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3 weeks 6 days ago #83395 by SouthernDawg
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I could have entitled this "why I am confident Georgia wins the national championship", but that was too long. I won't write a novel about this topic but I do have a few thoughts. First off, I hated to see Carson's career at UGA end this way. Sure, I have been critical of him but not for one second would I ever have wanted to see him or Thorson get injured on an absolutely useless play. I know Kirby is being mum about his injury (like he always does), but this is most likely how it ends for Carson unless there's some major miracle to rehab a UCL in 3.5 weeks. I remember when he went down, my phone blew up and several of my dawg buddies were text-yelling at me "you're gonna get what you want! Let's see how you like it now! You wanted Gunner and now you're gonna see why he is #2." I just replied to all of them: "yep. I love our chances." 

Here's why I am not freaking out about the Beck injury or the Gunner inexperience. We are not a team that is built solely around the QB. Look at our offense. Does anyone believe it to be top tier? Its not even mid-tier by the statistics. But it is effective at getting done what needs to get done. Kirby has called us a "blue collar team." He said after the SECCG "we just kept going out there day-after-day and chopped wood." This is a great thing, and it removes a tremendous amount of pressure off of Stockton coming into the Sugar Bowl. We don't need any special effort from him like 380 yards and 5 TDs. What we need is an efficient game manager and he more than proved he can be that guy with this squad under the most intense of pressures. The energy I saw out of the entire offensive squad with Gunner behind center was an energy I haven't seen all season. It was like someone plugged them into a wall socket. It had shades and memories of Stequavious Bennett on the field. It was almost like the dam broke and the water flowed again. I think we're going to be just fine. Will there be mistakes? Of course. Gunner made a stupid throw under pressure on a busted hook route right to the robber. But if we can minimize those hard knocks learning experiences, I think we'll be fine. 

As others have said, we couldn't have drawn a better bracket to get to Atlanta.

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3 weeks 1 day ago #83396 by Wartdawg
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I agree with you about our chances, and I don't think they are appreciably better or worse with Stockton. They offer different gifts and in the end I think at the very worst it evens out. The opponents will stack the box but I think that makes passing easier for Gunner with the right play calling.

The path to the championship is certainly navigable and when we get there he will have some more experience.

Plus with the way even many of our own fans wrote off this UGA team multiple times this season, it almost feels like we are playing with house money.

On another note... Saw something tonight about Texas A/M NIL in general and specifically the deal a player named Micah Hudson received.

It might survive my lifetime and beyond, but I can promise you that NIL and the transfer portal has done irreparable harm to the game and the kids that play it. The game may survive, but the teaching young men how to be grown men and all that sort of thing is out the window.

Nick knew it and left and while Kirby is trying to walk a tight-rope between the old ways of passion for the game and loyalty to a school... he too is amongst the last of a breed of coaches.

God Bless and Go Dawgs

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