Game Day Open Comment Thread and Honorary Game Co-Captains

This has kinda slipped by in all the Dog-Vol talk this week, but I heard Lumpkin is back this week. Actually, I thought they mentioned him on special teams last week, but maybe he is now cleared as a RB this week.
Any thoughts on that?
The Brown-Moreno tandem has worked pretty good this year and while I like having capable guys to backup players, I think 3 RBs is too many. Of course, I would be surprised if they rushed Lumpkin back.

UNC is killing Miami (not Ohio).
Awburn looks to have their stuff together after a slow start.
Is this the week that Wisc finally falls after many weeks of teetering?

Well, we gave Staff plenty of time to throw to long balls out of bounds.
Defense is sucking. Tackle Foster!!!

Freaking offsides crap.
Killing us on cutbacks and counters.

We look like $h!t. 95 got knocked back on his @$$ the play before. Bad feelings building.

Decent stop by the defense. Looks like they are starting to settle in a bit. Now we need the offense to get on track.

Well, the good news is that our defense didn't get tired on that "drive" as we totally blew the trick play. So they'll be fresh later in the game.... right?

Thank God for penalties.

. . . a top 15 team playing an unranked opponent.

Oh, wait . . . we're the top 15 team and they're the unranked opponent?

You wouldn't know it to look at the first 20 minutes of this game.

Go 'Dawgs!

"Tackling for Dummies" anyone?

This is just embarrassing.

at least I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

Hemlock anyone?

i have no words. the offense looks anemic. the defense looks like they dont care. and UT is playing like their lives depend on it.

oh great another TD on 3rd and 1

Apparently the vols made the most of that week off and it looks like we decided to take this week off. I can't remember getting beat down like this in a while.

the TX-OU game isn't on, so there really isn't anything else to watch.

Oh goodness.

You want to look at last year and say "Well, hey! Tennessee was down at the half and then they came back!" But, this just looks really... really bad. Video game numbers almost.

Did we leave the real team in Tuscaloosa?

Team MVP. Couple of 50+ points.

but we should run off tackle with moreno. just seems like his speed could get him outside faster than the defense

and it is certainly showing, particularly on the offensive line...and particularly at left tackle.  But the missed defensive assignments are really disturbing.  This may or may not be an aberration, but I believe this is the worst I have seen a Richt-coached team play since he took over.  

Without the benefit of spellchecking or critical reflection:

1) It doesn't matter what Mark Richt's road record is unless he's planning on strapping on a pair of shoulder pads. I hope that our players now realize that.  Heaven knows I do.

2) This team came out mentally unprepared and lackadaisical.  That is the result of poor coaching and youth. That being said, I personally am pretty embarrassed.

3) After the third touchdown, I actually went out on my deck and bent a metal garden trowel with my bare hands.  Seriously, my wife can vouch for it and I can post the picture. It made me feel a little better, until they scored the fourth touchdown.

4) If Wille Martinez walked in my front door right now I would probably need a bailbondsman. If Asher Allen and Prince Miller walked in I would need a bailbondsman and Alan Dershowitz.

5) Has anyone noticed Mike Bobo's disturbing tendency to throw on 1st down and then run it on 2nd? I think the percentage of second down runs goes way up after an incomplete pass on first down.  If I've noticed that tendency, certainly John Chavis has.

6) I'm so glad I'm not in Knoxville right now.

7) This first half has really been the perfect storm, in which all of our historic flaws (poor tackling, timid linebacker play, breakdowns in the secondary, Stafford overthrown passes, dropped passes and boneheaded penalties) have occurred all at once.

8) One of our major problems is that it looks like we have 18 guys rotating in and out on defense, but only about 15 combined testicles for them to use while on the field.

9) I'd like to be able to offer some hope, but this team looks like they've mentally checked out already.  It will take some big Tennessee mistakes combined with some luck to get back in it.  Even then this one is a longshot. But if we come back in this one, I want to go on record as saying we may not lose again all year.  Because this is without a doubt the worst this team is capable of playing, especially from a mental standpoint.

Good start to the second half by forcing the punt.

Now we need to capitalize.

Man, did we need that!

shoulder injury. is that possibly a reinjury from last week? how much time do yall think kregg will see in the 2nd half? can knowshon play every down?

big fourth down stop needed. we need something along the lines of sean jones in '03 right now.

we give up another TD. just keep them under 50 dawgs. can we please start firewilliemartinez.com now pleaseeee.

i have tried to give him chance after chance but this is preposterous.

needs to pull his head out of his ass. a first down killing holding penalty against him just then and a chop block early and then a false start after that.

I am pissed certainly and may be looking to kill any UGA defender right now but this is not UGA football

Today, I'm embarrassed to be a Georgia fan.  Just embarrassed.  This is the first time I've felt such feelings since, oh, about 1999.  Congratulations, Mark Richt, Willie Martinez, et al.  You've officially become an embarrassment to the University.  The defense is horrible.  The offense isn't much better.  When a fifth-year senior forgets to block from the inside-out... something has gone horribly wrong.  Not a single positive can be taken from this game.  

At some point, Mark Richt needs to answer some tough questions... like why Willie Martinez is still employed by the University.  Why our defense has become worse and worse over the last three years.  And who is going to take the fall for games in which our defense could not possibly play any worse.

When tackling is this poor... when schemes are this poor... when all of the above is beyond what is acceptable... someone needs to take the fall.  I vote for Willie Martinez.  He has been a disappointment since he took over.  Georgia's defense has been on roller skates for the past few years, and I fear it will only get worse as UGA runs out of guys who even played one year under Van Gorder.  I would give my left nut for Will Muschamp at this point.  I know one thing.  The UGAAA will not get one red cent from me until we have a new defensive coordinator.  If Willie Martinez is on the sideline next year, I won't watch a single game.  I won't attend a single game.  I'll go into the type of despair and apathy that only Jim Donnan or Ray Goff could muster.  It's time for a change.  It must start now if Georgia is to ever accomplish anything beyond 8 or 9 wins... which is really in doubt this year.  I am totally in self-loathing mode, and it will take a miracle for me to become rational again when it comes to UGA football.  Blankety blank blank blank.  And you, too, Willie.  I hope you blankety blank and your entire family blankety blanks from blankety blank, you blankety blank blank blank.  Blank.  (This blog is family friendly after all.)

The tough thing is that usually UGA finishes pretty high in Defensive stats. Even with last year's implosion against Tenn, we ended up with pretty good defensive stats. (Kinda like why Tommy Bowden still has a job... for now). I think it will take consistently horrible games to see a change.

Also, who do you get?
I'm guessing Mike Stoops mike be available after this season. Could you get Muschamp to leave Auburn?