Richt’s Sunday call: talking Tennessee and more
A few quick notes from Mark Richt’s weekly conference call this evening:
- Safety Shawn Williams thought he pulled a hamstring while stretching in warmups before Saturday’s game against Vanderbilt, “but it was more of a spasm,” Richt said. “It just kind of tightened up on him and kind of shook him up. … It turned out it wasn’t [pulled], thankfully. I’m not saying it didn’t bother him throughout the game … but he played the majority of the game.”
- Familiar question, familiar answer. “We’ll figure it out in pregame warmup, I guess, just like last week,” Richt said to the obligatory inquiry about whether suspended defensive stars Alec Ogletree and Bacarri Rambo will return, as expected, from four-game suspensions this week.
- “I don’t think it’s serious,” Richt said of the ankle injury that forced defensive end Abry Jones from the game Saturday. But Richt pointed out that he had not yet received an update from the medical staff.
- Next up for Georgia: Tennessee at 3:30 p.m. Saturday in Sanford Stadium. Richt on Tennessee’s offense: “They’re throwing and catching it extremely well, and their run game is starting to come around, too. … They want balance in their attack, but it’s hard to have balance when you’ve got the kind of receivers they’ve got. You want to throw the ball, and you want to throw it down the field. You want to take some shots because these guys can really go. And they’re not only fast, but they’re tall and they’ve got leaping ability. … It’s hard not to want to throw the football with those guys and a quarterback who can throw it like Tyler Bray.” (Bray has thrown for 1,301 yards in four games this season. His top receivers have been 6-foot-4 junior Justin Hunter (30 catches for 410 yards) and 6-foot-3 junior-college transfer Cordarrelle Patterson (19 for 259). Patterson was recruited by Georgia before signing with the Vols.)
- Richt on Patterson: “We knew he was a special player. We wanted him big-time. He just looked like a big-time difference maker, a big playmaker. The fact he’s a couple of years out of high school [made him] even more of a threat to come in and make some things happen immediately.”
COMPLETE COVERAGE OF GEORGIA-VANDERBILT GAME:
Game story: No drama this time as Bulldogs rout Vandy 48-3
In the spotlight: Huge night for Aaron Murray
Mark Bradley column: Yeah, it was only Vandy. It also was utter domination by UGA
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Hairy Dawg
September 23rd, 2012
9:52 pm
Tenn haven’t been worth a dang. And Dawgs got that swagger back!
Let the BIG Dawg Eat!
Smitty
September 23rd, 2012
9:54 pm
maybe we can get a little swagger back….like when Knowshon was here
UGApoo
September 23rd, 2012
9:54 pm
Y’all are delusional. Do you realize how much talent Bray, Patterson, Hunter and Zach Rogers have? I know Uga is getting excited and his red rocket is starting to hang out because your program is finally decent again, but let’s not get too carried away. You’ll be another Arkansas on Saturday afternoon.
Smitty
September 23rd, 2012
9:55 pm
I really,really like these two freshmen RBs.. I think they have talent but more important. Smart
UGA 5-0
September 23rd, 2012
9:56 pm
Wow…I really don’t think anyone from tenn has a right to talk smack right now…
Smitty
September 23rd, 2012
9:57 pm
UGApoo….you been hanging out with Bray drinking beer tonight?
UGA 5-0
September 23rd, 2012
9:57 pm
and thank you for showing us your lack of education. Anyone who uses the word “ya’ll” must be a sister lover
Smitty
September 23rd, 2012
9:57 pm
and tenn has beat who now?
UGA 5-0
September 23rd, 2012
9:58 pm
poo, in case you were wondering, yes, I was refering to you being inbred
Smitty
September 23rd, 2012
9:59 pm
and tenn SEC record is what?
