tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3605713505742350776.post8231106831017370352..comments2023-10-12T11:25:27.308-04:00Comments on I'm Thinking...19: What do I know?Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00155737107718849274noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3605713505742350776.post-40029670070385036952009-09-01T15:46:00.867-04:002009-09-01T15:46:00.867-04:00Good write up, as usual.
The good news is, with ...Good write up, as usual. <br /><br />The good news is, with the exception of Fla., the East is in a bit of a transition year. Coach Richt will have the Dawgs coached up, so divisional play favors the Dawgs.<br /><br />The bad news is Fla., LSU and Ga. Tech are gonna be some kinda tough.<br /><br />So...prediction time.<br /><br />Dawgs 9-3.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18446041451834023933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3605713505742350776.post-7168090387390519262009-09-01T09:58:55.223-04:002009-09-01T09:58:55.223-04:00Good write up, Legend. I ain't sk-sk-skeered ...Good write up, Legend. I ain't sk-sk-skeered of any of the teams we face this year. <br /><br />This is the great thing about the Mark Richt Era: We don't go into every season automatically checking off the 2 or 3 losses to teams we know are better than us. Remember doing that in the 90's? Every year, we'd say "Sure, we'll lose to Florida and Tennessee/Auburn, but if we can win the rest of them, we'll have a great season!" We don't win all our games every year, but we have the ABILITY to beat any team in the country. Yes, even without Stafford and Moreno.<br /><br />We've been talking about all the unknowns this year, and of course that is true. But unknowns can go in either direction. Personally, my eyeballs are tattooed in red and black, and I see us being better this year. This is the best interior D-line we've had in many years. This may be the best offensive line of the Mark Richt era (we've had deeper experienced lines on the roster, but they all ended up with shoulder and knee injuries in preseason. Not this year).<br /><br />Richard Samuel was a 5 star athlete out of high school. He was 16 when he arrived on campus last year. Think about that. He's only 17 right now. His up-side is huge.<br /><br />Joe Cox will be fine. Tennessee had success with Ainge (esp. against us), and Alabama had success with JPW, and I think Cox is just as talented as those guys, but smarter. A good offensive line got JPW an NFL contract for goodness sakes. <br /><br />Even with only 6 receivers, we've never had a more athletically gifted bunch. At least not in a long time. <br /><br />Our secondary scares me. To me that's the biggest "?". But like you said, we know our interior D-Line is great. Production from the DE's means that the secondary doesn't have to be all-world. <br /><br />We only have FOUR days until we see what we've got. It's Game Week, baby. GATA!!!Josh G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3605713505742350776.post-45056062974606504392009-08-31T19:58:56.110-04:002009-08-31T19:58:56.110-04:00Shan - awesome...once again, it ALL comes back to ...Shan - awesome...once again, it ALL comes back to LOST.<br /><br />RedCrake - Yeah, the more I thought about it, the more I just got a little ticked off. Are we supposed to be scared of the 4th best team in the Big 12? Bobby Petrino and Arkansas? Even the gayturds...they're still just college football players. they're not superhuman (except Tebow, of course). Bring it on, I say....let's show what we're really made of.Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00155737107718849274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3605713505742350776.post-2737261903721859412009-08-31T19:46:38.471-04:002009-08-31T19:46:38.471-04:00An optimist (perhaps begrudgingly) after my own he...An optimist (perhaps begrudgingly) after my own heart. <br /><br />Inexperience...blah blah blah...brutal schedule...blah blah blah...questions marks here and there...<br /><br />Screw it, I say we win the National Championship. <br /><br />This just became one of my favorite Georgia blogs...then again, I'm pretty easy to win over.RedCrakenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3605713505742350776.post-25143545479239181842009-08-31T19:43:20.563-04:002009-08-31T19:43:20.563-04:00Apropos of your blog header pic and our mutual fas...Apropos of your blog header pic and our mutual fascination with Lost, I’ll draw this parallel with the show and the Dawgs: for both, despite all the speculation we can muster, we just have NO IDEA of what’s going to happen.<br /><br />Daniel, Charlotte and Locke (among others) shuffled off this mortal coil, Jacob got kicked into the fire and Juliet set off a bomb, and who the hell knows what to expect next? Alternate timelines? More time travel? Oceanic 815 landing safely in LA with everyone on board?<br /><br />Similarly, Knowshon and Stafford shuffled off campus for NFL riches, Willie’s D got torched and a preseason #1 ranking blew up in our faces. This season? Scrappy, gutty team puts together wins much like the 2005 squad en route to an SEC Championship? Some of those seemingly unavoidable “winnable games we lose” are compounded with a brutal schedule and produces a cratering hole of a season we’ll come to refer to as “the incident?” (Keeping in mind that the first “incident” was probably the Goff years). Somewhere in between where we win the ones we should, lose the ones where we’re not favored, and wind up 8-4 or 9-3?<br /><br />I just have no frakkin’ clue. I’ve analyzed it a million times, and each time I come up with a different result (where’s Daniel Faraday when you need him to work with Phil Steele’s and Jeff Sagarin’s data?) I’d love to jump on your Disney-fied bandwagon and think the best, but I always tend to run a little toward the negative side. All I can say is that we’ll know more on Saturday, and Willie Martinez will probably be the John Locke figure in the mythos (“dead man walking” or “embattled antagonist who finds his destiny”).Shanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02912061891010047846noreply@blogger.com