Mallett Out 3-4 months

The #1 returning QB in the SEC Ryan Mallett from Arkansas broke his foot in practice yesterday and will be out 3-4 months. According to the Arkansas medical staff Mallett should be back in plenty of time to start preseason practice in August. Backup sophomore Tyler Wilson will take snaps with the first team offense in Mallet's absence.

Georgia vs Arkansas

Final: Georgia 52, Arkansas 41

Offense: Can not say too many bad things about the offense. Georgia racked up 530 total yards of offense. Joe Cox threw for 375 yards and five touchdowns. He connected with Green seven times for 137 yards and two touchdowns. Richard Samuel and Caleb King added a nice ground attack rushing for a combined 163 yards and one touchdown. The penalties on offense are getting ridiculous. We had holding and false start penalties all night long. They were killing us all night long. The offense also has got to do a better job of protecting the ball with the Bulldogs turning the ball over twice inside their own 30 yard line which led to 14 points. 

Defense: Hmmmm, where should I start with our defense? Defense has always been the strongest part of all Georgia teams until Willie Martinez took over as defensive coordinator. I am convinced now that our defense from the Oklahoma State game was just fluke. The only good thing about our defensive performance tonight is that we did not give up 100 yards on the ground. However, this does not do too much when you let Ryan Mallet throw for 408 yards and five TDs. I am pretty sure that I can count the amount of times we blitzed on one hand. We can not consistently get a pass rush with just our four lineman. So why Mr. Martinez may I ask, would you just let Mallet sit in the pocket and pick apart our defense without even trying to provide any type of pressure. You have got to stop running zone coverages all game and just letting the defense sit back and wait for plays to happen. Try to take a proactive approach and have a proactive defense instead of a reactive one. If we give up 35+ points all our games we will lose games I can promise you this. Martinez you have to do something different, we have the players to have a great defense.  

No Respect

I love that Georgia is right back where we usually are getting no respect at all. Last year was such a fluke for us Dawg fans, with everyone talking about Georgia all preseason and all season long. I love now that I am reading stories about us again on the web and through blogs saying that we will be just a mediocre team this year. Last week all the stories were saying that Georgia had to win this game to save our season. So, let me get this straight we were on verge of maybe losing two games and all the sudden our season would be lost. That makes a lot of sense if you ask me. In our third game we are the underdogs by 1 point in the latest Vegas lines. So we are ranked 23 and Arkansas is 46. Arkansas has only played Missouri State, who a good high school team could beat. They have a QB that has never thrown a pass in the SEC yet, but is the second coming according to all the Arkansas newspapers.

I agree we did give up a lot of points against South Carolina but we also scored 41 points as well. The South Carolina QB, Stephan Garcia, was very mobile and Georgia has always had problems against mobile QB's, so I was not surprised about that. Our defense should be chomping at the bit for Ryan Mallet and his 6.4 second 40 time. Arkansas has a lot of their defense returning from last year, however this is not a good thing since they were near the bottom in total defense. They did lose a CB and S and have had to replace them. Our offense should be able to but up at least 31 against Arkansas. Now we just need to make sure the Lee Corso does not pick Georgia since that is a death wish if he does.

Pass Rush Key to Arkansas Win

The Razorbacks have a new QB in Ryan Mallet who transferred from Michigan. Mallet is a big QB at 6' 7" and 238 lbs, but also is extremely slow. He has never faced an SEC defense before and as I am sure all y'all know we have the fastest defense's in the NCAA. Mallet was 17 for 22 against Missouri State and threw for 309 yards and a touchdown. He would have put up bigger numbers but was pulled in the second half. Mallet is not very good at avoiding the rush but can shake off arm tackles due to his size and strength. Georgia is going to have to get pressure on Mallet or we will not stand a chance against him as he will pick apart our zone coverage. The Arkansas line gave up a lot of sacks last year and they pretty much have the same unit in tact, but did lose their starting center from a year ago. Our quick ends should be able to provide more than enough pressure to disrupt Mallet and force some bad throws, especially with Justin Houston back this game.