The Dogs and the draft . . .
Thought you might like to talk some NFL draft today. . . .
Any questions about whether Matthew Stafford would be the No. 1 pick were answered at 11 p.m. Friday, when the UGA QB agreed to (very) lucrative terms with the Detroit Lions. So he’ll be the first Bulldog in 56 years to go No. 1. And just the fourth Bulldog ever to go No. 1. And the highest-paid rookie in NFL history. I’d say his time in Athens proved quite rewarding, even without a championship.
Here’s my latest story, written in the wee hours of the morning, on Stafford-to-Detroit.
OK, let’s move on.
Stafford knows where he’s going, but quite a few of his former Georgia teammates are eager to find out today and tomorrow.
Next up will be tailback Knowshon Moreno. The AJC’s D. Orlando Ledbetter has Moreno going No. 31 to Arizona – the next-to-last pick of the first round – in his mock draft. Many other mocks have Moreno going No. 21 to the Philadelphia Eagles. Philly would please Moreno, who is from New Jersey. Moreno, by the way, has the same high-powered agents as Stafford, Tom Condon and Ben Dogra.
Next: receiver Mohamed Massaquoi. He’s seen as a possible second-round pick, perhaps to the in-need-of-receivers Chicago Bears at No. 49.
Then: cornerback Asher Allen. He surprised some people when, like Stafford and Moreno, he opted to leave school early for the NFL. He hopes to go in the second round, although that might be a bit fast. There have been rumors the Falcons might be interested at some point.
After Allen, it’ll be real interesting to see where DT Corvey Irvin and LB Dannell Ellerbe go. Irvin had a strong senior season, on the field and as a locker-room leader. Ellerbe, slowed by a knee injury last season, has drawn interest from the Dallas Cowboys, among others.
And: We’ll be watching to see if FB Brannan Southerland’s injury-curtailed senior season costs him a spot in the draft and if safety CJ Byrd and/or others will be picked late.
From start (Stafford) to finish, the draft should be interesting from a Georgia perspective.
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SEC1
April 25th, 2009
3:19 pm
Good luck, Dawgs!
We wish you well in the NFL. Make us proud and never forget your roots!
Tim Tucker
April 25th, 2009
3:22 pm
Just received an e-mail with NFL Network analyst Mike Mayock’s final mock draft. He has Knowshon going No. 16 to San Diego.
AltamahaDawg
April 25th, 2009
4:36 pm
So we are just supposed to sit around and wait for Tim to pay us a bootie call now?
over his head
April 25th, 2009
5:16 pm
He will get kill in the NFL! But again over paid over blowen!!
Cuz
April 25th, 2009
5:17 pm
First beat blog in over a week, don’t run it off. Yeah Tim, I know it is not your fault and you cannot do anything about it.
Dontgothere
April 25th, 2009
5:38 pm
The Lions once again prove why they are the worst franchise in the NFL. Burning money in Detroit if appropriate. The car industry made better decisions than this one. Stafford is not going to be a good NFL Qb.
Tim Tucker
April 25th, 2009
5:47 pm
Moreno went a lot higher in the real draft than in most mock drafts — No. 12 to Denver. Big day for the Bulldogs.
yellowblood
April 25th, 2009
5:53 pm
UGAG may have more draft choices but we have more Tickle Piles!!! THWG!!!!
scott
April 25th, 2009
5:54 pm
wow. i have to agree with dontgothere. I dont think Staff is worth that kind of money either. and a little surprised at Moreno going 12 too . . .but i like that pick better than Staff at 1.
stendec
April 25th, 2009
6:01 pm
Lions and desperate fans (Yankee scum every one) expect Stafford to produce like Ryan and that other rookie QB did in 2008. Will not happen! Stafford does not possess leadership qualities or physical/mental toughness required. If he starts he will not last out the season without an injury. Rushed passes while he runs for his life will be off target while perfect aerials during scarce seconds of adequate protection will be dropped. Why? Because Lions are anti-Red Wings. Always have been. Always will be. The Falcons have sucked for decades but, thankfully, never pitched an oh-fer (winless season). A dubious mark which CAN ONLY be matched NEVER surpassed (if that is correct word to utilize here). Complete and utter failure is its own reward. Much like revenge being a dish best served cold. BTW – I am a DIEHARD Dawg fan! Moreno will fare well in Denver.