Smitty
September 23rd, 2012
10:00 pm
give it to him UGA 5-0…..I love tenn fans talking big…what a joke
UGA 5-0
September 23rd, 2012
10:00 pm
eh forget that guy. He dropped out of hillbilly middle school up there in “them thare mountains”
Smitty
September 23rd, 2012
10:03 pm
Most Tenn fans long for yester years and talk of the past…that is their only good memories. They were good in the past….past important word
Hairy Dawg
September 23rd, 2012
10:03 pm
Tenn stinks! Dooley Boy has been a joke. Funny, He couldn’t win at LA Tech and he can’t win in real conference neither. We will teach him and his team that Dawgs are back to own East.
Smitty
September 23rd, 2012
10:06 pm
Back to the important stuff…don’t want to talk about future too much but does anybody know UGA-SC kickoff time or when it will be announced?
Smitty
September 23rd, 2012
10:09 pm
BTW…thank goodness we are playing SC in October instead of early Sept. Last two times there I was burning up. Too much beer and too much heat got to me.
Smitty
September 23rd, 2012
10:11 pm
and they always put the visitors facing the west setting sun…sux
BigDawg
September 23rd, 2012
10:32 pm
I say we turn Jarvis loose & he eats Bray alive! Dawgs stomp the orange slush, 37-13, sic Em
Rick James
September 23rd, 2012
10:33 pm
@UGApoo
Y’all are delusional. Do you realize how much talent Bray, Patterson, Hunter and Zach Rogers have? I know Uga is getting excited and his red rocket is starting to hang out because your program is finally decent again, but let’s not get too carried away. You’ll be another Arkansas on Saturday afternoon
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If they have so much talent why didnt they beat Florida at home? Because they have no running game. Tyler Bray will be a sitting duck for Jarvis Jones..He cant throw while he’s on his back.
Smitty
September 23rd, 2012
10:43 pm
Rick….he can throw from his back but the ball just goes straight up…..
Georgia Gamecock
September 23rd, 2012
11:00 pm
Damn I am scared about those cocks in 2 weeks!
Spike 80DF
September 23rd, 2012
11:00 pm
just remember i think 2004 when we beat defending champ LSU like a drum at home then lost the next week to Tennesse at home like 18-13 or something ugly like that.
Hairy Dawg
September 23rd, 2012
11:24 pm
One game at a time. Don’t worry about and look ahead at SCar. Columbia is a sorry town and we got some special beat down planned for Visor Boy and his choking chickens. He tried to change rules to cheat Dawgs out a owning East. But first we needs to doing some Orange Pumkin smashing in Athens. That will let us expose talents on Tenn and there stupid Rocky Slop music. Breaking there nose with a hob nailed boot will be fun again on Sat. And then we can worry about displaying dominants on Scar chumps.
bamanation
September 23rd, 2012
11:27 pm
You guys crack me up. You have beaten Buffalo, FAU, Missouri and Vandy….and you are world beaters????? LOL!!! Hope the Vols beat you big time.
Smitty
September 23rd, 2012
11:34 pm
bamanation…do you not have a blog for your team? Oh I for forgot only two newspapers in Alabama
Smitty
September 23rd, 2012
11:36 pm
Bamanation….just who has Alabama beat? Bunch of nobody’s…..come on please?
bamanation
September 23rd, 2012
11:36 pm
smitty I live in Ga. There are alot of Bama fans in Ga. Roll Tide!
Smitty
September 23rd, 2012
11:38 pm
bamanation just because you beat Arkansas…..hell Rutgers beat them…and Michigan..come on man…they SUX
Smitty
September 23rd, 2012
11:40 pm
i got an idea bamanation…move back to your state and find a job or get off our blog…..or shut up… whichever one makes you happy.
Smitty
September 23rd, 2012
11:43 pm
Bama could not even play in SEC championship game last year….so don’t say much
Smitty
September 23rd, 2012
11:45 pm
I just wish we had keep all the inbreeds from coming across the border. Hard to control everything
bamanation
September 23rd, 2012
11:46 pm
Thats a good one smitty….but we beat the SEC champs….oh that beat the puppies….and won another national championship! UT will be a real test for the puppies and I hope the pups fail miserably!
