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More fans should watch the Kirby postgame pressers...

It's a totally different context than reading snippets of quotes.

Kirby is beyond frustrated with our tackling. Straight up says we aren't tackling well. Even more frustrated with our pursuit. Cited taking on and shedding blocks, too. He said tackling is bad across the entire game of football right now. It was obvious it's driving him crazy.

Said we are very thin on depth. "It's not like how it used to be" before the days of the portal. Cited the OL. Said we don't have 9-10 good OL any more, and neither does anyone else. Said he expects that to be a theme in college football going forward. Lose a guy or two and it can really impact a team.

Also cited depth impacting how you can practice. Because we are thinner on depth, we have to be smarter about how we practice. (my editorial - that's impacting tackling, too).

Said he doesn't feel like the team has "cut it loose" yet. Said he told team "you have to earn the right to cut it loose." I didn't really follow what he was saying here but Coach Donnan used to tell the team they're 10 months pregnant. Kirby did say he felt like we got closer to cutting it loose today but not all the way there yet.

Kirby seemed a little energized. He clearly keeps track of scoreboards during the day. Cited Mizzou getting smoked by A&M. If I didn't know better, I thought he seemed energized by Bama losing to Vandy.

Point of all this summary being Kirby knows our problems. He sounds even more frustrated with the obvious issues than even this board is. I've always trusted Kirby's energy. You can sense his will to win in how he speaks, and he's always jazzed up in these postgame pressers when you get a more authentic Kirby fresh off the field rather than midweek coachspeak.

What I took away from it is the portal has changed the game and it's really taken root this season and there are ripple effects we haven't really considered until now. Tackling, fundamentals, etc are impacted by depth. It's making for a sloppier game, and more mayhem via parity.

Some Vandy/Bama stats

- Bama trailed the whole game, first time in 5 years (LSU 2019)
- Saban gave up 40+ 13 times, once to an unranked team (Tex A&M 2022). Took DeBoer 6 games
- Vandy scored 13 COMBINED vs Saban/Bama (4 games). They had 13 in 1st Q today
- Vandy now 1-60 vs AP top 5
- Vandy had over 40 min of TOP, out gained and out rushed Bama. 12/18 3rd conversions

Never thought I would see the day when Vandy beats #1 Alabama. Credit to them for believing and executing all the way through to the end. Just an incredible performance. This is why college football is so awesome.

Today was a pitiful performance by our fans.

Just returned from Athens.
I was shocked with the lackadaisical disinterest from today’s home crowd. A team that has lost one regular season game in the past 43 deserves a helluva lot better than that. It feels like we’ve become an entitled fan base…and judge our interest based on the point spread. I’m hoping we return to form for the other Bulldogs next Saturday.

Auburn: A 2nd & Long Report

2nd & Long definition: 7 or more yards to go on second down.

There are a few subjects in the world that can really make a good chunk of the vent just sort of seizure post through having wild seizures. A happy cross section of those topics involves UGA's OC: Mike Bobo, and 2nd & long playcalls. There's a belief, going back to Bobo's previous stint as OC, that UGA "always ran" on 2nd & long. Values of "always" tended to vary from one poster to another. In addition to being "too much" i was generally "some large amount of time that doesn't make sense according to the feelings of the individual ranting".

It was never true that Bobo (or even Richt before him, as some complained), "always ran on 2nd & long". This thread is simply to chart the latest game and show that. It is neither a defense of, nor an indictment of, Mike Bobo.

It's just what actually happened.


DriveDown and distance
1​
2&9pass Smith 4
2&10pass Young 7
2&8pass Etn 9
2​
-
3​
2&10run Etn 10
2nd & 7run Branson 6
4​
-
5​
-
6​
2&10run Etn 4
7​
2&11pass Dom 13

I counted seven 2nd & long plays. 3 runs, 4 passes. Two of the runs were success plays ("success" is defined as getting 50% of the yards to go on 1st down, 70% on 2nd down, and 100% on 3rd and 4th down).

It was, for whatever reason, 3 straight 2nd & Longs (but that spawn covered several quarters). I believe we did the same thing during a 1h stretch against Clemson.

Edit: missed a 2nd & 10 run to branson for a yard later in the game., and a 2nd & 10 incomplete on that same drive (the last drive).
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