Been thinking about the Searcy TD against uga

[Whiskey_Clear]

I'm much rather see a handoff to Mills where our OL knocks the snot out of their DL and MLB, Dedrick trucks a safety, steps on his chest as he's doing it, then drags about 5 or 6 mutts several yards downfield before finally going down.

I'm good to do that on the 2nd play from scrimmage

 

[cuttysark]

The first play OT Andrew Marshall misses his block and the play gets blown up. The second play OG Parker Braun can't get a block on the LB who blows up the play. While our left side OT Lee had a great block on his man knocking him off the line of scrimmage and out to the sideline on that second play, Braun's defender came in and blew up that play call. The third play resulted in a TD so all of this becomes unimportant UNTIL the TEAM Film Session for the offensive line.

When blocks are missed plays don't happen. That's why coaches always say it wasn't a particular play that cost the team a game. There are always numerous plays when blocking breaks down and not everyone executes their assignments correctly.

 

[bke1984]

As for running Dedrick on first down, it's easy to see they were keying on him as two guys were eyeballing him the whole way.

I guess, but he carried 3-4 guys into the end zone with him at least 3 other times last year...once earlier in this game...so basically who cares?

...on the same note, who care...we won, they lost...na na na na boo boo, stick your head in doo doo, mutts!!!

THWG

 

[Skeptic]

IMHO, it is more likely they coached their players about the potential for passes from the a-back position and therefore from their perspective the defense was "ready for it". Just glad they didn't prepare for Qua's leap into history

however and whyever it's obvious they had it covered.

 

[Skeptic]

.... If Qua does not play another down in his career, he has with that one play become a Tech immortal. It was that good.

Shoot, guys. I have read enough of this board to know that when Georgia is involved a Tech runner becomes an immortal if he gets to the end zone upright.

 

[Longestday]

Here is one that worked... although I hate this game!

 

[Sideways]

Didn't his high school coach say he should have been a 5* WR?

I can't say that I have read that. He is kind of skinny, really quick, athletic type. He reminds me of B J Bostic who was a 4 star. Neither one of these guys are going to set any weight lifting records but that's OK. They both made plays and that's what counts.

 

[Sideways]

Here is one that worked... although I hate this game!

Yep. They whipped us pretty good that game. You know, I get the distinct impression that there is not a whole lot of shall we say, mutual respect going on between these two coaches. Know what I mean? Nothing I can put my finger on its just a feeling. (TIC)

 

[Sideways]

Shoot, guys. I have read enough of this board to know that when Georgia is involved a Tech runner becomes an immortal if he gets to the end zone upright.

True. For years, it seemed like there was a blown up photograph in the Edge Center of Adrian Rucker ( a running back from the mid 70s) dragging a couple of dogs into the end zone in Athens on that rainy day when we beat them pretty handily during the Pepper years. Someone may want to correct me on this.

 

[Supersizethatorder-mutt]

True. For years, it seemed like there was a blown up photograph in the Edge Center of Adrian Rucker ( a running back from the mid 70s) dragging a couple of dogs into the end zone in Athens on that rainy day when we beat them pretty handily during the Pepper years. Someone may want to correct me on this.

That was 1974 and every Tech runner on the field drug mutts with them all day long.

 

[Sideways]

That was 1974 and every Tech runner on the field drug mutts with them all day long.

Yes, that was it. I was working at a grocery store that day. It was pouring down rain and I was bagging groceries for customers and taking them out in the rain. Which was a heavy downpour all day. The produce manager was a Tech fan and had the game on in the back and every time Tech scored he would come out and show me 7 fingers or 3 for a field goal. I probably made over $50 in tips that day which was real money when the minimum wage was about $2.50 an hour.

 

[Supersizethatorder-mutt]

Yes, that was it. I was working at a grocery store that day. It was pouring down rain and I was bagging groceries for customers and taking them out in the rain. Which was a heavy downpour all day. The produce manager was a Tech fan and had the game on in the back and every time Tech scored he would come out and show me 7 fingers or 3 for a field goal. I probably made over $50 in tips that day which was real money when the minimum wage was about $2.50 an hour.

