DAWGS NEED TO SNAP OUT OF “SISSY BALL”

The season opener this year for the Dawgs had me very excited. True, it was a far inferior opponent. But the Bulldogs played to win. There seemed to be a new attitude in Athens.

Oh how we were fooled.

UGA came out against South Carolina on Saturday and reverted to the“sissy ball” fans have become accustomed to over the past few years. The coaches lacked fire, the offense lacked imagination, and the defense lacked the ability to make a tackle. Marcus Lattimore is good, really good. But the Dawgs D made him look like the second coming of George Rogers.

Then, what’s becoming all too familiar, Coach Richt gives the ho-hum we’re going try new things/get our playmakers in position to make plays/we’re on top of it speech that follows every embarrassing loss.

Yes, this loss was embarrassing. You don’t get pushed around in all facets of the game (ok, minus our field goal unit which was perfect again) and not be embarrassed. I’m sure the players are embarrassed. The coaches should be so red-faced they don’t want to be seen in public. Once again, that’s not the case.

Richt has gotten into a really bad habit of making excuses. Usually, this involves deflecting the blame to some other person or unit on the team. I used to buy into it all with no questions asked; blindly loyal to the man in charge of our beloved football team.

But I was expecting things to be different this year. New coaches at almost every position on defense made me giddy. Seeing the fire from Coach Grantham in the first game after a blown defensive play got me so excited, I just knew Georgia was on its way back to the top of the SEC.

I shouldn’t be able to sit on my couch and call the next offensive play correctly. It’s as though we only have a couple of different plays that we run on given down and distances. Richt then says after the game that the plan was stellar, it just lacked execution. I’m calling BS!

Speaking of BS, why didn’t Branden Smith touch the ball?