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Auburn Review | 2025 Georgia Football
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Jim and John review Georgia’s 20-10 win over Auburn.
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Episode Introduction and Overview
00:00:00
Speaker
If I'd have told you before the game, hey, Jim, Auburn's going to score 10 points, would you have taken it? oh yeah. Like, heck yeah. Like, oh, my gosh. Oh.
00:00:11
Speaker
Welcome to My Got A Podcast. I'm Jim Wood. In this episode, John Powell and I review Georgia's 20-10 comeback win over the Auburn Tigers. We talk about our experiences on Saturday and what stood out to us during the game.
00:00:25
Speaker
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00:00:41
Speaker
Now, let's join the conversation in progress.
Game Dynamics and Team Adaptations
00:00:47
Speaker
Just as we predicted? um and there were some There were some fits and starts there. i think we i think we broke the plane somewhere around there.
00:01:00
Speaker
Okay. We got to shout out the the name of this game from the Chad Barker painting. Wasn't that it? broke Break the Plane? Broke the Plains? Yeah, break Break the Planes or something like that. um i think i think it's what it was. i thought i thought that was pretty amazing. Oh, that was amazing.
00:01:22
Speaker
Yeah. Hey, we weren't off on the score. I'll say like the final score, like we held them, we held them to the less points than we thought they would score. But then we also scored less points.
00:01:33
Speaker
don't know, man, this is a hundred percent. One of those games where it's like in the heat of the moment, especially early in the game, like everyone's freaking out, like myself included. And we're like, what is wrong with the defense? What is wrong with defense? And then you get to the end of the game and they only scored 10 points.
00:01:49
Speaker
Yeah. So so let's let's address that. can Can I at least get a little praise for me trying to control everybody? Yeah, I think I actually needed to be calmed down in this game.
00:02:05
Speaker
so thank you i'm like i'm like guys we're literally we literally are getting curb stomped like american history x style and we're only down 10 points right right like we we could not have gotten our head bashed in any worse i mean i guess technically it always could always could be worse but i'm just saying like given the results of what happened on the field um This is very much a bend, but don't break.
00:02:30
Speaker
I've heard Kirby Smart and the Kirby All Access talking about how resilient this team is. um We are more than battle-tested up and down the field at this point. The...
00:02:44
Speaker
the post-game win expectancy, you know all that kind of stuff from previous weeks, you know from Bama loss. like this game like This team could very well be undefeated this stage.
00:02:57
Speaker
But yeah there are definitely some concerns. um I think that... Under the umbrella of everything that has transpired in this college football the one shining lu one shininginning thing that I could point to is that there are no elite teams in it.
00:03:17
Speaker
There's absolutely no team that is just going to blow the doors off of everyone. Even Alabama has looked beatable. Even though Ty Simpson has probably one of the quietest Heisman seasons is having one of the quietest highest heisman seasons in recent memory.
00:03:34
Speaker
Yeah. He's just carving people up left and right, dude. At some point, they're going to have to start considering him higher up the food chain. um I just, like, this is the new normal. Like, we've we've NFLized the college football. And on any given Sunday, like, I mean, we just saw the Falcons take down the Bills yesterday.
Emotional Rollercoaster: Key Plays and Strategies
00:04:00
Speaker
Right. Nobody expected that. I was in a room full of Falcons fans, like diehard Falcons fans, and they were shocked. yeah yeah so Yeah, that was awesome. um And as Hunter said on Twitter, man, those red helmets and black jerseys are pretty good.
00:04:17
Speaker
But anyways. Red helmets and black jerseys and silver britches. They just go together. Like, yeah. no essence and that's That's kind of where my head is at. And it's like, I feel like it's especially around the defense.
00:04:31
Speaker
um It's, and it's that like, and I like full, full admission. Like there's a reason why I don't like tweet a lot during the game. i I save my stuff for like mainly you and my dad and like,
00:04:45
Speaker
A few select others. um Because it's it's so emotional in the game. You get so caught up in like the moment, and like moment by moment. But then at the end of the game, like i said, you take a step back. It's like, oh my gosh.
00:04:57
Speaker
but it's so They only scored 10 points. I mean, at this point, Glenn Schumann is making... Glenn Schumann is trolling the Georgia fan base more so than the equipment team. like Period. Period. Full stop.
00:05:09
Speaker
Right. Like, bro. What is going on? Like, how is it in the second half of these games that we're able to just turn a switch and all of a sudden get pressure, get sacks, get off the field on third down? Like, I mean, yeah i think josh didn't Josh send out a stat today that like for the season where like teams are converting third downs on like four yards or less or six yards or less or something like that?
00:05:37
Speaker
And at 100% rate, like that is that is definitely something that is utterly concerning for me. But um yeah, at some point, we got to start calling it third and Schumann.
00:05:48
Speaker
Like, it's, it's definitely something that's on the in the arena, for sure, because, We just seem to not be able to get off the field on third down in the first half of games.
00:06:01
Speaker
I don't know what it is. i don't know how it's transpiring, you know, credit to the staff for figuring things out in the second half. I keep hearing the words like we haven't rep this. We didn't rep that. Like,
00:06:14
Speaker
you know, they're throwing, they're throwing looks at us that have never been seen before. So just, it feels like teams are preparing for Georgia very differently than they prepare for everyone else, because this is like the third different game that I've heard where people are saying like this, the the offense that we were up against ah executed plays that we had never seen before, which makes me believe that when we, when it comes time to face Texas, who has ah also has a bye week before they play us, I believe, if I remember correctly.
