smoke spting fast now let's hit some heated top yes time for group [Music] chat smoke you know what time it is it's group chat time smoke and I gonna let you in our weekly group chat on what we discuss on some of the topics of college football it's gonna be a wild one today smoke our first topic is what why Georgia won't dominate in the SEC this season read I'm listen just just take a deep breath and just walk with me I know you're gonna say is your name smoke or smoking what you do but let me just get into it first I do believe George is a very good team right but there's a lot that's going on right now that we have to unpack the unfiltered version of what we got going on and why they won't dominate the SEC just walk me first of all let's talk about the schedule that part when you start a December I mean September the 28th at Alabama and you start walking it through you got B that's going to be a physical game that you're gonna have to go into Bryant Denny and play a team that beat you last year the only one that beat you for the SEC Championship then you go into a rival between the edges Auburn might be a cakewalk but it's not a cakewalk after you just finish coming through a physical game then you go into a trap of Mississippi State you should come out of that but you got to look your head and say I gotta go down to Texas and play on on October 19th tough game then you got the cocktail party Brut as well then you come again and you go to Oxford and you play against Old Miss maybe the best team in the SEC right now but you're playing against Old Miss in Tennessee those two teams play at a different pace they play sped up football so in that part of your schedule where is a toughest you're going to have to go in there and play physical ball f Football week after week after week and can take a toll on and just beat you up to the end of the season now the SEC flipped on him Reed it's not that they're playing in the Cakewalk SEC East and I said it Cakewalk SEC East if you're an SEC guy you know the best rest in the west typically when you play in the East you can walk through and you got that one game where you play if Tennessee pushes their head up a tough Tennessee team or a Florida other than that you're rolling through there so not only is that middle party schedule tough as heck physical and really good teams and the best teams at the end backtack weeks you have no weekends off and you got to get ready for playoff football they make the playoffs but I don't know if they go to the SEC Championship talk cut it out cut it out I think it's important right your real name is Gerald Dixon they call you smoke and they call you smoke because everybody says that you were amazingly fast when you used to play at Alabama when you played in the league but sometimes I wonder do they call you smoke because you actually smoke right now I want the fans and the producers to zoom in on the helmet that's over your right shoulder we know where your loyalty lies you a Alabama guy through and through and you got upset with Coach Sabin this week because he didn't pick Bal to be in the SEC Championship Game Georgia has dominated the SEC the last couple of years I think they were undefeated up until they lost to balama in a really good game towards the end of the season but for you to say that they're not going to be dominant in the SEC I don't understand it besides scheduling smoke what else would make you believe that well call off field incidents you've had 25 off field incidents from the from the incident that the fatal crash that killed one of their teammates and one of the staffers and on top of that you have mondy Bo and Travis ATN the guy just came over had a DUI reckless driving charges this is recent this last few months you and I both know and I'm go and I'm G touch on you real quick you've been a head coach and you understanding the importance of focusing on the task at hand and that's winning the hardest thing to do is win is beat yourself and then go ahead and play against a team that wants to beat you you can't win to games in one week and playing against yourself you aren't focusing on the task in hand you're not planning game planning properly you're planning policies of keeping your young guys in so my question to you car Reed when you were the head coach and you had really really good teams and you had off the- field incidents that you had to sit your team down week to week to week to talk to them about the same exact thing how much of that took away from your focus on winning the game at hand that means beating the other team not beating yourself when you have an incident where a player gets in trouble especially when they get in big trouble a lot of people say Well it La it makes the team it hurts the team in terms of preparation that's actually not true when you have an incident where a player gets in trouble there's two people that can't lose focus that's the head football coach and the player who's actually affected by the incident because those are the two people who workload becomes bigger you have to meet with Administration you might have to meet with police you have to also deal with the public scrutiny that comes from fans that comes from other faculty members that comes from locals who feel like maybe the kid should be suspended maybe you don't have control over your players the way that you think but if you have an iron mind and a strong will and you can stay connected to what's really important the team itself is not affected by it the team it becomes a safe haven for you to release some of the stress that you're dealing with when you're at practice when you're in the FM room so in terms of it affecting the team I've never really bought into that but you do have to make sure the player that is affected in the incident and the head coach smoke keeps their mind clear well call I'm glad you said player because it hasn't been player it's been players been 25 incidents so this a reoccurring in thing that happens at the University of Georgia now you're playing the best of the best you're not like I said you're not playing that cupcake East anymore you're playing the best of the best in the SEC you got Texas Old Miss B in that that one stretch and you're telling me Kirby just said it I I have spoken to the team 162 times about what's going on that has nothing to do with us playing within those white lines some of your focus is gone away I've been on really good teams Carl the 2000 team of at B we're supposed to go back and win the SEC Championship we didn't because we had off the field incident incidents that took us away from the focus and the pled hand of playing football and winning the game between the lines see Reed I'm G tat on the next thing and it's my third and last thing I'm gonna say about why I don't believe they're going to walk through the SEC and dominate like everybody thinks the loss of production on offense when you talk about the production on offense you lost your leading rusher you lost lad mcconley you lose Brock Bowers you lose MIM and I'm not going to touch on the center I know you want me to touch on the center but the center's gone that Center was a I hear you laughing was a main C of that offense in terms of set and protection Run game toughness leadership he was a Bell cow of that group when you wanted the ball being thrown and completed and a play you gave the ball to either lad Conley or you got the ball to Brock Bowers when those guys are gone with a bunch of other things going on you have to replace them I don't think I don't see those replacement coming right right now Carl they're struggling on offense but now let's go to defense and let's talk about what they're missing on defense Carl they're missing the middle of that defense they lost both of their safeties and their nickel Lasser now when you're running Kirby's defense the secondary makes a majority of the calls and when they make the call they set it if that defense is ran from the back end to the front when you are losing that much production and you have this this many things going on within your organization and you're spending so much time away from football at some point you're going to tell me yeah we can get locked in and play and the game is going to be the game and the head coach has to focus right now the head coach has been talking 162 times having team meetings having policies instead of having policies you should be having a game plan to develop your players when you aren't developing your players and you're developing ways for them to get out of jail or stay in school or not get in trouble or DUIs and you worried about Uber Carl I've said everything other than preparing for Kaylin dbor Steve sarkeesian Lane kein you didn't hear none of that come out of my mouth yet I'm just saying just be on hand and you can run it back I know you're gonna run it back run it back well you you you don't have to say anything about preparing for Kaylin dbor lay kein and those guys because Kirby Smart is proven time and time again that he's mastered what's going on on the field in addition to his two national titles that he's won as the head coach at Georgia he was a part of four national championship teams as the defensive coordinator at your beloved University of Alabama how dare you come on here and say that Georgia doesn't have a team or they lost you just argued down with me on our LA on one of our earlier shows that the center didn't matter and that the center was the worst position in football and now you telling me that they're struggling from a production standpoint because they lost their Center Georgia doesn't have to replace guys they just reload they have gotten four and five stars to bear on their team they have Carson Beck who may be the number one quarterback taken in the draft next year they have Dominic love it at wide receiver who at one point was a leading receiver in the SEC coming from the University of Missouri I don't understand where the hate is coming from well yes I do but in the words of Robin Harris on babay's kids smoke Georgia looks at recruiting in their roster saying this we don't die we multiply there's no shortage of talent in Athens Georgia for the bulldog [Music]