What do you think about your team’s chances in 2022?

Illustrious Potentate · Jan 21, 2022

WhosYourDawggy said:
Agree that JTD and Beck have been long gone. The only thing that would have kept JTD would have been if Stet had decided to leave.

I hope the same for Bennett ... that he wins his second NC and departs a two time NC.

Williams is heading to USC ... that he was coming to UGA was always a rumor. Stetson ain't coming back with the idea that Caleb comes to UGA. Vandagriff and Stockton and will compete for QB2 and QB3. We might take a another scholly QB, but it won't be someone who will be QB1, IMO.

He’s back, so it’s ride or die at this point. His legacy is set, if he goes back to back, retire the number.

Thiefery · Jan 21, 2022

@Illustrious Potentate
What's up with Brini? He's visiting Austin, and the only thing I know is that he started 11 games this season for y'all. What's the skinny?

Illustrious Potentate · Jan 21, 2022

Thiefery said:
@Illustrious Potentate
What's up with Brini? He's visiting Austin, and the only thing I know is that he started 11 games this season for y'all. What's the skinny?

He lost a lot of playing time because he’s not good in coverage. The less talked about walk on, Dan Jackson took a lot of his playing time(the one that got blew up near the end zone on the pick 6)

Thiefery · Jan 21, 2022

Illustrious Potentate said:
He lost a lot of playing time because he’s not good in coverage. The less talked about walk on, Dan Jackson took a lot of his playing time(the one that got blew up near the end zone on the pick 6)

shit, just what the Dr ordered for here in Austin

Illustrious Potentate · Jan 21, 2022

Thiefery said:
shit, just what the Dr ordered for here in Austin

He’s a good tackler, and can be a good player in the right role, he just wasn’t what we needed. He got a lot of playing time because we were thin in the secondary all season, but got less playing time as the season went on

Thiefery · Jan 21, 2022

Illustrious Potentate said:
He’s a good tackler, and can be a good player in the right role, he just wasn’t what we needed. He got a lot of playing time because we were thin in the secondary all season, but got less playing time as the season went on

well we need everything, so i'm sure he's better than what we have now.

Rolltide94 · Jan 21, 2022

WhosYourDawggy said:
Thanks for the feedback. Clearly the national press and the oddsmakers agree with you. After I do some more looking into it, I may run some things by you.

I appreciate the whole injury thing, but I wish you guys would stop with that. First, as you point out you may have 1 more NC because of injury and I am sure you hated each time Texas fans said that. Second, I can run through the list of injuries we had and what our team would be like if we didn't have season-ending injuries/losses. We'd have been a different and way better team, too. Injuries are part of game - we had WRs ready to go to replace our injuries, you guys didn't. I was really surprised by your lack of experienced depth at that position. The way you recruit, the idea that a single player going down should be a difference (other than QB) is a reflection on the coaching strategy.

A too early look at all teams leads me to believe it will be Bama, UGA, tOSU (if they can get the D and LOS better), and I am not really sure after that. OU is going to be down. USC won't be ready that fast. Oregon has a lot of turnover on a team that wasn't that good. Clemson will be interesting, but unless Ukelelee steps up his game they have problems. And they simply have roster management issues out the wazzou. I am just not sure who that 4th team will be.

For us, it's just tough to repeat. Very few ever have and Satan, the GOAT, with the dynasty of all times has just done it once. It's fucking hard to do.

We are very lucky to have a very easy schedule - Oregon basically home game, we get AU and UTjr at home. Have to go to Ky for our toughest road game. UF has a new coach who may be better than MuLLLLen, but he's going to have a tough time turning it around that fast. Going to the the cow bells at MSU may be a trap game ... the Pirate always scares me.

That's great and all, but your WR injuries were mostly pre-season, not in the last two games of the season. The players that caught 59% of Bryce Young's yards didn't play in the game. You can say the pressure got to him if you want, but watch the game again and count the number of dropped balls. Sure, it's on us that we didn't have some of the young guys ready to go, but pretending it wasn't a factor is just bullshit. If we'd quit sending two WR's to the 1st round as underclassmen every year it would be easier to build depth.