Judge Smales
April 25th, 2009
6:32 pm
tickle piles will now be seen in detroit and denver
TommyP
April 25th, 2009
6:35 pm
WTF?
This blog should’ve been in the AM.
Tim…you post at 5AM usually. What happened?
Vols Rule
April 25th, 2009
6:46 pm
Stafford will fall into the #1 Pick Graveyard. He will mostly suck, and the Lions will continue to suck. You have to give credit to Eli Manning’s father for getting his son out of the #1 Pick Graveyard. Many didn’t like what the Mannings did. But they made one of the best bargaining moves in NFL history to keep Eli alive and well. And he has a Super Bowl ring to show for it. Matthew Stafford will be forgotten in about a week and most will forget about him, and the Lions.
athensdawg
April 25th, 2009
6:59 pm
well thank god it is over. now we can turn our attention to uga baseball and counting down the days until kickoff.
Stafford is a self centered person who is not a leader. anyone who doubts this needs to watch how well he rallied “his team” this year.
Had a chance to redeem himself and he exits stage right. He doesn’t need the money (his parents are well off,) and all his “pro friends,” including the mannings and troy aikman were telling him to finish school.
a great football player can take control of a game and single handedly elevate his team to victory….especially when the team is not playing well. tebow, walker, montana, and both the mannings were/are examples of that….in college….stafford? the only thing he ever hoisted to a higher level at uga was the beer keg at talladega.
as they say in texas…he’s all hat, but no cattle.
HH
April 25th, 2009
7:08 pm
Congratulations to Staford for the very lucrative contract and for being drafted No.1. Congratulations to Moreno as well. I hope Stafford has an excellent NFL career and thereby makes Richt and Bozo look like fools for not doing a better job of mentoring/coaching him up. I still conjecture that one of the main reasons he left, in addition to the big money he was sure to get, was: why would he want to waste another year in Athens hanging around those two, when, in all probability, he may well be coached by someone who can really do him some good.
As an aside, I predict Tebo will be a third rounder, if he is lucky, and end up playing tight end.
Army Vet
April 25th, 2009
7:10 pm
I’m sure Stafford really cares what all the “dawg fans” think. He’s laughing all the way to the bank. He might be self centered…but he’s rich now. I’m sure all of you “know it all fans” would have taken the money also.
FRED
April 25th, 2009
7:14 pm
DID ANY TECH PLAYERS GO IN THE FIRST ROUND?
BigMike
April 25th, 2009
7:34 pm
MIRROW,MIRROW ON THE WALL WHO HAD NO ONE IN THE FIRST ROUND AT ALL? WHY IT WAS THE YELLOW FLEAS, NOW KNOWN AS THE HUMBLE BEES!
ProfOnTheRun
April 25th, 2009
7:51 pm
and did those 1st rounders beat the jackets this year? be glad that they left your little program because both were self centered, egotistical chumps. 45-42 suck that fred and mike.
Reality
April 25th, 2009
8:13 pm
Easy on the Tech/UGA fighting…..as a GT fan, I hope Stafford and Calvin Johnson put up big numbers together in Detroit….neither can do it without the other
BigMike
April 25th, 2009
8:33 pm
ProfOnTheRun, Like so many of you weak Techies, you hold on to 45-42, but are afraid to admit for 7 years, let me say that again, 7 years we beat y’all like step-children. Enjoy that 1 year, because I don’t forsee it happening 2 years straight. Hey some body got to carry that New Gucci Luggage through the airport. Do you want to take it to Denver, or Detroit. I always did enjoy a good set of double D’s,you want to join the party, or do you want to stay on North Ave and get to Chili Dogs, and a fried yellow jacket pie. P.S. don’t forget, seven is bigger than one.Oh, one more thing, A UGA man will determine if a Tech man gets a raise by how many catches he has.
THE DUKE
April 25th, 2009
8:46 pm
Hey Stafford. Get to love Georgia Tech because Calvin Johnson will make it or break it for you. GO Jackets!!!
Chuck Uga
April 25th, 2009
9:18 pm
Anyone who thinks Stafford isn’t good enough for the NFL should follow a different sport. You are too damn stupid to follow football.
