UGA player: Game-deciding fumble ‘felt like death to me’
(Click here for Mark Richt’s post-game comments.)
BOULDER, Colo. – What Georgia players had to say after their latest loss, 29-27 to Colorado here Saturday night:
Wide receiver A.J. Green on being 1-4: “It’s tough. I’ve never been 1-4 in my life. We’re going to stay together, and we’re going to keep fighting.”
Green on why he left the game in the third quarter: “I was just cramping. A lot of cramping.”
Quarterback Aaron Murray on Caleb King’s fumble in final two minutes: “I don’t know where the guy [defender] came from. I handed the ball off, and it just came out. That’s pretty much how it happened. You can’t blame Caleb King for that. It just happens sometimes. You have to make sure you pick that guy up and he comes out and has a great week at practice.”
Murry on Green’s leaping, one-handed touchdown catch in the second quarter: “That was unbelievable. No other receiver in the nation can make that catch. That was special right there. To go up and catch it with one arm, and bring it down with only one arm, it’s pretty unbelievable.”
Defensive end Demarcus Dobbs on being 1-4: “There’s going to be frustration. We’re Georgia. We never expect ourselves to get four losses. Or lose to the teams we have lost to. We just have to push ahead, and we cannot give up on each other. All we have is each other. We have to watch film, keep grinding and finish the season out, hopefully on a high note.”
Dobbs on the mentality in the locker room: “We just lost a game. Everyone is pretty much down; we thought we were going to come in and ruin their party and get a victory. We thought we were a better team. We didn’t represent Georgia well. We didn’t represent the SEC well. Only people we have to blame are ourselves. We need to watch film, see what we need to correct and make those adjustments, and stick together. We have to be accountable for each other and not give up on the season.”
Dobbs on the fumble on the final drive: “I thought it was a shoo-in; that’s how comfortable I was [about winning the game]. I put my helmet down. I was ready to run on the field and celebrate. But it didn’t happen that way. We made a fatal mistake, and that type of stuff needs to be corrected. We cannot turn the ball over at the end of the game. It felt like death to me. We have to keep grinding and support each other.”
– From transcript provided by Colorado of post-game player interviews.
Click here for Mark Richt’s post-game comments: Late fumble was ‘as basic of a play as we’ve got’
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TazzDawg
October 3rd, 2010
12:35 am
GTMOM, I’d rather my mom be a ho, then be a tech fan!!!!! go back to your own sorry a$$ blog!!!! nimrod! Oh, by the way, she is a ho and I couldn’t be more proud then the fact she ain’t no stinkin tech juco fan!
Spike
October 3rd, 2010
12:35 am
Vance Cuff SUCKS!!!!!
Jonathan
October 3rd, 2010
12:36 am
Its funny to think if you beat Kentucky this year… the series is about even that past couple of years… that absolutely speaks volumes of the tremendous football program you pound puppies have in Athens… but the silver lining is you can always say its an SEC schedule… to try and easy the pain of how terrible you really are…
TazzDawg
October 3rd, 2010
12:36 am
Face it faithful. Its over for MR, this team is done! Until something changes look for this year to get officially worse then it is now
bye bye richt
October 3rd, 2010
12:37 am
Hate to say it, but Richt must Go Do you remember another great player’s recruiter and coach that did not know how to handle his players. Sorry Ray, loved ya but you were not a HEAD COACH, neither or you Mark
Jonathan
October 3rd, 2010
12:37 am
Rosco… maybe the offense looked better with AJ… but as a “team” meaning offense and defense you looked the same… LOSING!!!! 1-4
fire bobo
October 3rd, 2010
12:37 am
even obama isn’t as dumb as bobo, and that’s saying something
Veritable Quandary
October 3rd, 2010
12:38 am
Agree with sarfdawg. There’s no guarantee that a Richt replacement would right the ship any better than Richt can right the ship himself.
stendek
October 3rd, 2010
12:38 am
Christians do not lie. Mark Wretch professes to be a Christian. MW denied final play was flea flicker. I have been student of football for over half a century. FINAL PLAY WAS A FLEA FLICKER! MW told outright lie to protect his mentally challenged friend Mike Dodo. Christians not supposed to lie. MW Christian? Methinks not. Sorry fellow. Charade is over. Understand now why you recruit so many athletes with low moral character. Wink wink. STENDEK
Hayseed Dixie
October 3rd, 2010
12:38 am
This is all Mark Bradley’s fault. I’m not even remotely joking.
TazzDawg
October 3rd, 2010
12:38 am
I had a better time at my sisters funeral today then I did watching this cr@p team play!
please fire richt
October 3rd, 2010
12:39 am
Like I said 2 years ago. under richt this team is headed for oblivion. It was better under Donnan. In fact the best season richt has had was with Donnan players who would have won a championship but Richt F that up too.
