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wdhalgren
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re: Why are we losing so many secondary players?
Posted by wdhalgren on 1/17/26 at 1:41 pm to Peter Buck
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The last game vs Ole Miss we were down 2 starters or maybe 3 in the defensive backfield. I wonder if our depth there would have been better in Pre NIL days.
It would've been nice to have guys like AJ Harris, Chris Peal, Julio Humphrey still on roster. I think with enough time, Kirby can turn most of his DB recruits into a reliable contributor, if they can tolerate being coached and stay out of trouble.
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re: 2026 Transfer Portal Thread (Bryson Beaver IN)
Posted by wdhalgren on 1/17/26 at 1:27 pm to claydawg09
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My point is a lot of our fanbase panics when we lose guys but that vast majority go to schools that are not in our league both SEC wise and championship caliber wise.
Every team's in the same boat, so no reason to panic. Georgia is being impacted more than some because Kirby emphasizes development, which takes time in the system.
That gets at maybe the main problem with the transfer portal, loss of development. Strategy depends on development. It feels like college football is being dumbed down to the point that athleticism far supercedes the mental aspects of the game. That's a shame because it's the most complex team sport ever devised IMO.
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This is literally above. Once again your Cheerio necklaces need you.
The exception proves the rule.
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I don’t know if you know the point of forums and message boards but the concept is opinion sharing. So maybe worry less about mine. And if it doesn’t align with yours, you need to be ok with that if you are going to brave the internet
Very good. You chose to sarcastically "correct" my suggestion that Georgia has talented weapons waiting in the wings. I wasn't even talking to you. In response, I explained how you were very likely to be wrong. Isn't that what you want?
You can post your negative outlook every day; based on your history I expect nothing less. But if you feel the need to argue with anyone who says something positive, particularly me, I'll continue to point out that your persistent negativity in the face of success makes you look like a troll, for lack of a better word.
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Dude you’re an idiot. Your last two remaining brain cells are fighting for third place.
Uh Oh. Here comes school yard debating technique.
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If I am negative, I typically acknowledge it.
I'll acknowledge it for you. Not only are you negative, you can't tolerate anyone else being positive. You couldn't even bear the suggestion that Georgia's football team has talent waiting to manifest, and I wasn't even talking to you. Not only is that irrational, I would say it's a strange attitude for a Georgia fan, but that may be one assumption too far.
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I’m saying as compared to everyone, to be frank it is underwhelming.
Of course. You've been saying that about Georgia's roster and coaching for a long time, and you've been wrong. Georgia has underwhelmed their way to 66 victories vs 7 losses, 2 national championships and 3 SEC chamionships in the last 5 seasons. Your future predictions aside, that's the best resumé in the sport right now.
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What I’m saying is where do you rank our WR in a total list of WR in the conference? If you put them at the top, we are no longer arguing in rationale but fandom.
What I'm saying is that there's a difference between inexperience and lack of weapons. Last year's underlings become next year's weapons; that's how college football works, now more than ever. I put Georgia's receivers and tight ends in the same category as the rest of Georgia's football roster; talented enough to win lots of games, waiting and working for their chance to shine. You're doing just the opposite, suggesting they're insufficient and inferior to their peers elsewhere, unworthy of being collectively referred to as our future weapons because they didn't play ahead of talented upperclassmen. Don't worry, no reasonable observer will accuse you of being a fan, or rational either for that matter.
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My concern is how much development needs to happen amongst our talent this offseason for me to comfortably call them a “weapon“. Simmer down.
I don't care about your comfort. You jumped in and gave a sarcastic response, supported solely by your negative opinions, to a post I directed at someone else. How dare I assume UGA's football team has weapons? Not only are you persistently negative on this board, you reserve the right to "correct" anyone who sounds positive. And then tell them to simmer down, aka shut up, when they respond in kind. :lol: Sorry, that's not gonna happen.
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Libertarians by nature are no borders and free immigration. Not sure why you are surprised.
Libertarianism, like most other political labels, is a loosely organized school of thought. If they're honest, most people of any political persuasion understand the need for secure borders for their own property and, by extension, for their country. If they claim otherwise, they may be either a liar, an anarchist (used here to mean someone who literally wants disarray) or dumb.
re: 2026 Transfer Portal Thread (Bryson Beaver IN)
Posted by wdhalgren on 1/16/26 at 11:07 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
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Our leading returning wide receiver had 18 catches for 278 yards this season and our second returning wide receiver had 8 catches for 70 yards. Unless you think that Isiah Canion is Julio Jones, OP was making a valid point and there's reason not to be super optimistic. No need to be smartallicky.
