Predictions: This time it’s all red — Dogs, Falcons win
As we head down the stretch of this football season and attempt to answer the age-old question, “Who whines more: SEC football fans after losing a game or Republicans after losing an election?” — and this is why I always check under my car for suspicious wire before starting it — it’s time to check in on the remains of Gene Chizik.
Two years ago, Auburn won the national championship. Now the Tigers are 2-7 overall and 0-6 in the SEC.
The governors of Colorado and Washington.
Or, as Karl Rove would put it, they’re trending upward and on the verge of conquering the SEC West, the conference, the BCS, Ohio (don’t it make my red eyes blue?), Hawaii, Alaska, Manitoba, the dangling chads of Florida, the clogging anchors of Fox, the Western Hemisphere, the Eastern Bloc (Commies! We’ll hunt ‘em all down!), the Peoples Republic of Cheech and Chong (Colorado and Washington just legalized marijuana — so, yes, we have confirmation that Doritos has lobbyists) and even the educated, artistic and peaceful liberals of Alderaan (oh wait, they were destroyed by the Death Star in Episode IV. Never mind.)
Back to Gene Chizik. I’m generally not a proponent of firing coaches two years after winning national championships. But this guy is now 9-29 in SEC and Big 12 conference games in which he didn’t have the luxury of telling Cam Newton, “Here’s the ball. Go do anything you want.”
I know what you’re thinking: “Georgia’s going to let down.”
Not this time. Too much at stake: The SEC East and a trip to the Georgia Dome. That’s reality, not an electoral projection.
If the Bulldogs can just keep Mark Richt off a swing set, they should be fine.
The line is a whopper: 15½. But it’s covered. Division, ho!
You contest (and Lane Kiffin) update
The wit and wisdom of Mr. Burns (whiny SEC fan?)
OLD SCHOOL
Just trying to help Curry with a little zen rock garden.
Georgia Tech at North Carolina: The Jackets are 1-0 without athletic director Dan Radakovich. See, I’m all about the positive. It was either that or point out Tech’s four wins have come over 2-9 Presbyterian and three ACC teams with a combined conference record of 4-12. Oops. Heels win, but take Tech and 9.
Georgia State at Maine: Not saying Bill Curry has had a rough season, but last week he inadvertently turned in an organ-donation card instead of a lineup card. A Zen moment: A career-ending win for Curry.
Texas A&M at Alabama: The disingenuous Nick Saban says no-huddle, spread offenses like A&M’s are a danger to player safety. Let me translate: “If they go too fast and I can’t rotate my three-deep, five-star, winded front seven, there’s a chance I might lose. And another thing, Sumlin: Get off of my lawn!” Tide win, but give me the Aggies and 14.
How about Dooley vs. Saban in a Zoolander-esque "Walk-off."
Arkansas at South Carolina: Too bad it’s not Bobby Petrino vs. Steve Spurrier or we could’ve had “The Moral Compass Bowl.” Jimmy Johnson actually said Arkansas should rehire Petrino. Question: Is he willing to bankroll the university for all future sexual-harassment lawsuits? Yeah. Didn’t think so. Roosters cover 14.
Missouri at Tennessee: Derek Dooley was depicted in “art work” on UT’s painted rock again, this time as “Doolander” (as in, “Zoolander”). With all of that creativity on campus, you’d think somebody could draw up a play. Finally, an SEC win: Vols cover 3½.
Mississippi State at LSU: Les Miles is a great coach when he’s not trying to pull a moose out of a hat (cue: Bullwinkle). Tigers win, but take the other Dogs and 14½.
Les Miles reaching into his playbook
NFL SNACK PACK
"So are we going to carpool to work next year?"
Falcons at Saints: The Saints have stabilized since an 0-4 start. That’s not to say they’re going to make the playoffs, but at least linebacker Curtis Lofton isn’t stabbing himself with a fork in the middle of the night, screaming, “What have I done!?!”By the way, what’s Sean Payton doing with a Dallas tags on his car? Falcons cover 2½.
Cowboys at Eagles: Jerry Jones the owner said he would fire Jerry Jones the general manager, but then Jerry Jones the deluded poobah most responsible for the Cowboys’ mess said he won’t strip himself of personnel duties. The good news: With one playoff win in 15 years, he has the full support of 31 other owners. Eagles win (and take the 1).