I love my DAWGS but dam
October 3rd, 2010
12:40 am
I say go get the guy from Boise St. very creative offense you don’t know what’s going to happen we are to dam predictable now! CMR only way to right this ship is strip blow Bo of his play calling duties let him fill the water to take to the D that he has kept on the field way to long with his moronic play calling. Definitionof insanity doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome SERiously Colorado
TazzDawg
October 3rd, 2010
12:41 am
Darn. keep Mr. awww shucks MR until we lose every game. You people wanting to save MR’s job are butte kissers! U make no sense, your logic defies anything I’ve ever heard of. You got to be just plain stupid. Either that or your Belue in disguise! Stupid, Freaking Homers!
Matt
October 3rd, 2010
12:41 am
Only a few “TRUE” Dawg fans on here. We weren’t anywhere near this status before Richt. No SEC since the 80’s before him so get over yourselves you bunch of fairweather fans. This is when the team and coaches need support not hate.
RestoftheSEC
October 3rd, 2010
12:42 am
Marchricht’sgottastay.com.
Really, why would UGA think it deserves anything better than CMR? He’s about as good as they’ll ever get. You just need to come to the realizaiton that you are not a 10 win team. You are 3-4th in the SEC on a good year. Your last now I think, below Vandy?
TazzDawg
October 3rd, 2010
12:42 am
Home calling Belue. Belue? excuses, Belue. Any more excuses homers? Excuses, call home!
CHUCK UGA
October 3rd, 2010
12:44 am
JoeCool23, you are an idiot. No taxpayer bucks are used to pay Richt. The UGAA makes millions off TV and marketing.
kbatuc, you are spot on, the last play was a razzle-dazzle courtesy of that small-minded hayseed of a coordinator, Mike Bobo. PLEASE get that farmer out of Athens!
stendek
October 3rd, 2010
12:44 am
Anyone want a FIRE MARK RICHT bumper sticker? STENDEK
TazzDawg
October 3rd, 2010
12:44 am
@ Matt – so whats your solution? Lets give love. LMFAO at your simple mindedness. MR has had 3 years to fix this mess and its getting worse, not better. Call me a fair weather fan again and you’ll be dropping trou to chew your food!
TheTaxJacket
October 3rd, 2010
12:46 am
*** Nesbitt for Heismen ***
(((( 45 – 42 ))))
Buford T. Pusser
October 3rd, 2010
12:46 am
As difficult as ths may be, your beloved dogs are 1-4 and bill king $ucks more than any man in America. What an @HOLE. And he pretends to be a journalist. But I know, he’s one of your journalist’s.
TazzDawg
October 3rd, 2010
12:46 am
U freakin homers make me wann puke! MR is the best, MR is all we can get. MR is a god. LMFAO!!!!!!!! Go stick your own head in a toilet and flush!
stendek
October 3rd, 2010
12:46 am
Let Bobby Bowdon walk sidelines for Bulldogs till he croaks! Funny? Could proven winner possibly be any worse than uncaring pasty faced jerk on sidelines now? A loss is a loss. Some just SEEM worse than others. Colorado? COLORADO? Please. STENDEK
dawgfan38
October 3rd, 2010
12:46 am
Who makes more bad decisions Obama or Bobo? It could be a toss up.
HayDawg
October 3rd, 2010
12:47 am
Whatever Matt. A lot of us are not “fans”. We’re alumni. And I say empty the stadium and clean house. Quit supporting these losers.
Me
October 3rd, 2010
12:47 am
This post just about sums it up. http://dealingdominiquewilkins.blogspot.com/2010/10/so-should-mark-richt-still-get-another.html
I love my DAWGS but dam
October 3rd, 2010
12:48 am
That ’s the problem we become content I bleed red and black LOVE MY DAWGS, but i am tired of not getting to the top tired of indepence bowl games hell Fl fired Zook he wasn’t that bad just time for a change if CMR would dump Blow Bo he may have kept his job this year.
Matt
October 3rd, 2010
12:49 am
Hey Tazz = fairweather fan
chickenman
October 3rd, 2010
12:49 am
Terrible… Richt this is unacceptable your better than this.. it is time to get a new staff… this is just a team killing team… unacceptable
still a dawg fan
October 3rd, 2010
12:50 am
Hey Rob
Who are we going to beat in order to have 3 win this year. Maybe 1 more because we play a 1aa team in nov.. Have we ever had a season where we didn’t beat a D1 school?
This is worst then any Ray Goof Team.It’s hard to believe how far we have fallen.I’m afraid we are now the worst team in the SEC. We will now become everyone’s homecoming game.
But lets be serious–our offensive line & defensive line are terrible & if we let every team we play push us around like rag dolls we will lose the rest of our games.I’m tried of everyone saying its the coaches fault for not coaching up our so called 4&5 star players.From what I have seen we have 1 five star player & everyone knows who that is(AJ) & a bunch of 1&2 star players & you can only do so much with that type of talent.Since our talent level is going down maybe CMR needs to give his players the WONDERLIC TEST & that would give him an idea of which players have the football smarts to play college football & maybe just maybe we might be able to coach those players up.
RECRUIT BETTER & WE WILL WIN & THAT’S ALL I HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THAT
TowDawg
October 3rd, 2010
12:51 am
Matt, you’re right. I can’t remember the last time we were at this level. 1-4 and losing to the teams we’ve lost to this year. Hate to break it to you, but Richt has lost the team and the fans. I’m a lifelong fan and ‘01 graduate and season ticket holder in the Champion’s Club box. REAL fans want to see this turned around, and realize there is no excitement around this program anymore and Richt seems to have lost his desire for the game. He has alway been non-emotional, but he doesn’t have any fire in his eyes anymore. Just desperation to try to keep his job.