00:06:48
Speaker
um Just like cute Freeze did on this game, like teams are installing things that we've never seen because we have shown a propensity this to not be able to ah adjust until halftime.
Turning Points and Momentum Shifts
00:07:02
Speaker
Yeah, well, also, like, is when you – let's face it, like, when you win as much as Georgia has won, like, we're – like, people circle us on their schedule, you know? It's like like that's the huge game. And, I mean, especially look at what Auburn did, right? I mean, you've got – Night game at home. It was the first, it was the, like all the things we talked about, right? Like all the pomp and circumstance around this game, night game, SEC home opener, Cam Newton, Jersey retirement night, like all those things. And, and then you pile onto that. Like, so like they're ready.
00:07:33
Speaker
the The crowd's ready to go. They've had an extra week to prepare. And then just like the way the game started was like everything we said we needed to not happen. Like the beginning was like a disaster. mean, like the only way the opening of the game could have been worse was was if we turned the ball over, which like back to like, I think that was kind of how we closed our previews. Like, look, like George is better team, protect the ball, win the game. And ultimately, I think that really was a difference. I mean, they had they had turnovers, we didn't. ah I don't know. Like, yeah just imagine how much worse it could have snowballed.
00:08:04
Speaker
Like, I know it's it was frustrating that we were punting and we weren't scoring on offense, we weren't turning over. You know, we were punting it back to them. And that field position, i think, you know, it makes a huge difference and really helped, to I guess, slow them down. i mean, they get what a touchdown in the first, i mean, the opening drive was just like, it was super frustrating as a fan to watch. I'm sure it's super frustrating as a member of the team to play through, but like, know, they come out and march down like, oh my gosh, what are we doing?
00:08:32
Speaker
um, all the 30 on conversions again, but we can't do anything really. um then they come down again, but then we hold them to a field goal and then nothing. I mean, just yardage, right? Nothing but yards for them for the rest of the game.
00:08:44
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, to their credit, we are making it very difficult for teams to score points. Um, yeah. You know, we're not getting, you're not seeing us throw it. Like teams are not scoring 30, 30 plus points on us every single game.
00:09:00
Speaker
um They're definitely scoring enough points to potentially win the game. But at the end of the day, like you said, yeah as awful as it felt like that we played, they only gave up 10 points. If I'd have told you before the game, hey, Jim, Auburn's going to score 10 points, would you have taken it? oh yeah. Like, heck yeah. Like, oh, my gosh.
00:09:24
Speaker
Seriously. But then throw in the caveat, like, Hey, they're going to beat the ever living dog crap out of us for a half. Yeah. Would you still take the 10 points? Right. Right. I don't know. If you tell me we're gonna have like the momentum shift of all momentum shifts right before the half, then maybe.
00:09:43
Speaker
yeah yeah i guess let's talk let's talk about that yeah um what was your so i feel like that there was a range of emotions in the in the in the group in the group chat uh throughout um i i i feel like that jim you had you had you had some some shifts i really i distinctly remember seeing that's an auburn touchdown yeah but i thought I thought that's what they were going to call it. whereas
00:10:17
Speaker
So, yes, I did think they were going to call
Controversial Plays and Referee Decisions
00:10:19
Speaker
it. um And especially like the, know, it was kind of like the various replay angles or whatever. um And i don't know part of that is like history of things not going our way in certain situations.
00:10:33
Speaker
So, yeah, I was like, oh they're going to chase the call. But then like, as they kept showing it, kept showing it. I got frustrated with like the TV announcers um and their commentary. Cause it's like, and like Lily is screaming at the TV. Like Kim and Lily and I are all in there like screaming the TV. We're like, it's moving before they're talking about when it's moving.
00:10:51
Speaker
Like he had already, I think he had already lost control like by the time it got punched out. I forget who punched first, like, like Raylan Wilson and CJ Allen both got it.
00:11:01
Speaker
And it was like, they were focusing on the second one and like missing the fact that the first one, they're missing the first one happened. Yeah. it's like the ball's already loose. So it was like the, I think the funniest thing. And, um, even, um, as McGill McElroy, I saw even him like on his podcast or radio show whatever this week was like,
00:11:19
Speaker
look like stop stop posting the still frame images like of course the ball looks secure in a picture like you like you can't do that you have to like the video um which i think it's hilarious like the the the picture with the line going down is like absolutely hilarious like with the balls like okay it doesn't tell us anything like you can't look at the still frame of course it looks you know like there's a touchdown there but Yeah, I don't know, man. Well, and then I know then we had the whole back and forth of like, is it wait, that's a touchdown for Georgia. Like if it has to be touchdown for one team.
00:11:52
Speaker
it has to be a touchdown for one team That's my biggest beef with the totality of the game. So Hugh Freeze said it, you know, that was the longest half of ah football ever because it it felt like it took forever to to execute because not only did we get the ball, but then it took like 17 minutes for us to go off of one minute. but like Yeah. Like you had a two minute drill that took 17 minutes. I haven't like, I've read this on the internet, so it must be true.
00:12:26
Speaker
um I saw that it was like 38 minutes from the two minute timeout to halftime. That's crazy. like Yeah. I'm sure with all the TV timeouts and stuff, like, Well, and aburn Auburn kept getting penalized, like on our drive, right? There was there was a targeting. There was a roughing the passer. There was like all kinds of stuff. And there was there were multiple reviews. I mean, targeting is a review. There was like, was this was it a catch or not review? Like everything got reviewed. So yeah, it took it took forever.
