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SEC Championship Review | 2024 Georgia Football
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Jim and John review Georgia’s 22-19 win over Texas for the SEC Championship.
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00:00:00
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it's It's nice to be on the opposite end of a backup quarterback situation. I'll say that. Dude, seriously. but
00:00:11
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Welcome to My Gotta Podcast.
Georgia's SEC Championship Victory
00:00:12
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I'm Jim Wood. In this episode, John Powell and I review Georgia's 22 to 19 overtime win over Texas for the SEC Championship. We talk about our experiences on Saturday and what stood out to us during the game.
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00:00:41
Speaker
Now, let's join the conversation in progress. Just as we predicted.
00:00:52
Speaker
Oh, yeah. I mean, ah yeah who didn't have ah the first SEC championship over time in history? Look, you know, on on their bingo guard. Sometimes you just got to go back to back.
00:01:06
Speaker
a Hey, remember that time ah we won the SEC championship after and beat Texas the second time in a season? That was awesome. That was awesome. but um yeah i mean just I mean, I knew that we were going to do this back when we lost Ole Miss. like I just knew that this was going to happen. so That's exactly exactly what i what I thought was going to happen.
From Playoff Outsiders to SEC Champs
00:01:31
Speaker
I'm glad you said that cause it reminded me that I wanted to, to, to bring up a text. My dad sent me, um, yesterday. He said, I know y'all discussed this on the podcast, but we went from being out of the playoffs to sec champs in a number, number two seed and Kirby Kirby saying what he said, uh, to Greg Sankey on the podium. Good dogs. Yeah. Oh man.
00:01:56
Speaker
Oh, and uh, yeah, yeah, just unbelievable. Uh, maybe we can talk about that later. The, the, what he said, but that was pretty funny, especially with Sankey sitting there and the clip of like Sankey Logan's face when he said that. Yeah. It was, it was classic. But yeah, dude, I mean, you know, when those playoff rankings came out after that Ole Miss game, I mean, we were, we were like the first team out, right? Like we were sitting there, sitting there at 11, um, to go from there to the number two seed and SEC champs. And yeah, I think, uh,
00:02:24
Speaker
You know, I, there was debate of like, does he does, does the championship do championship games, do conference championship games still mean anything? And I was definitely a Debbie Downer saying they've been devalued, et cetera. Um, but I will say, and I feel this is kind of what kind of my case going in is like, if you get there, you, you need to win it.
00:02:45
Speaker
And I was especially, I feel like it was even especially true for us. Um, cause I don't know where we would have been, you know, in the playoff, maybe we have a home game. I'm not sure. Like maybe we take that eight seed, but you don't know.
Quarterback Injury and Team Adjustments
00:02:58
Speaker
Um, and having that extra game, especially now, knowing what we know now, when you're down your starting quarterback, um, yeah having that shorter road, the whole thing is even more important now. It complicates, it complicates the prep, right? So yeah. Yeah.
00:03:15
Speaker
Um, especially since, you know, we, we heard that, um, we heard that he, he didn't tear it, but it's bruised or partially torn or something along those lines, right? Yeah. Yeah. It sounds like, yeah, I don't know, I guess multiple reports. I think what the school specifically announced was, um, status unknown, like seeking sick and opinion, family trying to determine treatment. So, but yeah, Seth Emerson reported.
00:03:41
Speaker
either bruised or not torn enough to immediately need surgery. I think was the way that it ended up being phrasing phrase. So hopefully I don't know. I don't know. We'll see.
Emotional Championship Game Moments
00:03:53
Speaker
We'll see. Who knows? yeah It doesn't sound, it doesn't sound good um either way. Not ideal. Not ideal. Suboptimal. Suboptimal. That goes down. Thorson, the boom and onion, the thunder from down under.
00:04:05
Speaker
Which all we know is they said season ending leg injury So I mean yeah that looked like your classic non-contact Terry seal type thing, but yeah well had to see it But hey didn't need to punt again in the game just lined up for one once um And then Gunner came in so unbelievable unbelievable like range of emotions during the game and It was, uh, it was wild. It was a wild ride watching that game on. Yeah, I don't know. Um, yeah. I mean, if you look at, if you look at the wind probability score, like if you're looking at the gamecast as I intend to do, um, from ah about the start of the th from the start of the third quarter, it was pretty much tossup at that point, which didn't feel like it at the time.
00:04:57
Speaker
But from that point forward, everything in the second half is pretty much universally in solidly in Georgia's win probability. i mean Did it feel like did even feel like that? like i'm just i hadn't I literally had not looked at this until just now. It didn't feel like we were as in control as this says we were.
00:05:18
Speaker
So here's my, here's my takeaway. My takeaway from the, what the wind probability says here tracks with exactly how I felt in the back of my head. Now in the back of my heart, as I'm jumping up and down, screaming at the TV for someone to catch the ball. Um, and my daughter's recording me and like laughing and Carter's laughing and they're like, dad, you need to calm down. I hadn't been like that in a while. Um,
00:05:46
Speaker
So recognize that once you're in the game, you want to win. I definitely was in the, I don't know. I don't want to say I'm Debbie Downer, but like this game doesn't matter. I think, you know, you and I had kind of, I had joked that, you know, there is a war world in a, um,
00:06:05
Speaker
Alternate reality where someone would treat this game like the spring game and basically pull all the starters and just see what happens and just use it as a quote unquote by week in which you play your starters. And John, John had mentioned, you know, you don't want to do that. Cause if you get, if your backups get hurt and all this kind of stuff and it's like, okay, I get that. So whatever we went out, obviously in Kirby wanted to win.
00:06:29
Speaker
Uh, as winners do, and, you know, we found ourselves in the most unlikely SEC championship, I feel like in recent memory. yeah Um, but to answer your question, um, in my head, I was thinking it, but like I said, my heart wasn't because.
00:06:47
Speaker
If you're going to beat this Georgia football team, you cannot beat them, kick and field goals. yeah And we kept them out of the end zone multiple times.
Team Resilience and Emotional Support
00:06:56
Speaker
We turned the ball over. They didn't, they they weren't able to capitalize as much as I thought that they were going to be able to capitalize on the opportunities that they had. Our offense is what our offense is. The second half, obviously, um,
00:07:10
Speaker
I say that the team very much found themselves in a situation and our coaching staff, if you listen to that mini movie, our coaching staff basically said that they were going to fight until the end. And, you know, at some point the scoreboard is going to read, read zero, zero, however long it takes. And that however long it takes message was throughout, throughout the message. I feel like that their takeaway from the Georgia tech game was that they're going to fight to the bitter end. Um,
00:07:41
Speaker
And they did. Gunnar came out and the team completely rallied around him. And I think that it's a testament to this program to watch not only the players on the sideline rallying around him, you heard in the, in the mini movie, the lost and lucky, like one of my most favorite moments in this season. And probably one of my more favorite moments of an interaction between a player was seeing a guy like lost and lucky come up, get in Gunner's face and tell him how much he believed in him.