Smitty
September 23rd, 2012
11:47 pm
Bama has 2-3 good years and they are hot…where were you the 15 years before that…hiding under the poach.
Smitty
September 23rd, 2012
11:48 pm
Most Alabama fans have class….unlike you
Smitty
September 23rd, 2012
11:50 pm
Tenn will go down like the others we played….we have bigger goals
dawg dude
September 23rd, 2012
11:55 pm
I expect us to win for sure Saturday. But I think Tenn will be the toughest test to date. Missouri looked terrible against SC. I just hope we don’t go into this game cocky and looking ahead to SC. Except for the 4th quarter against Florida the Vols looked good.
Rick James
September 23rd, 2012
11:55 pm
@Smitty
Rick….he can throw from his back but the ball just goes straight up…..
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LOL..That’s true.Might work for hurling beer bottles off his balcony at cars though.
Smitty
September 24th, 2012
12:05 am
throwing beer cans at cars is ok at tenn…hell at UGA it gets you kicked off team
Smitty
September 24th, 2012
12:07 am
Dawg dude …did you see the Tenn Akron game?
Hairy Dawg
September 24th, 2012
12:08 am
Vols stink and goning to take the beating they deserve. Who the Pumkins played and beating? Nobody thats who! Dawgs will unload a whooping can on them like they never seeing before. We will show Vols for thinking Dooley Boy in same league to competes with Coach Richt. Go Dawgs! Sick Em!
dawg dude
September 24th, 2012
12:10 am
Smitty I did. And I know what you are saying. But at the same time did you see the dawgs against Buffalo? We were 100 times better than them but it did not look like it that day. Same could be said about Tenn and Akron. Hard to get up for those games. So you can’t judge the dawgs by the Buffalo game. Just like you can’t judge the vols by the akron game.
Hairy Dawg
September 24th, 2012
12:14 am
And another thing! You bammer boys best remember that we getting rid of Adams this year. Without Adams and his pointy heads we won’t have restrictions choking our recruiting. Then we can sign all the talent and not allow Saban to cross border to tries to steal recruits that Dawgs own.
bengal tiger
September 24th, 2012
12:15 am
I know exactly what dawg dude is saying. Look at my tigers saturday. We played a pretty bad auburn team and won by 2 points. Should have killed them but didn’t. Can never take any team lightly. And I would expect this is just tough talk from a few Ga fans. The majority of their fans will not take the tenn game lightly. That would be a mistake.
7576DAWG
September 24th, 2012
1:04 am
Vanderbilt is a pretty good team People are saying our blow out win was not a big deal. I think it was. Vanderbilt is 1-3 on the year. They lost by 4 points to the 6TH place team in the nation and to us and to Northwestern who is 4-0 . I prefer to give Georgia the credit for dominating a very good team instead of saying the same old Vanderbilt showed up.
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September 24th, 2012
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Big Arnge
September 24th, 2012
7:42 am
Dawg fans. Always the big talker. Most under-achieving team in SEC. For years.
dawg fan sitting on rockytop
September 24th, 2012
7:52 am
I predict alot of thunder and lightning come saturday. GATA
McDawg
September 24th, 2012
8:32 am
Marlon Brown looks awesome
No Delutional fan
September 24th, 2012
8:38 am
UGA looked the best this year especially Murray and the frosh RB’s and Vandy would have never won. But Vandy killed themselves with early penalties and had a terrible call on a roughing the punter or the game would have been closer than the score. Getting Ogletree back will help but Rambo will be so intent on making a big play thay he might get UT a couple of quick scores. Tn moved the ball on the Gators and if you do not think UF is for real you are crazy. Bray might be a punk, but the kid has talent and has 2 NFL receivers. Don’t be surprised if this is not a nail biter; UGA 44 UT 38 winning late in the game.