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While we haven’t been as impressive…

This is the same program that has one regular season loss in 5 years. I know that Kirby and Schu are scrambling to get the best secondary guys on the field. Searles is also trying to maximize his roster while patiently waiting for the return of two OL starters. We are working hard to replace Brock and McConkey and two 2024 starters who are off the team. I’m going to trust Kirby. I’m also going to believe that our best game(s) are in front of us. While many of you have “fired” coaches and questioned every play call, let’s believe in this staff. We’re still the envy of college football and a loss or two won’t change that.

Coaching turnover has finally caught up with us...

There's no question we don't have the playmakers on either side of the ball we have had of late. We have a lot of depth, a ton of 4 and 5-star guys, but just not those headliner guys right now. That may keep us from winning a NC, but it isn't the reason we are playing the way we are, which isn't our standard. I don't think anyone is upset that we may not be a NC team this year - we just want to see the players we do have play to the standard we all have come to appreciate under Kirby.

Kirby had really grown into the head coach role in the last few years. Delegating much more, much calmer demeanor on sidelines, etc. The whole operation seemed mature. Kirby seemed to have established HIS program and was confident in being more of a CEO role.

Suddenly, Kirby looks like he's coaching the team by himself this season, at times reminiscent of those frantic first couple of seasons. He absolutely lit Schumann up a couple times yesterday, including once where it resulted in him shoving an MSU player while trying to get to Schu. He's been on Schu's ass all season it seems.

He's openly, almost sarcastically, joking about our secondary giving up explosive plays after the game yesterday. That's about as publicly critical as you'll hear Kirby.

I think Kirby has called the entire D or individual units up as group during the game more this season than he has the last 3-4 seasons combined. He's pushing coaches aside and trying to will us into a better team.

I've emphasized and Kirby echoed last night that our issues are not physical. It's repeated mental lapses on both sides of the ball. Over and over and over. That's not our brand of football. You may beat us, but Kirby teams don't beat themselves. That's become the trademark of this team, though.

Even in pregame yesterday going through team reps, every single damn time, someone was out of place or not even on the field. Energy was shit - no "pop" to the way we warmed up. It just looked sloppy.

Players, scheme, etc aside - the operation doesn't look clean this year. And that's a staff thing. And Kirby knows it. He's trying to fix it all by himself, but he can't - nobody can. It's why you have a large staff.

I'm not absolving the players. They have ownership, as well. But we've grown familiar with what elite looks like operationally. This version looks sloppy.

Kirby is the best coach in college football. He needs more surrogates of his standard.

One major factor impacting our Offense …

… our Left OT is really, really hurting us. I don’t know if he’s injured, has gained a lot of bad weight, has just gotten lazy or is suffering from some other mental/emotional ailment … but he has taken a significant step backwards from last year. I know Truss is an easy target for some but it’s past time to try someone else at LT. This situation combined with TE blocking (other than Luckie) is a major part of our offensive issues.

I think the fans ought to appreciate Kirby and stop complaining. It's not only for what he's done for our football program, but

the fact that he has always shown immense appreciation for them and their contribution. Both national championships, the very first thanks in his interview after accepting the trophy went out to the fans for showing up and supporting. It's not like he takes for granted the support he gets, but he also will call it out if it's not there. One of the reasons Spurrier left Florida was feeling that his accomplishments were under appreciated. After rolling off four consecutive SEC championships and one national title from 1993-1996, UF only had one SEC title in the next five seasons. Still, they were right in the thick of it every year and if he had the set up we have now, would've been in the playoff every year. But the fans were complaining incessantly. I hope we appreciate what Kirby has done and is still doing. We've never come close to having this kind of sustained success over eight seasons in Georgia football history and we were a top 15 program historically before he arrived. Any time anyone talks about the elite teams in college football, we are mentioned. And we have just as good, if not the best chance to continue to sustain that place in college football with him at the helm.

My biggest question is we seem to not be improving…

I know we have injuries, but it just seems like we aren’t improving or getting better at all. Every one says our issues are correctable and coachable, but every game we start slow, play lackadaisical, have turnovers, have huge impact penalties(both sides of the ball), and just overall play is not getting better(like DBs still get toasted by no-names). Maybe it has something to do with our poor position coaches like @HacksawDawg mentioned in his piece this morning, but without supposed talent, and us playing and practicing, I am not seeing it. I think that is the most frustrating part. I do not see any improvement game to game.

Best part of game yesterday...

was Bobo really using some misdirection as part of the actual game plan rather than the occasional trick play. The before the snap motions and the fake jet sweeps as well as the reverse to Evans just seemed like Bobo really starting to open things up. Not to mention the increased emphasis on Beck and his pump fakes and designed looking off the defense as well as throwing back against the flow to create all that space in the passing game. We certainly gave Texas something else to consider Saturday. I hope that we keep it up and go under center a few more times to run some quick hitters to counter the misdirection.

What I hope we don't do is decide this week in the game planning that it won't work in Austin in an away game in front of a loud and hostile crowd.

Catching hell …..

I know I know it’s a nothing burger but of course my group chats are ALL OVER me about it.

I saw one video that had me like “holy crap Kirby just shoved that dude” and then I saw another video where I was like “oh ok he was just walking past him to schuu”

Anybody have a video from the front. I think they showed it on the broadcast
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