00:08:15
Speaker
And then if he just believed the fraction of that, that he'd be, that they're going to be fine. yeah Um, like that to me was, was chills. And then to see that same mentality permeating in the stands with the moms of those quarterbacks. Yeah.
00:08:32
Speaker
Dude, that moment when I saw the moms hugging was like, bro. yeah i've I have never in my life seen anything like that. You always see the pan to the to the stands and you see the mom and the dad or the mom. You know, we saw Stetson and his family, but you never saw other families interacting with each other the way that you saw Carson Beck's mom and Gunnar Stockton's mom interacting in the stands. And that was like,
00:08:59
Speaker
I don't know, it was, it was pretty awesome to see like the culture that's kind of permeating throughout the, throughout the program. And that leads into the, into the parents.
Core Values in Team Performance
00:09:08
Speaker
Yeah. So true. And it's, you know, I think it's easy to kind of like brush off and laugh about.
00:09:14
Speaker
like core values and stuff. And, but I mean, they, yeah they resonate with this team and throughout the coaching staff, the, the players, you like you're saying that the families, but I mean, the connection right there, we saw it. Right.
00:09:30
Speaker
composure, composure, you know, they, the other thing that, um, Kim kept pointing out and we talked about a lot in our house was like, you know, this was a, it was a hard hitting game, but it was composed. Um, and you know, Georgia the whole time was composed. You didn't see any like outbursts from either team or really it's like, it was a respect kind of thing. Um, but then toughness, obviously, and then resiliency. I mean, this is the most resilient team that I can ever remember.
00:09:56
Speaker
to get behind by so many points, so many times and and be able to do this.
Coaches' Motivational Talks
00:10:02
Speaker
And and you mentioned that if you haven't seen the, they they literally called it, sometimes they'll say like, you know, cinematic recap or game highlight video. This school tweeted it out today, like it said, mini movie. And it definitely is. So definitely go watch it. um But I thought it was interesting too, when you see what we're led to believe is basically the halftime talk from Kirby and he says, we got 30 more minutes or however long it takes. I was like, Oh man, like, like he knows, you know, he knows what could happen, what could happen here. So, um,
00:10:33
Speaker
And even before, even before you saw, um, Glenn Schumann in that, in the video talking about like, they hadn't seen our best. They haven't seen our best for, you know, however long it takes. Like that there were multiple coaches that said that statement in the, in the video recap. yeah Um, and another moment that I thought was super special and I'll, I'll, I'll pause to to dunk on Florida for a second. fa la la la la Um, in that mini movie.
00:11:01
Speaker
Um, there's a moment where Mike Bobo comes up and gives ETN a hug. And I can, I don't know who he grabs cause he can't see the number, but, um, I assume it's Nate Frazier or something, but I think it was Frazier. I know you're talking about. Yeah. frasier Yeah. So he grabs, he grabs those boys and says, come here, come here, come here. And he gives them a big hug. Like that was another one that kind of got me. I was like, dang dude. Cause ETN basically gave the quote of all quotes that's going to permeate in recruiting circles. I hope, um, you know, this is why you come to Georgia.
00:11:34
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. It was beautiful. It was beautiful, man. How about, how about Kirby pulling a fast one on us? When we were, when we recorded the preview, we were like, well, I guess ETN isn't blank. Cause Kirby was like, he's a long ways away or something along those lines. It was, I, it was like the reverse hopeful. It was the reverse hopeful.
00:11:51
Speaker
and yeah And he almost had a hundred yards. but Yeah, dude. Like he, holy cow. What a difference he makes. Um, I mean, he, that was the thing that was kind of starting to worry me. Like when we were looking at everything during the preview, we're like, Oh man, like ETN like scored all the touchdowns in the first game. And by the way, he did it again, this game. How about the, the fact that all points between, between two games, between Georgia and Texas, All points were scored by either ETN or payday. They're the only ones that scored points for Georgia, those two guys. So pretty phenomenal. Suck it. love La, la, la, la, la. Oh man. And, and, and, and by all, all, and all means like there, there may be some other players coming from other teams for next year. or So the trolling will continue. Yeah. Yeah. The beatings will continue until the rivalry of morale, ah man.
00:12:45
Speaker
But yeah, so I don't know it crazy emotions throughout throughout the day. I actually I don't even know if I told you it's like i I woke up like super early. I usually sleep
Pregame Routines and Superstitions
00:12:56
Speaker
on Saturdays. I woke up at like five forty five on Saturday. yeah And I was like, time to go.
00:13:02
Speaker
I don't know, I just woke up. I guess I was i was like ready to attack the day or something. so um I don't i cant did all kinds of random stuff because I didn't want to be loud. so I like cleaned out all my emails and did some podcast stuff and some merch stuff that I accidentally emailed i accidentally mailed to you. so Talk it up to your, talk it up to your early morning. I was too early. I didn't have coffee. So, so you, John, you have to let us know how the new, um, I got a podcast because he's look when they, when they come to your house, speaking of, speaking of our, um, our, uh, what do you call them? I guess template. What do you what do you call that? Um, yeah. Our, our original like.
00:13:42
Speaker
prototype prototype. Yes. Thank you. Jesus. Um, the, the prototypes that you made for me, um, served me well in, in the sec championship because we were down and I wasn't feeling the vibes. And so instead of changing clothes, cause I was very comfortable in my clothes, my home field, my home field sweatshirts, which I guess is a really good opportunity to plug the home field, yeah but i Always remember use code hunker down at home field, uh, for 15% off your first order.
00:14:11
Speaker
Yes. Very comfortable sweatshirt. Big fan of the Georgia sweatshirt, especially with the temperatures getting colder. Um, I did not want to change. And so, um, just kept chopping with my outfit. However, I did change, make some adjustments to my game plan. And I did change the the color on my tree because I've got the led tree that can change colors or whatever we've got that changed it from the all white. Uh, Um, to the all red and my wife was out of towns or, you know, when that was, she was ah out, she wasn't here. So otherwise she probably would have said something. Um, what are you doing to the tree? Yeah. Why did you change the tree killer? It looks terrible now. Um, cause it doesn't, wet it doesn't match the motif. Um,
00:14:56
Speaker
So i changed the I changed the color on the tree. And then I was like, you know what? I need a beer. I need ah and i need a koozie. So I pulled out the yellow belly and threw it in the in the old yeah old prototype. Nice. I actually, ah I don't know, maybe we should always do that. That that was the koozie I used to. I used my prototype. My podcast koozie.
00:15:16
Speaker
My only wardrobe change was, I don't know, somewhere in the first quarter, maybe it was at the end of the first quarter, I don't know, at some point I realized I had never put a hat on. So I was hatless. And so I feel like that was an issue. So I went and threw a hat on. So that was the only wardrobe change I had.
00:15:32
Speaker
If you're like me, if you're like me, I always wear hats, right? So I always wear hats, especially like on zoom calls and stuff. Like I always, I pretty much always have a hat on. So whenever I don't have a hat on, people are like, I don't even recognize you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I actually, I basically like, I saw myself in the mirror and I was waiting on the hat on. That's how I noticed it. That's pretty funny. But.
