5 reasons the Georgia Bulldogs are better off than you think
Aaron Murray has been pretty darn good. (AP photo)
1. A.J. Green returns this week. Rule of thumb: Having your best player in the lineup tends to help.
2. The Bulldogs shouldn’t lose again until the day before Halloween, if then. The next four games: At Colorado, Tennessee in Athens, Vanderbilt in Athens, at Kentucky. The first three shouldn’t be much trouble, and surely Kentucky can’t beat Georgia two years running. (I mean, could it?) There should be much momentum-building done before UGA heads for Jacksonville, and who knows how good Florida is?
3. Aaron Murray looks legit. Even behind an offensive line that hasn’t blocked a lick, the redshirt freshman quarterback hasn’t been overwhelmed. He has five touchdown passes against two interceptions, and he has completed 61 percent of his passes. And now he gets to throw to A.J. Green.
4. The defense is better. That’s still not to say it’s good, but it’s better. Last season the Bulldogs yielded 78 points in victories over South Carolina and Arkansas. This year it yielded 48 against those two teams. Yeah, it lost both games this time, but whaddaya want?
5. This remains a very talented team. Even if it’s being undercoached on offense, talent cannot be kept down forever. Green will make plays that have gone unmade so far. Washaun Ealey won’t always fumble into the end zone. Orson Charles will do something. I’m not saying Georgia’s going to win the SEC East, and even my prediction of 9-3 seems a bit ambitious, but this team will not — repeat, not — finish 6-6. It’s too good for that.
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458 comments Add your comment
Gatormeat
October 2nd, 2010
11:12 pm
Poor dogs, at least you get to stay home with your families during the holidays. You sure ain’t playing in a bowl. KEEP MARK RICHT! KEEP MARK RICHT!
FLA DAWG
October 2nd, 2010
11:20 pm
Hey Mark,
Tell us again why UGA is better off than we think!
Stumpknocker
October 2nd, 2010
11:20 pm
Get rid of Richt and you’ll be sorry
No more drinking for you Mark
October 2nd, 2010
11:23 pm
Mark: Please lay off the sauce, it’s affecting your mental functions. Georgia 2 – 9 – the only other win is going to be Idaho State (dear God please please let us beat them). Mark – Georgia sucks!
Gt Alum
October 2nd, 2010
11:24 pm
Say What?
Gt Alum
October 2nd, 2010
11:25 pm
John
You mean more like 4-8 John? Please tell!
Still a DAWG
October 2nd, 2010
11:32 pm
Mark B: “this team will not — repeat, not — finish 6-6″
Oh how true… 6-6 seems like a dream at this point.
Artie
October 2nd, 2010
11:36 pm
UGA loses four, if not five, more times this year!!!
AD Stinky Fingers
October 2nd, 2010
11:37 pm
Looks like same old ball licking scumbag dogs to me
Artie
October 2nd, 2010
11:38 pm
Upcoming losses…UT, UK, UF, AU, and GT…write it in stone, folks.
Artie
October 2nd, 2010
11:39 pm
Look at the bright side…I’m giving you Vandy and Idaho State. LMAO
Broke Bottom
October 2nd, 2010
11:57 pm
Colorado has now beaten Georgia!!!!!! How bout dem dawgs????? GO BAMA!!!!!
cwm
October 3rd, 2010
12:07 am
offensive is what that offense is …..
cwm
October 3rd, 2010
12:08 am
BRING BACK DAMON ITS BEEN DOWN HILL SINCE HE LEFT
JT4Dawgs
October 3rd, 2010
12:08 am
1) AJ Green return- worked out fine. He’s got his ticket to the NFL. Agents all around.
2) Bulldogs “May not lose until Halloween”- should be revised to “May not win until Halloween!”
3) Aaron Murray is legit only when AJ Green is in the game.
4) This defense would be great if it were touch football.
5) Talent without smarts equals many a football player that doesn’t know their assignments, reads, and responsibilities. Talent equals a ME mentality versus a TEAM mentality. This team’s motto should be “You can spell team without ME”
It is time for a coaching change and to ask Dooley to come back as AD. Change recruiting mentality- get some guys who want to win vs punch a ticket to the NFL- ride them very hard- then we’ll win the SEC.
