Georgia football fans want the players who don the Red and Black to show the utmost respect to their opponents, and they should because that is the Dawg way.
They don’t provide rat poison to other teams because that isn’t how the Dawgs do things.
On Tuesday, a video of Kearis Jackson surfaced on Twitter of him talking to The Jboy Show about the Dawgs road game mentality.
Jackson articulated one of the most exciting statements a Dawg fan could want to hear come out of a player’s mouth.
He spoke about going on the road and turning those environments into home games.
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Jackson couldn’t have put together a better quote than what he told Jboy.
“Our main goal is to go in there and turn it into a home game,” Jackson said on the Jboy Show. “Empty the stadium out, run up the score, and win — put up more points than the home team. That’s the main important goal each and every week, especially going on the road.”
Now, some of the comments Jackson made in that interview with Jboy were taken out of context, causing some uproar on Twitter, but that shouldn’t be the message here.
The message should be that the Dawgs are evolving their mindset into what we see great teams have. Jackson let the world know that Georgia has crossed the line of being good ole boys into the elite dominant side of college football.
Dawg fans should be excited that this team wants to have a killer instinct, to go into games with the mindset of making it our game and giving themselves an advantage.
Alabama, Ohio State, and before Georgia allegedly broke Clemson, that is how they went into games. They knew they were better, and it showed on the field, regardless of where they played — home, away or on a neutral field.
Georgia should demand to have this mindset for away games, especially heading into an atmosphere as Jordan-Hare has. The Dawgs must go in there and believe they can make it a home-field advantage for themselves. As soon as they take the crowd out of it, then they can.
Jackson didn’t give the Tigers any bulletin board material with his comments. Instead, he explained how the team’s mindset has evolved into this dominant force.
Two weeks in a row, the Dawgs shut out SEC opponents, and if they can channel that energy on Saturday, it could be three weeks straight.
Having killer instinct doesn’t mean talking down about opponents or being overly confident. That instinct is about believing in yourself as a whole unit and knowing that no matter who the opponent is, you’ll want it more than them.
That mentality is okay to have, not just okay, but encouraged because that is what makes great teams and good teams different.
This mentality Jackson talked about in that interview is how they’re achieving it. Georgia has the potential to be one of the greatest football teams out there, and they’ve shown it five weeks in a row. The Dawgs know that having this mindset elevates them to a level this team hasn’t seen in far too long.