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[Rod Wellman]

Nick, I think this is a very good synopsis of the game.

I felt encouraged as the game went on simply because we seemed to be holding their running game in check. I had no idea they would win it through the air, and simply would not have believed you if you told me our pass defense was going to give up those plays.  Unbelievable.  It's just odd to me that this team seems to find unexpected ways to lose these games.  Every game, seems like it's something different and unexpected. Consistency is buzzword, for sure. About the only things we were consistently good at this year were turning the ball over, and committing bad penalties at bad times. 

And when we were consistently running the ball with good results, Beck resorts to a passing game, giving the strength of Georgia's D (pass rushing D-line) the upper hand.  Strange.

I hate to do the "what if" thing, but what if the refs review the Abdullah fumble, and there's enough evidence that it was not a fumble, or at the very last Cotton hangs onto the ball after he recovers the fumble instead of giving it up when he said he heard a whistle?  And what if the stripes actually get the RIGHT call on the two intentional grounding penalties?  Coulda, shoulda, woulda, I know, but these three plays loom very large for me, even though the 4 big pass plays we gave up were back-breakers too.

Rod W.
Sioux City, Ia. 


On Jan 2, 2013, at 11:38 AM, Nick Chevance <nickchevance at gmail.com> wrote:

> A minor issue with an earlier post in this thread - Shawn Sherlock
> indicated good and great are not synonyms but antonyms.  Maybe in
> business-speak they are, but not in English.  But I can see the argument
> that settling for "good enough" isn't the same as great.  And I'm not sure
> anyone is settling for good is good enough.
> 
> I saw a pretty good offensive team yesterday wearing the N on their
> helmets.  A fumble may have been the key to reversing our fortune, but none
> of us here really had much hope for that game, did we.  I think we
> acquitted ourselves well yesterday, better than most of us thought we
> would, probably far better than some of us thought. We out rushed them by
> 100 yards but sacks (5 for 26 yards) dropped that to about 77 yards
> difference.  Still, we allowed only 162 yards rushing to a team that we all
> thought was going to put up Wisconsin-like numbers on us.
> 
> I saw a decent defensive team hold in check a very good offensive team for
> most of the game. Their QB was average in the first half, pretty good in
> the second.  Take away their 4 touchdown passes (the shortest was 24 yards)
> and the total yards passing goes down to 250, 8.6 per attempt and 18 per
> completion.  That's not that different from Martinez (204/7.6/13).  They
> wanted to exploit our corners with their speed on the outside, and were
> pretty successful.  But for the most part, they made really good catches on
> good, but not amazing, throws.  The best throw was to the back out of the
> backfield after the D-line forced the QB to scramble to his right.  Compton
> had him covered but the throw was to the back's outside shoulder, the
> runner adjusted, caught the ball, and ran it it before Compton could
> adjust.  Compton was just unable to keep up, and I'm not sure anyone else
> could have.  And two of those other catches were to wide open receivers
> because of  blown assignments (but the offensive scheme had a lot to do
> with that, I'd bet).  We held their rushers pretty much in check, but they
> are a more complete team offensively than we faced all year, and managed to
> convert several long 3rd downs when they needed to.
> 
> The guys on BTN last night in wrapping up the bowls mentioned that Georgia
> controlled Martinez's feet, didn't let him run, and forced him to throw.  I
> saw something a bit different.  The third and especially the fourth
> quarters saw several sell out blitzes at Martinez, giving him little time
> to select a receiver.  There were receivers open, but he didn't have time
> to find them.  They had impressive speed on the ends, and Martinez didn't
> react well under the pressure.  Overall, we got beat by a superior team.
> But we didn't get embarrassed.  The defense did well, the offense did
> really well.
> 
> I'm not satisfied with a 14 point loss, but that team did something that a
> lot of fans didn't think they'd do.  They were in it until the 4th
> quarter.  I'm hoping for better next year.  I'm always hoping for better
> the next year.  I'm not some like some crazy Cubs fan, hoping against hope
> that next year they'll go 13-0 and start of string of 4 or 5 national
> championships.  But this year was an improvement over last year, and I
> anticipate improvement next year.  Let's hope Bo's statement about the
> red-shirted freshmen D-linemen proves correct, that they will be the
> monsters we hope they are.  Can't wait til next year.
> 
> Nick
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Rod Wellman
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