Diego Ricardo

Howie Licknuts

Said it on tRant: if our run game improvements are genuine then I think this game goes like the 2020 matchup. If not then I don't know.

Keys are: turnovers, penalties, effective run game with a few explosives, forcing the UGA offense into 3rd and longs and creating takeaway opportunities.

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The team with the least mistakes wins.

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This is basically it. Whoever gets the opposing QB to implode is probably the winner.

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Bro if Bama wins vs Ga we aint losing to Leavitt . Heck Bama may lose to Ga and I don't think we lose to lsu.

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If Alabama can beat Georgia, they'll beat LSU just because Kiffin psyches himself out again about getting a big bama win and goes for it 6 times on his own side of the 50 resulting in 28 points for Alabama.

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I believe they did, but nowhere near the level of buy-in and organization that Georgia was doing. And don't get me wrong, I wish they would've.

You think if Texas boosters were all-in on buying players under the table, we would've lost recruits to Georgia?

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When it was a black market, the dollars were smaller. In that case, players were more likely to choose where they'd get developed (so they can make real money in the NFL) and win.

Since it is above board now, the dollars are larger so they just take the biggest number even if they won't get developed.

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Ed O won becasue he had great coordinators and the same is true for Gene Chizik who had Gus. As soon as those coordinators left - they went to shite despite having the same levels of talent. Coaches are like a multiplier and it's dumb to think they aren't worth a lot. If anything, we should increase coordinator pay if it means getting/keeping better ones.

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Great ones are a multiplier but since coaches are free agents not assets owned by the “franchise” like in the NFL, average ones get incredibly inflated pay.

The NFL model is the right one: just churn in young guys or desperate retreads every 3-5 years until you hit then lock em up. Edit: but that is impossible because the allure of just sniping someone’s potentially great one is too high and nothing exists to prevent it from happening.

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It was in much, much better shape than when Saban inherited it and that’s what most dispute with Bama fans.

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Well right, but nobody is arguing that DeBoer inherited a Shula and sanctions roster. People are acting like he inherited a mid-2010s Alabama roster and judging his performance couched in that assumption.

End-stages Saban didn’t even have a prime Saban roster. They basically didn’t sign a single HS prospect that was a NFL quality skill position player after John Metchie in 2019. Stopped signing good interior lineman around the time Golding took over DC because he loved a 2-4-5 base defense that wasn’t great at featuring those body types.

I don't think KT was sick. I think that is cagey talk to hide that he got banged up by Mizzou and they don't want to talk about specifics. KT seems like he was coached to stay in the pocket and not expose himself to hits.

Hopefully, Mizzou didn't debilitate your backfield for the rest of the season. Last year, one of their safeties speared our starting tailback several yards out of bounds, concussed him badly, and the man was playing like he was in a Tua-esque brain fog the rest of the year thus killing our minimally viable run game to pair with Ty Simpson's accurate passing.

That's why I don't get the Drink is a Yank pussy talk on here. His Mizzou defenses are late and dirty hit machines...and I'm sure they are also doing little gamesmanship things when they can on tackles and in piles that don't show up as obviously on TV.

Lebby is a good coach though. He can scheme that little jitterbug slot receiver Evans open like a top playcaller would. It felt like whatever we were doing, #3 was going to be on the last man on the field we'd want covering him or in an area our zone defense is least capable of covering with a given route combo.

Good luck the rest of the way!

I was looking for some cfb pods to listen to lately and gave his feed a try.. I unsubscribed within a week because:

1. His insights were not any better than what I could provide an audience
2. Too many commercials. Not only did he have dynamic ad insertion bullshite but every segment is sponsored by someone.
3. The podcast feed was injecting other podcasts from his parent podcast network into the feed.

#3 was the last straw. Just couldn't abide that.

Okay, but when’s the last time we’ve played a Smart UGA team and running the ball hasn’t been hard work?

Georgia may not be as dominant as they’ve looked but we’ve got a decade of program history to look back upon with these guys. We know what we’re getting philosophically and know what to expect personnel wise.