00:15:53
Speaker
Yeah, so did that, did our Christmas, did our usual SEC Championship Saturday stuff, did the Christmas lights, um made the bean dip, and we were ready to go to watch the game. And this is the first game Ella watched with us. um So because she's been away at college. So and then tech game, she was back, but we read the game. She wasn't so.
00:16:15
Speaker
So that was fun. So we had a ah good family viewing. we We had some friends that we'd invited over and they're like, you know, like he knows how I am. And he was like, if we come over and you're not playing well, I'm going to feel bad. So where's we're just going to say. I was like, all right, that's fine.
00:16:32
Speaker
You know, I don't want to be the bad juju. It was pretty funny. I told, I told him later, like after the game, I was like, man, I guess it's probably a good thing. They didn't come over. Like they would have, they would have felt that cause they probably would have like left at halftime and then, and then they come back would have happened and it would have been them. So, but man, it's funny. Yeah, dude. It was like, go ahead.
00:16:52
Speaker
I was going to say I also had an early morning. Um, I, uh, I ended up smoking, smoking up work, but I started smoking it at 5am. Um, but in my, in, in my defense, um, I woke up at five explicitly so that I could just put it on. And then I basically went back to bed for like another hour, hour and a half or so.
00:17:17
Speaker
Yeah. So that I could wake up and spritz it and do that whole thing. Um, and so, yeah, I was, I had an early morning as well. Okay. Okay. Maybe we need to not have early mornings. Yeah. Uh, I don't know what it was for me. So we smoked, smoked the pork butt and then, uh, just kind of went throughout the day. Um, I ended up, I ended up doing about three hours worth of yard work. I have not done, and this is probably like, you know, maybe I shouldn't share, but.
00:17:46
Speaker
I have not done a technical pregame run, um, for the last two games. So I'm going to, I'm going to definitely get back on that. I was like, I was like, well, I mean, I got like 10,000 steps in before 7 a.m. So I think I'm fine. So right.
00:18:04
Speaker
Right. Um, anyway, I was like, no. um back to went Went on an overtime.
Game Day Challenges
00:18:10
Speaker
Definitely didn't have time to do it for the Georgia Tech game, but, um, you know, cause driving from Hilton head and I was like, there's no way I'm not going to get up at four in the morning to go run. Yeah. Yeah.
00:18:20
Speaker
Well, Kim and I didn't either for Georgia Tech with the driving over. um We got some grief at the tailgate about that. And then we did. So this one, Kim had because she does her like Peloton stuff. So she had like an hour run. She had to do like on the treadmill. So she did that. And then I rode the bike next to her. So that was our week. So we tried that. So I don't know. Maybe that wasn't enough. I don't know. We'll see. That's that. That was our that was a workout. This is this does not spark joy.
00:18:50
Speaker
Yeah. I got to tell him I got to get away from it. I feel like you were the one that always ran. that's good and I was. Yeah, I know. It's totally it's totally my fault. We've gone over time, guys. I'm so sorry. I had the audacity to drive five and a half hours to go to the game.
00:19:10
Speaker
and didn't fit the run in and then decided that doing like, I think, I don't, I think my total step count that day was like 20 or 30,000 steps or something. um Just from, just from all the yard work that I had to do. Yeah. And then corporate.
00:19:26
Speaker
basketball and I never bring a chair. I always walk around for his sports stuff. So like, just racking up the steps. Cause his game was like an hour late. That was another thing that went wrong. Um, and Carter's game was at three 30 on Saturday. And so, uh, which they won, they won a nice game. Um, wonderful. He had a lot of assists, but didn't score a whole lot of points. Um, but, uh, but he They were behind an hour. And so we get there at 3.30 for a tip off or a unit for the game to start at around 3.30. And I was like, geez, what the heck's going on? This game's not even at halftime yet. Like the game before us. Yeah.
00:20:04
Speaker
And all the dads were like, dude, this is killing me, man. There was a debate on the sideline amongst all the dads. Like, are we going to stream the game or are we going to wait and watch it after we get home? Like, what are you going to do? What are you going to do? I don't know. I'm going to watch it when I get home. I'm going to wait. And then the pressure of being able to keep up with the text thread and look at and the Twitters and Um, not wanting to like, no, not know what's going on in such a magnitude game. I was like, I'm just going to pull it up. And so we streamed the first half basically and got home, it got home. So maybe it wasn't the run. Maybe it was just the fact that I wasn't prepared to watch the first, first half. Yeah. Yeah. Could be who knows any of these things are possible. All I know is that the TV, when I got to the TV, everything started working.
00:20:50
Speaker
Nice.
First-Half Struggles and Defensive Efforts
00:20:51
Speaker
Yeah, dude. um Yeah. So though, I mean the, the first half, like, I don't like to basically like just nothing was working on offense. Um, but the defense was dialed in really the whole game. It was like Texas was able to hit like they could hit like a deep ball or whatever. And that man, I mean, they were going, they're really going after Daniel Harris. I think at the end of the day, like, I think he did pretty well. Like, I mean, he gave up some passes, but in general, like he was there.
00:21:17
Speaker
You know, like he was just a good coverage, just good passing, good catch. Um, but Dale and Everett, you know, the early pick, the early turnover, hate that we couldn't capitalize on it. Um, just the whole game for the thing. Like, and I, the thing that was weird to me, I need to go back and watch it. Cause I haven't, all I rewatched like the second half at overtime. I have not, I didn't rewatch the first half.
00:21:39
Speaker
Um, but we're like on the third and one, like they have like the overhead camera, like from the, you know, the stadium view camera like angle at it. And like, I don't know, the offensive line just looked weird. Like I felt like we were like lined up in a funky kind of bend when we did the quarterback sneak and it didn't work. Um, but whatever. So then had to put it back.
00:21:55
Speaker
That was definitely like it felt like like that was a kind of a bit of a deflating moment early on. I would say to not be able to convert that into anything. um Stunk, but it was like the whole first half. It was so weird. It felt like and I would say it felt like I know.
00:22:13
Speaker
I feel like we couldn't do anything, but yet the score just didn't, it never got away from us. We just kept them at arm's length the whole time. Yeah. Cause there's a lot of, there's a lot of Twitter melting down. There's a lot of us in the tech start like, what are we doing? What are we doing? But I'd say, well, I mean, it's, we never got behind by more than six points.
00:22:28
Speaker
you know Yeah, seriously. We were always like, if you score here and then it'll be fine. And then and we're like, well, now it's six to three. and again Yeah. It just, I just never thought that we were, I always thought that it was, it was in controlled.
00:22:44
Speaker
Uh, it was in control. Uh, it was a
Second-Half Strategy Shift
00:22:47
Speaker
controllable situation. Like you said, the defense, um, the defense was, was doing well. I think that, uh, at one point, at one point we were up 13 to six and remember, did we score the field goal in the fourth quarter before they scored any points in the fourth quarter? I don't remember how that went.
00:23:07
Speaker
Uh, no, the first score of the fourth quarter was actually their touchdown to tie it to be 30 to 13. Okay. So when we, when we scored a touchdown and a field goal in the third quarter, that was the only scoring in the third quarter. I think I had sent a joke text to everybody. I was like.
