SICK OF IT

dapolla wrote:

sadlerdawg wrote:

I'm really looking forward to hearing the sunshine pumping Willie Martinez cheerleaders explain to us (again) why this shouldn't be blamed on him.

Well, I'm no CWM cheerleader, but if you take away the 2 turnovers that led to touchdowns, the final score is 52-27. That's a little better. If you take away the other short field our lousy kickoff team gave Arkansas on the reverse, it's a 52-20 final score. That's a little more palatable. Same thing against SCarolina; you take away the points they got off of turnovers and the safety and its ensuing possession, and you've got a 41-16 game. We HAVE to take care of the football. PERIOD.

Step one: Stop fumbling
Step two: Stop throwing INTs (Stafford had a huge problem with this too, by the way)
Step three: Tackle somebody on the kick return
Step three-point-five: Stop kicking the dang ball out of bounds
Step three-poing-five part II: Basically, stop giving the other team such short fields to work with.

So far, the only thing that's 100% Willie's fault this year is the second half of the South Carolina game. That was inexcusable. But again: take away short fields and Georgia destroys the Hawgs 52-20.

I still want Willie fired. But he's not the major problem right now. Fumbles, kickoff protection, interceptions and directional kicking are.

I get what you, dapolla, and others are saying about the turnovers and short fields. Big problems. But here's an idea--sometimes defenses stop the other team after a turnover. For our D, it just seems like they have an excuse and give up an autoamatic score after an offensive or special teams miscue. And here's a novel concept, something completely foreign to our D--sometimes, believe it or not, defenses create turnovers. Oh yeah, and they cover receivers on pass plays, too. The score could have still been 52-20 with the turnovers, like you said, if our defense covered people, or even 52-26 if they hunkered down and gave up FG's instead of TD's on the very first play after the turnover.

TOTALLY agree with you sadlerdawg.....absolutely nailed it.

So tired of IF's....IF's.....IF's !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sadlerdawg point proven. We cannot give up 5 passing TDs' in a game. Totally Unacceptable. There were several passes I saw where the man was wide open for 8 yards he just walked into the end zone.
Teams such as Florida, LSU, and Tennessee will kill us through the air. We have the talent on Defense but when we play it seems that were not prepared to play....CWM, \"you had the entire off season to prepare our guys on defending the pass. What is the excuse now?\"

Sadlerdawg,
Agree 100%! Amen! CWM's defensive approach is poor (and that's a compliment). I cannot fathom why someone continues to do the same thing, get the same results and yet expect those results to be different.
Offense pulled us to victory; good work JC, AJ, MM, and tight ends and offensive line. I just cringe watching our defense. Again, I don't believe it is our lack of talent there on defense. IT IS THE way, the method, the scheme they are coached and trained to play that is the problem.

Turnovers, penalties, and poor D in the secondary. IMO those were our issues last night. No excuses for any of it. Once we come up against a good team, we better have these issues fixed.

My heart will have been stress tested to the max if this keeps up.

And my hat is off to Joe Cox and AJ Green. That Green is some kind of receiver!

I agree our D needs to do a much better job but I liked that Jeff Owens was actually making some plays. I felt like he was invisible at the Carolina game. Green is amazing, every time he makes a catch and does something amazing, it makes me so glad he went against state loyalty and went to Georgia, makes us Georgia loving South Carolinians even prouder.