You have the RB edge? You lose Cook & White, we lose Robinson...MacClellan, Gibbs, Trey Sanders, Roydell Williams, and Camar Wheaton are all better and higher rated recruits than Milton and McIntosh and our incoming class includes the #1 RB in the country. GTFO with your nonsense that you have the edge. We literally don't have enough balls for all the quality backs we have, I can't imagine that two of these guys don't transfer out...we will have 3 5-stars that won't likely be in the two-deep....and even if we lose 2, we will still be deeper at RB than Georgia.

Vandagriff is not beating out Stetson...give your head a shake. Kirby rolled with Stetson when Daniels was clearly the better passer, I don't see how a Freshman is going to beat him out.

We return 11 of 15 players who played 1/3 or more of our defensive snaps. One of the 4 leaving was an injury replacement, where the better player is still starting and the other is getting replaced by an All-American 5-star from LSU. Our defense will be better than yours, book it.

Enjoy your win while you can...we aren't ready to pass the torch of SEC supremacy just yet.

Thiefery · Jan 21, 2022

Rolltide94 said:
You have the RB edge? You lose Cook & White, we lose Robinson...MacClellan, Gibbs, Trey Sanders, Roydell Williams, and Camar Wheaton are all better and higher rated recruits than Milton and McIntosh and our incoming class includes the #1 RB in the country.

TBF those guys are all coming off injuries.. which is why they grabbed Gibbs in the portal, no?

Illustrious Potentate · Jan 21, 2022

Rolltide94 said:
That's great and all, but your WR injuries were mostly pre-season, not in the last two games of the season. The players that caught 59% of Bryce Young's yards didn't play in the game. You can say the pressure got to him if you want, but watch the game again and count the number of dropped balls. Sure, it's on us that we didn't have some of the young guys ready to go, but pretending it wasn't a factor is just bullshit. If we'd quit sending two WR's to the 1st round as underclassmen every year it would be easier to build depth.

You have the RB edge? You lose Cook & White, we lose Robinson...MacClellan, Gibbs, Trey Sanders, Roydell Williams, and Camar Wheaton are all better and higher rated recruits than Milton and McIntosh and our incoming class includes the #1 RB in the country. GTFO with your nonsense that you have the edge. We literally don't have enough balls for all the quality backs we have, I can't imagine that two of these guys don't transfer out...we will have 3 5-stars that won't likely be in the two-deep....and even if we lose 2, we will still be deeper at RB than Georgia.

Vandagriff is not beating out Stetson...give your head a shake. Kirby rolled with Stetson when Daniels was clearly the better passer, I don't see how a Freshman is going to beat him out.

We return 11 of 15 players who played 1/3 or more of our defensive snaps. One of the 4 leaving was an injury replacement, where the better player is still starting and the other is getting replaced by an All-American 5-star from LSU. Our defense will be better than yours, book it.

Enjoy your win while you can...we aren't ready to pass the torch of SEC supremacy just yet.

Pro tip. Don’t recruit or depend on brittle bitches.

Illustrious Potentate · Jan 21, 2022

And I’ll take McIntosh, Milton and Robison over the Bama RB’s

Rolltide94 · Jan 21, 2022

Illustrious Potentate said:
And I’ll take McIntosh, Milton and Robison over the Bama RB’s

You'll have to because those are the bitches you're rolling with.

Y'all finally win one and now you've got your big boy britches on, that's good because we ain't scared.

Rolltide94 · Jan 21, 2022

Thiefery said:
TBF those guys are all coming off injuries.. which is why they grabbed Gibbs in the portal, no?

Why wouldn't you grab Gibbs out of the portal? Competition is good.

Illustrious Potentate · Jan 21, 2022

Rolltide94 said:
You'll have to because those are the bitches you're rolling with.

Y'all finally win one and now you've got your big boy britches on, that's good because we ain't scared.

I saw Gibbs a lot at Tech and he’s not as good as y’all think.