00:23:23
Speaker
The way that the defense is playing Kirby's just going to, at some point Kirby's just going to be like, let's let the defense when it just don't turn the ball over. Yeah. With, uh, with Gunner and then just, just grind, just grind out this 13 to six victory. Yeah. Yeah. yeah Just Kirby does march the rest of the game.
00:23:41
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, but then they went five plays for 75 yards in a minute and 22 seconds on a 41 yard touchdown pass. That was the blown. That was the blown coverage. I true. I truly believe that Kirby had that in the back of his mind because I mean, you look at the hat, you look at the drives and the second half and how everything like transpired. I mean, we held the ball for six minutes and 41 seconds to put our first points on the board. Like ah it feels, it feels like after, after the second, after the second quarter, um, like we were just trying to, we were just trying to hold on the hold onto the ball.
00:24:22
Speaker
And then we had our touchdown drive in the third quarter that was 10 plays, 75 yards, four minutes and 33 seconds. nine plays 61 yards four minutes and 40 seconds basically held the ball for over half the quarter um just just hanging on the ball and then you know the the start of the Kirby death march like or what the way the attempt of the Kirby death march was you know 16 plays 72 yards nine minutes and 22 seconds
00:24:53
Speaker
Yeah. um Yeah, dude. and that that That was to reclaim the lead at 16 to 13, and that was the drive. That's where we had the fake plant in that truck. Right. Yeah. Then they kicked the field goal. They had they had their two-minute drive or whatever. um the time of day The time of possession differential between the two halves was nuts. They were their exact opposite. like We did not have the ball. like we ba We just didn't have the ball in the first half.
00:25:21
Speaker
um We just kept going three and out and punning and then the second half was like total opposite. I remember thinking that, um, first off the the vibes were high when we won the the coin toss. I remember, I remember like we were watching, watching the game and my buddy that was standing next to me, his son played on the the game before us. So he actually got to leave a little before everything happened. Um, but he turned to me and was like, did we win the coin toss? And I was like, yes. And we deferred and we were both high five. Like, yes.
00:25:55
Speaker
Um, but yeah, like, so you knew, you knew that like at the end of the halftime, that that was going to be, when we got to halftime, that that was going to be an opportunity. And of course, like we had, you know, the little bit of time left. we i um um so I still believe that we, we should have been able to get a field goal at the end of the half, at the end of the first half. Um, dude, that whole sequence was, was wild where we like, I mean, didn't Beck like throw two picks, like but they kept jumping off sides and we kept throwing picks. Yeah.
00:26:25
Speaker
Yeah, that was frustrating because the second one, like I get it was a free play, but <unk> I'm not sure exactly what's going on there. But then, and then the run back is what made it to be one second left and have to put in the Hail Mary situation. That was anyways. Yeah. Like, i don't I don't know. I think that if you could go back in time and sit there, like if you've got a free play clock clock time is better than.
00:26:47
Speaker
Yeah. throwing Throwing up something. Yeah. um yeah the yeah i think that I still think that that if we could get that series back to see try to get a steal a field goal away, that would have been that would have been nice.
00:27:02
Speaker
um But yeah, I think that they, they were, I think that, like I said, we know what this team is. We know what it, what it can do. And we just weren't, it wasn't, it wasn't, it wasn't working. And even though we've been saying it all season, you know, the, they still figured out a way to win. They still figured it out. They still were in a position to succeed. Defense showed up big, dude. I think that this might've been Damon Wilson's like best game ever. Yeah. do Yeah. He was incredible.
00:27:32
Speaker
He was flying all over the field. And that's and that's kind of the the mindset of this team is, you know, maybe it's, you know, Jalen Walker's not having the, Mike L. Williams not having the good game, but all of a sudden we have another guy step up. We've got, this is a deep team. It's a flawed team, but it's a very talented team that is capable of killing you at any given moment.
00:27:54
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, we didn't even, Kristen Miller didn't play, right? I don't think. um we had but Xavier McLeod was in there a lot. um yeah the the The depth, the the depth showed. I mean, I still feel like it kind of comes back to what was kind of like our bottom line going into this game was that Georgia was tested and you know Georgia was playing against Georgia was Texas is only true test and they didn't pass it. And then that came true. I came true again.
00:28:19
Speaker
um I still can't believe though that, you know, Beck goes down last play of the first half. You know, you're kind of looking at it like, eh, I don't know. Like they didn't look very good. Yeah. You know, they're like, they interview Kirby. come off He's like, Oh, I think he should be fine. We'll have to check. They come out. Gunners out there. We get the ball right away. So we know, um, it,
00:28:40
Speaker
it it is It is crazy though to see a team like react and and rally around them. and what and because i yeah and the The feeling I get is they're all like, all right. like They weren't helping Beck out in the first half. I'll put it that way. The the drops were there. you know no i was like We can't catch the ball. So many things are going wrong. um To Beck's credit, yeah I don't didn't see Beck like getting upset with anything anyone or anything. but But then again, it's like, all right, well, at the end of the day, we're slowing down three, but then ba it gets hurt. When Gunner came in, you could feel everyone be like, all right, like we've got to help, like we've got to help this guy out. Um, all of a sudden everyone's making catches on the sideline, you know, like the, we're right in, like first, his first throw was the Arian Smith right in his hands. sketcht um and that might mean not I think he threw, he threw to ETN first, but then his first one down the field was the Smith catches it. The, the,
00:29:36
Speaker
Throw and catch to lucky on the sideline was Unbelievable like unbelievable catch get his foot down in the bounds um and then also just like when Gunner the first time he took off and ran a Like doesn't slide run through some contact at the sideline the sideline kind of erupts um I think Gunner kind of came up talking to the DB a little bit, too um I feel like that just kind of like fired everyone up and it's like all right. It's on and Kind of reminds me of when from came in his first time, you know, like they just kind of get that in Are you saying that gonna gave him the number one stunner? Story from the wood household when the game was over Kim Kim's like flipping through her phone. Like what are you doing? And then she starts playing number one stunner. So that was playing in our house Good times amazing amazing big timers at it coming. Yeah
00:30:31
Speaker
Uh, so good. But yeah, dude, I mean, ah it's still a while. i so I still can't believe that that is, is how this whole thing happened with Gunnar Stockton coming in and leading a leading comeback. Um, unbelievable. Just unbelievable. Yeah. I mean, this season has had a lot of, it's, it's definitely been one of the weirder seasons and that I'll ever remember, but, um, yeah. Yeah. Having Gunnar come in, everybody's been like, yeah, we just, let's see the backup. Well, the backup's in now.
00:31:00
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. By and large seems like, I mean, if I'm a betting man, I'm guessing that Beck is probably not going to play in the the first round or our, our next game. Yeah. Which I guess what the quarter finals is that we're pulling it. Yes. In the sugar bowl. Yeah. He's not going to, I'm guessing that Beck's not going to be in the sugar bowl, but, um, I could be wrong, but, uh, it looked pretty bad, man.
