Emptying the notebook before heading to Colorado …
- An interesting observation from Mike Bobo about running back Carlton Thomas, the Bulldogs’ smallest player: “Carlton has never been in a green jersey his whole career here.” Green jerseys are worn at practice by players who have injuries that preclude them from contact.
- Drew Butler and Blair Walsh can’t wait to kick in Colorado’s mile-high air.
Butler visited a friend in Denver in May and took the opportunity to punt a few balls while he was there. He said they traveled about 3-5 yards longer and were in the air about two-tenths of a second longer, adding to his hang time. “When it’s humid and it’s wet here in the summer, the thick air just holds the ball down, but out there, it’s crisp and the ball flies,” Butler said. “It’s fun kicking.”
Walsh, whose career-long field goal is 53 yards at Oklahoma State in 2009, said he’d like to try a field goal of 60-plus yards in Saturday’s game and will try a kick from 70 yards in warm-ups.
- A 1-3 record is a shock to the system of Georgia fans — and players. “I don’t think anybody on the team right now had ever started any season of playing football one and three,” defensive lineman DeAngelo Tyson said.
- Georgia will be just the second SEC team ever to play a game in Boulder. The only other time an SEC team played there was on Sept. 15, 1979, when LSU beat the Buffaloes 44-0.
- Counting road and bowl games, Colorado has played a dozen games against SEC teams. The Buffaloes are 2-9-1, including a 14-13 loss at Georgia in 2006.
- This will be Georgia’s third game against a Big 12 team since the start of last season. The Bulldogs opened last season with a loss to Oklahoma State and ended it with an Independence Bowl victory over Texas A&M. Of course, Colorado won’t be in the Big 12 much longer; the Buffaloes join the Pac-10 next year.
- As A.J. Green returns from suspension, it’s not clear if Kris Durham, Georgia’s top receiver in Green’s absence, will be able to play. Durham suffered what he called a stretched nerve in his neck late in last week’s game. Durham said he’ll “be fine by Saturday,” but coach Mark Richt called him questionable.
- Offensive lineman Trinton Sturdivant continues to work his way back. He played 20-plus snaps last week. The plan is for him to play more each week.
- Todd Grantham has been stressing two things with the defense this week: “start and finish.” The defense has given up touchdowns on the opponent’s opening possession in the past three games. And then it’s tended to play pretty well until struggling again near the end of the games.
“If you go back to the South Carolina game, the score is 14-6 and it’s late in the fourth quarter and we can’t stop them and get the ball back,” Grantham said. “Go to Arkansas; the score is 24-24 and we have had some stops, we do stop them, then we have to go back out for a two-minute drive and we don’t stop them then. And then you go to this past game [against Mississippi State] and it’s 10-6 late in the fourth quarter and we don’t stop them.
“You’re going to be in all sorts of games, and whatever has happened up until then . . . you got to finish that game,” Grantham said. “That’s the thing in the last three games: We haven’t finished.”
(Andy Johnston contributed to this blog.)
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cantondawg
October 1st, 2010
9:19 am
TT,
If it’s hard for you to root for the dawgs then you just need to take your ass on and jump off the bandwagon cause we definitely don’t need loser fans like you.
SadDawg
October 1st, 2010
9:20 am
Cool Hand Luke, I’m glad to hear that, but I have to ask. What did your “gut” say the last three weeks?
If it’s bad news, just don’t tell me . . .
Cool Hand Luke
October 1st, 2010
9:22 am
My gut was twitching and gurgling with indigestion the last three weeks. Colorado ain’t got nothin’. Even a bad SEC team beats them hands down.
Cool Hand Luke
October 1st, 2010
9:24 am
This game is just like when we play the Bugs every year, except there is no in-state hate and rivalry involved. We hear about this and that, but then we go out and trounce them on the field. Mark my words….
