CPJ on a few topics
Two of 14 spring practices are in the books. We’ll learn more today when the Jackets put on shoulder pads, and tomorrow, when they do some real hitting in full pads.
Coach Paul Johnson addressed a few issues after practice No. 2.
Here’s what he had to say about the defensive line, which lost Michael Johnson, Vance Walker and Darryl Richard. (Currently, the first unit is Derrick Morgan and Robert Hall at DE, Ben Anderson and Jason Peters in the middle).
“In shorts, it’s hard to gauge defensive linemen. We’ve got some guys we’re excited about mixed in with some guys who have played a little bit. I think that will sort itself out. I think we’ve got to be a group of guys who really pay attention to detail and try to be fundamentally sound. We may not have the same type of physical specimens that we’ve had there, but I think we’ve got some good players.”
The backfield will be a lot deeper than it was a year ago. At B-back you start with Jonathan Dwyer and Richard Watson. At A-back you’ve got Roddy Jones, Lucas Cox, Anthony Allen, Marcus Wright and Embry Peeples. (Wright and Peeples are two of the fastest players on the roster.)
“I think we’re going to have more depth than we had a year ago, but we were very lucky a year ago,” CPJ said. “We didn’t get very many people hurt. As you start to build a program up, the ideal thing is going to be where you have depth and if you miss a guy, you move another guy in and you’re not staying up at night worrying who’s going to play if this guy gets hurt. We’re a little closer to that this year. We’re not there yet, but we’re getting closer.”
He said it’s too early to speculate on how the pieces will fit.
“There’s a perception of what we think they’re going to do, but we haven’t seen ‘em do anything yet. So we’ll gauge it as we go into it.”
Players are being taught to play either position, and that’s key.
“I think it will help make us better. Our goal is to get the best 11 players on the field. It might be three of ‘em at B-back, so they’ll have to move. It could be three at A-back, and they’ll have to be able to move. We’ve just got to get the best 11 on the field.”
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DawgBite
March 27th, 2009
4:59 pm
No just a time frame for most of the success Tech has had or ever will have. GT has a long way to go to return to modern football relevancy. Maybe at least with CPJ around somebody outside the perimeter will actually know who you are. Your fame may spread all the way to Valdosta and north to Charlotte eventually.
Supersize that order, mutt
March 27th, 2009
5:00 pm
So, DawgBite and Dawgbonz, why do you guys feel it necessary to come onto a Ga Tech blog and post all your mindless drivel. I have never logged into the UGAG site, and I doubt that most Tech people who post here ever have either. Why is that, especially after having suffered what had to have been a very embarassing loss for the mutts, you are so obsessed with Tech? Are you really so insecure about your team that you have to act like a grammar school schoolyard bully. Remember, nobody ever liked those creeps, and eventually they got what was coming to them. Well, nobody likes you guys, and what is coming to you has already started: FORTY FIVE to FORTY TWO !!! Run, Roddy, Run !!!
DawgBite
March 27th, 2009
5:04 pm
Supersize, trek (no pun intended) on over to the UGA blog from time to time and you will see many of the denizens of your beloved Tech blog doing the exact same thing.
Douglas
March 27th, 2009
5:06 pm
Must you constantly be reminded supersize dumbazz? 38-3 sissy boy. Supersize that.
Supersize that order, mutt
March 27th, 2009
5:08 pm
DawgBite, let’s see. National championship for Tech—1990. National championship for UGAG—1980. Seven years of losing to one team does not remove that team from relevancy. If it does, then UGAG’s MANY losses to the Gators did the mutts in a long time ago. Do you really think that anybody outside the southeast gives a rip about what comes out of Athens, GA? At least Tech, winning or losing, is known worldwide by the one-of-a-kind Ramblin’ Wreck and the fight song. Hell, you guys had to steal a patriotic hymn for your fight song, and there are probably at least 100 schools in the US with dogs as their mascots. That’s hardly original either. Of course, a few more (EXPECTED) wins against the mutts will go a long way towards reinstating our “relevancy” in the football world.