00:31:24
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know. We're talking, we're talking about MRIs and getting second opinions that tells me that it's not ideal. Yeah. So yeah, I would agree. And then, and then to make matters worse, we lost Brett. Um, yeah, that that kills me. That kills me. Um, I hope, I hope that he is a swift hope that both of them have a swift recovery.
00:31:43
Speaker
Um, you hate to see anybody of those, you know, of those magnitude players, positions, ah personalities. Um, you hate to see those guys go down to the championship game. Yeah. Yeah. Agreed. Agreed.
00:31:56
Speaker
Um, I would say the second half though, we got into what we did, like the complimentary football thing, you know, like in general, like things were working well together, which is what we hadn't been doing that.
Defensive Highlights in Championship Game
00:32:08
Speaker
But the defense, I mean, the defense was just lights out the entire game. I mean, I think that was the best. The defense has played all season. I feel like, um, how many sacks do we have? Six and a half, seven, something like that. ah Six sacks.
00:32:22
Speaker
Yeah, that sounds right. um Just, you know, viewers I think was pretty much like rattled all game. um They had what 31 net yeah rushing yards. ah That's that's crazy. It's it had and they only had 73 rushing yards gross. So and then 27 yards lost via sex. Just wild. Yes, like they're there. They're guy that everybody was talking about that was going to run all over us. You know, he only had only average to 2.7 yards per carry.
00:32:52
Speaker
Yeah. Um, but yeah, dude, second half, you've got, well, really, I guess the whole game, right? So you got, I just, I just keep thinking like, okay, like what won us this game? And like, I can point to all three phases of the game. Like the defense was lights out the entire time, disrupting the quarterback, shut down the run. Ever had got two picks. It was just like everything.
00:33:11
Speaker
Um, you could say special teams won this game. They missed two field goals. We were perfect on field goals. Um, the fake punt was just a huge, huge game changing play. Cause that was the the drive after they had scored the touchdown. Um, and they've got all momentum. We're looking like we're going to have to punt. We run the fake field goal.
00:33:31
Speaker
Um, drew Bobo one for one passing, uh, to Arian Smith, just because it it was technically a pass, um, gets us the first down. And then like in the, in the ah offense, I mean, primarily I look at the second half, but you got ETN.
Offensive MVP and Pivotal Plays
00:33:46
Speaker
I mean, just.
00:33:48
Speaker
I would say was the offensive MVP. um You've got Gunner getting his first action in meaningful game time, um doing what he did. ah dude Arian Smith jumping on the Nate Frazier fumble is arguably one of the biggest plays of the game. um And we've been talking about like, you want to get mad at Arian Smith and you say things like, why is he out there? That's why he's out there. um Makes it a huge play on the reverse, on the fake punt.
00:34:15
Speaker
And has the presence to see that ball and pounce on that ball. Um, I mean, that's a game-changing play right there. So yeah, you you do, do the simple things better and you'll succeed in this offense. And, you know, it's not all about just catching, catching passes, catching bombs, getting open. You gotta be able to block. You gotta be able to read. You gotta be able to know the playbook. You gotta be able to,
00:34:40
Speaker
motion properly, you're going to be able to align yourself properly. Like there's a lot that it's wrapped up in this offense that prepares you for the next level. So um dear, dear high school recruit, if you're looking to succeed here, um if you can't do those things, then you're not going to, you know, off you go.
00:35:00
Speaker
Um, dude, I, I was like plays of the game kind of thing. I still like I've, why I've watched it so many times. They hit the gunner took in overtime. Like, so first off, and I, I guess, I don't know, targeting, not targeting,
Overtime Drama and Key Recovery
00:35:16
Speaker
whatever. Like when it was like, I was not shocked to see the flag thrown. Like when you see a hit like that, like a flag's coming out. Um, so, but in hindsight now, like knowing what we know now, knowing that they overturned the targeting and it wasn't targeting.
00:35:29
Speaker
I mean he fumbles that ball the game is probably over and we lose the fact that he was he was able to take that hit and hang on and he onto the ball I mean not only is he I don't know if he's concussed or not probably but you he's fallen backwards his knee like his the way his leg his knee buckled yeah that was like Crazy. Um, but man, he held on to that football. And when is the game? Dude, again, again to the, again to the mini movie. And then Beck comes in to give the fun.
00:36:02
Speaker
Yeah, with his arm, with his arm, like basically ah like unable to move, like you just kind of come trotting out there. ah did I just still, like this game had everything. Like you, you couldn't write the script of what happened in that game. Like no one would believe it, you know? Yeah. It's, it's nice to be on the opposite end of a backup quarterback situation. I'll say that dude, seriously.
00:36:25
Speaker
but Oh, we truly we truly have usurped Alabama at the. at the peak of the SEC, uh, when we, when we're able to win a title with the backup quarterback. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Texas wasn't ready for the backup quarterback plot point in the, in that building. It always happens. That was something that, you know, again, kind of along the lines of the head and the heart situation, like in the back of my mind, I was like, man, if these guys, they don't know, they don't know Gunner, they don't know what he's capable of. Yeah.
00:36:58
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, let's go out and wait for this thing. Yeah, dude. Uh, I was, I was, I was so happy. And again, back to like the did SCC championships matter and all that kind of stuff. I mean, it mattered to me on Saturday. I'll tell you that I, I, I was so happy. Uh, we had like a happy family just jumping up and down circle hugging, uh, when ETN got to the end zone, it was awesome. I may or may not have ran outside on my back porch and screamed how about them dogs at the top of my lungs.
00:37:29
Speaker
Wow. Nice. Uh, I did, I did not do that, but, um, I definitely was like, it took me like a second to realize what happened. You know, like one of those like delayed reactions, like, Oh my God, we just did it. but I can't, I can't believe that. I can't believe that we just did that. Um, yeah, it was, it was a great, it was a great game. Great feeling. Um, big, big game by the running back. Um,
00:37:57
Speaker
You know, looking at the receiving performance, dude, I only, one only one receiver had any yards, which I did. I did not expect to see that for, for us. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:38:12
Speaker
It's ETN accounted for five catches in 28 yards. Oscar dealt three catches, 23 yards. Urosic, two catches, 21 yards. love Lucky, that one catch for 14. And then Nate Frazier, one catch for nine yards. Yeah. left off love Love it had three catches, zero yards. Yeah, that's wild. um That's wild.
00:38:35
Speaker
Arian had five catches for 41 yards. He's the only receiver in that 136 yards receiving. Yeah. And I can't remember we had gotten a, didn't we? We had a question about like, what group do you lean on? And like, we were saying the receiving. man Yeah. Just as we predicted, just as we predicted the tight ends, the tight ends showed up big in this game, man. I don't know. I don't, I don't, I really don't know how to read that other than to say that, uh,
00:39:06
Speaker
We're a flawed team, man. We are such a flawed team, but you know what? They figure out ways to win and that's the most important thing. yeah That's the most important thing that matters because I promise you at the end of the season, when someone comes up to Kirby Smart and says, yeah, but your receivers didn't have 162 yards and 114 yards receiving.
