How would you rate the Bulldogs’ performance?
Time for the report card on the Bulldogs’ effort Saturday against the Razorbacks in Fayetteville, Ark. Rate the following four categories: offense, defense, special teams and coaching.
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azdawg
September 20th, 2009
8:37 am
Have to agree w/Wow’s post. I can’t see how some of these def players were ranked so high coming out of HS, esp the CB’s. Does Martinez’s coaching make them look bad? I’m at a loss. The only way to find out is change players or change coaches. Fabris is a joke. Two KO’s out of bounds and a pooch kick near the end of the game! WM defenses have not improved over the years. Samual should try duct taping the ball to his hands. Yes, they won and for that we’re all very greatful thanks to Joe and his receivers and Samuals run which he didn’t fumble, thank God. But the penalties, TO’s, poor def play, and coaching continually has this team taking one step forward and two steps back.
Don
September 20th, 2009
9:12 am
Anyone know what Tommy Tuberville is doing right now? How much is UT paying it’s assistants right now? almost $4M? Coach…any reasonable person knows you have to wait until the end of the season to complete a fair evaluation, but the body’s dead…time to bury it. How long must the wake/wait be? Do WM a favor, find him a job at Little Sisters of the Poor Junior College and let him go. If you’re buddy Tommy won’t come, get van Gorder back. He’s not That far down the road and would probably welcome the chance to return.
Best to do it before Dr. Adams leaves for the NCAA or his puppet DE gets in the middle of the fray. We all know what mess THEY can create and the University does NOT need that.
Suches Dawg
September 20th, 2009
9:20 am
I am happy to eat much crow about Joe Cox , as he has certainly shined after a game or two under his belt. Great job son in proving us doubters wrong. How CMR could ever justify keeping WM and the even worse Fabris after this season will bear watching. We play a soft zone w/ 4 & 5 star recruits who let receivers get behind them on almost every play. And the continued lack of discipline resulting in excessive penalties is a direct reflection of our suspect coaching staff. This team has heart and fight- which we shloud all admire. Unfortunately , this gets you W’s over average teams and nothing more. Nothing short of a complete turnaround by our pathetic D will keep us from 8-4 or worse.
Sad Dawg
September 20th, 2009
9:36 am
Who is Mickey C?? Is he retarded?? Your “Demands” are stupid! Do you really think that you are writing a letter to Dr. Adams or DE??
Mark is playing a lot of young freshmen, red shirt freshmen, and sophomores on both sides of the ball. They made mistakes, but found a way to win! A barn burner for sure last night! I hope these young guys continue to improve each week as they have the last three and stay hungry. I am very impressed that these guys never quit. Just cut out the penalties and turnovers and we are on our way!
Bo Williams
September 20th, 2009
9:42 am
Why does unc an uconn, for example, have such a superior defense, and our’ is so inept? your comments here
Topp Dogg
September 20th, 2009
9:43 am
CWM could not coach highscchool ball.What happened to all you COX HATERS.I guess you have become COX LICKERS overnight.
Midland Dog
September 20th, 2009
9:44 am
PLEASE can we just get a committee to find another defense coach, even from a high school, if needed, to get our defense back to being respected? EVERY quarterback we play looks like a heisman candidate and puts up record numbers and it makes me sick.
Thanks for saving us Joe Cox , Rennie Curran and A. J. Green.
KT
September 20th, 2009
9:52 am
If SC and Ark put that many point on GA, just imagine how many florida will lay on Martinez.
GA fans, just be glad you don’t play Alabama this year.
Going to get our coached by Tennessee in a few weeks as well.
Sorry, gonna be a long year. 4 or 5 loses.
Scott
September 20th, 2009
10:02 am
Alabama followed by Florida and everyone else in the SEC with Georgia being in the bottom half. THATS REALITY!!
WoodstockDawg
September 20th, 2009
10:11 am
Turnovers are killers but we somehow survived. If we keep turning the ball over, we will lose against good teams. Fortunately, Arkansas’ defense is as bad as ours and we won another shootout. Joe Cox, A.J. and Moore stepped up big! The offense saved the day.
RH in Dunwoody
September 20th, 2009
10:12 am
Great job Joe Cox! He is not the problem, he had a bad game in Stillwater but he will be fine.
