Monday - Week Off - Regroup?

We were not derailed by the loss of Chubb... we were already half off the rails anyway. What did happen though was that the loss of Chubb forced Mark Richt to think, and that is what went ahead and revealed how far off the rails we really were.

Most coaches faced with the loss of a player of Chubb's caliber would have whipped out and used every other weapon in their arsenal, but Mark Richt did the opposite. Most coaches faced with a loss of a player like Chubb would have opened up the playbook, but Mark Richt did the opposite.

When Chubb went down, I did not panic at all. I said to myself that what we would do is expand the roles of KM and Douglas, keep Michel in his role, and keep on keeping on.

Richt instead opted to shove Michel into Chubb's 20+ carry role and leave KM and Douglas pretty much as they were before. So in addition to losing Chubb, we also lost the added dimension we had before with Michel being lined up all over the field. Meanwhile a very capable KM and BD still languished on the bench as if nothing had changed to move them up in the rotation.

In addition to that, Richt decides that maybe QHicks could give us something at tailback.. so he gives him some reps in practice... a fine idea indeed except for the fact that he took Hicks out of the game-plan at fullback, and then didn't even use him in the new role he said he was going to give him!

So here we sit... Michel being used in a way that makes him less effective. Two other very capable backs still sitting on the bench: our FB also missing in action.

On top of this.... where others would have used every other weapon we had, Richt et al also shelved our TE's and started being even more conservative in play calling!

I know guys.... it is a case study in absurdism, but you can't make stuff like this up.

You are so right sflanagan21, and it's the chink in the mr armor. He recruits for an ulterior motive in some cases and that's not right, a mans livelihood is on the line, and that is not richts choice.

Wartdawg you and I brotha were on the same page as far as not panicking goes. I was stupidly thinking once again that our incompetent HC would think outside the box for once and look around at the loaded talent on his roster and say hell fellow's we just lost our star RB but we are setting on a freaking gold mine of talent so let's get to work figuring out how to utilize all of this talent! Nope he hit the panic button...

Going to bed fellows, so much to talk about. Might be that I do more listening. Can't beat what is being posted here, unless . . . .

Eason coming in and starting young gives Richt another excuse for a mediocre season. I mean come on guys... you've got to have reasonable expectations for a true freshman starter: "Just wait till next year!"

If he doesn't start in year one, then it's "just wait till next year" when we get Eason under center.... but then of course it will be his first year so you've got to temper your expectations and "just wait until next year!".

But then of course we lose our... <insert whatever>... so "just wait till next year!" Then Eason will be gone and we will only have George Fartenberger, a walk-on from a wishbone HS ready to go, but Richt will have been here for 18 years and that earns him the right to have a couple of years to "fix this darned thing"....

I forgot to throw in a coordinator change or two as well, so that of course is a another year or so of excuses...

Sound familiar? Seen this movie before?

Richt and his apologists do one thing very, very well: If excuse making was an Olympic sport then they would be Mark Spitz and Michael Phelps on steroids.

There's never any denial of the facts... no SEC title in a decade... record against bowl caliber teams... losses to inferior teams... crushing defeats... giant hole in a critical position.. no one even tries to deny these things...

Just
More
Excuses....

Getting in a little late on this, but I agree about Eason. sflanagan21 is completely correct - we will not know anything about Eason until he arrives. At one time he was the "best QB in the nation, walking away". But since then, his stock has dropped.

First film I saw of the guy, obviously he can throw a football. But like sflanagan21, the thing that stood out the most in his film was the DBs. I'm not kidding when I say they look JUST LIKE I DID in highschool - short and slow. I was pretty easy to burn, so I warmed the bench, playing for a good AAAA school back in the 1970s. One of the starting DBs on our team at Cedar Shoals was Tyrone Davis - who went on to set records for Climpsn and played for the NY Giants for a few years. Eason is definitely NOT playing against DBs of that caliber.

Loser needs to move on. Somewhere out there is a coordinator who is just about ready to take that next step. We're going to have to bite the bullet SOME day - it may as well be NOW, while we are stagnating.