I made a statement about Georgia using all of its weapons and he's the one that jumped in with a smart-alecky response. "What weapons do we have?"
If you and troll4Life haven't noticed, every team has high turnover. Every team has positions that end up reloading and rebuilding. In 2021, our top 4 receivers were 3 freshmen and a sophomore. Talented young players will be our weapons next year, same as every year at one position or another. Acting like Georgia football suddenly has no weapons isn't a valid point, it's trolling because that's what he does.
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OP was making a valid point and there's reason not to be super optimistic.
I'm looking forward to seeing some talented young players get coached up by Georgia's top notch coaching staff. Meanwhile you can spend this offseason like the last one: dumping all over Georgia's roster and coaching. Was 12-2 and an SEC title about what you had in mind? Two losses by a grand total of one touchdown?
How are you and your brother feeling about Heupel? Are you guys "super optimistic"? Campaigned hard to keep those Vandy/Kentucky cupcake "rivalries" and then gets run off the field at Neyland stadium. And loses to Illinois in some no-talent bowl game? Now that was an embarrassing season. But, it's Tennessee and it's the offseason so I'm sure you're excited about their weapons, eh?
But, yeah, go ahead and give us all the reasons Georgia fans shouldn't be optimistic for 2026. You and your buddies will get it right eventually, because stopped clocks always do.
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When you say use all of the weapons, what are those again?
Box is stacked. 3rd and 10. Season on the line. Gunner may or may not be concussed again. Who are you getting the ball to with confidence to convert that?
If I interpret this accurately, you seem to be implying that UGA doesn't have any offensive talent on the roster. I don't know how any rational person could believe that. There are rosters posted multiple places on the internet. Go study one and research the players.
re: 2026 Transfer Portal Thread (Bryson Beaver IN)
Posted by wdhalgren on 1/14/26 at 10:28 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
If you can spread the ball around, you can run a two minute drill. Obviously the 2025 offense wasn't very diverse. Some people here seem to think that was all Bobo knows how to do. That's dumb. I think he ran what they could execute. My guess is they'll spend the offseason trying to make it more flexible so they can use all their weapons.
re: 2026 Transfer Portal Thread (Bryson Beaver IN)
Posted by wdhalgren on 1/14/26 at 7:37 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
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I think we'll have 2 and 3 tight ends on the field next season even more than we have in the past, for better or worse. It's fun when it works and you shove the ball down the other team's arse, but it stunts the progress of the downfield passing game and what happens in a shootout.
We've used tight ends to push the ball downfield too. It actually works really well in college because most college linebackers are bad in pass coverage. They blow assignments and they can't cover well. There's a reason that TE's across the middle weren't a big part of the offense this year. I'm not completely sure what that reason was, but I'm sure they're addressing it. We have too many good athletes at that position to ignore.
re: 2026 Transfer Portal Thread (Bryson Beaver IN)
Posted by wdhalgren on 1/14/26 at 7:33 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
There's no point in even flinching about this anymore. The days of stockpiling talent like Saban are over, unless you have some really deep pocket boosters and are willing to flaunt the rules. If a player has been here one year and he's not expecting to start, he's at risk. Even if he is expecting to start, he's still at risk but nobody should care about those because they're not team players, just mercenaries. The inability to stockpile talent is not a bug in this new system, it's the main feature and is working as designed by people who weren't happy with the previous outcomes.
I'm sure Kirby knew Kelly was looking. People think Kelly left because Georgia added a couple of corners in the portal. Just as likely, they added an extra corner because they knew some were looking. Probably a couple more players will leave in the next day or two and the staff will have already accounted for that too.
I'm sure Kirby knew Kelly was looking. People think Kelly left because Georgia added a couple of corners in the portal. Just as likely, they added an extra corner because they knew some were looking. Probably a couple more players will leave in the next day or two and the staff will have already accounted for that too.
It's a recurring question. Sort of like, "Why do people start portal threads, when there's already one pinned at the top of the page?"
As for teams poaching Georgia's DB's, when it comes to understanding of defensive secondary, Kirby's at the top of the list. He recruits good DB's and they get coached up. Other coaches know that too. That's okay, most of the smart ones will stick around and learn from the best in the business.
