BOULDER — If you’re not exactly ready to run through a brick wall for Karl Dorrell yet, Maurice Jones-Drew has a little story. And a warning.
Dude throws it back to September 2005, when MJD, the former UCLA All-American and three-time Pro Bowl tailback, was yapping with reporters after watching tape for the Bruins’ second opponent that season, the Rice Owls.
“I was really confident, running my mouth a little bit,” recalled Jones-Drew, the current NFL Network analyst. “I think I said, ‘If we don’t beat this team by 60, if we don’t put up 50 points, this is not a good game for us.