When you turn on the film it made everyone a little sicker. We lost some of our fundamentals. We’re not jacking anyone up. We’re not making them think about bringing it through there again. We just have to tighten everything down. And we have to find ways offensively to move the football. Also, CMR doesn’t think he did a good enough job to get the team prepared. And when adversity struck, we didn’t do a good job trying to do something about itOther headlines:
- Georgia is just young - Tony Barnhart
Defensive Ills Not Isolated - AJC
Richt's Sunday Teleconference - Ching
Separately, if you need to buy or sell UGA vs. Vandy tickets, here's a link to help you. They're going for less than face on Stubhub.
PWD
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Out of curiosity, which part(s) do you not agree with? Not picking, just wondering.
Paul, Thanks for the links.
I read the Dawg Run Post and it was this part I agreed with the most (taken from the post verbatim):
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3. "We just didn't execute." This is my favorite. It is a coaching
staff’s way of blaming the player. Maybe you can say this once, or
even twice. But not repeatedly. If players don’t execute, it is the
coach’s fault. Period. However or whatever they are teaching these
kids, it's not working.
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CMR's manta since he got here has been execution first and foremost - that's why sometimes more talented players who don't execute in practice don't start the ball game. However, and as per my two comments yesterday, I've had it with he and CWM's continued use of execution as a crutch. Aren't they, as the post says, in charge of making sure the players execute? If after 6 games it is this big a problem, will it ever get corrected this year?
Listen, we've been lucky for 6+ years to not get blown out like that. Look at LSU back in 2004 or AU in 2003 - it happens - but I don't think either above program has thrown in the towel?
I'm very interested to see how the game Saturday plays out for us, I'm really split 50/50 on us either coming out and kicking Vandy's a** - or playing like we did last week and it being 21-17 in the 4th Q with Vandy driving inside our 30.
Go Dawgs (never wavering always interesting)!!
Losses like this one are never good, but maybe this will open the eyes of the coaches to realize that we have serious issues with this team.
The Dawg Run Post hits the nail on the head. GO DAWGS!
I deleted it b/c it was just gross and stupid. Not completely b/c of the content.
"look at florida now."
i'm looking. they're even more up-and-down than we are.
the loss at LSU was noble enough. the win over UT was excellent. but they also looked horrible against a so-so auburn team and were pushed to the brink by the same ole miss squad we beat by 28 in our "trap" game. their offense, the cult of st. urban be darned, has about two plays. their defense, the cult of st. strong be darned, is nothing more than willieball south.
florida has a much-needed off-week, then a trip to lexington. don't say i didn't tell you so when they lose a third straight game.
"I've had it with he and CWM's continued use of execution as a crutch. Aren't they, as the post says, in charge of making sure the players execute?"
I think everyone is getting caught up in semantics here. It's not that he's blaming the players or the coaches. He's just flat out telling you what happened.
The concept of "blame" isn't ever in CMR's discussions. He tells you exactly what happened.
He also says that he and the coaches had a long talk on Sunday and Monday. And he had a long talk with the players about the state of things.
Blame is a concept that fans want to here. They want apologies and people falling on swords or whatever. That's not the way good coaches operate.
They say, "This is what's busted." Now, we will try and fix it.
Tuberville is the only coach I know that blames anyone, and it's never himself. It's usually his QB or coordinators.
Paul-
Point taken. I might be a bit sensitive given the smushing on Saturday. I still tend to think that regardless of his intentions (and not being near Tubby-esque) there is a consistent ring of execution over coaching in the post game press conferences after a loss.
And as I said yesterday, we've all got eyes as fans, we know that there are some times/situations/ players who despite being exactly in the right place - don't make the play.
Time to move on and great stuff as always-
Go Dawgs!!
I agree. I don't think CMR is blaming the players, he is just simply stating what happened. We do have coaching issues, but the bottom line is players have to make plays. If they don't, get someone who will, but that takes time.
I'm affraid that we will start loosing recruits. UGA has had top 10 recruiting classes the past several years, but look at the play on the field. It goes back to coaching. Lets look at Stafford. By all accounts, he was highly rated and projected to be stud (I still think he will be with better coaching). But lets face it, he doesn't seem to be progressing as he should. I don't think its all Staffords fault. It's the conservative coaching. It's like their holding him back from his true potential. That's what worries me with recruits. CMR is not the same wide open offense he had at FSU. Now that its his butt on the line he has become very conservative. At times that's a good thing, but not all the time. He has instilled that into CMB. Watching the LSU/UF game on Sat night, some of the calls by the coaches were bold/crazy. I was thinking CMR would never do that, no matter what. Miles and Meyer were coaching to WIN the game. Not to just hang around to the end and keep from loosing. It's a different mentality. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad CMR is at UGA, I just thing he needs to take a hard look at his assistants and to some extent his coaching philosophy.
c. paul -
Another way to take Richt's comments is that the coaching staff isn't executing well. When he says 'we didn't execute', don't assume he's only talking about the players.
here's my 2 cents about that post:
1.the florida is young part: uf didn't shut down ole miss and ut either. and lsu's one-dimensional attack ran it up their throats at the end of the game.
2.you're crazy if you think this d is more talented than the one in 02, etc. having a charles grant or pollack demanding double teams or having a beast in sullivan clogging the middle makes play-calling a lot easier.
3.executing is a big part. if you call a protection play and the tackle decides to pick up the wrong guy, how's that not an execution problem? if the wr drops the pass or the corner drops an int or we don't tackle, or if a corner passes a wr to a safety by mistake...that's all execution. maybe they weren't trained enough or properly, but maybe the player just made a mistake.
4.leadership: i don't know...not in the locker room or close enough to the team.
5.ol injury problems: this is corrected with a new ol coach and the recruiting we've done the past 2 years.
This team is not very good. Last year's team was not very good.
Auburn coached their team to a loss last year. They could have run the ball against UGA the entire game.
Tech coached their team to a loss last year. Anyone who really believes that Oliver can cover CJ is deluded.
I am in shock at how bad Georgia is.
I was at a U-19 girls soccer game early Saturday. The girls played with more more fire and toughness than Georgia's defense.
I hope they are getting a good education because they are boring the piss out of me on Saturdays.
Can we please move the game to Thursdays where we belong?
"Anyone who really believes that Oliver can cover CJ is deluded."
Dude, are you blind or just stupid??
Oliver dominated CJ last year - no question. Hell he was used in evry ESPN Draft highlight reel to show CJ's weaknesses.
Oh, I get it...you're a tech fan.
The Tech coaches did coach us out of a win in Athens last year - but it had nothing to do with CJ. Nix was just too retarded to keep pounding Choice against a UGa D-Line we were gashing all game long. His insistence on having Reggie Ball in the middle of maybe his worst game ever continue to throw the ball (into the strength of the UGa defense) when Choice was having such a good game on the ground was incompetent at best and criminal at worst.
That post on Dawg Run is great - you could change Richt for Gailey and Tech's offensive staff for UGa's defensive staff and then strengthen the language a bit and it'd be right on point for Atlanta as well.
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