DCT
March 27th, 2009
5:10 pm
How bout that supersize butt kicking you girls took in the Chicken Bowl. Absolutely disgraced yourselves in the only bowl you’ve been to in years that wasn’t played on a blue rug or associated with nuts (and not your boyfriend’s). But you’re tech. It always ends that way for you.
Supersize that order, mutt
March 27th, 2009
5:11 pm
Douglas, unless you are an LSU fan, why the hell do you care about the Tech – LSU score. Should I bring up the Bama and UF overpowering wins over UGAG? And Dawgbite, if there are any TRUE Tech fans posting on the UGAG site, then they are just as F***d up as you are. I have no respect for them, and I have no respect for you.
Supersize that order, mutt
March 27th, 2009
5:13 pm
And DouglASS and DCT share that lack of respect from the Tech people here too.
DCT
March 27th, 2009
5:14 pm
And how many conference titles did you say you girls have won in recent history. Could that number be uh…..0? I thought so. Not even in the ACC can you squirrels get the nut.
Take any seats out of your stadium lately? Got rings?
38-3. And what did you say your record was against UGA since 1964? Your overall record against UGA? I CAN’T HEAR YOU! Speak up little darlin.
Supersize that order, mutt
March 27th, 2009
5:28 pm
DCT, HEAR THIS!!!
FORTY-FIVE to FORTY-TWO !!!
Enough said. Deal with it. Get a life and get the hell out of the Tech site.
Why I luv Ugut.
March 27th, 2009
5:34 pm
here is why I luv dem dangole ga boorats.
1> I dang ole gurls are so dang ole pretty! But dang, our guys are are toothless bumbleF’s … ok, scratch dat one.
2> We are always a dang ole preseason number 1! But dang, we neva win a dang thang… ok, scratch dat too!
3> Our dang ole coach believe’s god will help his dang ole team win… But dang, we seem to always find a way to lose to vandy, KY, Fa and ga tech last yiea…rats…scratch dat too.
4> I just like dang ole ugut cause our fans are so dang ole nice and are dang ole smart!… shoot, our afeletes are top notch in the classfroom… We purt out some really good ditch diggerers ova heih!!!
and 6> W love or drug dealers..shoot…our dang ole drug dealers lead the nation bos and hos!!!
Dawgbonz
March 27th, 2009
5:42 pm
supersize,,,, IS IT NECESSARY FOR YOU TO BE A TECH FAN.. WHY
Wth???
March 27th, 2009
5:51 pm
Why dont’t UGA win three more NCs, and then come and talk to us if we’re still alive.
CPJ owns UGAG
March 27th, 2009
5:54 pm
To DCT: Georgia Tech vs. uga (Paul Johnson era)
GT 1-0 (100%)
uga 0-1 (not to good for the football factory playing a year 1 coach)
Mark my words, “As long as CPJ is at Tech, the series will be pretty much even between the Jackets and doggies.”
Dawgbonz
March 27th, 2009
6:07 pm
The post above me is so STUPID. 1 win hardly qualifies owning anything…GOSH….IDIOT!! CMR OWNS THE JACKETS 7-1
Supersize that order, mutt
March 27th, 2009
7:05 pm
Dawgbonz, yes, it is necessary for me to be a Tech fan. My parents brought me up to make intelligent decisions, and so, when I was 18 years old, I chose to be a Tech fan, having been up until then pretty much impartial. They also taught me not to associate with unsavory characters. So I generally avoid people like you who apparently have nothing really going for them in life. I do, however, contribute regularly to the Salvation Army and similar organizations, who hopefully provide people like you with affordable food, clothing, and lodging, when times are hard. I actually don’t despise you or look down on you; I have compassion for you. Everyone cannot be born, reared, and educated as well as I was. I received a quality education from one of the most prestigious engineering colleges in the world (and the number one institute of higher learning in the state of Georgia), and I thank God for that education, just as I thank God for giving me the grace—and the intelligence to accept that grace—to be a Georgia Tech fan. You, however, are apparently a miserable wretch, obsessed with his lot in life because he is not a Tech fan….obsessed so much, in fact, that he spends all his free time on a Tech website begging for attention. Such insecurity….so sad. It would be so much easier for you if you just accept the inevitable and come on over to the light. Then you can say, “I was blind, but now I see…..Praise God for Georgia Tech!”