Sad Dawg – I disagree with you and think Mickey C. is right on – Willie has got to go! Our defense is; awful, pitiful, a non-factor, an embarrassment, a joke, an unsolvable riddle, sad, anemic.. fire Willie ASAP. I agree that we are playing a lot of young guys, but we are making average QB’s on bad teams look GREAT! You can’t tell me that a “real” DC wouldn’t put together a better scheme than Willie.
Also, can somebody please explain to me why we continue to kick the ball out of bounds on kick offs when we have proven that we can kick it deep? It’s that old definition of insanity – doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. I don’t get it.
Mickey C.
September 20th, 2009
10:19 am
Sad Dawg,
You ask who I am (Mickey C.), well I am a person who looks at facts and results. ‘Sad Dawg’ you are a blind fool if you think Georgia’s bad play on defense is not due to Willie Martinez. Just look at the facts, last season Georgia was the preseason #1 and they lost every big game (badly I might add), because of penalties and bad defense.
Georgia has highly ranked recruits on defense and with better coaching they could be a force. Other programs do much more with a lot less. Just look at schools like BYU, Utah, Boise State, etc. who do not have the high recruits like Georgia. Just look last year under Martinez, Georgia gave up 40+ to Alabama, Florida and Georgia Tech. Additionally, the Willie Martinez defense gave up 35+ points four times last year and already 35+ points in 2 of the first 3 games this year.
So don’t tell me about their youth on defense. I just see the facts that they are not getting the job done on defense and with the players they already have they could do much better – if they had a better defensive coordinator.
So ‘Sad Dawg’ the next time you come at me with your girly-emotional tantrums, have your facts straight. And just read the other posts to see that most agree that Willie Martinez needs to go.
Redcoat Dawg
September 20th, 2009
10:19 am
CMR should demand that if coach Fabiscation orders any place kicker to kick it short and to the corner on kick offs, he will sit that fabrication of a coach and take over the special teams himself. I wanted to reach through that TV and tackle Fabris myself last night.
KICK IT TO THE END ZONE>>>>PLEEEEEEEEEEZE!
McDonger
September 20th, 2009
10:19 am
I hate to say this, but with our lackluster defense we will lose to LSU, Tennessee, Florida and Georgia Tech. We may luck up and win one of those games, but we’ll only even it out by losing to Auburn or Kentucky. This team, with this defense, will lose a minimum of four games this year, and that is probably an optimistic assessment. I love what CMR has done for our program. His win/loss record really speaks for itself. Think how much better it would be were it not for the shameful decline our defense has had over the past five years. We have gotten worse every year, and this year we have gotten worse every game. 24, 37, 41… at this pace LSU is going to hang 50+ on us and we’re going to look very bad in the process. I honestly fail to understand how Martinez still has a job. I’m not necessarily advocating that he be fired mid-season, but what can be done to change the end result we’re getting from his defense?
DawgGrad94
September 20th, 2009
10:23 am
Doing the research now… but I believe that the defense has given up more points to our opponents now in the three years since WM has been our DC than in the previous 10 years of Georgia Football. If we would simply play man defense, mix up our schemes and blitz every 3-4 downs, we might not be so predictable and allow these mediocre quarterbacks to have stellar games against us. Come on CMR! We understand loyalty and appreciate it – but there comes a time when the offense won’t be able to keep up with the lack of defense. The “bend don’t break” defense doesn’t have a place in the SEC and neither does Coach Martinez, unless we are content with 2nd place in the East every year.
WildBill
September 20th, 2009
10:31 am
I gave up after the 3rd qtr, and went to the radio. So many penalties. So many hogs receivers running free. I am happy however, that Tavarres King got to play. The first 2 passes to him were thrown out of bounds giving him no chance, but sooner or later a good pass was thrown and he did his thing. The defenders basically gave up as they could not catch him. Why has he been overlooked so long!!!???????
Same complaints. Why, why, why can’t offensive linemen remember the danm snap count. They look like absolute dunderheads moving early.
And, on a punt, how is it possible to have an illegal formation? If it is possible to draw a penalty, our guys will find it.
One last note, does anyone know what the Hog did to get kicked out? Did he throw a punch?
Btw, the hog coach Petrino is a complete !@#$%^&, well, its Sunday, but you can fill in the blank.
CMR, you are late, and you may be next in line after CWM. CMR, you look like you’d rather be someplace else than on the dawg sidelines. Why don’t you take your loot and take a long vacation.
Dawgs, you showed a lot of heart, energy, and put out a lot of effort. Rub against the coaches and see if some of it rubs off on them.
