One of the greatest GT teams of all time

Diseqc said:
Lot of ööööing rationalizing in here

We lost a game we should have won. Our kicking game is ööööing awful. If that dude keeps kicking, he costs us more games.

Defense got tired. One ööööing stop and we win. JJ Green might as well be a ööööing Georgia double cover spy with that fumble

Ugh.
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"Defense got tired".???? You may be exactly correct, but only on the field for appx. 19 out of 60 minutes? Against a team missing 2 starting OL, their best receiver out of action after 1st qtr., starting a new QB?

Then we are in huge trouble thanks to a 10th year of D problems. And parts of the kicking game are Jr. hi at best.

ugag, vt, um, cu are going to be significantly tougher than ut.

Season could go either way but same issues.

However, not saying you, but some will judge success on yards gained by our O. Not W & L.
 
That pick route was a missed call. I read where my son, a high school football coach, tweeted that on the last touchdown pass they threw the UT guard climbed eight yards blocking the LB on a pass they threw eight yards downfield. He said defenses have no chance if you don't make that call.
 
texstinger said:
However, not saying you, but some will judge success on yards gained by our O. Not W & L.
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That's BS--I'd love for you to find an instance of people being ok that the team lost any game when the O had a good day. Huge trouble is an overstatement as well. Can still be a good season--Marshall is legit and he and Benson looked every bit as good as Thomas/Mills did. Let's hope that the D can improve a bit as the teams you listed are certainly better than UT's.

Special teams could definitely cost another game or two. When will the starting kicker be back? And can he produce touchbacks?
 
gtleviathan said:
I was screaming about that pick and the folks in my section were looking at me like my head was on backwards.
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Oh it was horrible. They only showed one replay of it on TV and the announcers said nothing.

EDIT: I just went back to see where it was. It was 3rd and 3 and was a play to the TE lined up as inside slot man, running an out to the flats. WR #5 slants in on a B-line straight for Corey Griffin and knocks him down. If that isn't the definition of a pick route, I don't know what is. That makes it 3rd and 18 instead. If you have access to the replay, the play happens at the 2:14 mark of the 3rd quarter.

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Also, why is it defensive holding to tackle a RB after a ball fake to him? Shouldn't matter that he is going for a screen pass, once a ball fake is made he is considered a runner by the defense. If we fake the dive to Benson and TQ drops back to pass, doesn't Benson get tackled or hit the same way? Why would that not get called the same?
 
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GT98 said:
The D is pedestrian. Pressure or a stop. They got neither with the game on the line. Poor tackling on the long TD catch and run and then gave up a 93 yard drive with the game on the line. What part of the D do you think is good?

Sacks are nice, but Cooter the QB for UT had a lot of time to make throws in 2nd half.
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What part of the D looked good? The part that forced a punt the first four drives.

I don't think anyone would argue that the defense is not Alabama. But it is a hell of a lot better than we've had. If I told you before the game, Tennessee would only have 7 points with a minute left in the 3rd quarter, you would have gladly taken that. I'll take that the rest of the year.
 
BigGTMike said:
How would we feel about the D without the 8 first half drops UT had? It was comical.
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I saw quite a few forced drops; defenders hitting the receiver as the ball arrives. That's what I like to see and something that's been sorely missed the past 8..9..10... many years. In the past we would have no one within 5 yards of the receiver.
 
So, fun little history tidbit from yesterday's game.

The last time Tennessee came to Atlanta was in 1986. In the 4th quarter, Tennessee set up for a kick to win the game in the final seconds and the kicker slipped and shanked it. Tech won by 1 point. 31 years later, Tennessee came back to Atlanta. This time, GT was the one who set up the kick to win in the final seconds. Tennessee would wind up winning by 1 point. Coincidence or cosmic alignment? You decide.
 
andrew said:
This is the most optimistic I've ever felt after a loss.
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Same. It was painfully obvious that we are so much ööööing better than Tennessee. If we play them 10 times, we win 8. We were seriously doing whatever we wanted on offense. Even in 3rd and long we were converting fairly easily. Shit, we even executed the 2 minute drill to perfection after hearing them talk about how that is our kryptonite.

We've got to fix our kicking issues and find a way to force some TOs on defense. We forced their QB into a lot of bad throws, especially in the first half, but for whatever reason his throws hit the ground instead of our guys' hands. That won't happen every game.

Bottom line - we may have the best offense in the conference (including Clemson). That will win us a lot of games, and if we can shore up a few things I could see a 2014 season as a realistic possibility. That is plenty of reason for optimism.
 
BigGTMike said:
How would we feel about the D without the 8 first half drops UT had? It was comical.
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For all we know, Roof allowed UT's QB to throw because he was so new and unproven. Only once did a receiver get behind our safeties for a catch, and we stuffed UT's run game with extreme prejudice. You could argue that Roof dared that QB to win it for UT, and in that case, the gamble paid off for 3.5 quarters. Those drops were often thrown behind the receiver or too low.
 
GoGATech said:
Oh it was horrible. They only showed one replay of it on TV and the announcers said nothing.

EDIT: I just went back to see where it was. It was 3rd and 3 and was a play to the TE lined up as inside slot man, running an out to the flats. WR #5 slants in on a B-line straight for Corey Griffin and knocks him down. If that isn't the definition of a pick route, I don't know what is. That makes it 3rd and 18 instead. If you have access to the replay, the play happens at the 2:14 mark of the 3rd quarter.

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Also, why is it defensive holding to tackle a RB after a ball fake to him? Shouldn't matter that he is going for a screen pass, once a ball fake is made he is considered a runner by the defense. If we fake the dive to Benson and TQ drops back to pass, doesn't Benson get tackled or hit the same way? Why would that not get called the same?
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I remember screaming at the TV for both of those. Missing those calls is inexcusable, and I can't bring myself to believe they were honest mistakes. Gotta make sure the $EC gets back on top.
 
BuzzLaw said:
What part of the D looked good? The part that forced a punt the first four drives.

I don't think anyone would argue that the defense is not Alabama. But it is a hell of a lot better than we've had. If I told you before the game, Tennessee would only have 7 points with a minute left in the 3rd quarter, you would have gladly taken that. I'll take that the rest of the year.
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Sure. As I've posted elsewhere, the D played well in the first half, poor in the 4th quarter--judge them by the entirety of the game. The time of possession was crazy, which makes the D folding late a concern.

I'm encouraged that the team played well, but I also think that UT will be middle of the pack for the level of offenses that the team will see the rest of the way.

Even if the D isn't as good as some are posting based upon a portion of the game last night, GT can still have a good season with the offense and if the scholly kicker is decent.
 
The D did enough for us to win. We had enough stops to give our offense a chance to ice it and they didn't.

The D didn't look good but easily could have been worse. The first half we looked focused and played pretty well. Even got some pressure with our D-line. We, however, benefited greatly from UT's willingness to pass the ball and their dropped balls.

The tide changed when they increased the pace of their offense and started running straight at us and we went soft in coverage. It was similar to u(sic)ga in 2013. It was a big, strong O-line remembering that they have a huge size advantage on us and they can run on us if they stick with it. From there, we got a little winded and started to get panicky and sloppy. Since our D-line was now ineffective, it forced our secondary to play better against taller, stronger receivers. It didn't help that our tackling and angles we took went to complete shit at the same time. Add all that up together and we just fell apart.

Now, the good news is all that bad stuff is fixable. Problem is, I'm not sure if Roof is the guy to fix it. If him and the starters don't come through, we will struggle greatly against teams with big O-lines, QB game managers, and WR's with decent hands.
 
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