00:39:26
Speaker
which is what happened on Matthew Golden and DeAndre Moore. Yeah. Um, on the other side of the field, they racked up 358 yards passing. Um, but they walked home without any SEC championships and they're no longer able to say that they're dominating in the SEC the first year and we sent them home back in. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, this team, this team finds a way to defense. And that was the thing man that, you know, I think early on we were getting frustrated with some of those long passing plays. so Um,
00:39:56
Speaker
And they continue to do it, but you know, it ultimately ended up being a lot of empty yards with with not as many points as you would think because the Georgia defense just clamped down. And I got to give the the Texas defense credit for clamping down to enforcing us into the field goals that we were forced in um into. I know we were texting like, what are we doing in the red zone? yeah What's going on? yeah um I think we kind of saw why we were calling players the way we were when Gunnar threw that pick late, maybe although I don't know. I'm not really sure. i so I think he was throwing the ball away. I think he was. I don't know. Have you seen anyone explain that? Because there was nobody over there. I think. Do we know? I mean, he was for sure trying to throw that ball away, but why he was I feel like it's one of those things where he's just a young quarterback. He's looking around. It's kind of like the the reason why the airlines tell you that you're your closest, your closest exit is behind you. um He should have thrown it away on the other side, obviously, if you're going to throw it away.
00:40:54
Speaker
Fair yeah, because he was I mean that would have been just like a little toss out of bounds like and it would have been fine Yeah, I don't know. I don't know why he chose to throw it across the field Did you notice that like one of the other defenders for texas started like celebrating? Yes, did he totally could have blocked? It was lucky lucky made the tackle right like I feel like yeah He's sitting there celebrating the interception and then lucky goes right around him and makes a tackle. I mean Welcome, welcome to the n NIL era, Jim. The NIL, NIL, I want to, I want to stun all these hoes, you know, like I want to, I want to, I want to get, I want to get it, do it for the gram. I want the social media posts. Yeah. Lost and Lucky did not have that problem. Thank God. Hey, we didn't come here to take pictures and do a lot of stuff. yeah which We came here to eat.
00:41:43
Speaker
Exactly. they They were hunting, they were hunting and Texas was there to take pictures with their, um, dudes dressed up in leather jackets. Yeah. Could there be any more Matthew McConaughey on TV?
00:41:54
Speaker
peace Yeah. Um, I don't know if you knew this or not, but there were other people that were there that were, um, celebrities for the university of Georgia, namely like a lot of former players that were there and excited for this team because Jim, this senior class had not had any SEC championships. Yeah. They got back to back national championships, but they had no easy championships. Apparently. No, I say I can't be right. No, we were 22. Huh?
00:42:25
Speaker
The 22 SEC championship 2022. Well, no, with the Kirby were saying that that this class didn't have any SEC championships. Kirby. I don't know what Kirby's talking about. I don't know. He was talking about that they didn't have any SEC championships. I don't know. I trusted what Kirby said. Yeah, we did. They definitely wanted 2022. So I don't know what Kirby's talking about. Let me figure that out.
00:42:48
Speaker
Yeah,
Impact of Travel Schedule on Team
00:42:49
Speaker
whatever. um Yeah, dude, confetti's falling, ah the celebration's on, and then Kirby tells everyone that the biome is meaningful because Greg Sankey sent this team on the road all year long. And then he's just sitting there like someone just gave him a wet fish. Oh, that was crazy. That was crazy.
00:43:10
Speaker
Uh, do you want to talk actually, hold on. Let's, uh, coaches over rounders, not a good week for either of us. Uh, we both went three and five. Um, so I just could be death marched and maintained position. So I still have a slight lead. So shout out coach chill bill for track. The wind, the wind probability is ticking up and up. yeah but situation yeah Hey, we did go three and O and coaches pickums.
00:43:36
Speaker
Uh, and the other conference championship games. So, yeah, we yeah we all those, right. Including we picked the Clemson upset over SMU. yeah So did you watch, did were you watching any of those games the night? Uh, I didn't watch any of the, I watched some of the night games. Um, I was dialed into the Penn state game. Um, I was trying to scout a little bit for possible possible play because yeah.
00:44:01
Speaker
Didn't know we were gonna end up thought Penn State was gonna play Notre Dame, but Yeah, I did watch a little bit of the SMU Clemson game But by that time I was just kind of I was just kind of exhausted I had made I was full and I was tired. I had made barbecue and made strawberry shortcake for the Georgia game Georgia red And then I had made eggnog and I had made eggnog as well. Okay. I actually forgot to mention this earlier. We made the bean dip to be like the snack throughout the game, but I had steaks. And so at halftime, we turned the oven on because we were doing roasted potatoes and I got the steaks all prepped or whatever and I lit the grill
00:44:46
Speaker
the big green egg to bring up the temperature and I was like I'll just go out and watch the game outside while I grill and then like when the potatoes were were close to being done it was time to go put those steaks in the grill. I was like I can't do this because like the game was so close to that point and I was like are you guys like okay if we wait until after the game's over the and they're like yes we gotta to just watch the game so I like dialed back the kind of brought the temperature down the big green egg a little bit and waited so we didn't eat dinner until when the game was over over so I went out there and through through our steaks on the on the grill. So we had some had some Bevo cooked up for our post game post game meal. So amazing. Eight a little later. But yeah, then i we did similar. So we sat and watched. We were kind of looking back and forth, although the Penn State game like ended at the exact same time, pretty much of the ACC championship game. So at that point, Lily, Lily and I were the only ones still awake. So we we had like a split this split screen like YouTube TV situation and and watch those.
00:45:41
Speaker
Uh, dude cousin Sammy, uh, led Clemson with like 14 tackles or something. Um, had a big game. Yeah. he yeah he He got the wood. He got the wood memo to kick, kick Alabama into the curb.
00:45:53
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. that So so yeah I guess that was kind of like, what we so we go to bed and we don't 100% know, but we think we know, but I don't know. I don't really have any complaints about what the committee did. I feel like they followed, I think what I said, and we were texting with some folks this morning, like I feel like they followed, I'm pleasantly surprised that they followed their procedure and their process.
Playoff Rankings and Scheduling Impacts
00:46:18
Speaker
because i'm not sure i really fully believe they would i thought they were going to kind of finagle with their rankings to do things in the bracket but i feel like this week's rankings make sense as a follow through of last week's rankings if that makes sense right like i feel like it was actually logical which kind of surprises Yeah, the ah I don't really have any beefs, have any qualms. um Anybody that complains about the the rankings are is probably hailing from a position or a team that didn't win its regular season games and more importantly didn't win its regular season conference games. As far as I can tell, I didn't see any big losses for anyone.
00:46:58
Speaker
I think the only team that could probably gripe about the and situation that they were in is probably South Carolina because that, you know, that one call, which, I mean, I guess that one call doesn't make up an entire season because they could have won other games that they lost. But, um, you know, I don't know. I think that, uh, you didn't win. You didn't win your, you didn't win your conference games and you don't deserve to be in the playoff. ah you You lost, you lost three conference games. Like just sit down and shut the hell out.
