A Couple More Things...

By the way, you think that #24 was pretty good? Everyone was writing the Broncos off after the Cutler trade. That kid does something to a team.

This whole season is going to challenge our dawgdom. But it's one of those reminders that I don't love UGA because we're good, because we beat our rivals, because I like red and black. Simply, I believe it's a better way to be. It was a better way to be in the Goff years…and it's a better way to be now.

I was thinking today about this season and looking at 2007. Yesterday was a more important game in Richt's career, but the '07 performance in Knoxville was still the worst performance in the Richt era in my book. It's the only game in 9 years that we didn't put up a fight. It was worse. It was uglier. It was 28-0 at halftime. It was 35-0 at one point. We never punched back that day. Thinking about that in light of how bad we looked yesterday, I just got to thinking about that season.

OSU-looked good and beat a decent team
So. Car. - Looked absolutely inept on offense and couldn't make the stop we had to at the end of the game.
W. Carolina - It was Western Car…did we really learn anything. Knowshon scores his first TD. But we get rested and better.
Bama - We look sharp on offense. Defense fails late and gives up a big lead and we win in OT. Ole Miss - They take a 7-0 lead in the 1st and are driving late in the 1st and fumble at our 4 yard line…do you remember that. We recover (in all aspects), and somehow strangely win 45-17, and they remember that they are Ole Miss. If you'll recall, this was Orgeron's train wreck season.
UT - Ugliest loss of Richt era, IMHO.
Vandy - Thank you Daryl Gamble.
Off week - The rest is history.

We don't have the talent of that team and we have systematic problems that have to be fixed, but…BUT…the comparison of that season and this is interesting.

OSU - This time we play them on the road and they're a lot better. Do you think we win the '07 opener on the road?
So. Car. - Played our guts out, looked incredible on offense, and schizo on defense, but made the stop this time.
Arkansas - Very comparable to the Ole Miss game that year. Crazy game in which we pull away late.
Arizona St. - What? We don't get to play Western Carolina? You get the idea. Thanks, Damon. LSU - Basically the South Carolina game from '07. Inept offense and can't make the stop we have to at the end of the game.
UT - Same song, different verse. ?????????????????

So, how different are the seasons? You could say the big difference was the schedule. And we're not coaching as good or as talented.

For the life of me I still can't figure out how where that team came from that showed up in Jax that cloudy day. We don't have Knowshon Moreno this year, so I'm not counting on it this time around. But it begs a greater question, and one that I think is the hardest for Richt to figure out, and, frankly, Damon. What if we did go on a run like that? And, I mean, it looks like what we saw in '07. Dominating teams on both sides of the ball. The problem is that wouldn't fix anything. That's the point that Richt's got to see. If we go on a run like that and somehow finish 10-3 and win the Outback Bowl…it doesn't matter. We can't go 11-1 playing the kind of D we play, and that is, essentially, the goal. That's the part I hope Richt as figured out.