These guys are turning Georgia into a joke- more arrests than wins means you lose!
MAKE THE CHANGES!
THWGTJeff
October 3rd, 2010
12:16 am
Still think they won’t go 6-6 (or worse), Bark Madley????????
Ghost Of Woody Hayes
October 3rd, 2010
12:21 am
That Mr Richt, he too nice a man to be a coach. He don’t understand that every once in awhile you got to grab one of them players and give ‘em a shot right smack in the chops…..That’s all that keeps ‘em straight, you know…
Pope UGA XXIII
October 3rd, 2010
12:46 am
A I E E E E !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Colo-damn-rado ????? Lost to Toledo last year ?????
Allow me to quote from Brother Bluto :
…………….”My advice to you is to start drinking heavily !!”
I will say this after tonight. The coaches don’t carry the ball,
block or hang around in the defensive backfield. The 2010
Dawg team does not appear to have a lot of character, so it
might do the program good to go down with the worst W-L
record in modern history and they are well on their way to
doing just that. The only sure win is Tater Tot State, so a
2-10 record won’t be received very well. I won’t enjoy a loss
to Tennessee if it happens cause as we all know, “No Fruit
Sux like thw Big Orange !!”
Clitidus Stankinfanger
October 3rd, 2010
12:54 am
5 Reasons Why Georgia Is Worse Than What You Think:
5. Our defense can not stop anyone on key 3rd downs.
4. Mike Bobo is in love with running the ball up the middle, when the facts show it’s fruitless.
3. We don’t use the only true nose tackle we have (Kwame Geathers) and instead use a guy who is 25 lbs. too light to take up the center and the guard and can not get a push up the middle.
2. Richt is not coaching guys up on the sidelines after they make a mistake. He just sends them into isolation, which does nothing but destroy the kids confidence.
1. We have recruited too many thugs.
At the Switch
October 3rd, 2010
1:01 am
Bradley
Wow do you suck! You really don’t have a clue. And you do this for a living? The Dawgs are marginal at best and have been that way for ever. When were the Dawgs ever a “powerhouse” ever? Never!
At the Switch
October 3rd, 2010
1:02 am
I repeat…Marginal at best!
Ed
October 3rd, 2010
1:04 am
Gatormeat, you have to be a Tech fan in disguise. No way a Florida fan would go on another team’s site and talk trash after the 25-point beatdown Alabama just delivered to the Gators.
In fact, there appears to be too many “Gators” on this site. Isn’t that just like a Bug, trying to live vicariously through others.
Bob
October 3rd, 2010
1:50 am
So does the AJC have a drug testing policy because Im pretty sure mark is wasted with his defense of this team, richt is a nice guy, bobo is a nice guy but they do not adjust for crap, they run the same plays and then act surprised when they stop them. And have none of you paid attention to how every team is now running that short quick pass to the flat route that richt and company have not stopped since 2005? Im sorry but richt has over stayed his welcome, cut him loose then throw a boat load of money at harbaugh.
south eastern chumps and drunks
October 3rd, 2010
3:59 am
Mark, you have either drank the coolaid or you need to drink the cool aid, and another thing it seems like you have talked about “honoring Bobby Cox” for the past 6 months, win or lose, can Sunday be the end of it, I am beggig you, SICK OF IT
south eastern chumps and drunks
October 3rd, 2010
4:01 am
AT THIS POINT UGA, YOU JUST NEED TO NOT ONLY PLAY CHARLESTON SOUTHERN BUT YOU NEED TO JOIN THEIR BIG SOUTH CONFERENCE AND GET IT OVER WITH
GatorJacket
October 3rd, 2010
5:18 am
Yeah, right! Next up for the trembling chihauhaus is UT…..
Put a fork in them
October 3rd, 2010
5:55 am
Yep are better off we 1-4 and next is Vols who lost to LSU 14-10..on a wild endin game..ah what a site see vince dooley son whippin Georgia all over at staduim before a stun crowd of drunk fans!
Doug the Jacket
October 3rd, 2010
7:33 am
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Yellow Fuzz
October 3rd, 2010
8:10 am
Who’s your daddy, or better yet, which is your daddy?
