The glass half full approach....

[DowntownDawg]

....the defense played very well. They gave up one drive. You can't ask for more than that. Unfortunately, that drive was a backbreaking drive. Georgia's other TD's came from 33 and 22 yards out. Nobody expected our defense to be as good as last year.

Mullen has improved our offense over the course of every year he has been here. If he can do the same and we can somehow beat a struggling USC team at home, we can be 6-3 going into Bama.

People forget how last year went. Our offense was anemic last year and we had no identity going into October. Georgia was an average team that we were lucky to beat. We had the fumble at the 1 and they had at least 1 score called back on a penalty. The score was 7-6 going into the 4th quarter. We won with defense and luck and pulled away late. They outgained us by 73 yards and turned it over 3 times.

Then we get outgained by over 100 yards at Florida and got 2 turnovers there. We were anemic offensively and our defense carried us again.

The point is, as the season went on we greatly improved offensively after our defense had to carry us early. Our defense is not good enough to carry us right now, but they are playing well enough. We need a confidence building win on Saturday and find a way to beat the Cocks at home and we'll be ok.

If we can't beat SC, all hope is lost and our program is doomed forever. Carry on.

 

[Dawgzilla]

I was proud of the D this weekend, but we shouldn't go overboard. UGA moved the ball when they needed to. Their first two TD drives may have been short, but they were also easily yielded. The long drive before the half was a back-breaker. In the second half, UGA went more conservative on offense because they were up by 18 points.

I do give the D a lot of credit for keeping UGA out of the endzone after Swedenburg mishandled the snap. But, once MSU pulled to within 14 points, UGA was able to put together two drives of 4 minutes + to milk the clock and put the game away.

 

[jacksdawgs]

but otherwise, I agree with pretty much everything you posted.

 

[Seinfeld]

going one way or the other. I posted a stat last week that said Mullen is 0-14 or something along those lines when losing the turnover battle. It doesn't take a genius to realize that getting takeaways is important to success, but we're a team that basically has to have that happen in order to win. We forced them several times last year(Georgia, Fla, etc), but we haven't been able to do it much this year.

To make things infinitely worse, we play in the most utterly ridiculous division in football. We now have the #1, #2, #10, and #15 teams in the country all in the same 17ing division. That's pretty extraordinary for an entire conference, much less one division of 6 teams.

Did you happen to catch the moron doing the Ole Miss/Fresno game that went off for 2-3 minutes about how Ole Miss would have to beat Fresno if the SEC wanted to somehow prove that they really were as good as its fans think? He went on to talk about how much bragging the SEC fans do so if we wanted to prove our worth, we would absolutely have to have one of the worst couple teams in our conference travel across the country and beat Fresno. Apparently, he didn't want to be bothered with the five straight national titles or having the two best teams in the country currently.