Georgia football rat poison flows like wine after South Carolina win
Georgia Bulldogs football is a lot more fun when they win like this. The Dawgs play a technically-sound brand of football.
I know, it’s only three games.
But that’s a quarter of the regular season.
And so far, the data indicates that this Georgia team has one thing on its mind: consistency.
Consistent domination of other teams. Consistent discipline when it comes to playing clean football, with unsportsmanlike penalties nowhere to be found.
The vision from Kirby Smart at the top translates to execution at all levels an in all phases.
It’s fun to watch.
It also has Georgia in a new stratosphere of the age-old enemy of all good teams – the illusion of accompishment.
Smart’s former boss, Nick Saban, put it another way:
Rat poison.
I know, it isn’t a Georgia football fan’s job to worry about rat poison’s impact on the team
That’s up to Kirby Smart, his assistants and player-driven leadership on the team.
But three weeks in to the season, it seems as if many in my profession just realized something.
Maybe Georgia isn’t just a good team that’s trying to rebuild talent after a drought-busting National Championship.
Maybe these Dawgs are even better.
For some, it was the scoreboard comparison of #25 Oregon’s assertive win over top-15 BYU.
Of course, College Football doesn’t work like that.
But imagine trying to convince 100 college football players that this tweet – with such a concise, clear point – doesn’t mean a thing until this Georgia football team actually accomplishes something real.
And most of those players are looking at apps like it in the palms of their hands when they aren’t practicing and playing football.
You saw how important the leadership within Georgia’s football program is when the Dawgs first transitioned to the Smart era.
It’s even more important now, at its highest peak yet.
Kirby Smart addressed that ‘standard’ after Georgia’s win at South Carolina
The Dawgs’ ‘standard’ couldn’t have been more on display in the precision with which Georgia diced up the Gamecocks.
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“I don’t know that it has evolved. Nick Chubb and Sony talked about it all the time. Lorenzo Carter, Davin Bellamy, they all bought into it. The first year I wouldn’t say they bought into it because it was really, really hard, and I don’t know that they reaped the rewards from it,” Smart said.
“But from then on, they’ve kind of bought into, ‘This is who we are, this is how we’re going to do things.’”
That ‘standard’ is rat poison-proof, in theory.
All of Georgia’s football players and staff don’t read the glowing press reviews. Everyone does their jobs.
You roll over everyone.
But these are humans. And they’re susceptible to the poison.
So Kirby Smart will continue to hammer them, and hammer the point home when the media speaks with him.
Because tweets like this exist:
Kirby Smart has a ton of difficult jobs to do, and he’s driven to perform all of them well.
Leading a psychological counter-rat-poison operation may have just become the most difficult one.
I mean, have you seen Heisman-Trophy candidates Stetson Bennett and Brock Bowers? And that no-name defense?
They probably won’t lose a game all year.
Might even be able to beat the Falcons. They’re definitely better than 2019 LSU.
