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Could we have caused delay of game on punt substitution?

When I saw it live, I was confused why we were sprinting on full speed to change personnel. Notre Dame ran off its full punt squad and the offense didn’t get set until 14 seconds left on the play clock.

Since they subbed and we are given adequate time to respond, couldn’t we have slow played it and caused Notre Dame to take a delay of game or call a TO? This wasn’t one or two guys we’d have to account for, it was a full personnel change.

I’m not a rules expert, but I’ve definitely seen late substitutions by the offense cause them to take a delay of game or waste a TO because the sub doesn’t afford the defense enough time to respond.

If you’d like to rewatch it, it occurs with 8:00 left in the 4th.

At the very least, we should have either called a TO or called their bluff that they’d actually snap it (I have no doubt they only wanted to draw us off and were never planning to snap it until Jalon jumped).
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Warched with my family - my dad…

Who would rather watch a movie than watch sports* - was incredulous on the officiating. He knows football just doesn’t watch sports (thankfully, he went to South Carolina…my mom is diehard Dawg and went to Georgia along with all my aunts and uncles).
Anyway, he wrote an uncharacteristic text to our family group saying he was appalled at the officiating. Obviously the no calls on the roughing the punter but also the PI’s…but especially all the no called holds. I think the hold on Jackson on Riley’s first down run got him going.
It was interesting because he’s usually not that interested. But he does get upset when he thinks
people are being wronged.

*He is an incredible athlete - just rather play than watch. Even at 77 years old plays pick up soccer with young guys - mostly foreigners - and runs with them - he started playing soccer in his 60’s.

How in the WORLD

Are there already posts saying we have no feasible QB for next year? Y’all ready to write Gunner off after his FIRST CAREER START where he played pretty darn well given the circumstances? Y’all have lost y’alls minds lol.

Does he look like he has the potential to be Stetson Bennett? Probably not. You can’t argue he certainly showed potential though. Just think if our WR and LT played well. He would have looked even better.

Gunner wasn’t in the top 10 of reasons why we lost. Turnovers, special teams, and penalties is your top 3.

*Side note to really get y’all going - I would have LOVED to see what type of package Todd Monken would have dialed up for Gunner over the last 2 weeks.

Go Dawgs!

We’ll never know this but.

We’ll never know this but this game I believe would’ve been completely different with Carson Beck. Gunner didn’t do a bad job but Notre Dame knew they could pack the box in a way they could not have with CarsonBeck
Everybody’s throwing off on the offensive line and they did have some poor play tonight. but five will never be able to block eight. Notre Dame loaded the box because they knew gunner is a little short
A little less accurate and a little less cool then Carson.
goes to back to a point that I’ve made all season… I said since they announce the new format playing in a money first championship conference game is sooner later going to cost a top team their best player. It was us and we hoped against hope that we could cover it up. We couldn’t. Nice accomplishment of the SEC but put a national trophy in one room in an SEC Trophy and another and see which room is more crowded. Conference championships game should be on their way out. Do you know who didn’t get anybody lost in the first week of December? Ohio State
I’m sure 1 million people are about to tell me how wrong I am but that game would’ve been completely different with Carson maybe gotten the pass off a half a second faster stepped up into the pocket better and made better decisions sorry boys that’s the fact of the matter. Now flame away I don’t really care.
And out receiver core played especially poor tonight again they were playing without a quarterback that it started the last 25 or so games. Things are different and if you don’t think that you’ve never played. our wide receiver core was especially bad buy they were playing without a quarterback that it started the last 25 or so games. Things are different and if you don’t think that you’ve never played. If do you want to continue to crush Aryan Smith go ahead but I’m glad he’s a Dawg
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The 2024 Georgia Bulldogs

The fatal flaw on our 2024 football team, from start to finish, was the offensive line. I've never seen a Georgia football team so consistently incapable of establishing a run game. It hurt us from the Kentucky game through tonight. And the offensive line failed again and again and again to protect our QBs, particularly from the blind side.

Hard to run an offense when the O-line isn’t doing its job.

I don’t know whether Gunner Stockton should and will be our QB in 2025, but that kid played with guts and talent tonight. He deserved much better, and I have much more confidence now that he might win the job going forward. I’m definitely rooting for him.

Finally, the 2024 Georgia Bulldogs are the Southeastern Conference Champions. I know many of you don’t care about that. But as a guy who's lived and died with Georgia football teams for more than half a century, it means a helluva lot to me. Especially in the first year we have a 16-team league.

It is great to be a Georgia Bulldog. Always has been and always will be.

Do we have a kickoff time yet for the Marshall game?

First Half Point Production is what kills us....

Throwing out Tn Tech and UMass, our first half points were 6, 3, 7, 14, 27, 23, 6, 7, 17, 0, 3, 3. In only 4 games, did we get reasonable production in the first half.

In past years, we were often up by 14-21 points at halftime. At that point, it allows you to substitute more freely and run the ball more with attitude, and wear the other team down gradually, because they're forced to pass. Without that early production, we can't do Kirby's boa constrictor complimentary football. We spent most of the season playing from behind or in fights deep into the fourth quarter.

And with that type of lack of point production, it's amazing that we won the SEC.

But it will have to get fixed going forward.

Georgia Rushing stats since 2016 (wow)

This year we tied our lowest rushing total of the smart era, and that was the Covid year with 4 less games. This should be a slap in the face to a coaching staff who is suppsoed to love running the ball physically. But when you have a terrible OL coach and an OC that can't scheme around his terrible OL coach this is what you get.

2016- 533 attempts for 2486 yards and 18 tds, 4.7 per carry; 191.2 per game; 13 games

2017- 670 attempts for 3876 yards and 42 tds, 5.8 per carry; 258.4 per game ; 15 games

2018- 567 attempts for 3343 yards and 30 tds, 5.9 per carry; 238.8 per game; 14 games

2019- 525 attempts for 2591 yards and 21 tds, 4.9per carry; 185.1 per game; 14 games

2020*- 377 attempts for 1742 yards and 18tds, 4.6 per carry; 174.2 per game; 10 games

2021- 545 attempts for 2864 yards and 29 tds, 5.3 per carry; 190.9 per game; 15 games

2022- 557 attempts for 3080 yards and 44 tds, 5.5 per attempt; 205.2 per game; 15 games

2023- 501 attempts for 2677 yards and 40 tds, 5.3 per attempt; 191.2 per game; 14 games

2024- 429 attempts for 1742 yards and 24 tds, 4.06 per attempt; 124.4 yards per game; 14 games

Gut punch.

Tough tough year...Kirby looks tired. He is clearly aggravated with the direction of CFB. One thing is for sure though...he is the best leader this program has ever seen and I believe in him to forge a way forward. Hopefully, he takes a long hard look at his assistants and makes some time for himself and his health as well. No one can just power through all of the stress the last decade has brought on him. Father Time is undefeated. Off-season could be a good reset for The Kang.

Gunnar played solid. We missed Beck though. Not sure if we win with him or not but this was a big ask for Gunnar. Still think he can be QB1 next year. Go Dawgs.

Off-season objectives? Discuss...

Kirby was right

This is what complacency leads to. Go ahead and call me stupid. Common theme today. We are deficient in many areas, but the most glaring today was coaching. Maybe the game delay has a lot to do with it? One thing is certain: we have a lot of work to do this off season. Quote from announcer at the end of game “This is not as good as Georgia team we have seen in the past”
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