Chuck Uga
April 25th, 2009
9:22 pm
Well, well, There’s VolsRule, Mr. Inaccurate. Eli Manning turned down San Diego, not the Lions moron! Please go do some research before spouting your hate-filled posts about UGA and their players. Good grief. Get on the Lane Train!
We take all rejects and turn away Fulmer’s favorites!! What a huge mess.
Chuck UGAY is a moron
April 25th, 2009
9:23 pm
Ohhhhhhh he from Georgia, that says alot.
Cuz
April 25th, 2009
9:25 pm
And anyone who thinks that Calvin and Matt aren’t estatic is smoking the good stuff. Both will flourish off the other.
Chuck Uga
April 25th, 2009
9:25 pm
Stendec, disagree with your leadership assessment of Stafford. He will do well. Problem is definitely lack of protection in Detroit, but no one will expect him to be Pro Bowl his first year anyway.
Cuz
April 25th, 2009
9:28 pm
Prof, there are three dead people and you think your name is funny. You are one sick dude.
ProffOnTheRun
April 25th, 2009
9:38 pm
BigMike (LittleBrain), just keep living in the past. Thats fine by us even though it’s a lame excuse. You’re all predictable. Maybe you can win the something against Tech this year. We whipped you on the field and you can’t stand it, can you?
Yellow is the color of cowards
April 25th, 2009
10:09 pm
No Jackals got picked…I guess Michael Johnson should’ve come out last year.
Moreno was a suprise going so high to Denver…they never pick RBs that high.
The draft is always a crapshoot. What were the Raiders thinking???
BigMike
April 25th, 2009
10:50 pm
ProffOnTheRun,(RunFromTheCops)Obviously you guys are living in the past, it was November that the game was played, and like so many yellow maggot fans, your only response is 45-42. I think you maggots were just glad you weren’t going to the blue field bowl again, and beating Georgia has become your obsession. Well the ugly girl even gets laid sometimes, but nobody beleives it’s true, point being, this was just luck, and only luck. We are the DAWGS, and you guys are hanger on’s. Tell Paul(pizza)Johnson, don’t get comfortable, and let your I BEAT UGA RINGS, be enjoyed. This is going to be a humiliation this year that you guys never forget.We going to beat you like who? I think who rhymes with LSU.p.s. the same day we have 3 guys go in the top 50, the World Champions give Hines Ward a new 4 year contract. It must pay good to go to UGA. To celebrate, we have decided to buy the whole campus chili dogs, just swipe my debit card. We can afford it.
Larry
April 25th, 2009
10:58 pm
Prof on the run
Your name demonstrates how classless you really are. One of the victims was the husband of a professor that I had at UGA. She was an incredibly nice woman who dearly loved her husband, and you find it to be “intelligent” to some how mock that her husband is now dead. Hence, anything you try to claim on this blog is completely undermined by your complete lack of intelligence. Great job at being an idiot.
Beauregard
April 25th, 2009
11:23 pm
Hey athensdawg, UGA baseball just lost to Jacksonville State. What made it worse was the Dawgs trash talk in the 1st inning that they couldn’t back up. They actually got waxed pretty good by a team from the Ohio Valley Conference.
Robster
April 25th, 2009
11:35 pm
If this double posts, then I apologize to the blog.
Here’s what I want to say:
Army Vet,
I love UGA but would have happily taken the $$$$$! Ain’t that why you go to college? ‘Scuse my poor grammar.
All kidding aside, thanks for serving our country!
GC498
April 25th, 2009
11:48 pm
Dawgs lost to J-Ville St in baseball? Nobody cares. Jackets lose to Jacksonville St in CFB= Thank you BP+ Shut up beauregard.
BobDog
April 26th, 2009
12:12 am
Stafford will do fine in Detroit. He has three years’ experience playing behind weak offensive lines. He should be well-prepared for it.
I can’t believe all of these people who are so bitter and are turning on Matt and Knowshon because they chose to leave early. #1 and #12. Looks like pretty well thought out decisions.
And congratulations to Massaquoi for being selected in the 2nd round. It was a good day for the Dogs.
