and like i looked at my phone and had a text from you at like 1 30 they're just did bob bob
00:38:15
Speaker
It's funny. ah Sorry. So, back the game yeah, so defense, super disappointing. What I will say is i feel like they... As awful as I feel the defense was, they had to work super hard to get what they got. Like we made them absolutely have to work for it. I mean, they are only average 3.1 yards per rush, even though it felt like they were bombs away. They were only 7.2 yards per pass. We were 6.5, like fairly even.
00:38:48
Speaker
They obviously had more opportunities because they converted so many dang third downs. the That that truly the difference in the game. Like the third down efficiency is, was awful for us.
00:39:03
Speaker
And i don't think we converted a single first down until almost the fourth quarter. i want to say they showed a stat during the third quarter. And it was like, we were over four on third down. So like, we didn't even get to third down,
00:39:20
Speaker
um but a handful of times before that point. Yeah. were For us, the offense. We're two of eight. Two of eight on third down for the game. Right. Exactly. That's what i'm saying. Like, yeah which just we just, we were, we did not do well at all.
00:39:34
Speaker
um the What I will say is that we didn't allow Williams to beat us.
Reflections on Loss and Future Prospects
00:39:42
Speaker
um you know Horton, which I felt like he was always popping up right when they needed to play, right?
00:39:50
Speaker
He only had 65 receiving. So like there wasn't like an overwhelming producer on on that side ball. There was just so many of them. They just had so many guys catching balls all over the field because they were all running around free in the, in the secondary. So not no one player dominated us. So we kind of shut down their, their key players.
00:40:12
Speaker
That Jeremy Bernard guy seemed like he was making plays, but he wasn't like, it wasn't like a dagger in our heart. Like Ryan really was last, last year. yeah Um, jam Miller, like, I think actually was a big part of their offense. Like he was just grinding out stuff and he had 16 carries for 46 yards.
00:40:35
Speaker
Like what he was just getting absolutely destroyed. And I mean, ultimately we we stopped the run. Like we, we stopped the run. Yeah. I mean, they do, they dinked and dunked their way to a win over Georgia, which is wild to me.
00:40:49
Speaker
Right. i'm I'm shocked that, that that game plan worked. it shows what I know, but like, I didn't, I didn't think you could do that against our defense and I was proven wrong.
00:41:00
Speaker
Yeah. No, you turn the ball over inside the, which that's another like positive on the defensive side. Like when we fumbled the ball, I was like, oh the game's over. But when they held them to a field goal, like, bro,
00:41:12
Speaker
Yeah. That was big. That was a big moment. in That was huge. Yeah. And that's the kind of thing that could be, you would hope could be like a turning point moment. And honestly, like it looked like it was, right? Cause we go down and score after that.
00:41:27
Speaker
And then, so this is my, I guess my biggest gripe of the defense is the two minute drill touchdown right before or the half. Like, cause we, you know we talked about that middle eight there and, I looked at you and i looked at my dad.
00:41:39
Speaker
Maybe this, maybe is don't say such things, Jim, but I was like, Oh my gosh, we can get to the half 17, 14 after the way this half has gone. Like that's a monumental victory, you know? And then, then they just, I mean, they marched down the field, uh, and to, so to score. They didn't even need all the time. They had what, like two and a half minutes. I think it took them to, um, yeah, when they needed to play, they they got, they got it.
00:42:03
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. That was brutal. And that, and that one, there was like a third and pretty long conversion to Williams, I believe, where he was just like, he just sat down in the middle of our zone and there was nobody near him. Um, so that was, that was frustrating. I think, don't I guess that was kind of the moment for me that was honestly the most frustrating with the defense was that, that drive.
00:42:24
Speaker
I'm trying to think. I know the Jeremy Bernard, the first touchdown that he had, i was really upset with the defense on. So you you line up and el Ellis Robinson, which you know I think he would probably tell you that he did not have his best game.
00:42:40
Speaker
um Ellis Robinson walked down and was looked like he was trying to play press coverage, didn't get a single hand on the receiver, he ran right by him. It was just, it was like the most easy touchdown, like just got absolutely burned off the line. So what I'd like to see moving forward is like, we talk about like, how do you fix these things? Like when we have press coverage, get your hands on, I think Kirby even mentioned that get your hands on guys.
00:43:07
Speaker
Yeah. Like you you can't just let someone just run unimpeded when you're sitting at a single high safety on a man to man coverage and you just let a guy run right by you on a slant on the goal line. Like if you're going to play press, you got to get, you got to get there.
00:43:21
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. um I mean, shoot, take the, again, just take the, take the INT or not the INT, the, the PI, you take the PI, which by the way, i think this is one of our more penalized games. We had six penalties for 68 yards. They had four penalties for 16 yards.