Texans at Bears: Houston strikes me as one of those really good teams that will never do anything in the playoffs. Then again, the Bears have Jay Cutler. Winner: Texans (take the 1).
Broncos at Panthers: Since those three quick interceptions against the Falcons, Peyton Manning has thrown 18 touchdowns and three picks. It’s all in the timing. Denver covers.
It’s Jerry Jones, starring as “Dark Helmet” (”Spaceballs”)
BUT WHO’S COUNTING? (ME)
Last week: 8-3 straight up, 7-4 against the line.
So far, so awesome: 86-26 straight up, 66-45-1 against the line.
“Sack Schultz” update: “JoeB1515″ and “Rayne09″ lead the race for the Georgia-Georgia Tech tickets and other prizes. “Wildone” leads for the trip to Hawaii. Lucky dude Brad Sawyer of Stockbridge who went 14-1 last week to win a Marlow’s giftcard and a Fathead.
Lilly Pick of the Week: It’s Falcons-Saints week. Cheeseballs were placed on pictures of the two quarterbacks, Matt Ryan and Drew Brees. Lilly puts her 5-4 record on the line. The winner: Brees.
Lilly is an Atlanta native but she has no allegiances to Falcons. Clearly.
By Jeff Schultz
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kingdaddy
November 9th, 2012
10:07 am
Children are indoctrinated from grade school through teachers unions, all the way through college by liberal professors who teach the Cloward-Piven Stategy. Many students get taxpayer grants that will never be paid back. Repub. taxpayers actuall pay taxes to educate kids to become socialist in a non-socialist country. How many graduate students can’t find a job today? Hey let’s protest Bush and the fat-cats while rockers like Bruce Springsteen laugh behind one of his 3 or 4 gated mansions living the high-life charging $50 a pop for a ticket and counting his hundreds of millions of dollars he has in the banks you hate so bad, lol. Sheeple heading to slaughter blindly. Better get a mind of your own before its too late…
Alphare
November 9th, 2012
10:08 am
If Mettenburger can step up against BAMA, why cannot Auburn against the Mutts?
They have nothing to lose, why not pull out all the tricks?
Sir Livedalot
November 9th, 2012
10:10 am
This is a blog and not an essay. Purfeck English is not required. If your only blog is to correct someone’s English then go become a teacher and leave us alone. Meanwhile, let’s all pull together for wins by the Dawgs, Bees and Falcons. Let’s not forget Ga State, Ga Southern and all the rest of the Ga schools. GO GEORGIA
Buckeye
November 9th, 2012
10:12 am
Does Lilly howell at sirens?
kingdaddy fan
November 9th, 2012
10:16 am
Coulter, Beck, Limbaugh, Hannity…
SUCK IT!
Sir Livedalot
November 9th, 2012
10:17 am
your day for the English teachers
Barry
November 9th, 2012
10:23 am
Good Lord, let Saturday & Sunday come quickly so some football can be discussed! We should be sick of politics after listening to all the crap from both parties for the past 18 month! Personally, I don’t even want to think of where our country will be in the next 4 years.
Go Dogs!
kingdaddy fan
November 9th, 2012
10:24 am
Sir Livedalot … you lost! LMAO at you!!
Alphare
November 9th, 2012
10:25 am
Sir Livedalot,
“You deserve what you will get but not the sane people who will suffer along with you. Take care and enjoy you day.”
You don’t worry about me, brother. When the housing market went sour, I went out and pick a few properties. Now I am a proud owner of multiple properties. And I am currently looking for more.
I actually manage my own retirement account. So far my account go up 40% this year. I was 90% out before the latest spiral. I am ready to go swimming once it stabilizes.
Nothing but opportunities, everywhere I turn. I don’t know why you are so insecure and uneasy. It’s just mind-boggling to me.
Thomas Brown
November 9th, 2012
10:30 am
I ain’t into that not no way
Sir Livedalot
November 9th, 2012
10:38 am
Alpohare– I bet everything is mind-boggling to you. You are right I did lose and so did the country. Enjoy your prosperty Lil Trump while you can. You won’t always be able to pick the bones of poor people that lost their homes due to bad legislation by the Democrat duo. Go Dawgs and enough of the bickering. No further comment to your unintelligible remarks.