If you’re a high school QB, where will you want to go? To Georgia and work in a pro-style offense and enhance your NFL quarterback chances or go to Florida and learn to be a system quarterback to enhance your NFL linebacker/tight end/fullback (pick one) chances?
Chuck Uga
April 26th, 2009
12:16 am
Baseball is a great sport that affords smaller teams the opportunity to make the NCAA playoffs just like hoops. Tech beat Wofford or some other tiny school 10-7 last year, so why are they bringing up a baseball game? UGA leads the SEC record-wise and sends a lot of teams the college world series every year. Just like football, the SEC is tops in baseball as well. Fact is, Tech fans for the most part are immature. I know a lot of good friends who went to Tech and are great fans, but there are simply too many boys in a man’s body that run off at the mouth. Why don’t you boys come post on a UGA story when your team has run off two seven-game win streaks the past twenty games. Fact is, it will NEVER happen.
macrotech
April 26th, 2009
12:56 am
BigMike, the ‘past’ that you’re referring to (The most recent game between the Jackets and the dawgs), has earned Tech fans the right to brag until the two teams meet again). Prof on the run, I’ve got to agree with the sentiments of some of these dawg fans…not cool! Chuck Uga, the immaturity resides on BOTH sides of the blogs….THAT’S a fact. Stafford AND Calvin should make for a great success story. Moreno, has been a good back for the dawgs….should do ok in the nfl….time will tell; not all this jibberish. GO TECH!!!
asdf
April 26th, 2009
1:49 am
ProffOnTheRun, YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF.
Bama Dawg
April 26th, 2009
2:29 am
Hey athensdawg, are you just jelous or what? I’m sure you would do the right thing and turn down $41 million. Can’t wait for you to be our starting qurterback since you are obviously much better and would do us proud. Or, are your parents just rich and you don’t need the money?
Why don’t you and dontgothere go cheer for the vowels, along with Vols Rule (the celler) and stendec?
Baba O'Riley
April 26th, 2009
6:53 am
Big Mike- “MIRROW, MIRROW on the wall”. Are you kidding?????????/
urban legend
April 26th, 2009
8:15 am
yep BigMike, MIRROW….ah, its just too easy. Bulldawg born & bred, etc.
do they make bumper stickers for preseason championships, top rated recruiting classes, or top draft picks? i’m just asking, as we normally stick to national title recognition for ours.
bank walker
April 26th, 2009
8:34 am
To all the haters: Staff and Moreno are making more than any of you will ever see! Also, there were tons of recruits that watched two Dawgs go #1 and # 12, sweet! GO DAWGS!!
staff fan now
April 26th, 2009
8:40 am
All that top three talent ….and still could not beat Tech!
Must be a deficiency somewhere…coaching?
Staff to Johnson should be routine soon.
Richard Head, dawg fan
April 26th, 2009
8:44 am
Dawgfans = all bark – no bite
G8TR
April 26th, 2009
8:47 am
Just like Spurrier used to say about the Dogs: They recruit the best, then something happens to them at UGA on Saturdays. Sure, you can be proud of their NFL draft status but the truth is that Moreno and Stafford leave zero legacy of championships for their program. Richt = Goff/Donnan + A Couple of Titles When the Competition was Down. If Richt couldn’t coach ‘em up with this backfield, when will he ever? Back to reality, Dogs. You’re always gonna be jockeying for that No. 2 slot in the SEC East.
bill cleary
April 26th, 2009
9:13 am
glad that the 2 puppies hit the big time in the draft, but they didn’t do squat for uga…except leave with no championships.
Pago Flyer
April 26th, 2009
9:18 am
We agree with you people, all this talent the DAWGS had and still we can’t beat fl and gt, sad.
Reality
April 26th, 2009
10:13 am
the UGA trash talk is amazing…..I guess by the logic that UGA rules because Stafford went number 1 in the draft would make the ACC better than the SEC since 4 of the top 10 came from the ACC (only 3 from the SEC)
Pago Flyer
April 26th, 2009
10:39 am
“reality”(?)…it’s not trash talking, it’s what we call “truth talking”.
