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Georgia/Texas media takes: Cubelic

CC: Georgia takes out Texas. Massive game. Huge. Scene was awesome. I've never seen anything like the penalty and reversal. Agree with Kirby in that maybe some really bad precedent was set. I hope that's not the case.

Okay. 30-15. Carson Beck wasn't great, but similar to the Bama game, he can really overcome some bad football and then all of the sudden start playing good football. Etienne can just finagle his way into gaps and get north and south in a hurry. He makes them dynamic. Felt like they could've ridden him a little more than they did. Some of the inside zone stuff was really nice. Texas LBers were being really aggressive and they kind of let them play over the top and Etienne could just wiggle through there. It was good stuff.

Thought the TEs looked better for GA. Better blocking, caught a couple of big passes. But ultimately, every Georgia game has turned into a drop back game at some point and it's just how much of that will we see. But it's fine. We can talk UGA O, but it really doesn't matter because Texas' O is the one that caught hell and UGA's D won the game.

The star of the game was Jalon Walker. There were multiple guys though. Multiple that flat balled in this game, but I thought 11 was out of his mind. Georgia was the more physical and intense team in this game. And I've tried to find ways to describe it and "gritty" is the only thing I can come up with. And I feel like UGA proved "We're a little more rigid than you are". Physicality and intensity was a massive reason Georgia won this game. Everette had the big pick. Starks made some plays. Jackson did some good things before he got ejected. R. Wilson was flying around. Williams off the edge was doing good things. RT for Texas had a long day. LT did not get dominated like some are saying, but the RT was a different story. Damon Wilson was awesome in this game. The way J. Walker closes the space...unbelievable. He was sitting there waiting on Arch to move out of the pocket. Chambliss had a good game. Stackhouse had a couple good plays against the run. I've been saying this all year, Brinson is the guy. Strike and shed, made one play by himself, but he's the guy that lets those LBers run and make plays. He is a massive piece of why they are successful. Aguerro set the edge one time. I'm sitting there thinking it was just like Tykee. He's setting the edge then playing off the ball and tracking this stuff down? That's the kind of stuff this defense can do that not a lot of others can do. And more importantly, that's the kind of stuff not a lot of other people can do anything about. And that's my take away. Georgia proves they're a little more rigid than Texas and I don't think anyone is on Georgia's level there. I don't. I haven't seen it if there is.

The other part is Georgia still has guys where there isn't much you can do about it. There's a couple of things they ran that were pretty crafty. There were some coverage things. A couple of pressure packages. A couple of things they did right before the snap. That's gonna get anybody. DL stems and two backers walk up in the A gap right before the snap. You gotta be pretty advanced to stop that. Unless you've got some kind of quick protection on, that's asking a lot. It's a different front, you can't change the front. When the two backers move up, the center can't take both of them. And if a RB is there to pick up one they twist which is even more of a mind F. And they pulled out a couple of things like that. But let me be really clear when I say this, Georgia won the game because they won one on ones. That's it. Plain and simple. How many Longhorn ball carriers did you see make a guy miss and go for a long gain? Whether it was a TE out in the flat, an RB out in the flat, two RBs out in the flat, one trailing and throw it out like a toss sweep, may have gone for four to six yards at best. That's been going for 16 and 26 against everybody else. And a bunch went for no gain on Saturday. Georgia handled the detachments beautifully. They were aggressive and it cost them a few times with penalties. But I don't care. Georgia was more physical.

I said going in that I was concerned about Georgia's tackles against the Texas edge defenders they had been releasing on people. I thought Simmons might be able to have a good game. I thought Anthony Hill Jr. might be able to have a good game. They didn't have the success out there I thought they would.

Texas was 2 of 15 on third down. Yikes! 1 of 5 on fourth down. Double yikes! Not a great offensive performance from either side but GA out rushed TX 110 to 29. Georgia proved again they just have guys that you can't do much about. It's the one on ones that won the game. There is scheme involved in everything. This wasn't reinventing the wheel. Georgia didn't show a defense like Arkansas did vs. Tennessee two weeks ago or what Auburn showed LSU in 2019 where it was a different scheme. They ran their stuff, dominated the one on ones and won the game.

Tulsi lays it out

For independent-thinkers like myself, there is no home in the Democrat Party. However, there is a home for us in the Republican Party.

The Republican Party of warmongering elite Dick Cheney is in the past. Trump’s GOP is a big open tent party of the people, equality, common sense, and the party that is led by a President who has the courage and strength to fight for peace.

Tonight I stood with President Trump and announced I am joining the Republican Party. President Trump is our best and only hope in this election to lead our country toward a future where every one of us can live in a truly free, peaceful, and prosperous nation. Now is the time for us to stand together, vote for Trump and save our country.

- Tulsi Gabbard

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I wonder how many vote on policy and how many vote on feeling?

