Yeager: Hey Ridley, you got any (healthy players)?

Ridley: I might have me a (freshman).

Yeager: Well loan me some would ya, I’ll pay you back later.
Ridley: Fair enough.

Yeager: I think I see a (Jacksonville victory) with my name on it.

Ridley: Now you talkin!

(crash and burn)

I think I’m downgrading my 8-4 prediction to a 7-5. With this little depth, someone’s either: a) going to get hurt in a key position, or b) going to get so fatigued from being on the field so much that they blow a key play to lose a game we shouldn’t otherwise have lost.

Of course, with the Fudge/Hamilton defensive backfield, no one probably even needs to get hurt for us to blow a game late on defense… but still.

(Is it illegal to drink while you’re at work?)

It is really hard to say how the ineitable injuries will impact our team and others in the league. Our Dawgs may seem snake bitten to our fans, but other teams will deal with the same challenges. We just have to hope that unproven youngsters can step into key roles. Now that was positive! Now I will skulk off to contemplate excellent mediocrity once again.

This is also part of the oversigning argument.

This kid will be at UGA forever if he misses this season, doesn’t he still get 4 years of eligibility?

Not about Burrows mind you (to whom I wish a speedy recovery)… but about depth. Is the 3rd string guy really that much better than the 4th string guy or a highly touted freshman? Or one the 3rd string guy at another LB spot that could be rotated if necessary?

There are numerous areas of concern for me, but this isn’t one of them.

All we need to do is take a cue from NCAA ‘06 and the implement the 7" inch micro linebacker. In other words, move Carlton Thomas over to defense and we’ve basically just swapped position players. Coach Grantham can thank me later…
  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcqmYlRcekE&feature=related
cue it up to about :53 seconds for maximum effect/hilarity.

I felt the same frustration last year with my Red Raiders, we seemed to be “snakebite” throughout the season. Not to mention the loss of Leach to the psyche of the fanbase, the addition of Tubberville and his lack of game management to the mix, a first time DC with the wrong scheme for the personnel; it seemed we had Freshman starting everywhere with Freshman backing them up.

I realize Burrows was not in the 2 deep, but still hate to see a team lose members before the season starts.

But these doesn’t concern me at all, for I didn’t see him contributing much anyway.

If worse comes to worst, we simply have everyone play both sides of the ball…

when you are going to lose people. It’s the natural course of events. It’s why some coaches like to oversign. Across the football community people are very sensitive to everything that happens in July and August. I think if we had blogs and instant media we would find this trend of “OMG WE LOST SOMEBODY” had been going on for 50 years.

If Neil C. was still coaching at UGA he would have snapped Burrows’ “chronic shoulder instability” right up and had him on the OL where we are really thin also.

. . . disturbing.