00:12:54
Speaker
Yeah, so let's talk about that for a second. and So overall, I felt like this was a very bad game for the Zebras. Not that I think that people or should be focused on the two big things. So like the two big things being, you know, the fumble that absolutely was a fumble.
00:13:11
Speaker
um You're not going to convince me that that ball was not moving before he got to the line of scrimmage because two people punched it out. yeah um The first one dislodged it. The second one completely knocked it out.
00:13:23
Speaker
um Here's like... ah something that no one really talks about is like, there's an Auburn player that's literally staring at the ball after it gets knocked out. If he just picks it up and reaches over the goal line, like it's a touchdown.
00:13:38
Speaker
Yeah. He's just like staring at this ball and just does nothing. I don't know what he was looking at, but it looked as though he was just literally watching the ball, like fumble around. And then one of our guys just picks it up. It wasn't it Jones. I think it was Kyron Jones yeah from Charlotte, North Carolina, by the way.
00:13:54
Speaker
Nice. um And he picked it up and then doesn't fall. So my beef with that one play is that somehow they whistled it dead. I did not hear any whistles on the field.
00:14:07
Speaker
yeah And that frustrates me beyond all doubt because... Multiple refs pointed that the ball was out. So if they're pointing that the ball is out, somebody somewhere should not have blown the whistle. Like like where where does that decision get made that that we're blowing the whistle when you can clearly see that the ball is out?
00:14:28
Speaker
right that frustrated That frustrated me because it's either it's either a Georgia touchdown or it's an Auburn touchdown. um The happy medium of putting it on the one-yard line does not compute for me.
00:14:43
Speaker
Um, Auburn should be very lucky that that's what happened. Um, because i almost had a repeat of the Sean Jones, like whenever that was 2003 at Tennessee kind of thing. Right.
00:14:55
Speaker
Exactly. Yeah. And it's one of those things where it's like, like, yes, the had no one blown a whistle, like the ball wasn't dead. It had no one blown whistle. it's a touchdown Georgia, but because and I'm, I'm with you, I didn't hear a whistle, but I have to, know, they came out and said it's down at the one. So like at that point, it's like, you can't,
00:15:13
Speaker
even when replay shows that he was never down, you can't change it just because of the mechanics of how replay works. Like once you say the play is over, it's over. um You can't change that stuff. I think all you can change is like immediate recovery. can go to their team, but like the whole advancing the ball thing, you can't really, can't really change at that point.
00:15:29
Speaker
That's I remember that wasn't, that was our text. rate I was like, guys, they're not going to change it to a touchdown Georgia. That's like, was like, that can't happen. You know, just based on the call in the field. Well, I didn't, I didn't think that they had blown it dead. Right. is my thing Right. Right.
00:15:42
Speaker
um so So there's that. And then you got all the replays that, you know, don't There's just there was just a lot of stoppage. I felt like that the the head referee kind of lost control.
00:15:54
Speaker
i remember walking away from this game thinking, like, man, I hope that we never get that ref crew again. um Because, you know, as great as it was for us in certain parts, it was also terrible for us. Like,
00:16:08
Speaker
Then you go into the the other big play that everybody talks about is the the timeout that you know that we got or didn't get, um however you want to look at it. But um I don't think that that's as big of a deal as what's being made, how it's been made. i think that people are just kind of focusing on like that Kirby's calling a timeout and you know that he lied and all this kind of stuff, um which I've heard him explain it, and I guess it makes sense in my head. but like I mean, he called timeout.
00:16:39
Speaker
You're calling timeout, bro. and Like I was, I was, you want to call a timeout to talk to the refs about something? I mean, I guess that that's maybe an argument that I could be make there, but like in the post game, when he was like, I was saying they're clapping and the ref thought I said, timeout was like, come on.
00:16:56
Speaker
like we saw We saw you signal for timeout. Yeah. So, you know, whatever just happened, just so happened that there were two seconds left on the clock when that happened. Like, right. Right. But I mean, again, like, I think the officials should have charged Georgia of the timeout.
00:17:11
Speaker
Like to me, that's ah like the the joke earlier was right. Like it's either an Auburn touchdown or it's a Georgia touchdown. Like this one, it's either delay of game on Auburn for like the clapping thing, like the disconcerting signals or whatever it's called.
00:17:23
Speaker
Or it's a timeout Georgia. Like, I don't think it could be neither. I think should have been one or the other, you know? Yeah. I think that if they'd have gone, if they, if they'd have turned around said, Georgia gets a timeout, like I would have been totally fine with that. Oh yeah. A hundred percent.
00:17:36
Speaker
We ended the game with an extra timeout. So in the grand scheme of things, it didn't even matter. Right. Um, The only thing that I think that Auburn would be aggrieved is that they didn't get the, we quote unquote, didn't
Strategic Adjustments and Game Flow
00:17:47
Speaker
get the playoff. But I mean, i don't know.
00:17:50
Speaker
the The Auburn fan would then be, you know, consoled by the fact that we absolutely gashed them for like 28 yards or something like that on the very next play.
00:18:01
Speaker
And it gets called back. for a egregious missed call on a blindside block, which in my opinion should be reviewable um given what we saw there, because i don't know what Cash Jones is supposed to do.
00:18:18
Speaker
So I will say this. ah It was not the right penalty to call, but a 15-yard penalty against Georgia was warranted. And i I'll tell you why. Are you talking about the target ah targeting?