Ed
October 3rd, 2010
12:53 am
I feel bad for King and I know he feels sick right now, but you have to give credit to the CU defender that blew the play up. Someone got beat bad on the right side. That’s not King’s fault. Georgia’s line play has been awful.
mark bradley
October 3rd, 2010
12:53 am
hayseed–the dawgs can still win the next 3 and carry some momentum into jacksonville. then who knows…
BLUE
October 3rd, 2010
12:53 am
To all the dumba$$ who think if you feal CMR should be fired you are not atrue dawg fan I hope you are smart enough to no that by your thinking he would have never been coach we would still have RAY GOFF
Ed
October 3rd, 2010
12:55 am
Richt is done, mentally. You can see it in his eyes. And it started in ‘06 in my opinion. Go to youtube and check out highlights from ‘02 -’04. When you see shots of Richt on the sideline, the difference between then and now is obvious. The vitality is gone.
HayDawg
October 3rd, 2010
12:56 am
Youre right TowDawg. Mark Richt has already lost the fans. I see like two people on here supporting this coaching staff.
I love my DAWGS but dam
October 3rd, 2010
12:56 am
How can we be relevant when we can’t beat the top teams that hasn’t changed with MR we need to come out with the old FSU swag beat the team before kickoff.
I love my DAWGS but dam
October 3rd, 2010
12:58 am
i know who I’d want Tommy Tuberville
bruce mac
October 3rd, 2010
12:59 am
Next week I expect: turnovers, late hit penalties, Rocky Top played 400 times, motion penaties, last minute time outs, runs from a tight formation, third and long play fakes, missed tackles in the back field, players completely out of position, CMR giving stern talking to players that could care less, at least one DUI arrest, alot of punts, no turnovers for the Dawgs, more penalties, a bad punt or missed field goal, and celebration of nothing that matters. GO DAWGS. 1 and 5 sounds about right.
TowDawg
October 3rd, 2010
12:59 am
BLUE, I’m “atrue” Dawg fan, but I’m smart enough to “no” it’s time for him to go. There is no denying he brought us back to prominence, but now we are going the other way, and fast. Do you really want to continue falling, or try to have someone get us back to a top level team before we disappear back into oblivion?
I love my DAWGS but dam
October 3rd, 2010
1:00 am
Just saw Jasper Sanks with voodoo dolls one had #3 and the other had #4
Romedawg
October 3rd, 2010
1:00 am
Please don’t ever mention Kirby Smart as a replacement for Coach Richt again. He proved he is no longer a Bulldog when he turned down the DC job. There are hundreds of better choices out there than Sabans puppet. Coach Richt should get one more year to turn it around but only if Bobo and his cronies are replaced. Coach Richt and Georgia were successful when he ran the offense and good coaches such as Van gorder were working with him. Jim Harbaugh is the Coach we want if CMR doesn’t work out. But I seriously doubt he would even consider UGA.
Monkey Says:
October 3rd, 2010
1:00 am
CMR is having his team meeting at the Athens Clark County Jail so ALL his players WILL be in attendance and they ALL know where it is.
dawgfan38
October 3rd, 2010
1:00 am
Still a dawg fan, what about the lack of discipline this team has had now for 3 straight years. That has nothing to do with talent or recruiting. It’s strictly a coaching issue and lack of discpline and leadership.
I love my DAWGS but dam
October 3rd, 2010
1:01 am
dude was laughing his A$$ off
I love my DAWGS but dam
October 3rd, 2010
1:03 am
we need some one to turn our pups into DAWGS
Bama fan
October 3rd, 2010
1:03 am
I still remember in 2007 all the regular posts from dawg fans telling us how irrelevant we were, how Saban was so overrated, how the bear aint coming back, how Bama fans just live in the past, etc. I now look down upon you from my lofty perch atop the sec and the nation after pummeling florida yet again and for the 5th time in the last 7 trys. And I can’t even be mad at dawg fans for all the insults and putdowns when we were going through some down times. All I can really do is feel sorry for you and pity you. I pity how truly bad your team is and how thuggish it is with the fulmer cup already wrapped up and with 10 players arrested since spring and 43 since 2007. Its all about karma dawg fans.
Monkey Says:
October 3rd, 2010
1:05 am
Romedawg,,,,,you know why Kirby did not come home….he worked under Richt one year and returned to Saban when he saw how weak the team was, how most of the great athletes are placed on offense instead of defense and he knew the facilities needed major upgrading including an indoor practice facility.
UGA is going to have a hard time finding a quality coach who will not demand that many of the same things Kirby requested last off season.
BLUE
October 3rd, 2010
1:06 am
TOWDAWG you misunderstood my post I to am atrue fan an 84 grad. I am ready for a change. All summer long i listen to people tlk about all the players in trouble and all I could say is what tell the season starts boy was i wrong CMR has lost his heart and the team plays like it has none