2 National Championships
2 SEC Championships
53-5 W/L Record
4-0 against Auburn, Florida, Tennessee, and GT

DGD gets thrown around a lot, but every name below deserves that recognition imo. Wishing these young men nothing but the best in the NFL or otherwise (perhaps another year at UGA? 👀🤣) and appreciate their hard work and dedication to the "G."

Smael Mondon
Chaz Chambliss
Cash Jones
Dylan Fairchild
Jared Wilson
Micah Morris
Tate Ratledge
Nazir Stackhouse
TID
Warren Brinson

Is it allowable to line up with 11 guys to run a play, and then run the entire 11 off to be subbed by another 11?

I've never seen that. Should that have been a penalty?

The winner of Georgia vs. Notre Dame will be determined by:

• Establishing the run
• Stopping the run
• Special teams

Notre Dame lost its most disruptive defensive lineman to injury. That will help Georgia.
Anecdotally, me and @brollinspff have been discussing on FDL how Georgia's offensive identity has been a pass-first team under Carson Beck.

What I didn't realize until looking at numbers: this season is by far Georgia's least productive rushing team in the Smart era. Some of it is about effectiveness. Some of it is about volume.

2016: 2489 rushing yards in 13 games (191 per game)
2017: 3876 rushing yards in 15 games (258 per game)
2018: 3349 rushing yards in 14 games (239 per game)
2019: 2602 rushing yards in 14 games (185 per game)
2020: 1742 rushing yards in 10 games (174 per game)
2021: 2868 rushing yards in 15 games (191 per game)
2022: 3080 rushing yards in 15 games (205 per game)
2023: 2677 rushing yards in 14 games (191 per game)
2024: 1680 rushing yards in 13 games (129 per game)

Georgia has decided up to this point that passing was better for its offensive personnel. Does that change? Can it change?
That will be fascinating to see.

With the face paint and spikes..our fans looked like a bunch of pirates. That’s not UGA.

Random observation- these massive tires on trucks that look ridiculous are like botox for country boys. I imagine they both start the same way, with just a little enhancement, until the user loses all perspective on what is normal looking.

Who y’all got as the champ?

Stays with Tennessee

They ponied up

Be called by quavo or something?

…I truly expect us to go into the spring with an open competition under center. I have a strange feeling that Pugs is going to really turn some heads and make the offseason really interesting.

In fact I wouldn’t be surprised if we went into the season with a rotation plan and packages for both.

1. Hail Mary execution. Was bad vs GaTech and cost you your starting QB vs Texas in the SECC.
2. If you are wearing your jersey only on the sidelines, you do not get 15 yards from the field of play during the game.
3. Subbing all 11 players like in hockey.
4. Getting your backup QB more passing reps during the season.

Feel free to list your wishes for 2025. No wrong answers here.

GT - final play of regulation
SECCG - final play of 1H (Beck gets injured)
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Right beside Freeman most of the game.....former PFF employee Anthony Treash.

PJ39 barely has the toe box of his shoe on the white and the ref leans into and shoulder checks him. Pic and video below...



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I know many are still venting frustrations. Have at it. It was a frustrating loss - they all are but that one particularly so.

But now I personally am over it (looking to the future) and wanted to give folks a chance to talk about some of the things they actually enjoyed from this season. Plenty of negative threads to go around so if you feel the need to be that way you've got plenty of other options.

My favorite plays from the 2024 season:

1. Dan Jackson's strip tackle against Haynes King in 4th Q of the GT game. Unbelievable play at an unbelievable time in the game.

2. Daylen Everett's strip sack against Quinn Ewers in the first Texas game. Something about a corner blitz from the blindside just gets me going. Whole world knows whats about to happen except one person, and then - BOOM.

3. Dillon Bell's long TD against Bama. I know what happened after but that play was freaking electric.

4. Brett Thorson's tackle. How can you not love that guy? Objectively a good play for UGA? No, probably not. But I still love having a punter who will bust his ass down the field to make a tackle when needed.

5. Malaki's pick against Clemson. Impactful? Probably not. Did he have the year he/we wanted? Definitely not. But that was elite athleticism on display and he's a guy we'll remember really fondly. Great player and great person.

How about you?

The Good News

We won the SEC Championship and beat Texas twice with a deeply flawed team. Those flaws include the lack of a true DT, the lack of any functional OTs, and the lack of a top 50 receiving corp. The ability to win the SEC Championship in the face of such flaws is a real testament to the gritty nature of this team. Very proud of the team.

Despite the banging on the OL by the fans, the center and the guards were largely solid when healthy. I expect them to be solid next year even with one of those guys going pro. Nate Frazier is a special player and will be a star. Chris Cole is going to be our next great linebacker. Bolden is going to be a First Team All-American soon.

We have a great home schedule for the fans next year.

The Bad News

Though we have a great high school recruiting class coming in, they are going to get thrown into the deep end of the pool immediately. By the time we are done with draft declarations and spring portal losses we will be a very inexperienced team. We need a safety, an OT, an experienced QB, and depth in the spring portal in a big way.

The Unforgiveable

This is so hard to believe that I cannot believe I am typing it -- but in the last minute of the first half in the Ga. Tech, Texas, and Notre Dame games (three consecutive games) -- we gave up strip sacks on slow developing pass plays. We overcame the first two of those to win the games -- but the first two cost us our starting QB. The last one cost us a winnable playoff game. After what happened to Beck in the Ga. Tech game -- the repetitive failures in the Texas and Notre Dame game fall squarely on the OC. I do not blame Bobo for the outcome of the season or the poor offensive performance this year. As I said, we were a flawed team. The lack of OTs and WRs really limited this offense. But there is no running away from making the same mistake three games in a row without learning a GD thing.

This one got a good chuckle from me lol

Watching this team this year was like watching paint dry. I absolutely dreaded having to suffer watching it take the will of god for us to do anything offensively. I hated knowing that we would continue to miss tackles in key areas of every game and it would likely cause us to lose (and it did).

IDK what is wrong with this year's team. But there needs to be new blood on both offense and defense. ESPECIALLY at WR and OL. I'm not sure if its coaching, or players are not as talented as we are accustomed to. But this years team was NOT a typical Kirby Smart football team.

We led the nation in dropped passes (36?) and almost all of them were in key moments of every game.

I need the portal and DRAFT open now and we need MAJOR rotation.

I like the head coach and the way they play the game. They did do a shit ton of holding last night though.

Last year the SEC championship game cost us a seat in the limited playoffs. This year the SEC championship game cost us our QB and All American kicker. Not seeing the advantage of playing that game anymore.

to not wear black jerseys or red britches!

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Top 10 players from each of our last three classes, using Rivals rankings

2022
1. DE/Edge
2. DL
3. DB
4. DE/Edge
5. DB
6. RB
7. OL
8. DB
9. DB
10. DL

8 defense (5 top 5)
2 offense (0 top 5)


2023
1. DE/edge
2. DE/edge
3. DL
4. DB
5. DE/edge
6. TE
7. OL
8. RB
9. DL
10. DB

7 defense (5 top 5)
3 offense (0 top 5)


2024
1. DB
2. LB
3. DB
4. DL
5. RB
6. LB
7. DB
8. WR
9. DB
10. TE

7 defense (4 top 5)
3 offense (1 top 5)

Total by position
10 DB
5 DE/Edge
5 DL
3 RB
2 LB
2 OL
2 TE
1 WR

22 defense (14 top 5)
8 offense (1 top 5)