Reality
April 26th, 2009
10:45 am
so you agree that the ACC is a better football conference than the SEC because the ACC has more top ten 1st round draft picks…..that’s true isn’t it
Tim Tucker
April 26th, 2009
12:13 pm
Enter your comments here
The draft worked out well for all three UGA players who entered early — Stafford No. 1, Moreno No. 12 and today Asher Allen was picked by the Minnesota Vikings in the third round, No. 86 overall.
Larry
April 26th, 2009
12:14 pm
Reality…you skew the numbers in the ACC’s favor because there is absolutely no argument as to why the ACC comes close to being considered a big six conference anymore. Why don’t we just say the top 3 picks – 2 SEC players, 1 ACC; or the top 12: 4 and 4; or the first round: 8 SEC players, and 5 ACC…etc. The SEC can talk trash because it is the most difficult league in America. The ACC needs to be removed and replaced by the Mountain West. The ACC is a joke and you obviously suffer from an inferiority complex. Keep being an idiot!
Dawg watch
April 26th, 2009
12:22 pm
Actually, Larry, there were NO ACC players taking in the top 3…The ACC is the biggest joke of a league. To mention them in the same breath as SEC shows that Reality is really Imagining…
DawgGirl32
April 26th, 2009
12:37 pm
Uhhh guys….games are won on the lines. That’s why we “had all this talent and didn’t win a championship.” When you don’t have an o-line or d-line……you don’t win. Period. Why does this always turn into an SEC vs. ACC battle?
Cuz
April 26th, 2009
12:52 pm
To answer your question DawgGirl it is the old male my Dad can beat up your Dad debate. And I agree with your spot on analysis. I remember weeks before the games wondering if we would be able to patch together a D or O line in time for a game. I was amazed and still am, at the work of our line coaches last year.
Tim Tucker
April 26th, 2009
12:53 pm
Five Georgia players drafted through three rounds. DT Corvey Irvin became the fifth, taken by Carolina with the 93rd overall pick. His strong senior season obviously paid off.
Cuz
April 26th, 2009
12:59 pm
Now waiting for Ellerbe. Tim do you remember how many UGA players were drafted last year? I remember it being an off year.
Thanks for the beat blog, it was missed. Say hey to Chip for me if you see him.
Motown Joe
April 26th, 2009
1:42 pm
That was surprisingly big money Detroit(aka the Ford Family) put up for Stafford. Much more than the Falcons put up for Ryan who came with significantly more experience as a college QB.
One thing is very clear for Detroit:
the Stafford draft will ultimately MAKE or BREAK that franchise. If Stafford lives up to the $70+ Million hype, it might just rescue that very troubled franchise. If Stafford is not, then it will be remebered as the single worst, and most expensive mistake in NFL history from which Detroit will never financially recover.
BTW, is there anyone in Detroit, other than the Ford Family, that can now even afford to go to Lions games?
Lastly, just for the record, does anyone have an example of the NFL’s #1 draft pick with a QB, that actually turned out well?
Tim Tucker
April 26th, 2009
1:54 pm
Cuz,
You’re right, last year was an off year — just four UGA players drafted, none before the fifth round. Last year’s UGA draft picks:
DE Marcus Howard (5th round, 161st pick), Indianapolis Colts; TB Thomas Brown (6th round, 172nd pick), Atlanta Falcons; Chester Adams (7th round, 222nd pick), Chicago Bears; PK Brandon Coutu (7th round, 235th pick), Seattle Seahawks).
Joey
April 26th, 2009
1:57 pm
5 UGA players in the first 5 rounds… 10-3 with that talent? Will be interesting to see what this year brings us with no projected top three rounders (excluding soph AJ Green).
GA-CPA
April 26th, 2009
1:58 pm
motown:
the bigger question is…will stafford’s contract be paid by any of the billions in federal bailout money being handed out to Ford Motors?
AltamahaDawg
April 26th, 2009
2:09 pm
Unless it changed this weekend, Ford Motor Company has not received any federal bailout money.