Hurricane Sandy
November 9th, 2012
10:41 am
Get a clue people. God hates Republicans.
gtne80
November 9th, 2012
10:45 am
Not that anyone cares (or should), but don’t take Tech and the points. In Tech’s 5 losses (including the 3-point loss to start the year), the average margin was 14 points (including MTSU and BYU). The margins have been increasing as a trend as the year has progressed. UNC’s up-tempo offense will obliterate our defense (that gave up 13 points to a team without a QB last week). UNC 45 GT 13 (missed extra point).
kingdaddy
November 9th, 2012
10:55 am
KD fan
I thought yours was the party of inclusion. That wasn’t nice. Just because we don’t have a tingle runnng up our leg, doesn’t mean you should be so ugly. You ever serve in the mlitary? Maybe you were a community organizer, lol. 50% of the popular vote isn’t a majority, don’t foeget that. And the time for blaming G.W. for the failure of the last 4 years is over. It has been over. You own this mess you call “economic improvment”, LMAOFF! 4 Years from now, it’ll still be G.W.s fault…
In the tank for the dawgs
November 9th, 2012
10:56 am
Dawgs have a Romney day against Auburn. Defense doesn’t show up. Offense turns it over 6 times. We get punched in the nose. Auburn 35, Georgia 28
kingdaddy
November 9th, 2012
11:03 am
Dawgs start slow but finish strong again. 10 point win for Doggies, while Auburn tries to figure out if they are tiggers or eag-lets. There will be better days for The Barn, but Sat. won’t be one of them…
Alphare
November 9th, 2012
11:04 am
Sir Livedalot,
“You are right I did lose and so did the country.”
You didn’t lose, neither did the country. Wake up. This is the democratic process our founding fathers set up. The process ran its course and we have a result.
I am proud of our founding fathers who led us to today. Unlike lots of Repubs, I never question their vision. I see nothing but prosperity in our future despite the obstacles. God will bring you security if you have him in your heart.
Thomas Brown
November 9th, 2012
11:06 am
60 to nothing
kingdaddy
November 9th, 2012
11:08 am
Jeff
No comments about Cheech & Chong today??? Is Lilly feeling any remorse yet???
kingdaddy
November 9th, 2012
11:13 am
Thomas
Take two asprin and go to bed. Auburn will be sky-high for us. Their crowd will be ugly and in a fowl (sorry eagles fans) mood, and there’s no gaurantee the Dawgs will show up the first two quaters. Nothings in the bank with this crew…
Jack Timmons
November 9th, 2012
11:35 am
I am not a fan of Steve Spurrier or South Carolina, but how do you justify your comparison of Spurrier to Bobby Petrino (Moral Compass Bowl)? Sounds like sorry grapes from a Georgia fan.
kingdaddy
November 9th, 2012
12:11 pm
To the fans who don’t like Schultz political post, I just say this, its his site and he allows us to post here. I fought for freedom of speech just for this opportunity. His opinion is no less important than yours. Debate is like a football game. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose or if you are evenly matched, you draw. Jeff is a pretty good ref, even though he’s biased a little bit. I am thankful he hasn’t censored me.(filtered yes, censored no) He’s a good writer.
Conservatives lost the election. Its important for us to be good losers. That doesn’t mean we have to like it or even get used to it, but we do have to accept it. Just like liberals need to be gracious winners. If not, this Nation will stay divided.
The name kingdaddy was not one I chose, it was “bestowed” upon me by friends. That is why I don’t Capitalize the k in kingdaddy. I am nobody, but I care about my fellowman, friends and family. Sorry to bore you guys, but Schultz deserves to have his say as much as we do. Remember the Veterans…
UGA98
November 9th, 2012
12:28 pm
For once and for all, will you people look up the definition of Lose vs. Loose and Your vs. You’re? It would benefit society as a whole. Or a hole as some of you might put it.
kingdaddy
November 9th, 2012
12:49 pm
98
That ho, is getting deeper and deeper. Do you think teachers care about how a student speaks or writes anymore. They are dropping “cursive” writing because they can’t even get them (the students) to speak proper English. The education system in America is as bad as I have ever seen it. It is not all the teachers fault, but we won’t go into that.(or dat…)
Red Stick
November 9th, 2012
12:53 pm
Georgia 44 Auburn 10
Bama will stop Johnny Football just like LSU did.