00:18:29
Speaker
No. Same play. it should have been offensive It should have been offensive pass interference on Cash because he thought Gunner was running. So Gunner looked like he was going to take off and run.
00:18:40
Speaker
If you look at the zoomed out view, he makes that contact. Like he's not blocking. He's not blocking for Colby young. You put it that way. He was blocking for, he thought Gunner was going to run and Gunner was like throwing the ball.
00:18:54
Speaker
So while the quarterback is throwing the ball, you can't like run into a defensive back like that. So it actually, I'm not upset about that one. I mean, like I said to me, I think they called the wrong penalty, but I think a penalty was warranted.
00:19:07
Speaker
I think coach Hayes pointed that out that he was like, mean, he, again, like yeah he was saying like, it shouldn't have been, it's not a blindside block with that, which I agree with. He was like, but if anything, it's, it's offensive pass interference, which I, I think it, I think it was, but interesting.
00:19:23
Speaker
Yeah. I haven't actually heard that. I haven't seen anybody talk about that. um Yeah, because it wasn't like Colby Young caught the ball and then Cash made that block. The ball, I can't remember if Gunner hadn't thrown it yet or was like had just thrown it or whatever.
00:19:38
Speaker
But like either way, he's blocking before you should be blocking anyone, basically, on a pass play. Not really his fault, I guess, because like he thought Gunner, in his mind, Gunner is taking off the run, so he's blocking for a Gunner.
00:19:51
Speaker
And then that would have been the great block for Gunner. um And then I think you could have that argument that it was a bad call. Right. Or what or whatever. So we ended up not we ended up not getting much off of that.
00:20:04
Speaker
Yeah, we ended that was the best we ended up missing a field goal there. I believe that was the missed field goal drive. But yeah, man, like, i don't know. don't know. I feel like maybe we need to do our halftime adjustments like pregame or something.
00:20:18
Speaker
Yeah. Because it's like like it's like both sides of the ball, you know? When we come out, go straight down the field. I mean, we so we get the – actually, I do want to say, with the whole fumble thing and then the 99, I guess 99-yard field goal drive, you would say,
00:20:35
Speaker
Um, so we're on, we're backed up, you know, on their one yard line, our own one yard line quarterback sneak does nothing. And then we're in a handoff to Josh McCray and he absolutely like hit the cutback lane and got 10 yards. And like, without that, like that play got that whole drive going to get us points. Like that was huge play, amazing play.
00:20:55
Speaker
Um, and then I feel like the offense kind of woke up from that point on, you know, then come out, sort set Start the second half and like Noah Thomas sighting. Like what is going on? Like he's open downfield. We've been asking for that.
00:21:07
Speaker
um Gunner hits him, you know, and then onto the Chauncey Bowens touchdown. And then, don't know, man, at that, I think at that, I know you like to look at the win expectancy stuff. Like it just flipped um there from Auburn to Georgia.
00:21:22
Speaker
Yeah, you can definitely see the slow bleed ever. Like from the, I think that from the fumble, you know, it was like Auburn had 270 something yards and we had like um my gosh yeah And then after the fumble, we had like 270-something yards, and they had like 40. Yeah, it was that was wild.
00:21:44
Speaker
That was wild. I've got the win expectancy. Auburn, when they were second and goal at our three-yard line, they were 85% win expectancy on ESPN's game thing. Yeah. Crazy.
00:21:55
Speaker
um Yeah, it was not looking great. It was not. When was watching that. Yeah. um But yeah. I don't know. like Offensively, defensively, like whatever happened, like can we like can someone like tell them that, hey, we're down 17? We need y'all to come back from from the kickoff?
00:22:18
Speaker
yeah Yeah. i don't know I don't know. It seems like that we're able to open things up. We're able to open things up eventually, but like our offense butters, our defense has given up, you know, first downs like it's our job.
00:22:31
Speaker
um We're allowing them to go on Kirby death marches early in the game. I mean, that first Auburn, that first Auburn drive was like seven minutes and 20 seconds. It was unbelievable. I think that, yeah, so they had the ball 12 minutes, 13 minutes.
00:22:48
Speaker
They had the ball 13 minutes of the, oh no, sorry. Yeah, they had the ball like 13 minutes of the first quarter, which is just mind boggling to me. Yeah.
00:22:59
Speaker
Yeah. like that that That can't happen. That is not a recipe for, that does not spark joy. it is not a recipe for success. No, no, not at all. um I mean, they didn't hit... It and and wasn't it wasn't off explosive plays, right? like it was all Again, it was like the whole dink and dunk thing.
00:23:16
Speaker
Yeah, it was dink and dunk. Death by a thousand cuts is what it feels like as a Georgia fan watching it. It sounds like that's what the team has been emphasizing that in the offseason.
00:23:29
Speaker
They wanted to cut down on explosive plays, etc. And and like... That, to their credit, like, yeah, you're right. Like, there haven't been a ton of explosive plays. And maybe that's the strategy here is that, you know, we're going to – they're going to get yards and we're going to give up some battles.
00:23:47
Speaker
But then when things start to get down into the – I mean, I feel like that we've got to be one of the best defenses in the country when it comes to preventing a team from scoring inside the inside the red zone. like in In the second half – I'm just kidding. Sorry. In the second half.
00:24:03
Speaker
and like yeah After the first quarter. um Yeah, I don't know. I feel like that we just the field. But that's what's so crazy, right? When the field gets small, we're able to defend it really well. Right, and it's true.
