during the national championship win over TCU.<\/a>\u00a0But Smart said later it was from earlier in the season, without identifying which game.<\/p>\n\u201cSomebody asked which game, and I honestly don\u2019t even remember because they all sound like that,\u201d Smart said on a podcast with TNT\u2019s Ernie Johnson and Charles Barkley. \u201cThe players were all laughing when it came out. A bunch of my guys texted me and said, \u2018They ain\u2019t even heard the best one.’\u201d<\/p>\n
But in this case, Smart was less good-humored. For one thing, Georgia has a decent chance to see Alabama again, whether in the SEC championship or the College Football Playoff. For another, Smart worked at Alabama from 2007-15 and has spoken of his respect for the school and football program.<\/p>\n
In Smart\u2019s pregame speech, he homed in on Alabama\u2019s emphasis on physicality this season, an improvement over last season, when it lost 28-7 to Georgia in the SEC championship:<\/p>\n
\u201cAll they talk about is being physical. That\u2019s all the f\u2014 they want to talk about. You know what, guys? It\u2019s a him-or-me night.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the postgame audio, Smart praises his coaches and players for big plays. Then he turned to freshman receiver Craig Dandridge, who did not respond when Alabama\u2019s Dijon Lee hit him, leading to a penalty that clinched the game for Georgia.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe (Lee) swung at Craig twice; Craig smiled at him. We needed a first down, guys, to win the game, and we didn\u2019t need to do s\u2014 to win it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Smart also praised his team for winning in Tuscaloosa \u201cfor the first time in 100 years\u201d \u2014 it had actually been 19 years \u2014 and his first win at Bryant-Denny Stadium as Georgia\u2019s coach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATHENS, Ga. \u2014 Another leaked Kirby Smart speech to his Georgia football team has gone viral. This time,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":880463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[1603,1607,399,6341,398,396,397,99],"class_list":["post-880462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-alabama-crimson-tide","tag-college-football","tag-football","tag-georgia-bulldogs","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=880462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/880463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}