BS Patrol
March 27th, 2009
7:21 pm
And it’s the Yankee fight song right he in The Heart of Dixie for cryin’ out loud! Downright shameful & a disgrace to the Soldiers of The Cause. I’ll never understand that one. You Doggies really need to work on getting that fixed.
Name does not matter; 45/42 does
March 27th, 2009
8:27 pm
What have you done lately dogs?
Dog Food
March 27th, 2009
10:06 pm
M- if gas drops to .99 a gallon, I’ll pump it naked w/ my dentures on hood. Better gas up that Greyhound b/c another “Thank GOd and GreyHound” comment and we just might put you on that bus. Glad to have you around anyhow.
OUCH! UNC is starting to rip Gonzaga a new one. And speaking of UNC, I think it will come down to UNC and GT in the coastal b/c VT barely got by last year and has it coming to them in ATL this year (barring any stolen jersey incidents to give them an incentive). Its payback for that disaster in Chapel Hill last year too. Just hope we don’t meet LSU in post season again. That Les Miles is one mean man.
Dog Food
March 27th, 2009
10:12 pm
DOES ANYONE KNOW WHO WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT IN THE RECIEVING CORP AND IF CPJ HAS INSERTED MORE OF THE RUN N SHOOT IN SPRING DRILLS YET? D THOMAS IS ONE BUT WHO ELSE WILL FILL THE VOID. MAYBE ALLEN OUT OF THE BACKFIELD AS A RECIEVER? I HEAR HE IS A REAL THREAT W/ THE RELEASE AND CATCH.
GT (D-line) 2009
March 28th, 2009
12:07 am
The DL is going to be fine this season (as long as they stay healthy).
It’s hilarious how everyone is saying how these guys can’t play simply b/c three SENIORS were starting last season. Three SENIORS who did nothing with their play to warrant being benched in favor of the guys who will be replacing them this season.
Tech’s best D-lineman in 2008 was Derrick Morgan anyway; he’ll be a junior in 2009. And I read a number of articles during the 2008 season in which players/coaches quoted how redshirt freshman, TJ Barnes (6′7″ 325lbs) dominated in practices. And yes, the guys currently listed as starters were highly rated coming out of high school. Now add incoming freshman, JC Lanier (6′3″ 340lbs), and some other recruits to the mix.
The DL will be fine.
BS Patrol
March 28th, 2009
2:16 am
The doggies “other” 7 game win streak included the Bill Lewis years. Here’s a coach that makes Chan look like Vince Lombardi.
addicted
March 28th, 2009
6:04 am
Maybe if Tech had to go steal someone else’s logo as their own (Green Bay Packers) our fans might also have as big an inferiority complex as UGA fans commenting on this blog seem to have.
More to the point, I am really excited about the backs we are developing. I also think our defense will be better than last year over the season. Our lack of depth on defense last year left us thoroughly exposed. We have far more depth and experience overall.
Its hard to replace the kind of starters we lost on the D-line, but upgrading (and adding depth to), every other position on D definitely helps in this regard.
Jacketman
March 28th, 2009
8:38 am
Dawggoneit, DawgBite, DCT, and Dawgbonz
45 to 42
FU
GT
March 28th, 2009
9:42 am
I am not sure we knew we had great defensive lineman when we recruited last years group. Like CPJ said you don’t know what you got until it is on the field playing, particularly d-lineman. My point is in this offensive scheme the defense gets a lot of rest unless the offense starts scoring a lot of fast touchdowns, which is not all bad.
Tom
March 28th, 2009
1:53 pm
I wonder what it is about an 8-win streak (compared to 7) that means you retire a jersey for breaking it?
superDawg
March 28th, 2009
6:50 pm
hey jacket boy and all the rest of you needle dick bug f ers.tech can’t win a all chump conference.what makes you think gt is this all powerfull team UGA owns you i guess thats why when you finally win one you seem to forget that fact! The world knows the real story so print this note on your mind so you don’t forget it.DAWGS RULE!!!
macrotech
March 28th, 2009
7:06 pm
superDawg, it’s difficult to ‘remember’ that the mutts own us in the midst of our celebrated victory in the most recent season. Time for you to wash those under-oos…. other than the head to head match up (i concede uga has a significant lead in this department), Tech’s history is greater than the flat nosed turd chompers and our present is perfect! You silly little puppy, DAWGS DROOL!!! GO TECH!!!
