Monday, December 3, 2018
football
Lets be perfectly honest here.
I want an accurate count of how many people were shocked when Justin Fields walked on the field with 5:19 left in the game and Georgia is in the battle of a lifetime with Alabama.
The Crimson Tide had just rallied to tie the score at 35 and the Dawgs were going out to try and score and re-take the lead.
I believe that this was the start of Kirby Smart's panic button being pushed.
Now Fields has been on the field a few times before and had done nothing, but in this situation I found it quite odd that Smart wouldn't give three full plays to Jake Fromm to pick up a first down. Of course Fromm did get a first down with a perfect pass to D'Andre Swift that got us all the way to mid-field.
Now lets stop our thoughts and go back to that time. We are first- and- ten from the middle of the field with four minutes to play. Wow two first downs and a field goal and this game is over and we are gonna win.
Not so fast my friend.
We lose a yard on first down and then two incomplete passes and we have to punt. Its ok right now, I'm not too worried. A good put makes Bama drive 50 to 60 yards to try a field goal and they don't have a great kicking game. We could still get out of this and push it to overtime. Jalen Hurts is a back-up for a reason and Mel Tucker has had time to make adjustments now.
But then I look up and see Justin Fields and we are showing fake. Please please please don't run this play. Alabama wont fall for it at this point of the game. This is Alabama and they wont be caught sleeping at this point of the game. Kirby are you really going to try and out trick Nick Saban ? Please tell me no.
The answer to that unfortunately was yes he was going to try to trick the greatest college football coach in America and of course it back-fired and of course we lost , wrecking the days of so many UGA fans.
It was terrible.
My main question is who ran up to Kirby on 4th-and-11 and screamed Hey lets fake it coach, we have them just where we want them. That man should be terminated. Come on you know someone did that.It was probably the same person who started that drive with Justin Fields instead of Fromm. We gotta get rid of this guy because if he wasn't on the sideline we would be playing Clemson instead of Texas.
The fake punt will go down as one of the worst calls in the history of college football but somehow we need to get over it. Kirby needs a press conference and he needs to look into the audience and into the cameras and just say, "Guys I effed up, I don't know why I did it, it was stupid, and I apologize to every fan that breathes UGA football. I will learn from my mistakes and I will get better, I promise you that."
That would be good enough for me.
You see I love Kirby Smart. He is a UGA guy and he is a great recruiter and he has put UGA football back on a map that we haven't been on in awhile. I know we all kind of want to stay on that map.
Kirby has only been a head coach for three years now and he will get better. I 100 percent believe that.
So lets give him that chance, forgive him, and move on to bigger and better things.
We are behind you Kirby.
But fire the guy who mentioned fake punting in that game.
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It's not who ran up to him saying "hey lets do that fake", it's who didn't run up to him and say "hold on coach lets think about it". Every coach has to have a trusted assistant that can reign him in from making rash decisions. If everyone just follows the pied piper all the time this will continue to happen
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