00:43:41
Speaker
Yeah. One was a hold on our last offensive drive. We were able to overcome it. um But yeah. Yeah. iss It's frustrating. And it's, it's like I said earlier, it's one of those things where like, and we've talked about that. You don't really have the soul crushing regular season and loss. Like that doesn't really exist anymore. As far as,
00:44:01
Speaker
actually ruining your season. So that's the kind of like silver lining. Like, like we kind of open with, we lost these guys similar stage of the season last year. Didn't end up really mattering.
00:44:11
Speaker
Um, and that could very well be the case again here. It's just, it's just frustrating. Yeah. Yeah. it It's just, this one only stings for the narratives, I guess. Yeah.
00:44:23
Speaker
So of course it was them. Of course, of course they ended our, another one of our streaks. Like, it's just like, yeah. And, and that's back to the show me thing. Like, don't know, man. I just, I feel like the way, the way our players are coached against this team seems to be different than other teams.
00:44:42
Speaker
And I don't know, maybe that's just because we lose to them and that's like sour grapes or something, but it just doesn't feel something tends to feel off while we're playing them. So I don't know.
00:44:54
Speaker
don't know what that is. And I think, and I know Kirby third downs, Yeah, dude. And well and ah Kirby got asked in the and you know post-game press conference, like, how do you feel that your record is now whatever it is, one in seventeen against Alabama? and I mean, he said he has to give a coach peak answer. Like, he can't answer that seriously. But he was like, I don't and don't think about these things or whatever. But, like, that's not going to go over That's everybody else's record.
00:45:15
Speaker
Right, right, right. Well, but what's your record against everybody else? Is my counter to it. I don't know. Yeah. Thought it was a saving problem. 0-2. Kirby being 0-2 against Kalen DeBoers.
00:45:28
Speaker
That's tough pill to swallow. It is a tough pill to swallow. But you know what, Jim? Like, at some point, we got to get over it, man. We just got to get over it and move on. ye Yeah. yes It is what it is.
00:45:40
Speaker
I'm ready to move on. i watched the fourth quarter. the fourth quarter was just absolutely not it. It ain't it. And anybody that's coming and saying, like, looking at Gunner's numbers, I mean, he was he's 65%, which is kind of what he's been, you know, roughly all season long.
00:45:55
Speaker
130 yards. He'd have 50 more yards passing and ah and another touchdown, too, if not for one place. The drops are the drop is a problem.
00:46:08
Speaker
I think that there are a couple of other plays here and there where we should have had a reception or so. um You know, everything went wrong in this in this game for us, offensively, defensively. The other thing that I think we you and I haven't really really touched on that in this episode, but, like, our turnover margin right now is probably one of the worst i think it's always it's ever been. Like, you always had a ah ah turnover. Like, you could always count on us to get an interception, to get a fumble, to get something, but We continue to fumble the ball, which is crazy to me because last year it was effing interceptions that killed us last year.
00:46:45
Speaker
yeah We were throwing interceptions like it was our job last year. And this year it's like we can't hold on to the ball. And to his credit, Gunnar's been great. like yeah We can criticize him, some of the decisions that he's made.
00:46:58
Speaker
i know that I'm not the only person that looks at those kinds of things. If you want to look at it, go check out the Film Guy Network. um I haven't seen Graham's 12 things yet or anything yet like that.
00:47:12
Speaker
But Gunnar left points on the field 100%, but he did enough to win the game. like The issue wasn't on Gunnar. Yeah, I totally agree with that. <unk> mean People saying that Gunner is not it he's He can't be the guy. like that's I don't think that that's that's okay. When you have guys that are running off 6.9 yards per rush um in totality on the on the running game, like you so you stick to it. like They couldn't stop us.
00:47:37
Speaker
I mean, there's an argument to be made that maybe we shouldn't have thrown the ball at all. Yeah. I know, right? Yeah. I mean, Bowens, it was like 11 yards a carry on the game. um So yeah, he's got to be running back one.
00:47:49
Speaker
think the only thing, like, I know we haven't like touched it because I don't want to harp on Taylor. I mean, he's got a bright future ahead of him. um I know Kirby was kind of like the was like the first one to go over to him and, you know, pat him on the back.
00:48:01
Speaker
um' He's going to do great things. I think what's again, like on the whole coaching aspect, like what's frustrating for me is he, that the first time we put him in that situation to catch a deep ball is against Alabama.
00:48:13
Speaker
Like, you know, i don't understand. And we had, we had Marshall, we had Austin P. um I wish we would have gotten him some.