Charlie L
March 28th, 2009
10:55 pm
I just wonder. Is CPJ gay too?
elton john
March 29th, 2009
1:53 am
macrotech you sound weak in the testicles maybe you can be in my next video,rocketman.To go where know woman has gone before.
SugarHillDawg
March 29th, 2009
9:02 am
Hey Ramble On! Where ya been? Did your mom let you out of the basement long enough to post something?You LOSERS better worry about assembling a defense. If you guys think y’all are gonna run on us like you did last year, you guys have the worst case of mass delusion on record!!!I would say that I can’t wait to beat Tech brains out in that dump of a stadium but after reflection, we are only beating Tech!!!
m
March 29th, 2009
9:36 am
sugarhilldawg, you are the one that is delusional. Go on youtube and watch the second half of the Tech-ugag game and cry like a baby. You might as well because you need to go ahead and get used to it. Your kids may have grandkids by the time ugag beats Tech again. Paul Johnson was hired to kick your sorry arses…it will only get worse for you. Ugag #1 2008 preseason…laughing my arse off.
Rock
March 29th, 2009
9:38 am
GT, I played for Erk Russell when CPJ was the OC at Georgia Southern. We werent in a conference when Erk was Coach. Also we had an awesome Defense.You dont when 6 natl championships with a mediocre defense.We had a 2 or 3 great athletes because they were casualties from D1 Schools everybody else was good but not great like D1 schools have. But we played with heart. One thing that CPJ will have GT doing is playing with Heart. I know him well and trust me on that. Georgia should be nervous.I bet most people dont know this but CPJ was the Defensive Line Coach when Erk hired him in ‘83. Listen how much of risk taker Erk was, he then moved CPJ to be OC the next year. We then won 2 natl championships ‘85 & ‘86. CPJ also never played football and was a basketball player and Coach.I never figured why Erk hired him as OC but it turns out to be one of the biggest moves in Georgia Southerns History next to hiring Erk and finding Tracy Ham. Also one of the biggest moves for NAVY and GT. Giff was my teammate, Sewak was my DB coach and CPJ was our OC. I am now a huge GT fan. My son is a D1 recruit in Gwinnett and I hope he picks GT. Go Tech
SugarHillDawg
March 29th, 2009
11:02 am
Well m if he was hired to beat UGA, you guys wasted your money. I will give you last year,our defense played like well Tech does usually.You are one of the many afflicted with mass delusion. It’s gonna be just like it has always been. CPJ might be a good coach but he can’t make chicken salad out of chicken $%$#!
Mr. Skynyrd
March 29th, 2009
2:01 pm
But Richt and UGA will always be amoung the nations best at making chicken $%$#! out of chicken salad, so let’s go ahead and play the games and see what happens.
macrotech
March 29th, 2009
2:01 pm
Elton? Why so bitter?! STILL sore from the last little trip between the hedges?! Rock, I agree with you on CPJ! I believe him to be a genious strategist with an amazing ability to inspire great heart. Erk Russell told me that he’d ALWAYS build his team around players with heart rather than ability…..seems to have worked out pretty well for him!!!! I LOVE that CPJ is carrying on the legacy here at Tech!!! We’ve needed heart for a while now……NOW we seem to be embracing this! Good luck to your son….i look forward to cheering him on IF he becomes a Yellow Jacket! ;0)
m
March 29th, 2009
2:18 pm
sugarhilldawg, the chicken salad was dressed in white and gold. The chickenshiiite was dressed in red and black. If you couldn’t beat Tech last year with your best team in school history (according to the preseason polls) and Tech having a new coach and new offense without the proper personnel, you may never beat Tech. It is you pitiful pups that are delusional. I went to the game and I laughed at you dawgs all day long…and am still laughing at you.
superDawg
March 29th, 2009
2:30 pm
To all the teck nerds.I hope your football team can scrape together a good season,because when UGA comes calling and whips your space program back to the earth you will realize ‘08 was a fluke.Cpj motivate your boys well its tough in a man’s world.Looking forward to ‘09.