South Carolina
Arkansas
Miss. State
Colorado
Shreveport
mike
October 3rd, 2010
8:26 am
so much for momentum…..
Dave Smith
October 3rd, 2010
9:01 am
Georgia will win 3-4 games this Season. So much for Georgia Bulldogs are better off than you’d think! Tennessee will take out their frustrations on Georgia this coming weekend,making their record 1-5.
Five More Reasons UGA sux
October 3rd, 2010
9:07 am
Mike Bobo, Stacy Searles, Bryan McClendon,Rodney Garner and Dave Van Halanger……… Fire these Clowns !!!!
Party school
October 3rd, 2010
9:15 am
In case anyone forgot
UGA recruiting ranking from rivals.com
2009 #6
2008 #7
2007 #9
2006 #4
STILL don’t think we have a serious coaching problem??????
Jmac
October 3rd, 2010
9:25 am
Mark you are such a homer….At least as a Tech fan we can face the music, we have a bad football team. Wake up! UGA is horrible! Colorado?? They are not even a competitive team? You will lose 3 maybe 4 more games. Deal with it
THE CURSE OF DAVID JUSTICE LIVES IN THE ATL
October 3rd, 2010
9:47 am
OUT OF 5 THINGS MARK THE MUTTS ARE 1-4 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
S.E.C COACH OF THE YEAR MARK RICHT AND MIKE BOBO!
THE CURSE OF DAVID JUSTICE LIVES IN THE ATL
October 3rd, 2010
9:50 am
JESUS TOLD MARK RICHT TO BE NICE!
Richt ties Goff with 0-3 SEC start
October 3rd, 2010
10:22 am
Mark,
Here are FIVE reasons the dawgs are the worst team in the SEC:
NO COACHING
NO COACHING
NO COACHING
NO COACHING
NO COACHING
Snake Doc
October 3rd, 2010
11:06 am
Bradley – Please resign – you sir are a bigger ditz then MR. What a maroon you are!
Jim S
October 3rd, 2010
11:40 am
Unless Richt can regenerate confidence in this team they will continue to go downhill. I know for a fact that Auburn is just waiting for them to come to town and licking their chops. This Auburn team is dangerous this year.
Ken
October 3rd, 2010
11:44 am
LULZ @ this blog. Georgia always has an inflated sense of itself. 1-4 now. Good luck making it to an early December bowl game.
1 Reason UGA is even worse off than you'd think
October 3rd, 2010
12:45 pm
The Bulldogs lost again before Halloween Eve
. . . . . . and are now 1-4 . . . . .
1 more Reason UGA is even worse off than you'd think
October 3rd, 2010
12:46 pm
Shreveport may become a pleasant memory after this UGA season.
SILLY UGA FANS
October 3rd, 2010
1:11 pm
Time to write another article
Mark's Rectum
October 3rd, 2010
1:57 pm
The loss to Colorado sure makes Mark Bradley look like the idiot he is! Why does the ajc waste its money paying these sports writers (and opinion writers too) when they are always wrong? I say fire em all.
Mark's Rectum
October 3rd, 2010
2:00 pm
Did someone mumble something about running this state? HE HE HA HA, LAST IN THE SEC!!!
Chili Dog
October 3rd, 2010
2:04 pm
Nice feel good article playing to the base, Mark.
You’ve surpassed your previous lows of how far you will go to suck up.
Ironwood
October 3rd, 2010
2:22 pm
Maybe we can win if we use 13 on defense. It almost worked for UT against LSU. But then again, you only have to be able to count to 10 to get into UT.
SNOOP DAWG
October 3rd, 2010
3:14 pm
Flo-Ri-Duh! – You couldn’t have picked a better handle…nor could your first cousin ma and pa. You are an idiot. No amount of vitamins or schooling will change the fact. Nice tooth, you doofus…
Not so happy Tech fan
October 3rd, 2010
5:31 pm
Hope all you Dawg fans that bought those Colorado hats in 1990 remember to wear them tomorrow.
SEC4Life
October 4th, 2010
12:30 am
Someone should tell MB that UT isn’t necessarily a “gimme” either. I’ve watched them twice this year and their defense is as good as any in the SEC.