00:24:14
Speaker
But here's the thing. like It wasn't just like, okay, so the first drive, obviously, super long, like whatever. They marched on the field score Then there's the long drive. It's like okay, but we held the field goal. Cool.
00:24:25
Speaker
And then, well, and then I guess there's the long drive that resulted in the fumble. But then after that, it was like they didn't do... anything I mean, like it wasn't like they were getting yards and we were keeping them from scoring when they got close to the red zone. They didn't move the ball at all.
00:24:38
Speaker
I do think that I do think to a certain extent there was a a schism or a um like, you know, Hugh Freeze had had a complete crash out. Right.
00:24:49
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. error um Jake f Fromm talked about this on the Punt and Pass podcast um that the halftime speech that he gave was like demoralizing. like Outside looking in, like he had just given up. like like he he like they were They were just dumped out. They had no answer. They had nothing to to come back on. like The team just kind of quit. and I think in the aftermath, like Auburn had a ah captain ah team captain and was kicked off the team.
00:25:21
Speaker
um They lost one of their they lost one of their one of their team captains that a bunch of the Auburn players have been like go into the going to bat for on social media and stuff. but yeah um Anyway, it's just it's just a symptom of something that's going on inside of the locker room at Auburn, which is like...
00:25:44
Speaker
kind of the opposite of what we're seeing at UGA. like ah Kirby Smart, i don't know if you had a chance to check out the All Access, which came out like a couple hours before we started recording, but I took a video of it um to to post on social.
00:26:00
Speaker
the One of his end game his endgame speech was like, His halftime speech talked about it, and then his in-game speech called back to it. Basically, like you don't knock someone out and with the first punch. You knock them out after the 50th punch.
00:26:15
Speaker
And they knocked them out at the 50th punch. like They just kept chopping. like you may not it's He's just going back to like that, keep chopping. Yeah. um the mental fortitude that it takes to continue to sustain that, which is why i i say you know, we're very clearly battle tested at this point that our team is resilient. Resiliency is is in the DNA yeah and maybe the fire passion and energy isn't there, but you know, as, as much as we want it to be, whether it be in the terms of,
00:26:46
Speaker
Pursuing the quarterback or, you know, getting interceptions or getting off the field on third down, you know, as much as we want. They absolutely have resiliency. Yeah.
00:26:57
Speaker
Yeah. No, I'm with you. and um i mean, I turned it on, ah tweeted during the game, my God, a sack. um We had the huge sack of the middle.
00:27:09
Speaker
But on top of that, just had we had pressure, right? I mean it was only one sack, but like you affect the quarterback you when you get to him. Yeah, I mean, he definitely looked like he was uncomfortable in the pocket in the second half, for sure.
00:27:22
Speaker
Yeah, I mean and like and mean, they had the opportunity for that one explosive, right? I think it was Singleton was open deep down the middle, and he overthrew him. I mean, that was a huge moment in the game where they were unable to connect when they finally got somebody open deep down the field.
00:27:37
Speaker
Right. ah I had a couple of things i wanted to make sure we hit. um Like the, well, the last drive, our last drive of the game, like the death march of all death marches.
00:27:52
Speaker
I think someone, I forget who it was, called it the the building bonus game. of death marches tm tm um like unbelievable drive and then like we had um london humphreys and branch like huge catches coming up huge on know like third down conversion fourth down conversions um what a drive and then you know kept it off with the uh superman on cam newton night by gunner
00:28:26
Speaker
Which then by doing a Kirby rage stroke, Kirby getting mad. Like when Kirby is getting mad that our quarterbacks scored a touchdown, like we are so back. Yes. and the I need, I need, I need more Kirby rage strokes for sure. Yeah. Dude, two weeks in a row, he's executed an iconic recreation of past touchdowns.
00:28:45
Speaker
That's true. nice He had the Stetson, he had the Stetson recreation against Kentucky. And then he had the Cam Newton recreation against Auburn, which is pretty awesome. the I idea like i you know like didn't notice during game and then was like going back and looking at some stuff. and I think i I texted you guys like, ah did Oscar Delp do the Superman in Dab?
00:29:05
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and like I had to like go back and i slow it down. and He did, in fact, do that. It's pretty funny.
00:29:11
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Yeah. And then, uh, I don't, I don't remember who did the broken heart at the end. That was chef's kiss. That was Kristen Miller. That was, woof the
00:29:23
Speaker
I can't, I actually missed it live. I was like, cause I was like so excited. ah I was excited. That was when they turned it over on downs. Right. Right at the end. And, uh, I was like celebrating and then, and Kim and Lily were both like yelling at the TV, like, Oh my gosh, did you see that? like so good. good.
00:29:39
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so good so good The only way that, well, there's many ways that game could have been better, but you'd been calling for it. You've been calling for it. And then it happened and we were so close for the unofficial, the unofficial official completion.
00:29:55
Speaker
pass. I knew it was coming. i knew it was coming. like Bobo had had been setting that up all season long and we finally hit it and I think Dylan Bill just rushed it. He just rushed it. I think if he had just slowed down.
00:30:10
Speaker
I feel like it was one of those things where it's just You see that it's happening me and it's just like this, this giant balloon. And it's just like, oh, it's easy. i just got to get out there. And then you just lackadaisical, you just lose focus for a second.
00:30:25
Speaker
I have a feeling that that play is going to be there again in the future. So watch out for that down the road. Um, we are going to hit that play because it is going to be there.
