Can we talk about that 4th and 11 fake punt?
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I agree. I haven’t read the entire thread, but Kirby was trying to have his Clemson/onside kick type call to go his way, instead of trusting in his defense..He ain’t quite got the masters’ touch!
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I’m shocked that so many are kinda defending this call.
Maybe if it was 4th and 3 or less but, how many times do you see a fake punt work on 4th and 10+? You don’t give the #1, 13-0, team in the country only half the field to get a go ahead score, even with our FG struggles. For most of the night our offense had struggled so, you always punt and at least try to pin us back deep.
Whatever, it’s his grave he’s digging with his fans. When every Bama fan in the world starts cheering the second it was snapped, and every UGA fan was yelling bad things, you know you made a historically bad call.
Maybe if it was 4th and 3 or less but, how many times do you see a fake punt work on 4th and 10+? You don’t give the #1, 13-0, team in the country only half the field to get a go ahead score, even with our FG struggles. For most of the night our offense had struggled so, you always punt and at least try to pin us back deep.
Whatever, it’s his grave he’s digging with his fans. When every Bama fan in the world starts cheering the second it was snapped, and every UGA fan was yelling bad things, you know you made a historically bad call.
I am beginning to think he is not cognizant enough for that. His hubris is too much for him to be that self-aware.
Yeah, he did give up quite a few............some of the UGA fans are already turning on him
Hate to say it but it was about as stupid as that decision to block Georgia’s punt just before the half [emoji849]
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“I felt like that was a great call because it was there,” Smart said. “We’ve seen their safe. We know exactly what their safe is. They line up and they don’t cover a guy. We’ve got a guy wide open, and he’s not going to be covered. But in the last second they saw it. And we had a way to check out of it, but we took too long to get it snapped, and I felt like it was a really good play. It was there.”
He basically said they were trying to be aggressive. Then he doubled down and said they had it, receiver was uncovered, but they took too long to snap it and Bama had time to recognize the play.
I don’t care if they actually picked it up, that is one of the dumbest calls I have ever seen. They could have made us drive 80yds, or even 99yds, to score with 3min left and our passing QB out. But he took the risk to give it to us at the 50 where all we needed was about 30yds and a FG to win. Just beyond dumb.
Kirby mistook us for 'The Little Sisters of the Poor'.
I'm gonna stick with calling that play, Kirby's Gus moment...
Lou Holtz turned to his Notre Dame team in 89 on the sideline after Miami ran a fake punt and failed and said "if you have to run a play le that, you don't believe you can win" at that point I thought "they just flinched" aaaaaaaand they did
I watched the post game press conference and unfortunately we'll never really get the true answer, because the press failed to ask the question correctly. They didn't frame the question by restating the situation asking him to justify the call. Saying you came to win, you wanted to be aggressive and you knew it was there all week doesn't justify making that call.
But one play didn't lose that game for Georgia. Our offense couldn't get out of neutral in the 3rd Qtr. when the game needed to be closed out. Kirby will have to choke on that call for a long time, but he's learned from CNS and will eventually learn how to prepare us to finish games like this one.
Congratulations to Bama and it's fans. You guys have one heck of a football team.
But one play didn't lose that game for Georgia. Our offense couldn't get out of neutral in the 3rd Qtr. when the game needed to be closed out. Kirby will have to choke on that call for a long time, but he's learned from CNS and will eventually learn how to prepare us to finish games like this one.
Congratulations to Bama and it's fans. You guys have one heck of a football team.
Kirby is just Richt 2.0 in finding ways to lose. But this has to be the dumbest call I’ve seen this year
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