Will
October 1st, 2010
9:30 am
I’m behind this team100%! Go Dawgs!
dawgster
October 1st, 2010
9:34 am
Tide Roll..what a classless person you are..you come on here and spew racist like remarks all the time..no you don’t come right out and say it, but you can read between your lines…yet you come on here and continue to find ways to bash the dawgs o-line anyway you can, and yes Caoch Richt has address the issue with Jones…The kid has come out an aplogized for his actions..If the SEC feels that it needs to something i’m sure they will, they have the tape…the young man made a mistake in the heat of the battel and i’m not excusing it, but it happened and it will be dealt with…You don’t give one ounce of care about the young man form MIss State…you just found a reason to bash the dawgs o-line again and are uising this as an excuse to continue your berating of the dawgs o-line personnel..I honestly don’t think you are a Bama fan as they have alot more class than you show on here…I still say you are an embarrassment to the Bama nation…
bruce mac
October 1st, 2010
9:39 am
Wow, I am certainly for the Dawgs win or lose but how can you people find anything so far that would indicate a Dawg victory Saturday. I expect more of the same, penalties, turn overs, bad play calls, wide open receivers, poor tackling. Have you been watching the same team?
Cool Hand Luke
October 1st, 2010
9:42 am
Bruce, there probably will be more of the same problems, but we are playing Colorado. Even with the problems, we prevail this week. Next week against UT may be a different story, but we win this week. Have confidence.
bruce mac
October 1st, 2010
9:45 am
I expect to see a kick off returned out of the end zone that will not get back to the 15 year line. I expect to see us get a holding penalty or block in the back on a kick return. I expect to see Colorado return a kick for big yardage. I expect to see CMR look like someone stole his Dawg. I expect to see the Dawgs penalized in crucial situations. I expect to see us turn the ball over. I expect to see us miss multiple tackles. I expect to see us celebrate for no good reason. I expect to see receivers running wide open. I expect to see us line up in a run formation and run. I expect to see us line up in a spread formation on 3rd and long and throw. I don’t expect a victory, why would you other than you want one.
Itchy Dawg
October 1st, 2010
9:47 am
Go for it Luke. Someone needs to stand up and get the fans going. I think you are right. We have been in the last couple of games and should win against the likes of the Buffalos.
Cool Hand Luke
October 1st, 2010
9:51 am
Colorado would make a mid-tier ACC team look good. Dawgs by 10. If not, I’ll borrow a UF tie and wear it to church on Sunday morning.
Cool Hand Luke
October 1st, 2010
9:53 am
And that’s after UF loses to Alabama.
Glad its Friday
October 1st, 2010
9:58 am
As bad as the Dawgs have looked lately, this is one week to be happy. They will beat Colorado tomorrow and have a little momentum before the UT game. The players need some confidence and they will get it this week. Will there still be bad plays and bad play calling? Yes, but they still win in Boulder.
Sick of the trolling
October 1st, 2010
10:08 am
If you are sick of people ‘trolling’ these boards with juvenile comments, please send the AJC a suggestion to require a user name and password log-in to post comments. I think that this will dissuade this behavior as they will lose the ability to use multiple user names. Also, only people who really are motivated to comment will take the 5 minutes to register through email. Personally, I’d like to see some civility and intelligence return to these boards. You can send your suggestion/request through this link: http://projects.ajc.com/customercare/contactus-form/
Itchy Dawg
October 1st, 2010
10:09 am
The Dawgs will have an enjoyable flight home after this game.
Russ, the Temp.....
October 1st, 2010
10:09 am
Why don’t you go worry about ManBoobs’ inability to beat one of the worst teams in Div-I, a team that the week before had lost to South East North Dakota Polytechnic the week before….or why he got his doors blown off by NCSU….or why he got embarrassed by Iowa….or why he got embarrassed by UGA….basically, you need to worry about why the “New Sheriff in Town” is 2-4 over his last 6 ball games and only has only beaten ONE, yep that’s right folks….ONE…. Division-I opponent in the last 6 contests…..there is more than enough there to keep you busy Russ than to worry about trolling UGA beat writer blogs
SadDawg
October 1st, 2010
10:11 am
“the likes of the Buffalos”
************************
Um, didn’t we beat them by just 1 point in Athens 4 years ago? Are we better this season than we were in ‘06?