As for teams poaching Georgia's DB's, when it comes to understanding of defensive secondary, Kirby's at the top of the list. He recruits good DB's and they get coached up. Other coaches know that too. That's okay, most of the smart ones will stick around and learn from the best in the business.
re: 2026 Transfer Portal Thread (Bryson Beaver IN)
Posted by wdhalgren on 1/14/26 at 5:19 pm to FirstCityDawg
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Dom Kelly, man this one stings.
It'll happen every year. Kirby's DB's get probably the best coaching in college football and other coaches know it. Kelly probably got an offer that Georgia wouldn't match. My guess, another SEC team came calling.
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Feeling leaving may be the worst news this year
Knock on wood, but they've done a very good job of maintaining the roster. If the current situation holds, we return 14 OL and they average about two full seasons on roster at Georgia. That's when most OL should be expected to become a reliable contributor at the major college level. I think we'll be fine, including OT. For 2025, we returned 12 OL with slightly less experience, on average, than this round. At first glance, receiver looks most questionable; returning 8 but they're a young group.
Overall, as of right now we return 68 players from the 2025 team, which is a very good number. In 2025 we returned 55 from the 2024 team, with less experience on average. In 2024, we returned 47 players from the 2023 team.
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Special Teams extraordinaire
With a 10.36 100 meters, they'll give him a chance to prove you wrong.
This chart is an illustration of what inflation does to the working class. Wages never keep up with inflation. Wages go up and up, and the wage earners get poorer and poorer because prices rise faster. Eventually you get stagflation as real consumption declines, and then hyperinflation when people start to abandon the currency in favor of other assets.
Remember all that risk that nearly blew up the banking system back in 2008? It never went away, just got transformed and transferred. Borrowers and lenders were bailed out, speculators were rewarded, savers were punished. Those are perverse incentives that lead to more risk, not less.
Remember all that risk that nearly blew up the banking system back in 2008? It never went away, just got transformed and transferred. Borrowers and lenders were bailed out, speculators were rewarded, savers were punished. Those are perverse incentives that lead to more risk, not less.
re: Saw on another message board that Freeling to the NFL draft...
Posted by wdhalgren on 1/12/26 at 9:44 pm to claydawg09
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You mean the game he played with a torn labrum and literally got shoulder surgery at 8am the next day? But he played anyways because he knew him with one arm was still better than the alternative? That game? Yea I think they’ll either overlook it or view it as a positive character moment.
I'm not gonna criticize Freeling for leaving; it's a rational decision. I don't think he'll make the 1st round, but he'll very likely make more than he would've at Georgia. If he can stay healthy and continue to develop, the 2nd contract will be what matters. Worked hard, played hard, tended his business and stayed out of the AJC fish wrapper. DGD, IMO.
re: Think I'm done with it boys.
Posted by wdhalgren on 1/12/26 at 9:16 pm to Peter Buck
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Good, now get the frick out and go back to where you came from.
Yep. SemperFiTroll claims to be a long term Dawg Fan, lived through the lean years, but he's had it after two consecutive SEC Titles, 11 and 12 wins against some of the toughest schedules we've ever faced. Didn't win a national championship (for about the 130th time in the last 135 years) and that's unacceptable. He just can't tolerate another horrible year with Kirby Smart at the helm.
That's trolling, plain and simple. He's here to taunt Georgia fans, trying to convince them that these are something other than the best years in UGA football history. Not to worry, SemperFi fans. He will be back. They always come back.
re: Officer cell phone footage released
Posted by wdhalgren on 1/9/26 at 12:10 pm to Blizzard of Chizz
I am sorry the woman was killed, but this didn't look she was "fleeing from ICE agents". It looked like she was taunting the ICE agents and was intent on avoiding any effort to stop her from obstructing their lawful duties. In the process, she displayed callous disregard for the safety of the agents, and presumably anyone else who got in her way.
re: Florida Tech
Posted by wdhalgren on 1/7/26 at 11:40 pm to Chris_topher
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Get it?
Not really. I wasn't trying to be confrtontational about Canion, just don't think the market is quite that high right now for a player with his resume. Georgia may well end up with 95 players on roster and $1M is a good sized dent in their total cap. If they pay that, I hope he's worth it.
re: Florida Tech
Posted by wdhalgren on 1/7/26 at 10:22 pm to Chris_topher
I'm skeptical about UGA paying even $1M. If somebody's offering $2M, my guess is that's where he'll be.
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