00:30:37
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Um, speaking of Bobo setting up things though, too, like with that, like you go and watch both the like Gunner's touchdown and then the it was either a third.
00:30:49
Speaker
was the last like conversion before his touchdown on the last drive. Like both of those, we faked that like jet sweep motion and then bootleg gunner out to the right.
00:30:59
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And like on the first one ended up, you're throwing it to running back first down. And then the next time he just took it to the house. So oh that's the thing. It's like, sometimes like, Oh, we keep running these plays as well. Sometimes, ah you know, it's a, it's a setup. A there, they actually work pretty well. The screens as much as you'd like to complain about them. They actually work pretty well in this game.
00:31:17
Speaker
And then it's like branches starting to catch on to the yeah the screen passes that we saw that we're, we were trying to do against Alabama. Yeah. couldn't Couldn't catch the ball, but um that's another thing.
00:31:29
Speaker
Dude, catch the ball. yeah Noah Thomas has caught the ball. Yeah. i'm i I hope to see more of that. Yeah, I'd like to see more of that for sure.
00:31:41
Speaker
But yeah, to your point, like there's, you know, I try to compare it to if you're a Braves fan, you know, i compare it to Greg Maddox. Greg Maddox will throw pitches and throw pitches and throw pitches and throw pitches. And like, i don't know if you've seen like the...
00:31:57
Speaker
I can't remember what the documentary is that was about Maddox, but Eddie Perez talking about how he called his pitches and like he served up a pitch and gave up a home run and a meaningless game that I think that they were winning or something like that.
00:32:11
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But he threw a pitch to someone to set him up later on in the playoffs so that he could hit him on ah on a different on a different setup.
00:32:22
Speaker
yeah um And Eddie Perez was like, he he had he had created that sequence of pitches months ago and had it had it had it all set up. like That's just how ah how far into the his bag he was.
00:32:37
Speaker
And then I'm not saying like, but with some kind of like Greg Maddox type artist, but like, it does feel like that he has been putting, I mean, i told, I knew that I knew that the Dylan Bell pass would eventually come because it was just so obvious. Like there were so many open opportunities for him to have potentially snuck someone out there. Yeah. um You just put enough stuff on film and eventually it'll, eventually something's going to stick out there where you'll make it a little wrinkle and it hits for a big play because they weren't
Season Analysis and Upcoming Challenges
00:33:05
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expecting it.
00:33:05
Speaker
Right, right, right. Nine in a row over these guys, man. I can't, like, college me could not comprehend anything like I'll tell you another play that to watch out for that Carter has actually asked about.
00:33:21
Speaker
um Carter was like, do you see the you see the highlight video the school put out? I was like, yeah, yeah. He's like, man, at some point we're going to have to put Oscar Delp on a reverse like we did with Brock Bowers.
00:33:34
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I was like, Yeah.
00:33:38
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, for sure. He's got the speed. He's got some wheels for sure. Other things, ah anything else that stood out to you? only other thing that I can think of off the top of my head right now um that I haven't talked about is there's definitely a little bit of like we've we're giving up some punt returns and that does not spark joy with ah Mr. Thorson's punting. There was a couple of punts where i was like, o could have definitely could have done for that to be a few yards deeper. Yeah. yeah um
00:34:13
Speaker
But nothing nothing backbreaking, so to speak. But um it's definitely been noticed that there's been more returns as of late. Yes, it wasn't happening. People are actually actually able to return punts. What is.
00:34:26
Speaker
Yeah, seriously. What the heck? um The only other thing I had jied down was ah we had we had a rare um someone played on a Kirby hopeful kiss of death in Monroe Freeling. So he was given the hopeful and then played.
00:34:41
Speaker
So. Man, Monroe Freeling, there was a play that he was called on to block out wide, which I guess maybe that's a good example of like, maybe we shouldn't play guys in positions that are having to move around when they're walking wounded kind of thing. Like, yeah, yeah.
00:34:57
Speaker
I don't know. there that There was that play that Freeling was out wide and, yeah, his only job was to literally delay a guy to getting to the ball carrier. And if he blocks him, like it's a huge game. If we get a single block, even just a small delay, it's a huge game. But as it is like feeling whiffed as block and it was blown up for no gain or a loss or something like that.
00:35:21
Speaker
Kind of similar to like Craig. Craig was like, why haven't we seen Bowens? Like, why isn't Bowens out there? but bla I'm like, dude, Bowens missed a block that got Gunnar absolutely killed.
00:35:33
Speaker
Like he whiffed a block that got Gunnar killed. Yeah. It also turns out he was hurt. um He's been dealing ah with a calf injury. I didn't hear that. i didn't see that. Yeah, I saw that.
00:35:44
Speaker
um I will say the the play that I mentioned earlier, um think i think this is right, on the like second down we were on our own one-yard line, I'm pretty sure Monroe Freeling like totally cleared out.
00:35:57
Speaker
He paved that way for McCray. So did want to say that. I think overall, I think he had a really good game, but I hundred percent remember that play you're about.
00:36:08
Speaker
It's like, yeah, maybe maybe let's not put the guy in a bum, bum ankle, like boom in space. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Like, come on guys. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, I don't know, man, dude, like just the whole, I was, I was worried about this one. I know you like off season, you were like ah at Auburn scares me, like at Auburn at night scares me. We had, we had talked about that.
00:36:29
Speaker
And then like when throw in the whole Cam Newton thing and everything, i was kind of like, Oh man, like, i don't know about this one. And I was, I kept being like, this is why it's so important to win your home games. Like I was upset that we had lost to Alabama.