Is Colorado better than in ‘06?
It sounds a little delusional (as the Techies like to call us UGA fans) to think UGA is gonna whip anybody right now, especially on the road. Seriously, would any of you bet your paycheck on UGA this Saturday?
Since the LA La game, we’ve scored what, 3 meaningful touchdowns? I’m not talking about the ones when we are double digits behind in the 4th quarter. That’s the only time Bobo remembers to put Murray in the shotgun, and thus, move the ball. The other three quarters, it’s mostly 3-and-out.
I’ve watched every play this season, and I’m dying for them to get turned around, but I’ve seen nothing that gives me confidence that Richt, still standing behind Bobo, can get it done.
Itchy Dawg
October 1st, 2010
10:15 am
Not sure who sick of trolling is referring to. Make some intelligent comments.
jtdawg
October 1st, 2010
10:19 am
Guys that quote a score from 2 years ago are really, really pathetic.
That’s a sad state of affairs
Itchy Dawg
October 1st, 2010
10:19 am
Colorado lost to California 52-7. I think our offense can put some points on the board.
Itchy Dawg
October 1st, 2010
10:22 am
Let’s hope our coaching staff watched the film from that game and learned what they need to do.
FATLEGS
October 1st, 2010
10:31 am
Dawgs blowout the Buffs, sneak by the Vols and go onto a great season. If Walsh can kick a +55 yard field goal… that’s effin amazing!
FATLEGS
SECWasteManagement
October 1st, 2010
10:34 am
I wish some of you so-called “fans” would grow a pair and support the players and coaches when they need it most. Dawgs are playing like absolute garbage, I know this. I have said every piece of foul language in unimaginable combination’s while watching the games towards players and coaches alike, but it’s a new week and a new chance to go to Boulder, get a win, and then build on it. Ya, Bobo probably does need to take a hike and go back to hardcore drinking like he used to. Richt…I will see how the season ends before I think about starting a lynch mob. Grantham, the D has played 4 games with a brand new scheme so relax for a second. All I’m saying is let’s pull for them and get this W this weekend.
Itchy Dawg
October 1st, 2010
10:40 am
Colorado beat mighty Hawaii 31-13 two weeks ago. OMG. Yes, they did have a week off, but I think we score and score easily this week. Call me delusional if you like, but I’m sticking by my team this week at least.
Dawg Trainer
October 1st, 2010
10:42 am
“He has done more drugs than all the members of the Rolling Stones combined and that may explain why he can’t seem to get the ball through the goal posts.”
Kind Sir, NOBODY has done more drugs than Keith Richards. Nobody. When KR goes into suspended animation (he’ll never die), they’ll just shove him in a steel box and stow it in a basement somewhere. If by some miracle some doctor declares him dead, he won’t need to be embalmed since he’s already pickled!
dawgfan
October 1st, 2010
10:43 am
Be honest, who will be watching Bama/Florida tomorrow night instead of our game? Remember I said to BE HONEST. If I tune in to our game and see the same uninspired sloppy crap that I’ve been seeing it will be mighty tempting.
Just a UGA Fan!
October 1st, 2010
10:45 am
To: And You Wonder Why
You just did the same thing! So, Shut up!
5 Reasons UGA is even worse off than you'd think
October 1st, 2010
10:46 am
SEC EAST STANDINGS
1. Florida
2. South Carolina
3.Vanderbilt
4. Kentucky
5. Tennessee
* Georgia . . . . (Last Place)
Itchy Dawg
October 1st, 2010
10:50 am
Dawgfan, I’ll be going back and forth during commercials in our game. I’ll admit it.
Itchy Dawg
October 1st, 2010
10:51 am
I think the first half in both games will be entertaining, but we will pull away in the second half, as will Alabama.