Redcoat Dawg
September 20th, 2009
10:38 am
CMR should look at recent Dawg history understand that the demise of Jim Donnan was his inability to find a suitable DC. (among other things).
It is my hope that CMR is currently at least thinking about searching the country for a good defensive coordinator to replace CWM at the end of this season.
This team reminds me of the Cardiac Dawgs of the ‘78 season……..but they had a HOF DC in the name of the greatest ever…Erk Russell. May he RIP
Come to think of it, maybe CWM should head butt his players…might knock some sense into him.
Todd - Dacula
September 20th, 2009
10:40 am
Support your team and coaches during the season. During the off season, air your complaints. The Dawgs played well enough too win yesterday; be happy with that. Imagine how you would feel if it was a lost instead of a win.
Dawg
September 20th, 2009
10:52 am
First, what a great game for the offense!! So happy for Joe Cox, Richard Samuel, Orson Charles, etc.
I agree that Martinez and Fabris need to go. It’s time to say goodbye because clearly no coaching is going on. NO readjustments are made by WM.
I didn’t know much about Mallett before the game, but I know now from watching him that he is a huge whiner, just like his coach!!! What a freakin baby.
Nick
September 20th, 2009
10:53 am
You can’t intercept a pass if you’re twenty yards away from the ball.
Irishmafia
September 20th, 2009
10:55 am
They played Arkansas for god’s sake and gave up 40+ points. in a nutshell they suck
HT
September 20th, 2009
11:03 am
Georgia has given up OVER 100 POINTS IN THREE GAMES TO AVERAGE TEAMS! WAIT UNTIL WE PLAY A QUALITY TEAM. WE CANNOT OUTSCORE GOOD OR GREAT TEAMS. IT IS TIME FOR RICHT TO GO.
Ht
September 20th, 2009
11:05 am
Georgia has given up OVER 100 POINTS IN JUST 3 GAMES. WE HAVE NOT PLAYED ANYBODY GOOD. IT MAY BE TIME FOR RICHT TO GO!
Slop Jar Jones
September 20th, 2009
11:15 am
How many noticed that the broadcasters were calling Arkansas offensive plays better than Georgia’s defense were? When ARK went for two, did you see how many of their receivers were wide open? GA was sold out to the run completely. I never even played HS football and saw that one. YIKES!!!
SJJ
shards1967
September 20th, 2009
11:22 am
This win is very important, as the Music City and the Weedeater make their selections to match UGA with a Minnesota or Iowa. We are in the lower levels now in the SEC. Our D is non existant and we look like one of those Big Sky Conference teams that win 54-49 games and end up in the Emerald Bowl in San Fran.
We will have yet another wild one with Arizona State ( 44-32 ) and then, we lose to NEW STAFF at UT and to LSU. We will look very bad vs both SE C schools and the UGA Offense will score on average with these two SEC legit teams about 20 points. We will fumble and toss pics and that #14 with UT will badly hurt UGA when he returns a couple, I am afraid.
CMR …………….make the Head D Coach change now. Find a DE coach that has the correct D vision in his mind, then allow him to recruit those players. Name one successful UGA D player that CWM has recruited. Name one?? Not. This can not continue and I am now convinced that the EXECS of the UGA Athletics Dept or Adm. will MAKE Richt fire Wille Martinez now. Why continue with him any longer/ This has become UGA D and it stinks.
7-5 to 6-6 year gang.
UGA class of 73
258Dawg
September 20th, 2009
11:27 am
Shards
David Pollack was pretty good wasn’t he?
it’s not the players; it’s willie. just imagine will muschamp(a former player) at D coordinator. We have the players we just need the swarm back.
On cox, good game but I believe any of our QB’s could throw at WR’s 5 yards behind the DB’s or just force it to Green. After all it’s Arkansas Defense….. Make since?
Pickeled Herring
September 20th, 2009
11:36 am
hey slop jar, whine all you want about the dawg’s D, but ARK’s D wasn’t exactly an iron curtain.
raymond
September 20th, 2009
11:47 am
Same ole mess! showed great heart in coming back, Cox was great, but the defense sucked, AGAIN! Willie Martinez should have been gone long ago and so should Fabris because the Dawgs havent had a pass rusher since Quinton Moses and Charles Johnson left. We will never reach our goals until Richt makes some coaching corrections. I don’t know how good S.C. and Ark’s offenses really are but I do know UF has a good one. We could be in for a long season with this defense, we won’t out score everyone.