00:36:41
Speaker
Like that was coming back in. i was like, ah We should won that game. Then if we lost this one, it wouldn't matter as much, but did matter. Turned turned it around. um Absolute chef's kiss. Gunner doing the Cam Newton Superman into the end zone. to it was just as it is As it is, the voodoo got reversed. We reverse unoed their voodoo.
00:37:02
Speaker
Yeah, true, true, true. um Let's see. Let's quickly recapping on coaches over unders. You got the best of me this week, and you have now taken a one-pick lead on the season.
00:37:16
Speaker
So I went 500, you went five and three ah back in the lead. You totally get to pick who goes first ah when we do the Ole Miss break. And they were du we're also only one pick apart in the pick-ems as well.
00:37:28
Speaker
Yeah. We had a good weekend pick-em. I went 4-1, you went 3-2. um Everything around went mostly kind of how we thought. I don't even remember how I picked on those. ah the one You picked missour scene it was Missouri. was one you missed that I didn't. Then we both picked Oklahoma, I believe.
00:37:49
Speaker
so I didn't have ah James Franklin getting fired by now on my bingo card preseason either. Yeah, dude, there's a lot of um there's a lot of dominoes. I feel like that I kind of wish that they had not fired him um selfishly because what that – so you've got – I mean, isn't technically the Arkansas – has Petrino been hired full-time or is he still the interim?
00:38:13
Speaker
He's the interim as far as I know. i So on paper, you've got Arkansas, you've got Penn State. What other jobs are open? ah Virginia Tech.
00:38:25
Speaker
Virginia Tech. There's one other one. okla Oklahoma State. They fired Gundy. That's what it was. I feel like that that's a program that's ripe for someone to come in and convince boosters to donate a bunch of money towards.
00:38:39
Speaker
um I think that Gundy was kind of like an anti-NIL kind of guy. Didn't want to play the game from what I understand. I haven't paid a whole lot of attention to it, but, um but what that does is that it creates an environment early in the coaching carousel situation. That's like, okay, if you're a team like a Florida or a team like a Tennessee, or, i mean, I'm not saying Tennessee, but you know what i mean? Like if you're a big program and you're looking to potentially make a move and not really sure it's like a get off the pot kind of thing.
00:39:11
Speaker
Yeah. it puts a lot more pressure on you to okay and now we got to make a decision because are the people that you may be wanting to consider are considering those other jobs because those are fairly high profile jobs oklahoma state you know a pathway to the cfp is a lot lighter than it is in the sec big 10 you've got a lot of history a lot of i mean penn state's a is is a big job.
00:39:36
Speaker
um So anybody, anybody that's looking to to step up and, you know, potentially take a step up to, you know, the big, the big five or power five, um you know, that's, those are jobs that are, that are going to be more enticing. If you don't, you may miss out on, on a guy, if you don't make a move now to throw your hat in the, Hey, consider us ring kind of thing.
00:40:00
Speaker
I think Penn State would be stupid to not consider the Indiana coach, Signetti or whatever. um He seems to be the ah hot commodity right now because they' he's got Indiana going on a heater right now. which I mean, you know make it maybe ticket to Oregon, out of Oregon.
00:40:18
Speaker
Yeah, against Dan Lanning. Yeah, i was that was surprising to me. i was I was not expecting that. After complaining about the travel. I think that was the most surprising result of the weekend to me. Because I was still putting Indiana in the like, well, you know, they won all those games last year, but then to the playoff. And I mean, they they actually played Notre Dame pretty close, but I don't know.
00:40:44
Speaker
That's kind of how my attitude was. So mine changed. I'm going to keep your eye on them. So you say that, and so I'm curious, like, so I kind of file Oregon under as much hype as they've gotten. They ain't played anybody, Jim.
00:41:03
Speaker
they They beat the dog poop out of Montana State. They beat the crap out of Oklahoma State um and you know played a part in probably getting Gundy fired.
00:41:16
Speaker
they played north They beat the crap out of Northwestern. They beat the crap out of Oregon State. I mean, those aren't exactly powerhouses. Penn State, that win at Penn State.
00:41:27
Speaker
increasingly it doesn't look as great. Right. And so Indiana was really their first test and, and they lost. Um, yeah. Yeah. and then They don't really have another test.
00:41:39
Speaker
I'll say that. Yeah. I'll say that. Yeah. I think that, uh, Their pathway to the CFP is, ah like I said, these jobs, some of these jobs are are very enticing. Like I would say that a Penn State job, an Oklahoma State job is probably from a career standpoint, considering that Penn State just fired someone, paid them $50 million do that.
00:42:01
Speaker
you know, go pound sand somewhere. Did you see, um, you see Aaron Murray said that like he got his wife to agree that he should get into coaching and just get to the point where you can get a big buyout. Dude, that's the, I seriously, like that's ah it's a retirement strategy for some of these guys. i mean, look at Sam Pittman.
00:42:17
Speaker
Yeah. Uh, I'm sure that he's going to be walking away with a fairly, fairly decent, uh, you know parting gift. Yeah. Um, Even Billy Napier, think his buyout is pretty large too.
00:42:28
Speaker
Good work can it. It's lot easier get through some these teams. It's not like SEC schedule, good work good work if you can get it but um yeah it's it's a lot easier to get through some of these because like some of these teams it's not like an scc schedule man yes see that That's the thing of like when you're mentioning looking at Oregon's schedule and then look at like our schedule. Shoot, look at Florida's schedule. Like these two things are not the same, you know, like.
