Michael Bennett: Old man talk ‘gave us a little fire under our butts’
THEY SAID IT
Quotes from players and coaches after Georgia’s 41-20 win over Missouri Saturday night in Columbia, Mo:
“It definitely made us mad. But we just took it as something to give us a little fire under our butts, and we just outlasted them at the end.” — Georgia wide receiver Marlon Brown on Missouri’s “old man football” comment
“That got under our skin. But at the same time, we had to make it about us. Our team, our time. We just wanted to go out there and play.” — Georgia wide receiver Marlon Brown on “old man football” comment
“I feel like after that first touchdown, everybody just calmed down, settled down. We thought, ‘OK, it’s going to be a four-quarter game. We started playing well, and on the defensive side [of Missouri], they started looking kind of sluggish, not moving around so much like in the first quarter when they were all hyped up. We kept grinding and grinding, and I think we just wore them out.” — Brown, on scoring Georgia’s first TD late in the first half.
“I have been doing this a long time and a coach never calls something that he thinks will not work. When they work, they are good calls and when they don’t they are bad calls and I will take responsibility.” — Missouri coach Gary Pinkel on the fake punt in the fourth quarter.
“Richard Samuel’s stop on the fake punt might have been the biggest play in the game. I know it was the one that made me the happiest.” — Georgia coach Mark Richt
“A lot of people thought we were going to get upset. That’s what everybody at ESPN was saying. But the guys stayed confident, the coaches kept us pumped up and the Bulldog Nation came out and supported us. Missouri threw their punches, but you have to play the whole game.” — Georgia outside linebacker Jarvis Jones.
“I was proud of the whole line, but one guy in particular. John Theus, it was his first big game and he’s a freshman. It had to be nerve-wracking for him. He had a couple of penalties, but he fought through it and had a heck of a game for us. The whole O-line did great.” — Georgia quarterback Aaron Murray.
“We didn’t want them to make a statement with us. Missouri’s a great team, but we knew they were going to try to build their reputation off beating Georgia and we weren’t going to let that happen.” – Sophomore cornerback Malcolm Mitchell.
“I don’t think it had anything to do with them honestly. It was just us. We had a lot of mental errors out there and we beat ourselves us a lot.” — Missouri WR Marcus Lucas
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Hairy Dawg
September 9th, 2012
5:51 pm
The schizo War Tigers has always been a mess. They got lucky and had Loudermouth hire $180K Clams Newton one year. But Cheese Dip don’t know how coaching. And now they see how bad they become as usual. They may be embarrassing SEC this year. And it serve the Hogs right to lose like they deserves for hiring midnight escaping artist and Evil Knevil cycle boy Perturdo.
Did U Seeus Theus ?
September 9th, 2012
7:03 pm
I’m sorry but Theus had an awful game. He had 4 penalties for holding/movement and missed at least 15 blocks which resulted in 12 qb hurries and 3 sacks. When Murray watches the game film he will see this.
Did U Seeus Theus ?
September 9th, 2012
7:07 pm
I saw an old man and he asked me if I liked UGA’s old man style of play ? “I said you can bet your old lady that I do, old man”.
tell me again
September 9th, 2012
7:58 pm
You guys who are busting on Bennett are complete idiots. That kid has made spectacular catches every game he’s been in and when he’s not catching the ball he’s blocking his as* off downfield to spring another receiver or running back. You idiots wouldn’t appreciate a winning lottery ticket if it was stuffed up you arse. Bennet is a DGD and has been from day one. Sit down and shut up – one off game and all of a sudden he’s a liability? Yeah, right.
tell me again
September 9th, 2012
8:02 pm
I am really surprised at the lack of sportsmanship from the Mizzou players. “If we execute nobody can stop us” – really? It was more about what we did to ourselves” – Really? Kind of lacking in class and humility. I expected better from one of those classy,- northern teams – guess that image has been busted. Oh, by the way, “WELCOME TO THE SEC AND OLD MAN FOOTBALL, BOYS!” It was good for us, was it good for you?
dawgdon
September 9th, 2012
8:16 pm
I totally disagrre with a lot of peoples” assesment of the Zou. I went to the game and was very impressed with the way the fans treated UGA. A few idiots made statements about “old man defense” and suddenly it was as if all of Mizzouri was saying the same thing, not true. I went to the game and had a great time and found the fans to be fantastic. Yes, during the game some things got heated, but as a whole they were classy fans. As far as the game went, it was exciting. I do not think I have been prouder of our dogs, especially the D-line. We kept our cool and continued to play great football. We made adjustments at half time that worked out greatly. This was a relief to me, because we seldom have made the appropiate adjustments. We went to the zoo,we played, we conquered. Please do not be stupid sore winners. Tried to so some class.
tell me again
September 9th, 2012
8:19 pm
Just read in the Missouri newspaper blog that Richardson came up to Coach Richt after the game and apologized for the Old Man Football comment ~ also, one of the articles in the paper was an excellent and very unbiased accounting of the game – much better than what we usually read here on the AJC LOL GO DAWGS!