macrotech
March 29th, 2009
3:00 pm
superDawg, CALM DOWN!!! Take a breath!! THIS can’t be good for your heart…..next season will come soon enough. ‘08 is Tech’s!!! I understand your panic. Tech has ruined your world by beating you in your own home and NOW there seems to be reason to believe that the tides are turning….you had seven years of bragging…..IT’S OUR TURN!!!!! GO TECH!!!!! ;0)
SugarHillDawg
March 29th, 2009
9:04 pm
M M M, We scored 42 points on you with a bunch of first year offensive linemen and a defense that was probably the worst Goeorgia D I have seen since the Goff era.What makes you think you guys are gonna get the right personnel? Your coach is really going to have to con ANY good players to come to that place. There are not many sure things in this world but I know of one,UGA will beat you NERDS handily next year!!
m
March 29th, 2009
9:29 pm
sugarhilldawg, you are just as wrong about this year as you were about last year….which confirms that you really are a dawg. ha ha ha
Joe Schmoe
March 29th, 2009
9:46 pm
Enough of this trash talking and no walking by UGA fans. Does anyone have any info on the new commit Fred Holton from Thomasville GA?
Cuz
March 30th, 2009
4:45 am
I am a Dawg and proud of it. The only times in the past I have come on here is to encourage you guys to better efforts, not at the UGA game of course. I am sick up and fed with Old Gold, Ramble on, m, GT, BS patrol and a cast of dozens coming on to our blog and insulting us. Paybacks are hell. I will feel it is my resposibility to point out the obvious. Tech needs to go to Division II.
After playing their little hearts out. Tech was able to totally dominate UGA by three points. Most coaches in the SEC would have kept that quiet. Oh no, Mr. Genuis ordered championshp rings, state title I guess, with the score 45-42. So all of us will remember, yeah right, it wears off when we trounce you again next year. That being said, he forgot to coach the team in the bowl game, to busy looking at his ring. And Tech got more embarrassed than they did by Garder-Webb. 38-3, they should allow mercy killing on this one. Best Tech season in 10 years, 8-4. Second worst season in Coach Richt’ts tenure, 10-3. You are out coached, out manned and just pathetic pieces of trash. Somewhere there are trailer parks all over the state missing their idiot. When more wins than one, then start bragging. You are and always be, the number four team in the state, Georgia Southern has more fans.
Since your guys will not leave the UGA blogs alone, I will be back to make your life just a little more fun, dirtbags. Till next time.
macrotech
March 30th, 2009
12:40 pm
Cuz?! You ok? How’d your panties get in such a wad?! Might consider wearing a thong! Truly, YOU are the ONLY leg humper cruising OUR blogs….. shut your hole! Division II?! If THAT’S the case, then 1- your team got beat by a Div. II team 2- Tech, Div. II, has more national championships in Div. I than your beloved hiney sniffers! 3- Tech, Div. II, has more conference championships in Div.I than your little turd eaters! After playing our hearts out, we BEAT your mutts between their own hedges. ALL i’m hearing from your fellow mutts is that uga was the ‘unluckiest preseason #1 team in the HISTORY of the ncaa’ AND ‘questionable calls’….WHATEVER! You guys had a nice run of seven. THAT streak is over and a new one may have begun! The rings?! Seriously?! You pups WOULD think that it was all about ya’ll! You “feel it’s your responsibility to point out the obvious”? What you were feeling was gas! All you did was blow hot air that smells like a kennel! GO TECH!!!!
m
March 30th, 2009
2:11 pm
you dog fans should be thanking cpj for not running up the score at the end.. it showed alot of class to just have nesbitt kneel the ball down at the end instead of embarrassing you more at home
EEJacket
March 31st, 2009
2:21 pm
Well Cuz, I’m thoroughly impressed. You’re the first Dawg on here who hasn’t made a complete fool of himself and actually used reason rather than “HELL YEA BROTHER UGA!!!” as his argument. That being said, you’re still a complete lunatic. DII? Get real, f**kface, and get used to Tech being a presence in FBS.
Suefchuhcruff
April 17th, 2009
4:51 am
nice, really nice!