LSU beats State but doesn’t cover.
Geaux Tigers
Go SEC
kingdaddy
November 9th, 2012
1:05 pm
Stick
Good luck Sat…
Techster
November 9th, 2012
2:32 pm
Sounds like Sean Payton might have some alley cat in him.
blazerdawg
November 9th, 2012
2:44 pm
Schuuulander! Love the Rove barbs, babe – keep’em comin, that dude is the first half of his nikname.
Drew Brees
November 9th, 2012
2:55 pm
Pencil me in for 5-6 touchdowns.
For which team?
November 9th, 2012
2:57 pm
Drew?
THE Dixie Redcoat Band
November 9th, 2012
4:00 pm
Will be at The Big House tomorrow…I hope and pray UGA doesn’t come out flat.
Red Stick
November 9th, 2012
4:17 pm
@kingdaddy, thanks, hopefully they have moved past Bama.
DawgNole
November 9th, 2012
4:38 pm
UGA98
November 9th, 2012
12:28 pm
For once and for all, will you people look up the definition of Lose vs. Loose and Your vs. You’re? It would benefit society as a whole. Or a hole as some of you might put it.
______________________
Good luck with that.
JSS
November 9th, 2012
4:56 pm
“Whine and cheese” took some brain power to grind that one out! Since when has the works of the son of a traveling shoes salesman and a music teacher become “elitist?” Sorry, Wiliams didn’t write about queens or kings, just regular folks who didn’t cope well or folks who didn’t handle power well…
I go to great parties, lots of diversity…
JSS
November 9th, 2012
5:00 pm
@ Jeff Schultz…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vo2EeipXCo&feature=player_embedded
DawgNole
November 9th, 2012
5:10 pm
Thomas Brown
November 9th, 2012
8:59 am
YOU CANNOT EVEN SPELL PENALTIES & USE QUOTE MARKS FOR APOSTROPHE
DawgNole November 8th, 2012 5:54 pm
“I don’t know who the “real” TB is–and could care less. I do know that the one I’ve repeatedly beaten down on these blogs for his lies, fabrications, and distortions is YOU. Like I said a long time ago, you’re way out of your league butting heads with me, mouth-breather, and you continue to prove it with every post.”
Are these your quotes, or not son ?
____________________
Absolutely they’re mine, and I stand behind them, which is a lot more than can be said about you and your foolish rants.
You’ll note that my observations about the gators were made after their first game of the season, in which they struggled to beat BG. Your idiotic predictions that they would experience “four or five losses in 2012″ continued until shortly before their ONLY loss so far–to UGA. I ask you AGAIN, weasel, how’d that prediction work out for you?
Do you have the guts to stand behind your ignorant posts? (60 to nothing over Auburn? Yeah, right. Dimbulb.) Or do you continue to reverse yourself–like you have about Richt and Murray–and pretend you knew all along the Dawgs would be where they are today?
And instead of whining about it, you’d best be thankful I’ve pointed out only a miniscule fraction of your endless grammatical/spelling errors. There’s not enough time in the day to document anywhere near all of them.
You’re in over your head, TB. Way over–and sinking deeper with each deranged post.
dARON
November 9th, 2012
5:18 pm
Falcons win by 13, Dogs blowout auburn by 30. chizik gets fired, Dogs upset bama in the title game—mark it down!
kingdaddy
November 9th, 2012
5:59 pm
JSS
The “elitist” are poor insecure people like who try to make people think they are “upper crust” by dropping the names of boring writers who’s time has come and gone. The only time you are happy is when you are insulting someone else. Oh yeah, your dead writer has a “play” on Broadway right now. I’m supprised you have time to post about sports since you are so into the fine-arts.(panty-waist) Thanks for thinking that Tennessee Williams would even bother to read my ramblings…
Oh, and JSS…
By the time your “Messiah” has finished bleeding this country dry and splitting us even farther apart as Americans, you won’t be considered “upper-crust”, but you will be looked upon as “TOAST”…
lost in real America
November 9th, 2012
6:17 pm
Help… reality looms all around me… Karl Rove was wrong… Rape isn’t God’s will…Black people vote… and hispanics…I’m melting… melting… what a world….
