Talkin' Georgia football & Brock Bowers with ESPN's Peter Burns
It’s a Georgia football game week. The Dawgs are 4-0 and number one in the country, but the margin seems a little smaller after a scuffle with Kent State.
Back again, DawgsHQ returns with another Wednesday conversation.
For the first time in this series, I don’t have a former Georgia player riding shotgun with me.
Instead, it’s fellow sports media talker, SEC Network and SiriusXM host, Peter Burns.
‘Why Peter Burns,’ you may ask?
Well, for one thing, ol’ Burnsy provided Georgia with a bucket of rat poison last week when he made this proclamation:
So, I wanted to see if Peter changed his mind on that Georgia football prediction
The Golden Flashes had many people saying that Kent State ‘exposed’ Georgia as a pretender in the modern College Football landscape.
Surely, a clunker like that had Burns second-guessing his claim that the Dawgs would beat everyone in their path this season, right?
Hardly.
“Hell no,” Burns said.
“There’s certain times you watch a game, and you’re like, ‘There are some literal concerns. There are some issues there.'”
One observation told Burns that the Kent State game wasn’t one of those moments for Georgia.
“Me and (SEC Network analyst and former Georgia football player) Benjamin Watson and everybody were in studio watching (the game) transpire, and we’re like, ‘Alright, what are we feeling here? Is this going to be like, (Kirby Smart) is going to tear the paint off the walls in the locker room or postgame?’
The fact that he’s sitting there postgame, (saying) ‘This is a learning experience for us, we needed this game.’ Almost gave me more of a sense, he knew they were going to have a stinker at some point. He’s almost in a weird way happy that this happened. And I did not expect that. But I think that’s the mark of a coach that knows how good his team is, that there was not really any kind of panic of getting his guys back on track.”
Funny observations about Brock Bowers
On Sunday night’s episode of The Georgia Show (we stream LIVE every Wednesday, Sunday and immediately after each Georgia football game), my co-host Palmer Thombs went on and on about how Brock Bowers is not human.
While I don’t disagree, I think there is another layer to this cake.
Bowers is also not of this era of football.
I’ve been telling anyone who will listen that Brock Bowers runs as if he’s a time traveling football player who is actually from the 1920’s.
His running style and hybrid skills remind me of an old-school H-Back.
Burns agrees on the temporal misalignment.
“I’m still a firm believer that we need to check the birth certificate,” Burns said.
“Because it feels like one of the Little League Baseball guys like Danny Almonte a couple years ago that we find out, like, ‘He’s actually 28 years old. And it would not surprise me whatsoever. And we get him one more year.”
Just doesn’t seem legal.
Other stuff we talked about (watch the video, why are you still reading this)
– Uga vs Mike the Tiger
– Working as a LSU fan in a show divided with his Gators co-host, Florida great Chris Doering
– Raising children in a house divided, with his wife, an Alabama fan
