UAB vs Georgia Bulldogs - KOD

[THE KOD]

KOD decides to call into the bowls of Sanford Stadium and get Stafford on the phone for a few.
Maybe if I can get Stafford pissed enough it will affect his game with UAB. At least its worth a shot.

Ring Ring.

Hello this is Sanford Stadium Administration, how may I help you ?

KOD - Yeh this is KOD I need to talk to H Stafford.

I am sorry sir we do not have a H Stafford listed.

KOD - Oh yeh Hershcel Stafford , put me through to him.

Oh yes I will put you through.


H Stafford - Hello

KOD - Yeh KOD here Stafford whats up on Saturday with the big game with UAB . Are you pumped for it ?

H Stafford - No actually I have had a touch of the flu.

KOD - really how bad do you feel.

There is this guy named Sun Tsu that was very upset you left Texas.

H Stafford - No I said I had tha flu and its not fun.

H Stafford - I feel like I got to hurl right now.

KOD - Waits 20 minutes as a pale H Stafford comes back.


H Stafford - OK I feel better now.

KOD - So you going to win this game or not .

H Stafford - Oh we are going to win the game, I can guarantee that much.

Did you hear about the freshman home stadium
disasters of the past.

H Stafford - I am sure I will make mistakes, but
I will keep them to a minimum.

KOD - Dont you think you will make a few of them rookie mistakes like throwing behind runners and 3 or 4 interceptions.

H Stafford - who are you again ?

How does it feel to step into the shoes of Herschel Stafford

H Stafford - If you say that again .... I will .....
ahhhh ..... aahhhhhhhh

Click


I think it worked

Go Blazers

 

[THE KOD]

Like a father and son are supposed to, John and Matthew Stafford watched the game together.


Brant Sanderlin / AJC
(ENLARGE)
Saturday against UAB, Matthew Stafford will become the first true freshman to start at quarterback for Georgia since Quincy Carter.

Like future college quarterbacks are supposed to do, Matthew broke down the play for his dad.

"I remember [John] Madden was one of the announcers, and we were sitting there, and there was sweep to the left side. It went nowhere and got blown up," John Stafford said. "Matthew looked at me and said, 'The tackle didn't pull.'

"Two seconds after that, Madden comes on and starts breaking down the play and says, 'If you can see here, the tackle was trying to get out but there is penetration and the play just got blown up.' Matthew was able to see that. He just saw it."

Matthew Stafford was 5 at the time.

So it began for this football prodigy with the preternatural ability to see things on the field and beyond his years. And so, too, began Stafford's feeding of his new habit.

By the seventh grade, Saturday sleep-ins, a cherished right of any adolescent, were gone. Stafford spent those mornings in the film room of his middle school, breaking down his game tape from the day before. By high school, his fingerprints were all over the game plan.

"I feel like I have a pretty decent idea on how to attack a team," said Stafford, a Texan who earned one honor after another during his high school days at Dallas' Highland Park. "I was always in on the plan for the team we played."

When Highland Park coach Randy Allen wanted to split his tackles out as wide receivers, stack the receivers behind them and leave just three down linemen in the state championship game, Stafford saw how that would work, too.

Next came Georgia. Stafford, who Saturday will become the first true freshman to start at quarterback since Quincy Carter, has been one step ahead since arriving on campus.

"When we had our little [football] tests that we have to take home, I might get stuck on something, and he just walks up behind, glances over my shoulder and is like, 'This, this and this,' " freshman wide receiver Kris Durham said. "I write it down. I know it is going to be right."

What has been so right for Stafford for so many games went wrong last weekend. Sure, Georgia won 18-0 at South Carolina. But Stafford, who came on in relief of an injured Joe Tereshinski, flogged himself afterward.

"That game is probably the worst game I have ever played," he said of his 42 percent completion rate and three interceptions.

"We are really very detailed on how we coach these guys, and he has got to be more detailed," coach Mark Richt said. "To think that he was going to do everything perfect was not very realistic at all."

But to expect improvement is. Last week in practice, Stafford estimated he got fewer than 20 percent of the snaps with the first-team offense. With Tereshinski injured this week, Stafford received the majority of the snaps in preparation for UAB.

"It just makes you raise your level of play, being around players like that that are all big-time players and knowing that you have got a big-time job to do," Stafford said. "... I am sure the numbers will improve. And our offense will improve."

As for his decision making, it doesn't take a ton of film study to know it must improve as well. Quarterbacks coach Mike Bobo said much of this week's preparation has been devoted to better managing the game.

Come Tennessee, Florida or Auburn week, the Bulldogs know three-interception efforts won't cut it.

"We were lucky last week," Bobo said. "We turned it over three times and we were still able to win that football game. We keep turning it over like that and we are going to lose."

The thing is, young players have that invincible feeling about them. They believe they can make any throw any time. Mainly, because they were able to against high school competition.

"Every play does not have to be a successful play," Bobo stressed. "We have got to get it into their brains that sometimes you have got to throw the ball away and sometimes you have got to punt. And especially with the way our defense is playing, a punt is not a bad thing.

"If it is not open, get rid of the football."

It didn't take a film session or the 12 "gassers" coaches made him run after Monday's practice for that lesson to be learned, Stafford said.

"I knew those were bad decisions right when I made them," he said.

See, he's learning already.

"I really believe he will play better," Richt said. "And he will probably run less gassers, I would hope."

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[THE KOD]

PLAY


Football - Hawaii - spread -13 (-110)


Football - Florida - spread -3? (-110)


Football - Michigan - spread +4? (-110)

Football - Louisville - spread -4 (-110)

777/706

PLAY

 

[THE KOD]

The Georgia game is only on PPV for 21 bucks.

Game Time

 

[THE KOD]

PLAY

Football - Hawaii - spread -13 (-110)

Football - Florida - spread -3? (-110)

Football - Michigan - spread +4? (-110)

Football - Louisville - spread -4 (-110)

777/706

PLAY

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3-1 + $ 512.00

Florida wins but does not cover.

 

[THE KOD]

Game Summary - $954.00 , + $ 512.00 =
- $442.00




Well I got to hand to Matthew Stafford. This kid can play. No big mistakes, kept his cool, made his passes when he needed to, just a solid effort of having fun in a game.

Georgia got their 34 points, but I am still flabbergasted that UAB did not score even once.

This Georgia team has not allowed anyone to score yet.

This defense is for real.

OK got to suck it up and see whats next.