tell me again
September 9th, 2012
8:23 pm
Gee, we’re busitng on Theus too? A true freshman starting in the SEC in his first mega road game? And you expected what exactly? That he would play like a seasoned 5 year player in his second start? Get a life. Geez people – I would like to meet some of you and see what marvelous, successful and mistake free lives you must lead.
dawgdon
September 9th, 2012
8:36 pm
Theus is a freshman and a damn good one. He made freshman mistakes, give him a break. He will get beter as he matures. Gurley also made a freshman mistake. He jumped when a lb showed signs of blitzing. I swear to god people need to take a football IQ test before they blog!!!!!!!!!!!!
jarvis
September 9th, 2012
8:37 pm
Fire under his butt and stone on his hands.
bitter see yaa at the SEC Championship
September 9th, 2012
9:05 pm
Life in the fast lane———-A@M AND MIZZO have too realize that this conferance demands 4 quarters of solid football, both these teams played hard for 3 quarters. keep working harder or—-
——be like —-OLE MISS———ITS YOUR CHOICE
—I GIVE MIZZO CREDIT THOUGH FOR –NOT QUITING—HOPE YOU BEAT –GA_y TURDS!!!
ugab
September 9th, 2012
9:59 pm
I would like to give a special thanks to Sheldon Richardson for lighting a fire under the dawgs butts. Hats off to Missouri, good game. Missouri is a good, well coached football team.. I am so glad to see our dawgs play 4 quarters. Let’s take it one game at a time. Its the SEC. There will be no easy games. Missouri was one or two plays from controlling the game. Samuel is a DGD. Jones is a DGD for staying in school. I LOVE what I am seeing from most of the players. I didn’t like some of the D players talking trash after a tackle. Some of the trash talking was after Missouri made a big play. I didn’t get it. It was too important of a game to get stupid penalty. But other than the trash talking and maybe getting burned of few times. GOOD JOB D..It was good to see M Brown have an awesome game. RBS looked great. It is going to be interesting to see the suspened players come back and play, finally. The dawgs played 4 quarters. That was awesome. I know I was thinking that we were going to die out in the 3rd and 4th quarters. thanks for proving alot of ga fans wrong team.
ugab
September 9th, 2012
10:01 pm
Teams are going to put 3 to 4 guys on Jarvis. lol. That gives room for some of our other players to step it up.
JAYBO
September 9th, 2012
11:40 pm
Where is Ray Drew…why isn’t he in the mix more?????? Just curious…will someone in the know please give me the scoop???
jay
September 10th, 2012
9:16 am
Good stuff, however, may I suggest putting the name of the player/coach and then the quote?
mambo
September 10th, 2012
10:08 am
The best thing Michael Bennett can do is shut up and catch the ball … 3 dropped passes. Wow.
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azdawg
September 10th, 2012
10:46 am
Tdawg
September 9th, 2012
12:38 pm
The kid catches more balls then he drops so lighten up. Remember the TD catch last season vs FL?? Bennet is a good receiver. Glad he plays for the dawgs.
azdawg
September 10th, 2012
10:51 am
CMR was so happy Samual tackled the MO punter because GA in most cases is on the short end of the stick on trick plays like that, i.e., SC game last season, et al. Lets hope Samual’s play is the beginning to great ST play by the dawgs long dry spell.
zoli
September 10th, 2012
11:06 am
I just want to say what a great time we had in Mo. Great people, great food, gracious people. They welcomed us with open arms and with a southern hospitality feel. It is great leaving w/ 2 W’s from this great state.
LawDawg
September 10th, 2012
11:25 am
How is it possible that we can never, ever reload at O-Line? When was the last decent O-Line? 2007…maybe. Watching that bunch was pathetic.
The rest of the team played between decent (Murray, ILB, safeties) and great (Jenkins, Jones), but we are never going anywhere with that OL and Bobo’s insistence on running toss dives three times in a row. Just ridiculous play calling.
Dawg Fud
September 10th, 2012
12:17 pm
Simmer down everyone. We are 2-0 and neither was a ranked opponent.
I liked what I saw on Saturday. Let’s see more of that and less suspensions.
YoungDawg
September 10th, 2012
1:09 pm
Marcus Lucas, really? You sound like Phillip Fulmer! LOL If we have all out guys I doubt you even score those two TD’s!
GEORGIA'S FAVORITE SON
September 10th, 2012
2:05 pm
TOUGH GAME BUT WE WON. I WILL TAKE THEM ALL JUST LIKE THAT. WHO IS NEXT?
Voyager Dawg
September 10th, 2012
3:12 pm
Richard Samuel is the man. He makes plays everywhere. Jarvis Jones played lights out. The defense will only get better when their numbers are up. The offense got it going in the second half, can’t wait to see them put 4 complete quarters together. Run Gurley more! It was great to hear the Bulldog fans on television as a stadium full of Tiger fans tried to drown them out. Way to go and Finish The Drill. Go Dawgs!
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welcome to the SEC
September 11th, 2012
2:29 pm
wow, missouri’s wide receiver Lucas not giving any credit to UGA. Richardson apologized for his comment, but this other bozo took the helm for next stupid comment…sounds likesour grapes.