MP
April 26th, 2009
2:14 pm
Every season is new and different but Dawg fans can’t really be too excited with the holes to fill. A team that had this many players drafted that just couldn’t get it done. If the dawgies were pre-season #1 last year, they will have no more than 7 wins this year. In fact there is a chance they may not win 6 and that’s truly an amazing thing.
reebok
April 26th, 2009
2:23 pm
tech fan here…first, i’m not sure it’s accurate to say that the SEC is better than the ACC in football, since I THINK the ACC won the season series between the conferences…tho it is accurate to say that the SEC had 2 teams better than anyone in the ACC in Bama and Florida. second, i congratulate Stafford and Moreno for going so high in the draft, but I’m not sure why that makes Dog fans want to shoot their mouths off at Tech fans…after all, even with those 2 studs, UGA lost to GT in Athens. And finally, condolences to all in the UGA community on the shootings in Athens this week. I hope the shooter is apprehended w/ no further loss of life. See you on the Flats in November…
RxDawg
April 26th, 2009
2:31 pm
I’m proud of Mohamed, way to go man. Your a class act and will be a welcomed member to the NFL.
AltamahaDawg
April 26th, 2009
2:55 pm
MP, who are the six teams that will beat UGA and why?
AltamahaDawg
April 26th, 2009
3:17 pm
Joey I think you are overlooking a few boys this season. J. Owens and R. Jones are going to be projected in the first 3 rounds for sure. I’d be surprised if G.Atkins wasnt. Possibly K. Weston in a later round. V.Vance maybe.
That seem to be our group of NFL hopefuls this season.
Too bad “all that talent” that only went 10-3 didnt have the next set of NFL players able to help much this year , eh?
tim
April 26th, 2009
3:29 pm
the reason uga does not win championships is because all of your big time draft choices are all out for themselves and really have no concept of team and tradition hence no championships. They might get drafted high and give the uga fans some small bragging rights, but what have they done for the trophy case? Just look at tebow a projected 2nd or 3rd rounder next year. Who would you rather have as your college qb? Just a thought.
Oledawg
April 26th, 2009
3:42 pm
That’s my Dawgs! Five % of the first 100 DivI (119 teams) players taken speaks well for UGA and recruiting. All from different positions, all class act people and players, all coached by differing position coaches. Coaches and players never looked better at Georgia. Hope all the rest get taken as they should in this draft.
I’m with you, RxDawg. I think Mohamed will do quite well in the NFL.
Cuz
April 26th, 2009
3:55 pm
Thanks for the kind words reebok concerning the tragedy in Athens. This transcends the innerstate rivalry. You won’t catch me dawging Tech. Y’all won the game last November as far as I am concerned. I hope the Stafford to Johnson teamup works out to make all of us proud. Time will tell.
I am still amazed we went 10-3 with the patchwork lines put together on a weekly basis. Did anyone on either line play the same position the whole season, maybe Geno? I know the O-line was pick a name out of the hat for position every weekend.
Mohammed will surprise some people in the NFL.
raider nation
April 26th, 2009
4:52 pm
motown makes an important point. we thought Jemarcus Russell from LSU was our “franchise” guy. what a bust! Sadly, nothing but an exorcism of Al Davis will save us now. Also, good for Stafford for getting great money. But can someone tell me how he is worthy of substantially more money than Matt Leinart, Heisman trophy wiunner QB from USC? The answer is…Stafford isnt. So, IMHO Detroit can kiss their azz goodbye as a franchise. And, when they do, they can take Cleveland with them.
Preston
April 26th, 2009
4:54 pm
How many techies got drafted? I’ve only seen one. I see another long winning streak coming. Glad we got that once in a while loss to them over with in 08′.
AltamahaDawg
April 26th, 2009
4:55 pm
I think that’s called inflation.
HH
April 26th, 2009
5:06 pm
Evidently a lot of pro teams thought UGA had some quality football players. If there are so many in a bulldog uniform, kind of makes one wonder about Richt, Willie & Bozo. Wonder how high they’d go in an NFL draft of college coaches?
FLADAWG
April 26th, 2009
5:21 pm
The outstanding performance of UGA players in the draft proves the point that many of us Dawgs were saying last year. We know these guys have talent so why did Bama & UF & etc stomp ‘em? Lousy OC & DC Coaching. The injuries on the O Line don’t explain the very inconsistent play (at best) by the D.
