but how much do y’all think the alterations in travel affected the team? Kirby looked like he hadn’t slept on Gameday yesterday morning.

We don’t realize until Kentucky just how much Bowers and Ladd were covering up.

We got down 7-0 on the road and we needed someone to make a play. Instead we get a bad OPI penalty trying to set a pick.

We get down 14-0 and we throw a bad INT on what looked like a miscommunication (or just a terrible throw?)

We get down 21-0 and we can’t get a first down.

We needed a guy like Ladd or Brock early in that game to get open and make a play and stop the bleeding. We didn’t have it. We did have guys make some great plays downfield in a game Bama thought they’d won already (remember how poorly we defended against UF and LSU in 2022 after we got up big?), and maybe that’s something to build on but that game was lost in the first 20 minutes when no one stepped up on offense to bail our defense out and keep them off the field.

Someone to be concerned with?

To slow Bama down so much? I haven’t rewatched and won’t and the second half was pretty blurry to me? It was the bourbon and the shock. I know the game is going very poorly when i have to switch from beer to bourbon. Thanks in advance.

Relax about this Bama game. This was their Super Bowl.

Hats off to them. They were more prepared than we were.

They had the home field advantage.

Gotta take care of our business in Austin, Oxford, and at home vs the Vols.

Gotta think of these seasons like the NFL now with the 12 team playoff.

In Coaches Poll and AP Poll

D'Arnaud hits a walk-off HR that may end up sending us to an improbable playoff berth and CJ Nitkowski has zero reaction. None.

I love Gaudin - he's been fantastic. CJ is boring and I don't get the sense he's a Braves fan at all. Francouer and Chipper would be falling out of the press box.

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To put it in writing, so we can laugh at you later.

Not talking about against that 17-year-old burner. Way too easy pitch and catch. I don’t understand lining up 10 -15 yards off the ball to some of them. All of our throws are contested in tight windows.

And it took me longer to get a beer than to get in the stadium.

Kirby says we played off their WRs cause threat of Milroe running. While they pressed out WRs n blanketed them on most throws being contested. Do we need a dynamic QB? We can't allow their WRs to get so open. Nico will be sane type of problem and the Volbillies have Nother QB for 2026 class looks to be sane dynamic QB.

The laziest of analysts on here will blame Bobo. Flame away but Bobo called a damn fine game. If the defense didn’t decide to spot them 21 in the 1Q and if Beck didn’t turn it over 4x, it would’ve been fine.

Flame away, but those are the facts. We will be fine and will make it to Atlanta to avenge our loss. But if you want to put this loss on someone, Bobo should be quite far down the list.

Never seem to chew Beck’s a$$ like he did Stetsons? Hell he used to meet stet halfway spitting fire - sometimes chewing his ass all the way to the locker room - after maybe taking a sack or forcing a ball into coverage - maybe Kirby does get Beck camera just hasn’t caught it

Brian Schottenheimer was about #6. Please, please, please.

Do not Lay the wood. It's almost like they are flailing back there. I mean Lewis Cine would knock your head off.
What is the root cause?

I spent 10 minutes scrolling through Instagram reels and saw many videos from last night. NOT ONE mentioned anything about how horrible Georgia played the first half. Nothing about Kirby being 1-6 against Bama. The comments were all about how it was an instant classic, a championship level game, and #2 is just insane and potentially the best receiver in football. That last touchdown in particular was a crazy catch and run, even though it was poorly defended by us.

There’s PLENTY to work on and fix, but all is not lost. Given how we’re #5 in coaches poll, I don’t think we drop out of the top 5 in AP poll.

Let’s get right this week and expel some demons on Auburn.

1 here.

has had 2 really tough games in a row, but how good was that play he made on the throwback screen yesterday? That had TD written all over it.

Has anyone had shoulder replacement surgery? My shoulder is absolutely trashed from 13 years of pitching and 16 years of repetitive manual labor. I have severe osteoarthritis and the pain is definitely getting worse. I was told recovery time is 6-9 months to get back to being active. I'm trying to plan surgery around work responsibilities, home responsibilities, and life in general.

Any advice or experiences you've had is greatly appreciated. Being 48 years old and needing this type of surgery is pretty nerve-racking. Thanks in advance!

Leaving Scam Newton hanging.

Kid's growing on me.


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I have posted a couple times recently about how much it worried me that Drew Bobo was our backup center. I thought he filled in reasonably well.

Not that they matter this early but I think we move to 5-7.

As who we are. It was great to see the character and the resilience of it, but I would argue that that is a one off and the more accurate indicator of the two teams is what happened in the first half.

We converted five of five on fourth downs, that’s not sustainable or reproducible in most games. Alabama dropped three or four interceptions. In addition to the ones they did get.


I hope I’m wrong, but this team has three easily losable games left on its schedule.

Our smash down technique or whatever we call it, is not working and hasn’t worked the last two years. Is it just me or did we finally start playing our end/olb straight up and let him fight to contain the edge rather than coming down so hard and smashing everyone? It seems to me that a pulling guard would wreck this concept and let a guard pick up the would be tackler. I also think it allows the rb to see the entire edge early, make his move and get a head of steam for a cb/lber to have to deal with. I think it’s time to scrap this technique completely.