I was at the game. I took my dad to his first and only COFH game, and he loved every minute of it in spite of the COLD WINDY RAIN !!! It was a miserable day weather-wise, but a glorious day to be a Jacket and the best single day of my life spent with my dad.

 

[InsideLB]

During the Dwag's win streak against us recall how close so many of those games were and how narrow the margin between winning and losing really is.

Most folks would probably say Clinton Lynch is our best A back, and maybe put Searcy as #2 (with apologies to Searcy as he was hurt and has had less time).

So it's interesting to see that out #2 A back was able to create and be the difference in the narrow margin between defeat and victory against the Dwag's high star ranking defensive recruits. I really think that speaks to an improvement in recruiting. No, we aren't suddenly hauling in the 4 & 5 star kids, and no it's not reflected in the recruiting rankings, but I am very encouraged by the quality of player we are getting....on and off the field. It's great to be a Yellow Jacket!!!

 

[JacketFromUGA]

I would just like this year to not be a close win. We need to win outright with no debate.

 

[Dustman]

I would just like this year to not be a close win. We need to win outright with no debate.

I hear you, but I tend to flush and forget games where we get beat badly. The close ones sting the worst. For that reason I would rather rip their hearts out again. If I could draw it up, another game winning play in front of section 103 would be perfect, this time with no time left on the clock. Fans storming the field, goalposts, etc. Dejected mutt fans leaving while we bask in the glory.

 

[vamosjackets]

I hear you, but I tend to flush and forget games where we get beat badly. The close ones sting the worst. For that reason I would rather rip their hearts out again. If I could draw it up, another game winning play in front of section 103 would be perfect, this time with no time left on the clock. Fans storming the field, goalposts, etc. Dejected mutt fans leaving while we bask in the glory.

Big wins against them get people over there fired.

 

[orientalnc]

Big wins against them get people over there fired.

It would be nice to see Smart job hunting before he learns to be a good coach.

 

[Sideways]

Big wins against them get people over there fired.

Losing to Florida will get coaches fired at UGA also. Just ask Ray Goff and Donnan. I don't really know about Goff but Coach Donnan always struck me as being a good coach but he just could not beat Florida or Tech for that matter. Seems like he won once against Florida in 1997 and a couple of times against us. Of course, given what has happened in his life since then UGA probably dodged a bullet with that one.

 

[GTpdm]

I hear you, but I tend to flush and forget games where we get beat badly. The close ones sting the worst. For that reason I would rather rip their hearts out again. If I could draw it up, another game winning play in front of section 103 would be perfect, this time with no time left on the clock. Fans storming the field, goalposts, etc. Dejected mutt fans leaving while we bask in the glory.

Given how often dwag fans come in to BDS and treat it as if it were their own practice field (and treat our campus like the trash dump in their back yards), this year I want to see them streaming out before the end of the third quarter. I want to see their band sit silently during the Budweiser song, because there are no dwaggies left for them to play to. I want to walk out of the stadium after the game to find that they are all gone from campus already, back in their pickup trucks and driving back to the trailer park.

Or, to put it another way...

“Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth into battle — be Thou near them! With them — in spirit — we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended in the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames in summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it — For our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimmage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet!

We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen."

—Mark Twain, The War Prayer.​

 

[deeeznutz]

I would just like this year to not be a close win. We need to win outright with no debate.

What kind of sucks is that 2014 was that year, then through a fluke of terrible officiating and things just going bad at the worst time, we let them back in the game (although totally redeemed with how it ended...that was one of the best games I've ever watched, along with FSU 2009). Just think about it...if the refs give JT that TD at the goal line (because from one angle you can see the nose of the ball over the line), or at the very least blow forward progress as they should have, it's a 14 point swing and the game never even approaches overtime because we grind them into the dirt with our power running game the entire second half. That said, I don't think I'd want to change how that game worked out...it was an absolute dagger to the heart (the kick, to force a miracle overtime) and then twisting it (the pick, after botching the XP and giving them hope again).