Tim Tucker
April 26th, 2009
5:49 pm
Jarius Wynn to Green Bay in Round 6. Wonder if Ellerbe and/or Southerland will go in Round 7.
dawgster
April 26th, 2009
6:53 pm
Hey G8TR, yea your gators are doing pretty good right now, so crow if you might, but please when things turn around and they will, maybe not this year, but Tebow will graduate as did Hershel with the dawgs, and you never know what the future will hold, and yes I know about Brantley, he may be good, but is no Tebow and as was true for the dawgs, you don’t replace that kind of player every year or decade, they will allways be good ones, but not always that special player that puts you over the top..Anyone that follows football knows that things go in cycles, so please enjoy it while you can, and then lets hear from you when things are not so great at gator country, I think the biggest thing about your gator egos is that you believe you are invincible, maybe you are, but when all is said and done and if you avoid major injuries that can happen at anytime to any team. then you might be on top again, but he lets play the season anyway….
AltamahaDawg
April 26th, 2009
7:22 pm
A case could be made that the injuries to the O-line did have a negative affect on the defence in several ways. But more to your point, the D-line, really the front 7, had just as many if not more injuries than the O-line. That doesn’t expain anything either though I’m betting.
Tom
April 26th, 2009
7:27 pm
What do you get if you add Jarius Wynn’s and Knowshon Moreno’s Wonderlic scores?…..
Vance Walker’s.
Give it Up
April 26th, 2009
7:42 pm
Altamaha-ha: Still playing with the injury theme, eh? I TOLD everybody you wouldn’t let it go.
What are you planning on crying about this year ? Got any ideas yet ? Better start thinking on it, if you’d like to repeat as COTY (Crybaby of the Year). Winning the first 2 years of this very prestigious award will be stunning! (I’ll be impressed.)
Really, I hope the Dawgs do well this year, because I think Cox deserved a shot before now, but I do look forward to seeing what you choose to cry about this year.
BTW, use “defense” and “effect” next time.
Saint Simons
April 26th, 2009
7:55 pm
45-42!!!!!!! hahahahahahahahahahha
BigMike
April 26th, 2009
8:43 pm
45-42, 45 chili dogs tech guys serve, 42 million Stafford’s gauranteed!
AltamahaDawg
April 26th, 2009
8:54 pm
Altamaha-ha is a actually the name of a legendary serpant-like creature, reputed to lurk in the dark waters of the lower part of the river. Most likely it’s some kind of Acipenseridae. I see you have read about it. BTW what part of my last post did you disagree with? (aside from the typos, which is very manly of you to point out).
RichtNoGood
April 26th, 2009
10:07 pm
So all these UGA players went in the draft, many in the first 3 rounds…what did UGA do with them again? I this is exhibit A that Mark Richt is not a good game day coach. He had all this NFL talent on his team for how many years and did what with it? Pathetic.
Old GT Nut
April 26th, 2009
11:13 pm
All those first round draft picks, and the mutts still couldnt beat a bunch GT Freshman and Sophomores, with no passing game. 45-42. ROTFLMAO.
AltamahaDawg
April 26th, 2009
11:25 pm
Come to think of it, it is pretty bad when your seniors only beat tech 3 out of 4.
BigMike
April 26th, 2009
11:58 pm
Don’t brag, your yewllowmaggots who got drafted did give up 42, and 38 in there last two games!
Doris Brown
April 27th, 2009
12:47 am
Demiko Goodman signed a FA contract with the Pittsburgh Steelers
Give it Up
April 27th, 2009
3:11 am
Alt: Use “serpent” next time. And BTW, I’m posting at 3 AM, but don’t confuse me with BullDawg……
I know this looks bad, but honestly, I’m just up for a drink of water. Hope you guys have a good year. (really)
Give it Up
April 27th, 2009
3:13 am
P.S. I guess I’m gonna have to look up “Acipenseridae”
Give it Up
April 27th, 2009
3:26 am
OK, I looked it up. And I will have to give Altamaha his props. Altamaha-ha IS a legendary fish of the sturgeon family that, the story goes, lives in the Altamaha river. Haven’t read it all yet, but have to get back to bed.
Cuz
April 27th, 2009
9:25 am
Time to wait for the camp invites for Southerland and Ellerbe. Two teams will get two guys that can play at the next level for less dinero.
AltamahaDawg
April 27th, 2009
9:57 am
Might turn out to be a better deal to sign as free agents.
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