258Dawg
September 20th, 2009
11:50 am
Pickle,
I could care less about “Arkansas” Defense.
What I care about is seeing on about 5 times Willie throw up his hands on the sidelines when our players didn’t do what they were supposed to; perhaps you saw the same thing.
What do you think these kids are thinking when they see their Head D coach throwing up his hands in disgust. it isn’t positive and it isn’t a form of coaching. it makes you feel lost and unsure going forward; much less that your coach is giving up on you.
Pull them a side and coach them up positively, support them and show some confidence yourself.
As a manager CMR, I know your seeing this. now ask yourself what your boss would say at evaluation time??
Slop Jar Jones
September 20th, 2009
12:03 pm
Was Rennie Curran playing last night? He IS the #1 STUD on D and I heard his name called maybe twice the whole game. Not picking on him, but I am complaining about why he wasn’t put into position to be the monster he is.
SJJ
Joe Friday
September 20th, 2009
1:05 pm
Enter your comments here
There are 2 cold facts(Just the facts , mamm; as Joe Friday was famous for saying) regarding the G-dogs.One is 78 points allowed from non-ranked opponents.Two is no offensive production against a ranked opponent. High profile SEC teams will take note of these facts and set up a game plan on these issues.
jason
September 20th, 2009
1:27 pm
There is no way UGA can keep winning, playing like this. Don’t get me wrong, the game itself was very entertaining as was USCe last week. ARK will be a threat to other SAEC teams all season. Mallet is true. As foir UGA, the combination of the TOs on the short field with our veru suspect pass defense…. We can’t keep playing like this. It will catch up to us sooner rather later. Is it me or are the Frosh playing better than the veterans in the early going? I am guessing that this will be how UGA’s games play out this season.
squat
September 20th, 2009
1:48 pm
our d may be the worst pass d in the country..free willie or free richt if he can’t man up and get rid of the worst coach in the world….
EricADawgFan
September 20th, 2009
2:13 pm
I am a DAWG fan. But I am also a Realist…. The fact that the DAWGS got by this Arkansas Razorback Team doesn’t surprise me. They both (The DAWGS & Razorbacks) look very terrible on defense. I will give the offense on both teams some KUDOS. How do you really measure up the offense when they are playing against a defense that really sucks? (BOTH TEAMS)
Honestly, I am not convinced that the DAWGS are man enough to play up to the Teams like LSU, Tennessee, and Florida this year. Sports Writers have Georgia 8-4 at best. Maybe 7-5 this year. If this is true ( in which I see that it maybe headed that way) then it is very sad…. That would be very unfortunate for a standard of Coach Mark Ricth, and for the Real Georgia Fans.
Someone commented last year that Defensive Coordinator, and Secondary Coach Martinez should have been fired last year, and Coach Ricth disagreed. But Coach Ricth need to re-visit his thoughts, and take another look at him. This is by far the worse defense I have ever seen that DAWGS display.
They weren’t only bad yesterday against Arkansas, but they were terrible against South Carolina, and South Carolina statistically out played Georgia.
If Georgia expects to have a successful season this year, they had better cut down on the penalties, ( False Starts, Personal Fouls, Pass interference, Holding etc.) and the Defense had better step up their game. If not, the Dawgs could kiss this 2009 season goodbye. They will be lucky to go to the Blue Bonnet Bowl (If they still have that Bowl).
ranker
September 20th, 2009
3:06 pm
when cox beats a ranked team with magnificent play i’ll come around then till then it ain’t nothing special…..
jason
September 20th, 2009
3:17 pm
I find it hard to believe that the majority of the personal foul penalties on Vetreans. This fact is sad, because it shows we have no leadership, still. Michael Moore had a good game last night, but CMR should have put his ass on the bench after the PF he picked up. To all the die hard DAWGS in here that have alot of confidence in CMR, and this team… How do see UGA fairing against the likes of UF, LSU, UT, and even Tech? With the constant shooting of ourselves in the foot. Time and again. I am not being sarcastic, or anything. I want to know how we can expect to compete with discplined teams, if we don’t get alot of this senselessness (Penalties, TO, No QB pressure, Lack of pass defense, lack of forced TOs)dealt with and straightened out. It would be one thing if we only had on e problem, but as you can see, we have alot of problems; in all 3 facets of the team.
robert
September 20th, 2009
3:17 pm
Take away the first two turnovers, like last week, and that changes things for the defense. Somewhat.
jason
September 20th, 2009
3:29 pm
robert, while I agree, the Defense needs to force a stop every once in a while.
