Special Teams were fine today.

And in UGA’s defense, I was quite impressed by A. Murray. He will be a huge thorn in our sides in future years.

It was pretty obvious that Barnes let up.

Garcia’s major mistakes were the fumble and that huge sack he took. On that sack he had an open out on the left side that he didn’t see. He also took off a couple of times when he should have stayed in the pocket.

On the plus side he has taken care of the ball in the air. And he’s getting better. I mean, I didn’t expect him to have the same performance against an SEC team than he did versus USM.

Still, Shaw needs to continue to improve. If we get a QB (either of them) who can start to win us games and not just not lose them, we’ll scary dangerous. As it is now, I think we’re a better than average SEC team in a down year for the league.

1. Good question. Garcia did lose a fumble and missed one or two deep balls. He took his sweet time getting rid of it on several occasions. I’m not sure if that was him not finding the open guy, or the receivers not getting open. He wasn’t paying attention to the game clock on a couple occasions, and took some sacks. However, he also made some good plays, and, most importantly, did not throw any picks. I think if Carolina had fallen behind, he’d have put Shaw or Gilmore in and done some more creative things. Garcia was playing just well enough to stay in though. I don’t know if Garcia gets better. He was doing the same things right and the same things wrong as last week. In fact, I’d venture to say he did a little worse. Last week he avoided the rush very well. This week he only did mediocre in that respect. I have to say though, that was a great deep ball to Jeffery between two defenders.

2. Hopefully, that won’t happen. At least, I hope a team doesn’t get into a big shootout with Carolina. Carolina is making too many silly mistakes for that type of thing; blocking and delay of game penalties, and missing wide open guys deep. Georgia is lucky they didn’t lose that game by three touchdowns.

3. It depends on if he makes it to the end of the season. I really hope he doesn’t approach 40 carries a game again, unless the game wholly relies on it. I think he can rack up 100 yards+ per game on a regular basis though. So, minus the post season stuff, I think he can get about 1300 on the ground. He’ll have his fair share of receptions too. He has great hands.

is the play of Chris Culliver. He didn’t have the positive impact I hoped he would have. First there was his bonehead penalty that almost cost us a very important defensive stop. And it seemed like every time I looked up the player he was covering had at least a 5 yard cushion.

Meanwhile, I don’t know if Gilmore had a ball thrown his way the whole game. Anyone remember?

I think one of the most important questions is: What does this mean for Miles and Giles, particularly the latter? Those transfer rumors could very well end up coming true. I think there’s still a chance for Miles to stay in the picture, but things are suddenly looking a little crowded with our RBs. Personally, I love having the depth, but Lattimore is such a sensational talent that Giles might see the writing on the wall.

It will be his Rushing TD’s… having 240 yards on the ground thru 2 games isnt overwhelming, but having 4 rushing TD’s is pretty nice. I think hes only going to get better as the season progresses, so I could easily see him getting up in the 1200-1400 yard plateu… but like I said his TD’s is going to be most impressive, where I think he will end the season with at least 20 (whens the last time weve seen that???)

Also mark it down, Lattimore will catch Garcia’s first TD pass.

And I really believe I’m one of the more reasonable UGA fans out there. I certainly wouldn’t wish what happened to me to happen to anybody that enters Sanford Stadium yet I know it happens every weekend and that saddens me. Stuff like that makes me question why I should even bother to attend games anymore. Why should I spent hundreds of dollars on tickets, gas, hotels, and food? Why should I dedicate 8 hours of my day when I can just as easily enjoy it from the view of my chair in AC with HD tv and my own bathroom and not have to potentially deal with that crap?

I mean to add that after the whole hat shoving in face incident, I also asked the guy two questions:

1: Me - “Do you go to school here?”, Him - “No”
2: Me - “Did you graduate from here?”, Him - “No”

That to me is a huge part of the problem of these pest fans every program has. They’ve got no attachment to the University other than football so they have no reason to represent the University well since they don’t have a degree contingent on the reputation of that University.

Either way, maybe I’ve overreacted with the sweeping generalization, but it’s really hard to not hold it against you guys since as I stated earlier that I tend to believe I’m a pretty reasonable and rational guy that doesn’t instigate fights and the such. Just like I wouldn’t blame either of you guys for holding it against UGA fans for your similar horror stories at Sanford Stadium.

If you guys are in Athens next year, let me know and I’ll make sure you get to meet a decent group of UGA folks so you don’t have to go through that same kind of crap either.