Baahhh!!! Officials in UGA vs MIZZOU game just handed Bulldogs game-changer bad call early: CLEARLY Tiger runner stopped forward mo, fighting for 1st and moved back YARDS for SECONDS, but no whistle until UGA defender finally able to rip it from his hands, run back for TD--travesty of an unreviewable "no whistle" call; RB was doing his job, fighting for yards "until the whistle blows"--only it never DID (this after 2 OTHER borderline calls against Mizzou keeping them outta the endzone going the other way.
SEC crew really blew that one; so extreme in its being a CREW-WIDE "mistake" (SOMEONE should have blown their whistle), in continued context of EVERY possible call now having gone Bulldogs' way...well, with Tigers driving field in response, but missing fieldgoal they were "settling for" down near redzone, I was willing to watch with hope of UGA upset loss--but this Missouri team is a bumbling, frustrating-to-watch team that is in process of giving away game to team that doesn't NEED their charity. Got way sick of watching OUR team doing this sort of thing, year in year out, game after game with multiple dumb penalties, crucial mistakes, above all leaving so many "points on the field"--damned if I'm gonna watch a team and program I don't really give a FIG about do it; not just 'cause I'd like to see their foe, our cross-stateline-rival, LOSE a game here. Only good part IS encouraging, regardless: UGA does NOT impress here. They'll almost certainly win this one--weaker squad can't outplay the favorite, dominate play and time of possession throughout 1st qtr but still come out down 7 points. Driving again now--but even after they score here (and they keep getting in each others' way to stop themselves), UGA has to feel fortunate to be tied going into 2nd. Yes, I think UGA eventually adjusts, gets untracked and wins this one--but they are eminently BEATABLE, this supposed "No. 2 -ranked Nationally" team that came into season expected to meet The Tide again for the SEC Championship--and hyped by those "experts", along with Clemson, as one of just a handful of "elite programs" that would meet and could potentially displace Alabama as the NATIONAL champion.
From what we've seen so far likewise from all of 'em, this Georgia team, the product on the field right here, right now: Um, no way.
On a good day, healthy and hitting on all cylinders, the present GATOR team might well beat the Bulldogs we've seen so far this season. Not making any predictions NOW bout the Cocktail Party--just sayin'.
And here's another Tiger turnover--Drew Locke is a talented QB--but he's all they got, it seems: WR just let dart right to him through his hands, into those of UGA defender, almost pick six; first and goal for Bulldogs--but they fail to punch it in, on "Mr Accuracy" Jake From's poor throw. I am TELLING y'all: these partic Bulldogs are NOT "worldbeaters"! NOT in same category as Tide--them or anyone else currently. And I get the impresion THAT level of commitment-to-perfection, albeit in a more "relaxed and fun", more "GATOR" way, is precisely Mullens' aim and standard; I DON'T get that for ANY of these other programs, including Kirby's. Well, Dabo's MAYBE: He HAS at least raised the standard and left the mark of his attitude and expectations on that Clemson team--but they may be AT their "peak" now, and if so, not quite enough...
While I'm on the subject of other teams and programs that may or may not be of interest to us, a now first-time-in-a-LONG-time-ranked BC, led by the dreaded "A-DAZE-io", facing a so far snake-bit-close 0-and-three Purdue squad in a close one...of a series of "thin-reasons-for-us-to-care"-games out there today, I may switch over to THIS one soon--if I stick around for now at ALL: Prob gonna just skip the "time wasters" and get active, get a few things actually DONE out there and be back for some portion of the next round of games...Another turnover, after ANOTHER dropped Drew Locke pass that would have kept drive alive, punt blocked for 6 pts UGA's way. At a certain point, we SEE a final score and a few "all-one-way" highlights on ESPN, and get a certain impression--one that reinforces self-serving TV-guys' predictions, overall view of and setup FOR the ongoing way the season plays out.
Wake Forrest keeping it close against Notre Dame, likewise the other games still at least flirting with minor upsets...
Nah--with the Longhorns game I won't have any choice in seeing/hearing about no matter where I go or what I do between now and kickoff later in Knoxville, I'll be exhausted by the details and minutia of all the games like these already underway and coming up betwern now and then.
Gotta PACE myself this week.
Talk to y'all later, Gators.