The #1 problem with the defense is that the players are not discplined in their play. They are constantly caught out of position.
On another note, Reshad Jones was bringing the lumber SAT night. I was surprised he was not called for a PF. He is good for one a game, whether he deserves it or not.
UGA Student on Easy Street
September 20th, 2009
3:57 pm
After every game, after all the players are on the buses and the coaches are taking their seats, Willie Martinez walks by Richt and SCENE:
Willie: [chuckling and looking for a high five] “Man, a win is a win…right?”
Mark: [reluctantly giving him a high five] “Yeah, I guess so. Don’t worry Willie, I’m not going to fire you yet. If I fired you, I would look mean and unethical.”
Willie: [relieved] “Thank you so much. I promise next week we will deliver on defense.”
Mark: [shaking his head and laughing] “No you won’t. You are a really bad coach.”
MountainDawg
September 20th, 2009
4:19 pm
Dawgs showed solid offensive firepower & heart on offense. Cox proved he can get the job done, but CWM & the D had best get that pass D squared away or LSU, UT, UF are gonna wear UGA slap out!
Leroy of Newnan
September 20th, 2009
5:01 pm
I guess ole Booger Red showed all of you naysayers, didn’t he? I have always believed in Joe Cox. Great player with great character!
buzzDawg
September 20th, 2009
7:38 pm
Joe Cox has shown why the players and coaches had faith in him. The receivers are getting better every week. The defense is tough against the run. Samuel and King should be a good duo at running back. Now if we can only come up with a defense to stop the pass. I agree we need to free Willie (it sounds better than fire Willie). Don’t know if we could get Will Muschamp, he’s supposed to be the heir apparent at Texas but it doesn’t hurt to ask if he wants to come home to Georgia
DAWWGY
September 20th, 2009
7:49 pm
PIG SOOIE!!!!!!!!!!!! GOTTA LOVE BEATING BOBBY PETRINO. ARKANSAS WILL NEVER BE A BIG TIME FOOTBALL PROGRAM. FACE IT. GOOD LUCK ON GOING 6-6. MAYBE BOBBY WILL LEAVE FOR VIRGINIA 6 GAMES INTO THE SEASON. I HEARD HE WAS SEEN BOARDING A PLANE HEADING TOWARDS CHARLOTTESVILLE. GO DAWGS!!!!
The Lone Trumpeter
September 20th, 2009
8:12 pm
This team has heart by the boatloads. Never say die, never surrender, never give up!!!!! WOW!!!!! If this teams heart stays strong and they begin to believe this could be a magical season (if we call a few more blitzes).
gadawg
September 20th, 2009
8:34 pm
to all those saying cox is great, when cox beats a ranked team with magnificent play i’ll come around then till then it ain’t nothing special…..
joseph
September 20th, 2009
8:37 pm
Enter your comments here i really like coach mr, but but the biggest problem with uga is poor coaching top to bottom, and if mr does’t see that then someone really needs to set him down and tell him.
Bulldog Mike
September 20th, 2009
9:21 pm
Hey Bulldog Nation, Our Defense need a lot of work Coach Martinezs needs some help!!!. We can’t playing this way and win. Mr Martineza please go and get some help, like take a page out of Rex Rayan play book,or another defense mind.!!!! Our Defense can get better!!!!! We play Fla in Three weeks We have time to fix it.!!!!!
Bulldog Mike.
kim evans
September 21st, 2009
1:00 am
With tereshinski and stafford, cox was Ordinary joe. Now I think we might want to change that to Extraordinary Joe.
dawg e dawg
September 21st, 2009
12:23 pm
I wonder if BVG would consider taking over the DAWGs when CMR let’s Willie pull him down?
timthebrave
September 21st, 2009
4:51 pm
Offense-A 52 points against an sec opponent. 5 TD passes. 2 turnovers kept it from being an A+
Defense-D- 41 points-played some d at the very end of the game and winning keeps it from being a F.
Special Teams-B-Punting was awesome (Butler’s punt maybe saved the game for us) but the fumbled punt brings you down
Coaching-C-Bobo was not scared to go after it. I don’t think we win this game if we play conservative. Martinez continues to have people that are out of position. Too many wide open recievers. I’m not mad at the bombs where someone is on there back and arkansas makes perfect throw but it makes me mad when there is nobody within 20 yards and when they do get there they miss a tackle
Excitement-A+++-This game had me on the edge of my seat