00:48:24
Speaker
i mean, you say that. Game reps on deep balls before this. i don't i don't have any problem I don't have any problem telling kids that were five-star recruits coming out of high school to go and make a play. I mean, shoot. yeah i mean ryan We could say the same thing about Ryan Williams last year when he was got got called upon to just catch a Hail Mary, basically.
00:48:43
Speaker
You could have said the same thing about London Humphreys catching the Tennessee catch-out. You can't, though. You can't. I'm going to stop. I'm going to push back on that. You can't say that because they had done it in other games before.
00:48:55
Speaker
We've never done that. Yeah, but in this situation, though, I guess, but like he's never had a downfield ref. i've never I've never seen a anything thrown to him in a game before yesterday. Yeah, he's been thrown no, no, no. That wasn't a swing pass. like We've been throwing him to him early and um in some games on like swing passes.
00:49:13
Speaker
Nothing like that. nothing like that I don't know. I can't really say that. I mean, people were saying that Branch didn't ever get targeted downfield and and you and I were watching that like, well, that's that's not true. right yeah He got targeted at a ton of times downfield.
00:49:27
Speaker
Yeah, I will say, dude, ah let's talk about something positive really quick. the catchy The catch he made on the on our last drive, we had like a third and 11. And, i mean, Gunnar threw rope to him. He caught it and then got like pinball between three to themers three defenders and hung on, which is impressive. it felt like a jump It felt like he jumped 12 feet in the air.
00:49:49
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. So, he's good. I mean, he's good. we' maybe and maybe he maybe we should Maybe we should rely on him to make some of those some of those catches. Yeah. Yeah. it was It was, I will also say, it was nice to see the unofficial official receiver, Dylan Bell, have that nice and end around.
00:50:07
Speaker
That was pretty sweet. and A little bit more juice. you Getting him involved. So, I don't know. Yeah, the that's what that's what a guy like Zachariah Branch on your team does for you he he created ah He created some misdirection for us because everybody thought that he was going to get the ball.
00:50:25
Speaker
Yeah, 100%. 100%. and I saw somewhere someone did some analysis on that. They called it an orbit, like an orbit reverse or something like that. I thought it sounded like it had like a really cool play call. on i don't know what they I don't know what Georgia calls it, but it was like the orbit.
00:50:41
Speaker
It was like an orbit reverse, something or something like that. It was a good play. It was a good play. Yeah. o Oh, well. Well, I guess we'll just we'll just go back to the, at the end of the day, in today's college football season.
00:50:55
Speaker
you know we're I think the days of the undefeated team are kind of over anyway um in this era. All of our goals are still in front of us. All that all that stuff.
00:51:06
Speaker
um And I'm sure there'll be some self-scouting. I'm sure we're going to learn a ton from reviewing the film of this game and just move forward.
00:51:16
Speaker
We very easily could see those guys again. Yep. Yep. True statement. um you know Anything else? Only other thing I was going to say, shout out Coach Trillbill for getting us. to I'm pretty sure we got the over-under results like from when we were still in the car Saturday night on the way back to my parents' house. You took the lead back, John, with 500 performance. You went 4-4, I went 3-5.
00:51:46
Speaker
So you now have a one-pick lead in coaches over-unders. Amazing. I think that was the only thing I'd forgotten. Thanks for doing that, coach. I think that ah we were way off on the the number of players with receptions. that was That was definitely one thing that we were off on because I was going back and like taking a look at that. yeah we should We should have done it for rushing, it seems like.
00:52:11
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, man. we talked about the sound. don't know if we know anything. I will say like crowd was electric. It was like super loud, like from the jump.
00:52:24
Speaker
It was insanely loud. Um, and I don't know, like, I don't know if the DJ listens to my got a podcast, but we even had a K-pop demon hunters, uh, moment during the game. So. Indeed. Yeah.
00:52:37
Speaker
Yeah, that was that was great. having them Having them in. Brett Thorson with another great punting performance. He dropped three inside the 20. I wish that he got a little bit more leg on some of them, but um can't really complain about his performance.
00:52:53
Speaker
Yeah, no zero it was another ah zero punt return game. They didn't return any of his punts. No punt returns. um Yeah. e Oh, well. I got nothing else, Jim. i got nothing else in me.
00:53:07
Speaker
I've given her all she's got, Captain.
00:53:11
Speaker
Understandable. Understandable. we have We have all of our we have all of our all of our goals are still ahead of us, and um we still have Kirby Smart at the helm.
00:53:22
Speaker
um He's paid a lot of money to figure this stuff out, and he's really excited, and gosh darn it, I'm going to be excited as well. So we've got everything left in front of us to to go, and so let's just go out and just win the next one and just just win, baby.
00:53:39
Speaker
I'm with you. And go Dawgs. Go Dawgs.