DawgNation
October 1st, 2010
11:02 am
Dawgfan,
Two t.v.s with seperat Sat. boxs to watch both games. Good, Bad, or Ugly I will always watch the Dawgs.
biggestdogfan
October 1st, 2010
11:03 am
Figured I would post this for the Bullldog nation. I heard this bulldog song everywhere I went last weekend an every bulldog fan needs to hear it, this guy I believe is from St. Simons. wwww.jfareal.com or youtube search for (jfareal go dawgs)
GA Dawg
October 1st, 2010
11:14 am
http://www.pricezack.wordpress.com
5150 P.O.A.D The Richard Head
October 1st, 2010
11:15 am
Hey Richard Head no one really cares what you think you loser! Go buy yourself a life!
46-39
October 1st, 2010
11:16 am
5150 P.O.A.D, What a Pathetic soul you are. It just shows what type of people pull for Tech. Get a life, get a job. Both of these will help you not to search the UGA blog embarrassing yourself & your favorite team.
With that said, GO DAWGS!!!
5150 P.O.A.D The Richard Head
October 1st, 2010
11:21 am
46-39
But this Richard head claims that he owns his own HOME!!! and has 10 acres…. (I’ve actually read that from him on another blog)so this makes him superior to everyone else.
This guy is THE TOTAL TOOL!!! He is on every sports blog with his mindless dribble. He has no life! His wife, I mean sister, probably beats him daily so it makes him come on the blogs, talk tough, because no one is there to challenge him. Pathetic impecil!!!
FutureDawg
October 1st, 2010
11:26 am
Any Dawg fan who thinks CMR must go, is not a loyal Dawg fan. The best way to run away a top shelf class of recruits who will make the program better is to insist the program should be blown apart only to start over.
We have good coaches and with a little tweaking like reassigning the OC back to QB coach, the program will quickly rebound. Give the new coaches time to build a program and support the team 100%.
We need to contribute in positive ways and be positive about the program if we are interested in building a great team. Good HS players want to be the building blocks of a positive and improving football team. Under the best circumstances It will take a full season to rebuild a strong attacking defense. Willie Martinez is gone, but I would suspect the ghost of his prevent defense still lingers. A new DC can’t reverse that multi-year way of thinking in just 4 games. Type B players cannot instantly become Type A players overnight, if at all.
Blowing it up and starting over is not an option at this time. We have a good coach in CMR and he deserves a chance to get the ship in an upright position, especially since the crew is new and must be given the chance to learn how to work together.
Don’t run away prospective top shelf HS players by being a complainer, even if you were born to do that. If you were born that way, stick a sock in your mouth while the program tries to get back on its feet.
GO DAWGS !!!
Russ, the Temporary Mascot
October 1st, 2010
11:36 am
Being a temporary mascot means I don’t get health insurance. I’m a better risk than those inbred mascots they seem to prefer at UGA. Look at them sideways and they drop dead from heart attack. I have been practicing slobbering and drooling and spilling my beer and I just about have that down. I think I fit in pretty well by now. When I get my degree I will be right where I need to be to make this a permanent gig. One last thing, no a$$ painting this weekend.
Saben
October 1st, 2010
11:38 am
Richt is going to dress the dawgs in pink to celebrate mile high. Free Budweiser on the sidelines and AJ selling jerseys to the fans while the defense is on the field.
Colorado wins by 30 but who cares. Good times, Good beer and the team makes 200k on jersey sells.
Also pictures with the Georgia players at halftime for all the young Colorado misses. Only $100.00
dawgfan
October 1st, 2010
11:39 am
I think Florida is a little underrated and Bama may be a little overrated. Result? Hell if I know, but it should be a great game. You have to think Bama drops one of its next two.
As for us, I mean I hate to be such a Debbie Downer but I agree with a poster above. What has anyone seen out of us that tells them we can beat a BCS level opponent? Maybe things will change, but based on what has happened so far I don’t like our chances against anyone. Teams either smack us around physically or we find a way to beat ourselves, or both. When does Idaho State come to town?
Am I saying we could go 2-10 this year? If things don’t change in a hurry YES, that is exactly what I’m saying. Best believe.
Thanks for caring.