00:47:27
Speaker
The funny thing to me is all the talk about like now teams are going to not schedule hard non-conference games. like um not I think maybe there's some logic of like it's a cumulative effect or something, but I don't know. But the funny thing to me is like we're hearing that complaint coming from like actually Alabama's athletic director took to Twitter and was saying that, and he got community noted on that, which was hilarious.
00:47:51
Speaker
um The only team that I feel like it actually has a crack for that was Clemson like because Clemson if you take away the Georgia game in the South Carolina game, maybe Clemson only has, you know, like Clemson's like, yeah, way higher in the rankings. So yeah, maybe they're ranked number two. So I don't know. Maybe. Yeah. So Clemson, maybe maybe they'll change their schedule. I don't know. See, but.
00:48:12
Speaker
Yeah. i the The wild thing to me though, is that like the the two seed is a much better spot to be in and than the
Challenges for Number One Seed
00:48:19
Speaker
one seed. I'll say that. Like Ohio State, yeah for Oregon to get have to face the winner of Ohio State Tennessee as the number one seed is brutal. Yeah, but I mean, it's not going to be like that every year. and It's just that yeah that way this year because Ohio State lost to Michigan. Right, right, right. If Ohio State beats Michigan, it's a whole different ball game, right? like Yeah, that's true. That's true. A whole different bracket. Like it's just, it just comes down to when your regular season games and you'll be, you'll be fine. Like, but you can't control who, who doesn't win there. So I guess that, you know, this will be a learning lesson for anybody that does happen to be the number one scene that you're, you, you, you could end up playing some really good SCC teams that only have a couple of losses or some big 10 teams that only have a couple of losses.
00:49:04
Speaker
Because by and large, that's overwhelmingly the percentage is of what you're going to be facing because what I think seven eight or seven or eight of the slots were SCC or big 10, right? Yes. Yeah. We got four big 10 teams and three SCC.
00:49:21
Speaker
Yeah. So like chances are you're going to be playing a good team from one of those conferences, at least for the time being until the big 10 and SEC decide to go off and do their own super league and screw everybody else. Yeah. I hope it doesn't happen. Well, one thing that we can all be assured of is that if there's more money to be made doing that, they're going to do it. Yeah, that's true. And the question is why the answer is money.
00:49:45
Speaker
Yeah. Uh, well, yeah, dude, didn't see this being the, or didn't feel like this was in the realm of possibility. Uh, after that last little mess. Um, and then this game was just such a roller coaster, roller coaster emotions. Um, but felt great to you'd celebrate another SEC championship, uh, them dogs as hell.
00:50:06
Speaker
Them dogs is indeed hell. I know that i I had a nightcap with a bourbon that I strapped to a custom label for Maker's Mark. Them Dogs is Hell is my special edition 2024 holiday bourbon um on top of the store pick, which I also had.
00:50:26
Speaker
um yeah the uh man this team is just the the cardiac dogs but they're more than just cardiac dogs they're just i don't know there's just something about them i i guess i don't know i don't know maybe it's more junkyard they're more junkyard mentality right now than they are you know um What do you call them? what's the What's the Kennel Club, whatever you call it? um The dog show that happens after the the dog show that happens after the the the parade on Thanksgiving? Oh, like the Westminster Kennel Club? Yeah, the Westminster Kennel Club. You're less best in show and more junkyard dog.
00:51:05
Speaker
Hey, also to like, is it in, is, is there a coincidence to the fact that like the defense had the best game of the season and like must champ was there in the building and like, I think had a headset on too. He was definitely on the sideline. You saw him come in. I saw him in the suit. So there's a video of someone giving him a headset. It was before the game. I don't know if he had one on during the game, but yeah, I don't know. Dude, must champs in the building. Monkins in the building. Yeah. Monkins wearing a Georgia hat.
00:51:32
Speaker
I don't know what Monken's role was, but, uh, I don't know if the, I don't know how late, how deep does the NFL season go? Can their season, can their season be done so that he can be in on, on field or in, and in a booth in booth?
00:51:48
Speaker
influence. I don't know. yeah i don't know um It definitely felt like that things were a little bit different on the on the defensive side of things, but could could really use some direct influence from from Todd Monken moving forward. Yeah.
00:52:04
Speaker
I guess we'll we'll see. Probably not a whole lot of point of talking about it now. I think you you said it well earlier, like what based on what we're hearing wouldn't necessarily count on back the next game, but I don't know. I was kind of like he's done. Like we're not going to see him again. And that still is on the table. But I guess there's a sliver of possibility that he comes back. But I didn't get the time. ah They're going to have to figure out a plan ahead with with Gunner assuming so.
00:52:33
Speaker
Yeah, yeah um I will say that you know now we're starting to see players that are entering the portal. um It'll be interesting to see and hear you know what that looks like from an insider's point of view. So I'm curious to know if those players are you know actively involved in things or they just kind of put off to the side, like go run during during practice kind of thing. Go work out while we work on our preparation for the bowl game that you're not going to be a part of.
00:53:03
Speaker
right Um, kind of thing, but, uh, interestingly, like if, uh, if they get a, if they get a transfer from another quarterback, you know, we could find ourselves in a situation where we may need to have, we may need to be prepping two guys just in case. Cause if Gunner's in the concussion protocol or something were to happen, you know what I mean? If he gets Lucy goosey with his runs. Yeah.
00:53:27
Speaker
could potentially be looking at a backup, another backup situation. So now you're wondering like, who's the next guy off the bench? Is it Rashadah? Is it Paglici? Who takes the reps for the backup quarterback spot? And, you know, if Beck is going to be back, you know, what does that look like? So I have a feeling that this this coaching staff will make have to make some decisions here in the next day or so, so that they can continue to game prep and get a either packages for one quarterback or you know, what, whatever they're going to do. Yeah. Yeah. Agreed. Yeah. I will say, him man, the, like you said, the defense, defense the defense showed up putting them in the situation, but man, if they could kick field goals, we would have been a world to hurt. Um, yeah, they definitely made things close.
00:54:12
Speaker
Yeah, dude. oh it's all let me in All three phases of the game, you know, I mean, special teams is important and we, we won the kicking game on Saturday and that was a huge factor in
Role of Special Teams and Turnovers
00:54:23
Speaker
this game. And we won the turnover name. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Which man, which we hadn't done that a lot this year. So.
00:54:30
Speaker
I haven't done that a lot. We've had a lot of success against these guys. um and and we I think another thing that i think that an offensive line and defensive line, you know they did they had they had good jobs. They had they had a good good outing. Stacy and I are on so on talking terms again.
00:54:49
Speaker
um You know, it's the holidays. I gotta, the guy's desperate. He's trying to win me back, but, um, I keep, I keep holding, holding off, but we're, we're talking, we're talking, Jim, trying to patch things up. I think that's fair. and it's fair Uh, let's see programming note. Uh, we're going to, you know, obviously we'll preview the quarterfinal, uh, when we know who we're going to play. Um, but we, we do plan on doing some stuff in the interim. I think this will be our only episode this week. Um, but we'll, I think we're probably going to do something next week ahead of the, uh, the first round games. So just be on the lookout, be on the lookout for that. And we'll, uh, we'll send out the signals when we're, uh, when we're ready to go.