McIntosh is pretty damn man, and Milton is when he’s on the field and Robison looks like a monster.

But RB depth has never been an issue for either team.

It’s good to get a monkey off your back and feel like you have a shot.

We ain’t skeered now either. Teams might play twice again next year

Thiefery · Jan 21, 2022

Rolltide94 said:
Why wouldn't you grab Gibbs out of the portal? Competition is good.

They targeted him because of the injuries in that room. You were using rankings and all that but you gotta factor in the injuries, knee (Jase/Roydell), meniscus tear? (Cam) and Sanders bouncing back from that car wreck (he may never be the same)..

Getting Gibbs was HUGE, and I think they sold him on the uncertainty of that RB room despite the talent there

Thiefery · Jan 21, 2022

Illustrious Potentate said:
I saw Gibbs a lot at Tech and he’s not as good as y’all think.

McIntosh is pretty damn man, and Milton is when he’s on the field and Robison looks like a monster.

But RB depth has never been an issue for either team.

It’s good to get a monkey off your back and feel like you have a shot.

We ain’t skeered now either. Teams might play twice again next year

He's still real good.. I think Zach Evans is better but is a headcase

Illustrious Potentate · Jan 21, 2022

Thiefery said:
He's still real good.. I think Zach Evans is better but is a headcase

He’s good, but he’s not elite IMO. McIntosh is gonna be like D’Andre Swift who had to wait behind Chubb and Michel IMO.

Rolltide94 · Jan 21, 2022

Illustrious Potentate said:
I saw Gibbs a lot at Tech and he’s not as good as y’all think.

McIntosh is pretty damn man, and Milton is when he’s on the field and Robison looks like a monster.

But RB depth has never been an issue for either team.

It’s good to get a monkey off your back and feel like you have a shot.

We ain’t skeered now either. Teams might play twice again next year

You saw Gibbs at Tech...nuff said.

Georgia's like a Dad who left the house to buy cigarettes in 1980, came back last week, and wants to pretend like he was there the whole time.

Illustrious Potentate · Jan 21, 2022

Rolltide94 said:
You saw Gibbs at Tech...nuff said.

Georgia's like a Dad who left the house to buy cigarettes in 1980, came back last week, and wants to pretend like he was there the whole time.

I’m just telling you if you expect Gibbs to be some kind of a game changer, he ain’t close to that.

Georgia is like the most recent and therefore most important national champions

occupant · Jan 21, 2022

:fhritp:

WhosYourDawggy · Jan 21, 2022

Rolltide94 said:
That's great and all, but your WR injuries were mostly pre-season, not in the last two games of the season. The players that caught 59% of Bryce Young's yards didn't play in the game. You can say the pressure got to him if you want, but watch the game again and count the number of dropped balls. Sure, it's on us that we didn't have some of the young guys ready to go, but pretending it wasn't a factor is just bullshit. If we'd quit sending two WR's to the 1st round as underclassmen every year it would be easier to build depth.

You have the RB edge? You lose Cook & White, we lose Robinson...MacClellan, Gibbs, Trey Sanders, Roydell Williams, and Camar Wheaton are all better and higher rated recruits than Milton and McIntosh and our incoming class includes the #1 RB in the country. GTFO with your nonsense that you have the edge. We literally don't have enough balls for all the quality backs we have, I can't imagine that two of these guys don't transfer out...we will have 3 5-stars that won't likely be in the two-deep....and even if we lose 2, we will still be deeper at RB than Georgia.

Vandagriff is not beating out Stetson...give your head a shake. Kirby rolled with Stetson when Daniels was clearly the better passer, I don't see how a Freshman is going to beat him out.

We return 11 of 15 players who played 1/3 or more of our defensive snaps. One of the 4 leaving was an injury replacement, where the better player is still starting and the other is getting replaced by an All-American 5-star from LSU. Our defense will be better than yours, book it.

Enjoy your win while you can...we aren't ready to pass the torch of SEC supremacy just yet.