JSS
November 9th, 2012
6:33 pm
Oh where to start? what does being “in heaven” and “thanking heaven” have in common? Absolutely nothing! You can thank heaven and not think that someone is in heaven! “Whine and cheese?”
kingdaddy
November 9th, 2012
6:34 pm
I really could care less what you read or the music you listen too. I don’t care what you eat, even though you do like a little “whine”, I won’t hold that against you. I don’t care about your politics, even though you did attack me for my opinion. We’re only on this earth for a short time and in the scheme of things, your and my opinion are just ripples in a pond, no more important than one rain shower in the ocean. Billions of people on this planet , and you think you’re important. You think that you matter in the Big Picture, but your narcisssm is just a disease or disorder that you feed with insults to strangers for no reason other than your own pleasure. You are a small-minded little person with an ego the size of Texas. I hope you think about me non-stop. Hope you can’t get me off your mind. Sometimes, I have that effect on people which is excatly what you strive for, but will never achieve no matter how hard you try…
DoYourJob
November 9th, 2012
6:39 pm
Jeff, I may be wrong, but I seriously doubt the AJC pays you for political commentary. Stick to your day job. Not smart to alienate half your audience. Stay classy.
JSS
November 9th, 2012
6:47 pm
A “messiah?” He’s a person elected to in office no more no less, he rises on strength of what the legislature gives him to work with… Grow up, a Messiah, that’s for people who need myths
kingdaddy
November 9th, 2012
7:29 pm
Your myths include heaven since you include it in your analogy of Tennessee Williams reading my post, lol. Twist it anyway you want. I doubt you know much about Heaven so you probably shouldn’t use it in an analogy. Maybe just stick to Broadway and boring playwrites. It suits you better…
kingdaddy
November 9th, 2012
7:57 pm
Were Nick Fairly and Cam Newton that good? How could their team transform into such a Dog (sorry Doggies) by losing a couple of players? Auburn collasped after the NC. No reloading for them, just Rebuilding. We see they weren’t built to last like LSU & BAMA. I think UGA is trying to build a team that’s deep, but sometimes I would do things differently. If Murray goes down, we’re screwed because our back-ups have little experience. Our Oline and DBs are also a concern, or have been the last couple of years. Just don’t see how Auburn fell so far, so fast. That is why they are scary because it didn’t make much sense. We beat them too bad last year. They just weren’t that bad. They should have a high revenge factor this year and shouldn’t be taken lightly…
Joe Bob Thibodaux
November 9th, 2012
8:56 pm
Schultzie, I think Mettenberger made a big step forward against Bama last week. This week, he keeps up the progress, and LSU covers the spread.
LSU FOREVER
JBT
DawgNole
November 9th, 2012
9:01 pm
kingdaddy
November 9th, 2012
7:57 pm
Just don’t see how Auburn fell so far, so fast. That is why they are scary because it didn’t make much sense. We beat them too bad last year. They just weren’t that bad. They should have a high revenge factor this year and shouldn’t be taken lightly…
________________
Agreed.
Complacency and overconfidence–potentially our two biggest enemies tomorrow.
Esquire
November 9th, 2012
9:16 pm
“Curtis Lofton isn’t stabbing himself with a fork in the middle of the night, screaming, “What have I done!?!”
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ARE YOU SURE?
Esquire
November 9th, 2012
9:17 pm
Mettenberger – Lordy son, you can only do that one on one!
kingdaddy
November 9th, 2012
9:22 pm
DawgNole
you said it my brother. I like confidence, but not over-confidence. Many great armies were beaten by lesser opponets by superior tactics and a force of will. I am not saying we will lose, not by a long shot. I’m thinking @10 points. Hope its by more, but for some reason Auburn scares me and give me a sense of foreboding. Can’t put my finger on it…