Itchy Dawg
October 1st, 2010
11:43 am
4-8 or 5-7.
dawgfan
October 1st, 2010
11:45 am
FutureDawg, we are 9-8 since the beginning of the 2009 season and you think all we need is a “little tweaking?” If your car spontaneously combusted while going down the freeway at 80 mph would it only need a little tweaking as well?
Matthews Dawg
October 1st, 2010
12:00 pm
Dawgster….thanks for saying what needed to be said. The situation has been handled concerning MSU. Just haters getting on here to run their mouth! Go Dawgs…let’s get a WIN!
Matthews Dawg
October 1st, 2010
12:01 pm
Tide Roll is always coming on here popping off! Go to the Bama site and leave ours alone. Go Dawgs!
DjP
October 1st, 2010
12:04 pm
Being in Colorado is almost as good as Commerce beating Mt. de Sales.
dawgfacedboy
October 1st, 2010
12:16 pm
I hope we get to see more of Carlton Thomas, he’s earned it. Besides, the running game can’t get more uneffective at this point. See what he’s got.
kgb
October 1st, 2010
12:19 pm
In the first game Grantham was spitting fire on the sidelines and the defense was responding with passionate play. Then at SC it seemed that Richt must have put the muzzle on him as he was way too reserved and the defense played accordingly. Anyone else see this change?
An open letter to dawg bloggers...
October 1st, 2010
12:25 pm
Reading the blogs makes me feel really old. I remember when being a Dawg fan meant turning up the radio in the garage on a Saturday afternoon to hear Larry will the team to victory because dad has my a#$ elbow deep into a brake job on the car. It was a glorious Saturday when they actually played on TV, and if I got up early and raked leaves before lunch, I might be allowed to watch the whole thing before we did some other chore around the house.
I lived and died on every play during that magical run in ‘80, and I still remember my dad stopping work long enough to hear if Kevin Butler’s moon shot would clear the post and break Clemson’s heart. I saw the footage of that kick years later, and Butler made it by so much I couldn’t believe it. To hear Larry make that call live was to believe that God had to suspend gravity for the last 10 yards or so just so Georgia would win. Those joys carry me through seasons like this when everything seems to be going wrong.
Maybe most of you guys on here are too young to remember when good people didn’t have much, and everybody had to work hard to make a living. Maybe you are all de-sensitized to how special it is to have somebody else fighting hard every week to represent your school and your team. Maybe you are so comfortable in your air conditioned rooms with your daddy’s roof over your head and $100 in you wallet that you think it’s OK to belittle and condemn student athletes who spend hours each week toiling away trying to better themselves and bring honor to their school.
The real reason you spew this crap about everyone from the coaches to the players to our own fans who disagree with you is this: So much of what you have in this life comes to you with no effort on your part. Since you don’t earn it, you place no value on it. The only thing you value is your own pleasure and comfort, so when the team loses, it’s an affront to your pride. Someone must pay, so you type away to show your cleverness and tear people down.
Me, I’ll cheer them win or lose, and worry about the coaches performance when the season’s over and my boys don’t need my cheers to keep them fighting when they’re tired and feel like giving in. Maybe someday you’ll get a clue and realize the same joy I have from cheering for a school with an honorable tradition and devoted coaches. Treasure the victories and wash off the defeats. Life’s too short for anything else. But most of all, don’t dishonor UGA by being the most classless fair weather fans in the SEC. Grow a pair and stop tearing us down. There’s too much Orange in this world that deserves a beating for you to waste your bile on your own team!
harold
October 1st, 2010
12:25 pm
IF RICHT CAN’T WIN THIS GAME HE NEEDS TO BE FIRED!
gdawginkalamazoo
October 1st, 2010
12:39 pm
dawgfan, the 11:45 post was hilarious.
Tide Roll, can you post a link to that “clip”?
I wonder if Dan Hwkins is reminding his team that this “ain’t intramurals, it’s div 1 fooooootbaaaaaalll.”
If Durham can go keep him as #1 WR. If Green gets in a groove run his arse off. He could use the stats. And people please get off his back, the kid made a mistake, paid for it and is moving on.
I hope to see the following three things together this weekend: Washaun, the football and the endzone.