00:55:32
Speaker
Yes, absolutely. Shout out to John Smith. He brought the Weller Special Reserve in combos to the to the tailgate for the SEC Championship. They remain undefeated. Undefeated. Someone's got to figure out a way to get Weller in combos to ah New Orleans. I like it. I like it. John Taskin here.
00:55:55
Speaker
Good call. Uh, let's see what else, what else? Oh, Andrew Smart was in attendance for the, for the SEC championship, for those that didn't, didn't see. Um, and if you look closely in one of the speeches that Kirby was talking about, I think it's the halftime speech. Uh, you can actually see, you can actually see Andrew hanging out in one of the player locker room lockers. I thought that that that was pretty funny. what What was the sign he was holding up at the end of the game? Like we are the, we are the SEC. Yeah. Amazing.
00:56:23
Speaker
Andrew is starting to, Andrew's almost at a point where he can say that he's taller than his dad, which is kind of crazy at, uh, I think he's like 12. Yeah, dude. He's, he's hit a growth spurt kids, kids growing, man. kids growing It is kind of funny. Like how how you can see like the, you know, uh, little, little guys growing up now. I know. I know. He's, he's looking like totally different. I'm like, Oh man. When the players, when the players are carrying him around, they're probably like, yeah, he's good.
00:56:54
Speaker
It's like, it's like my daughter, like my daughter, like Ali, you're not a little girl anymore. oh Yeah. Yeah. That's funny. They get, they get older. They get older for those of you that have babies, Hunter. They do. They do.
00:57:09
Speaker
I mean, I don't, I don't, I don't really have anything else. I just, I, to me, it's just the, this team and it's like, God, like this team,
Coaching Staff's Leadership Achievements
00:57:17
Speaker
like, holy cow. Like just to to be here, to be in this spot with all they went through the schedule that they had to face. I mean, heck of a coaching job, you know, to get this team here. Um,
00:57:28
Speaker
And I we've been saying all season I don't you know, we've said this is the flawed team I think all the teams are flawed man. I just i think this is one of those seasons um You know where there is no truly great team um I like our path. I think we got the best like that was the bracket I wanted to get when it came out.
00:57:46
Speaker
on Sunday and we got it. We got a great great path through this thing and yeah just got to keep doing what we're doing to stay resilient and keep shopping. I'm excited. I'm excited. said I think this playoff's gonna be fun, man. It's gonna be fun. Just keep shopping and keep the main thing the main thing. Yeah. And someone posted that there should be a college football NIT tournament. That would also be hilarious as well. That would also be fun. I think it would be fun to watch. It would be.
00:58:14
Speaker
Hey, the go dogs hashtag is back. We're speaking of, uh, there, ah there were a lot of conspiracy theories circling around, which I still have questions about this situation, Jim, because it makes no sense whatsoever. So right before, like right before we were going to bed, um, I had message. She was like, Hey, we're going to get the, we're going to get the the hashtag back. We need to try to be the first ones that.
00:58:42
Speaker
the message that we're going to keep, I have to monitor the Twitter's to see when they activate it. Right. And then they, and then like literally like five minutes later, someone's like, Hey, the hashtag is back. And we're like, what the heck? come back So quickly. And then I started thinking, I was like, well, if we got it back, then Maybe some of the other teams got it back too and so I started running down the list of teams that were in the CFP that I knew were were going to be in the CFP and everybody had one. And then I was like, well, what about the teams that are not in the CFP that are on the the first teams out? And so I saw Alabama had a logo and SMU didn't at the time.
00:59:20
Speaker
And I was like, Oh man, is this really happening? Like the conspiracy theory, like that they're going to get Alabama in an SMU is going to get left out. Is that, has that been revealed through the hashtag emoji situation? Right. Right. Yeah. I, yeah. I was, uh, explaining that conspiracy theory theory throughout my house in the morning. Why, why is Alabama still have theirs though? Is the so is is it still there today? Yeah. Oh, that's weird. Yeah. I don't know. They must've changed the rules.
00:59:46
Speaker
I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure. Unless they just paid, which, you know, maybe they were trying to pay everybody um they're trying to buy thing by their way in the the playoff with the, uh, with the hashtag. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, seriously. Yeah. Roll tide is still, has still got the A on it. Well, wild. That's, they're they're using that to let the naysayers know that they're not in the playoff. Oh, that's funny. The shop in Florida has been amazing and delicious. One might say it's been yummy.
01:00:17
Speaker
One might say the tears have been yummy. What else? What else we got, Jim? Ah, I think that that's all I got, man. SEC champs, SEC champs. It feels good. Um, I'm we're, we're second all time in, uh, most SEC championships won our SEC titles, not necessarily the game, but just SEC champions, championships. I think we were past, um, Tennessee. So it's like Bama obviously has the most, but we're in sole second place. Heard that on the bulldog brunch. Shout out.
01:00:46
Speaker
So a couple of questions that I have from a moving forward situation. Number one, Jason, if you're listening, how many games back to back has Georgia had go to OT asking for a friend? Okay. Did we have, we hit like some sort of weird record where we have two games that we went back to back over times. Um, and then I feel like, there's I feel like there's no way that's happened before. I feel like I would remember that, but I'm going to say it i'm goingnna say that it hasn't happened before.
01:01:12
Speaker
Right. That's, that's my suspicion. It only goes back to 1996 that we've had over time. So right. That's my suspicion that we haven't had back to back games. And more importantly, probably haven't had three back to back games. Yeah. Over time. Uh, knock on wood, Jim. Yeah. Don't even bring that up. wait Um, and then the other thing, uh, the other thing that I was curious about, I just completely drew a blank on. What was I, what was I going to say? Totally. I'm i'm totally blanking on it now. I don't know. Could it be, what about like beating the same team twice in a season?
01:01:47
Speaker
That's exactly, I'm glad you're reading my mind, Jim. I appreciate it. Yes. Um, how many times has a team ever played another team three times in one season? Oh, three times in a season. Cause we could potentially play Texas for a third time. Matter of fact, matter of fact, there's a high likelihood that we could play somebody for the second or third time up and down this bracket.
01:02:10
Speaker
Yeah, I, what I am from that standpoint, what I am happy is that about, is that Tennessee and Texas are on the other side of the bracket. And Clemson. Yeah. And Clemson. Just, just that we wouldn't have like ah another repeat rematch until like the championship game, just cause I don't, I think that would be lame if they were earlier. So I did like that.
01:02:29
Speaker
I can tell you, so I had an interaction because Jason Hasty had posted something and someone asked him just about like, um, beating a team twice in a year. Um, so, and Jason said the only other time that he could think of the Georgia beat a team twice in a year was 1943. Uh, we beat Presbyterian twice in the regular season.
01:02:52
Speaker
Um, he said we played them twice that year because of the wartime schedule. So there's a, uh, hasty's hard grid history, uh, nugget and a, and a review of his. Excellent. Well, there's definitely some potential history out there for us to make again. Um, I would prefer to go out and do it as the winner of our side of the bracket and whoever shows up on the other side, FTMF and goog go dogs,