00:42:52
Speaker
Yeah. Oregon's schedule is crazy is is like BS, man. Like Indiana is the, to date, Indiana is their biggest test. And beyond that, there's not much else.
00:43:05
Speaker
Like there's literally nothing else. They play. So after Indiana, they play Rutgers. They play Wisconsin. They play Iowa. They play Minnesota. They play USC and they play Washington. Like not exactly a murdert and murderers row.
00:43:19
Speaker
I'm pretty sure um between – so you've got Ohio State, Miami up there at the top. Like, they don't play any more ranked teams, I don't believe, on the season.
00:43:32
Speaker
So I don't think – yeah, neither does Indiana. So the top three teams in the country have zero currently ranked teams on the remainder of their schedule, which is wild. Meanwhile, look at us. Like, holy cow. Yeah, meanwhile, we got to go through gauntlet.
00:43:46
Speaker
That includes Georgia Tech at the end, which get ready for undefeated Georgia Tech in the Benz, by the way. Just prepare yourself mentally for that. Yeah, for sure. It's going to happen because, like you said, the ACC is ah nothing right now.
00:44:00
Speaker
Yeah, they mean they don't have Florida State or Miami, so either. I'm not granted Florida State. Bit of a struggle lately, but... At any rate, I don't know. Any other final thoughts on nine in a row over the War Eagle Tiger Plansman?
Symbolic Moments and Traditions
00:44:15
Speaker
Fear the thumb. Fear the thumb. True. True. Of course. that's the That's the mantra now. Fear the thumbs. I mean, dude, my daughter has not experienced a loss to Auburn or Tennessee in her lifetime.
00:44:31
Speaker
And that is just mind-boggling to me. My youngest daughter. Yeah. Yeah. It is crazy. It is crazy. Like guess said, man, college me could not have comprehended such a thing. Like it's, it's unbelievable.
00:44:43
Speaker
It just goes to show, like, firing a coach isn't always going to lead to yeah results. I mean, lord Lord of Mercy, the British Bulldog and I with Manchester United, and good grief.
00:44:57
Speaker
we I think we're on – we clearly have taken the Tennessee slash Florida approach and just continue to turn through coaches, it seems like. Yeah. like At some point, the some point it's it all starts at the top, guys.
00:45:11
Speaker
like Coaching is not the issue. there bigger There's bigger problems afoot somewhere. Gotcha. gotcha and Well, I mean, on the planes. Auburn Storm. So there's always that.
00:45:24
Speaker
Wait, what was that? and we Was that a soundbite? Auburn Storm. There it is.
00:45:33
Speaker
Love it. um just I was just peeking in the background. Like, yeah, dude, Georgia Tech doesn't play anybody until they play us. They have to play Pitt, which Pitt looked like a pretty decent game. i would say Pitt.
00:45:44
Speaker
Pitt is probably, that's probably the biggest danger one. Oh, there's also always like the random sneak up game. Like no one would have thought I forget what wake. I think the game against wake was pretty close. um So you never know it.
00:45:55
Speaker
And to your point, the whole any given Saturday kind of stuff in today's college football, you never really know. Fran Brown. Fran Brown has has some hatred in his heart for Georgia Tech, too. Maybe Syracuse can take those guys down on the flats.
00:46:08
Speaker
Could be. Could be. All right. um Post-game, Kirby taking the BTA was ah was pretty hilarious. Oh, yeah. When he jumped up on the table yeah and was just doing the the BTA sign, the universal symbol for Yeah.
00:46:29
Speaker
Yes. That was pretty awesome. um Like I said, if you haven't seen Kirby Smart All Access, check out the end of his end of is post-game speech.
00:46:41
Speaker
I'm going post a clip of that that I thought was pretty cool. um Just talking about fighting, man. Just keep fighting, keep chopping, and good things are going to happen in life. That was this the summary of his ah ah his speech, and I was just like, chef's kiss.
00:46:58
Speaker
The other thing is if if you haven't seen the the highlight reel from the school, that the school put out from this one, fantastic. ah One of the better endings of one of those videos you'll, you'll ever see. It was really good.
00:47:09
Speaker
Superman, Superman. I feel like we should have an outro of the Superman music for this. I can do the regular. I've got the regular, but I don't have the, the super slowed down Krypton was, it was so good, which I had to explain to, I had to explain to Lily to like,
00:47:26
Speaker
Like that song we play in the fourth quarter, like that's Superman. Like that's the Superman theme song. It's the Krypton. Krypton fanfare. Yeah. I think that the official the official john williams ah mayor aria ah the official John Williams song from Superman is like the planet Krypton is the song in the soundtrack or whatever.
00:47:48
Speaker
Got it. bandned the Krypton fanfare is the title of the song that we correct like that our band plays or whatever which I think is a little bit different but um yeah effectively the same um yeah no I mean this is it's it's always good to beat a team in orange
Next Episode Teaser
00:48:09
Speaker
that's all I'll say about that and We get some we get to get some revenge. We have a revenge tour for this coming this coming weekend. um yeah I think that la Lane has stepped in it on the on the pregame talk, in my opinion, um has insulted our our head coach. And i hope that hope that we score 50.
00:48:31
Speaker
fifty I hope we hang a 50-burger on him. Nice. We'll have a special guest with us to preview that one. Yes. The fighting hunters are on deck.
00:48:42
Speaker
Yes. And with that, go dogs. Go dogs.