I think most Pubs vote on policy. There might be a few who vote because they like Trump but let’s face it, he’s not a likable person. There’s a fine line with him. I respect his toughness and resilience in dealing with all he’s had to endure the last several years but he can come across as crude and crass. But, some people find him endearing because he doesn’t put up with political crap and doesn’t mind ruffling a few feathers when most politicians would just put out a political statement.
On the other hand, what percentage of Harris voters either support her because she’s a woman, black or because they hate Trump? I just don’t see a lot of policy based Dem voters except for some on abortion. Does anyone really vote Dem because they want more government, a roll back of Trumps tax cuts, higher inflation, higher interest rates etc.
It’s amazing to see how both parties have changed in my lifetime. The Dem party was the party of segregation and then passed social bills that basically bought the black vote. Now, over the years the black population is realizing that they’ve been used and held back by big brother.
Dem used to be the party of hard working middle class families. They have now become the party of fringe extreme groups. Dem used to be anti-war and that got JFK assassinated. They’re now the party of the military complex and seemingly look to keep war stirred up around the world. We’re fighting wars in several places by providing weapons instead of troop and I’m sure that’s perfectly fine with the leadership because it supports the Raytheon’s, Lockheed Martins, Northrop Grumman without sacrificing US troops.

The Daily Dawg Caller What time is it in Texas?

Georgia’s “10 to 9” upset victory over Texas in the 1984 Cotton Bowl remains the Bulldogs’ lone win over the Longhorns in the five-game series entering tomorrow.

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The 1983 team got me hooked on Georgia football as an eight-year-old, so I have a lot of fond memories from this game.

For one, and some of you may remember, Georgia was given very little to zero chance of upsetting Texas. “On paper, Georgia has no chance,” The Macon Telegraph declared.

“Going into the Cotton Bowl, I got sick of hearing about how bad we were going to get beat out in Dallas; we supposedly had no chance,” linebacker Know Culpepper once told me in an interview. “That was the primary reason why beating Texas was such a sweet victory.”

It was a historic victory that just as easily could have ended in defeat. Check out the stats below. Lastinger, who was named the game’s MVP, had totaled only 64 offensive yards (rushing + passing) on 28 plays prior to his game-winning, 17-yard touchdown run.

Also, the ironic thing about Texas’ fumbled punt was the fact the Longhorns actually thought the Bulldogs weren’t going to punt at all, but run a fake punt. Texas didn’t even have its normal punt returner in place—but instead Craig Curry, the team’s starting safety who had never fielded a punt in his college career.

Nevertheless, more than 40 years after the 10-9 win over Texas in Dallas, some Georgia fans still wonder aloud, “What time is it in Texas?” Only to be answered by those in the know with, “It’s 10 to 9.”

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Anyone else remember this "sweet" victory?

Oct 15, 2020 Biden leads Trump by 10 in RCP avg of nat'l polls. Oct 15, 2024 Harris leads by 1....

And Trump leads all of the battlegrounds with the exception of Wisconsin, which he trails by 0.3 pts. The panic is for good reason. If we have learned anything since 2016, it is that not only does Trump always outperform polls using traditional methods, he also always breaks late.

His 10 point deficit on this date in 2020 went down to 7 before the election. He lost by 4 nationally, but less than 1 pt electorally.

Trump voters are naturally skeptical of cold call pollsters. And that skepticism is probably even higher given the even more super-charged divisive environment and distrust of big tech well earned the last four years.

Furthermore, so much of the anti-Trump vote is rooted in hatred for Trump. Is that a voter that breaks late? Hell no. That is a voter that would have crawled over broken glass six months ago to vote for Trump.

The biggest issue I see for Harris is that a late breaking vote is the most likely vote to simply vote on issues. A vote that gets pissed off every time they check out of the grocery store. And this voter not only isn't required to love Trump, it is also a voter that may not have even voted in the past, but now will given the fact that they are pissed.

The working class is more than ever the class of Trump. And that is the part of the electorate most likely to outperform historical turn-out, because the economy is not working for them the way it is working for the NVIDIA shareholder, who has the luxury of prioritizing J6 and abortion over inflation. The J6 / abortion voter has always been priced in, and it got a bump when Harris replaced Biden, but that already happened.

For that reason I think the turnout models for republicans likely under-count the "pissed off factor" towards the incumbent party. Maybe there was an element of that in 2016, but the low / middle class wasn't hurting nearly as badly then, plus they had the recent memory of the late Bush years and the GFC to make them feel things were better than the last time a republican was in office.

If anything, there may be reason to believe the now famous Trump under-polling factor may be even more pronounced this year. And he is 9 pts ahead of where he was last time.
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Ok, Texas celebration is over….what are your early thoughts about Florida?…..

They are clearly not the same team they were early on. Lagway makes then a much better and a more formidable opponent. Just focusing on him, he can be UGA’s worst nightmare. But I haven’t watched enough to know if the rest of the UF team talent matches his ability.

On the other hand, UGA’s defense seems to have found an identity just in the nick of time. So from those who view these games in some serious depth, is this a bad matchup for UGA? Will the talent differential make this an easier game than it seems to be right now? Were your surprised by how easily they dispatched Kentucky?
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