@Mistaken4193 was a much more reasonable fan. But, if you want to address the injury issues, let's do it:

You will first need to forfeit your your 2009 NC against Texas who lost their starting QB in the first quarter. If that's all you have to do - claim that but for an injury or two you would have won, then UT was the NC in 2009. Now, I don't really agree with that, but that's the logical conclusion of your injury excuse. We also need to reevaluate last year's NC ... Fields got injured with broken ribs. I am guessing that cost them 3 or 4 touchdowns, and they probably would have beaten you had he been at full strength. You want to keep going back and looking at injuries in all the other NC games you guys have won? Again, I don't believe any of this ... it's absurd. And that's the point.

You seem to imply that only injuries that happen in the game matter. What's up with that? We lost our starting RG in the first set of downs in the Clemson game. Our OL would have been substantially better with him in the NC game. We lost our sack leader, Adam Anderson, halfway through the season. We lost our All American Star, Tykee Smith, to injury during the season. And contrary to what you typed our WR1, Pickens, was still not anywhere near 100% and WR2, Dom Blaylock, was out all season. Continuing with WRs, Arian Smith broke his leg - he's the closest thing we have to some of your traditional burner WRs. So we were down 3 of our top WRs in the game, too. So, let's see, we were down 3 of our top WRs, one our best OL, and 3 of our best defenders. That makes it even ... natty back on.

To finish off this absurd argument, you guys have had the no. 1 recruiting classes for as long as any of us remember. So, your backups who are going to be some of the best players in the country, should have been ready to step in and play. The two final TDs we scored were scored by freshman who were prepared for the magnitude of the event and made the plays. For you to think that injury and loss of players was somehow only something that Bama experienced is laughable. Did it affect the game? We don't know for a fact if it did or didn't. We can made an assumption that it did. But we can also assume that our injuries, that were equal to or greater to yours also lessened our team and made a difference. Stop with the excuses, congratulate the team that beat you and move on. You look like a fucking loser if you don't.

As for the RB issue, I actually said we were even, although if pressed I thought we had the edge. My reason is that our older guys have more experience and less injuries. All your older backs are coming back from serious injuries - sorry, but Sanders isn't the back he was coming out of high school. We know what that is like, Zeus never got back to where he could have been. We have Milton coming off injury, but McIntosh and Edwards injury free. And, I'll put Robinson up against any of your incoming backs ... he's a beast. As for all your guys being higher rated RBs, they all match up within a few backs of each other. You certainly have way more backs, but that's not a good thing ... 5 backs is a lot ... you guys have 7. That won't last. Also, if Saban is so convinced about how good your RBs are, why bring in Gibbs? Give that a thought. I'll give you a slight edge now that I think about it, but only because of Gibbs. He is a proven RB ... it will be interesting to see how he does in your packed room. It will also be interesting to see how many of your RBs are there after spring.

Where did I say that BV was going to beat out SBIV? I don't think it will happen, but it will be a competition. You act like you know my program better than I do. You don't. Bennett beat our JTD once JTD was healthy because (1) our O scheme changed to want/need the QB to be able to run, and (2) per some people I trust who are close to the program, JTD simply didn't look as good once he got back.

I actually think the Ds will be similar. You aren't going to believe this, but we return more players than you do who played 1/3 or more of the snaps on D. So, no, I won't be booking anything. We will take a small step back from what we were this year, but if you don't think we aren't going to be stout on D, I'll enjoy the look on your face when you see the results on the field.

No where in any of this are we looking at any transfer coming in for us. And more for you. For example we still might lose TE Washington, and you may be the landing spot. That would hurt. But Smart will be recruiting the portal as soon as we are able - counts simply don't allow it right now.

No one, certainly not me, said anything about you passing the torch. Goodness some of you Gumps are sensitive. A few of us were having a civil discussion about next year and you had to get your panties in a wad. Everyone here knows you are still the best program in the land. I just think we'll be a lot better than you think we will be.

And you can be sure that I am enjoying my win. All your excuses can't and won't in any way lessen my joy! I still have thousands to spend on all the merch I am buying.