"It’s always discouraging to lose any game, so we’re not happy about the won-loss record right now," Richt said. "When you do the job we do and you coach and you teach and you give your guys assignments and you give them things they’re trying to get better at, and you watch the film and you see guys improve, that’s what I’m talking about." Richt noticed improvement from Aaron Murray at quarterback,and a better showing from Georgia’s running game, which had 139 yards, and a strong effort against Arkansas' running attack. The Bulldogs held Arkansas to 53 yards rushing and 2.3 yards a carry. Although Arkansas quarterback Ryan Mallett threw for 380 yards and three touchdowns. "I don’t want to throw out anything that would sound like dirty laundry or anything on these kids," Richt said. "The blame was spread out across the board. It wasn’t just one culprit" Murray still managed to go 15-for-27 for 253 yards and one touchdown and rallied the Bulldogs from a 14-point fourth-quarter deficit. "He’s got to learn to continue to work his way up in the pocket and throw the ball on time," Richt said."That’s kind of what I was talking about after Game One, trying to create something out of something that’s not there. And when you do that enough times, you’re going to get hit like that. He made a lot of very positive plays rushing the football and moving up in the pocket, throwing or running, but you just can’t ask the guys to block too long. By trying to move up and move back and reset and all that, you’re going to get hit. He’s learning that."
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