Yellow Jackets can’t get to Murray
Georgia’s decision to keep seven men in to protect redshirt freshman quarterback Aaron Murray frustrated Georgia Tech’s blitz in the 42-34 loss to the Bulldogs on Saturday.
The decision gave wide receivers A.J. Green and Kris Durham, and tight ends Orson Charles and Bruce Figgins plenty of time to find holes in the Yellow Jackets’ coverage.
In a video-game like performance, Murray completed 15 of his 19 attempts for 271 yards and three touchdowns. He was sacked once by Jeremiah Attaochu.
Tech defensive coordinator Al Groh said Murray was the Bulldogs’ most impressive player on Saturday.
“I thought the quarterback made the difference in the game today,” he said.
The Yellow Jackets surrendered four passing plays of at least 20 yards in the first half.
Tech said before the game that Green was going to get his receptions, and he did. Green caught eight passes for 97 yards, but many of his catches were flanker screens. He did catch three consecutive passes on Georgia’s touchdown drive that gave the Bulldogs a 28-21 lead in the third quarter. Johnson credited Green after the game, saying he made several great catches.
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Dawg Fan
November 29th, 2010
4:12 pm
Love all the excuses for yet again another loss to the Dawgs! Especially the our academics are requirements are higher…please reference Nesbitt’s SAT and course curriculm with this statement.
Dawg Fan's prison guard
November 29th, 2010
4:37 pm
Time’s up.
Please return to your cell.
Flyin' Dawg
November 29th, 2010
5:29 pm
Hey “Ealy cannot jump”. Please correct me if I am wrong, but that play where Ealy got stuffed was on third down. Didn’t he waltz right in for a TD on the next play?
What is holding tech back
November 29th, 2010
5:41 pm
Paul Johnson is a darn good x’s and o’s coach. His offense will continue to give teams fits as long as he is there, regardless of the talent level. However, the offense is not going to get any better than it’s present level. What will determine tech’s future is whether CPJ can bring in a d-coordinator that can both coach and recruit his ass off. If tech can keep other teams under 20 points a game they will be a legit top 15 team, IMO.
GT is a 4th rate high school team
November 29th, 2010
6:49 pm
I TOLD YOU SO.
Coffee Bluff DAWG
November 29th, 2010
9:16 pm
The game was closer than I thought it would be. Not sure how GT only won 6 this yr with a tough running game. Adjustments Johnson made after 1st 2 series found big gaps in the UGA D and then went with the power sweep after we closed the middle.
Looked like UGA & GT had the same problem this yr losing close games and not enough 3 & outs by the D.
bhamwreck
November 30th, 2010
6:46 am
Paul Johnson showed that his system works – a few breaks and Tech should have won the game with far less talented players. If anybody thinks that recruiting to GT is easy with the academic requirements etc. they are kidding themselves. What we need is a centerpiece receiver who realizes that he can showcase his talents and make it to the NFL just like D. Thomas did with this system. I predict 2011 for GT to challenge again for the conference title. Go Jackets!
65dawg
November 30th, 2010
9:16 am
Hey Jabster. Your comment about unequal curricula doesn’t hold water. I noticed last year at Historic Grant Field when your starters were introduced that at least 15 othe 22 were Liberal Arts majors! Now that’s what I call Engineering!
Big Dawg
November 30th, 2010
1:36 pm
To GTYJ. That is the problem with you GT fans. You do not pay attention
to what is being said. The announcers said that the foot appeared to be out of bounds.Any time a play is that close you very seldom get the replay officals to over turn it. Just teach your guy’s to hold on to the ball.fumbles are a part of the game. Give it up; UGA rules your guy’s.
Ramblin Man
November 30th, 2010
1:37 pm
Most GT fans knew going in that GT would loss and were just happy to see the team step up and play a good game. Yes once again fumbles killed us but the team never gave up. We are upset that GT had a real chance to win but fumbled it away and that can be a tough pill to swallow. I do find it funny though that so many UGA fans are beating thier chests when they ended up with the same record and will also appear in a lower tier bowl for the second year in a row.
Reality Grip,
You need to check some facts when it comes to football recruiting when it comes to UGA. You said something to the effect that it is 95% harder to get into UGA than other D1 schools. UGA has a 96% special admit rate for football and GT had a 9% special admit rate. Translation: 96% of your football team did not meet the minimum standards and yet since they play football let them in. If I was a regular student and got turned down for admission because some mental midget could run a ball I would be pissed, but some UGA fans say yeah since they were never going to attend college anyway.
gt84fan
November 30th, 2010
3:56 pm
Hey 9-1, you did lose to team that lost to Kansas, Colorado lost to Kansas.
aladawg
November 30th, 2010
10:00 pm
Oh my, oh my, Tech fans you can run your mouths about UGA being no good but they were good enough to beat your sorry asses. You all have a lot of crow to eat and I hope whoever you play in the Weed Eater Bowl kicks your sorry asses. 42–34 aint it sweet to be a Georgia Bull Dawg.
aladawg
November 30th, 2010
10:03 pm
BUZZ, suck off, if I was about to sign a multi million dollar contract I would sure as hell protect myself and run out of bounds. You may go to Tech but you sure are a dumb f—.
Jeremy
November 30th, 2010
10:30 pm
I just have 1 thing to say to all the Tech fans who use the academics excuse for their recruiting and lack of top tier talent…Stanford is #4 in the nation right now. If you expect anyone to believe that Tech’s academic standards are any tougher than Stanford’s, then you should most definitely think again. The tougher academics excuse just simply doesn’t fly. There are plenty of very intelligent AND very talented football players. The problem is that they want to go play in a system that will get them ready for the NFL and drafted high and GA Tech is not that system. For anyone who points to Thomas being a 1st-rounder to Denver…so was Tim Tebow and with that move, Josh McDaniels proved how much an incompetent fool he is at drafting players.
The Truth
December 1st, 2010
3:43 pm
UGA won, GT lost. This is what matters, not academics and admission rates/requirements. This is about FOOTBALL, this is not about academics, who has the better coach, who recruits better, etc etc. It’s about who won the game. The Dawgs won baby! I keep hearing this bull about GT being the better team but they made mistakes, BS… the Dawgs had very costly fumbles too. GT did not make the Dawgs pay for fumbling, the Dawgs made GT pay for turning it over. The Bulldogs got the job done, GT didn’t.
CC
December 2nd, 2010
9:59 am
9 out of 10; 16 out of 20. That’s all the math I need t know.
WHITE and GOLD
December 2nd, 2010
2:39 pm
Good for you CC… Now I’ll have a coke with that.