T-Day game thoughts
Greetings, all-
I think this is going to be quick, because it appears I’m the last one in Bobby Dodd Stadium and I’d like to get home. But, anyway, a few takes from the T-Day game.
1. Don’t get too worked up over Tevin Washington’s performance. True, it was pretty lousy. He threw three interceptions and led the offense to one touchdown in 10 possessions. First, he’s played better over the course of the spring than he did Saturday, and he was, as Paul Johnson put it, running for his life. If you were at the game and got on the Synjyn Days bandwagon because of the way he played, there’s probably a pretty good chance you would have been of a 180-degree different mindset last Saturday.
It doesn’t say very hopeful things about the quarterback position that the two top guys swapped dreadful scrimmages in consecutive weeks, but, as I said, Washington has been better than he was Saturday.
(I don’t think this means that Vad Lee should start, by the way. As I’d mentioned before, he’d have to be pretty spectacular in fall practice, and really in just the first couple weeks of it before they start preparing for Western Carolina, to win the job, and that doesn’t seem likely. Possible, certainly, but not likely.)
Johnson said something interesting after the game after saying those two and the two incoming freshmen, Lee and Demontevious Smith, will all have a shot in the fall.
“Sometimes winning the game is not losing it, being able to manage it and do those kinds of things.”
2. Johnson likes the B-backs. Preston Lyons ran 11 times for 50 yards, Richard Watson ran hard with 6 carries for 48 with a touchdown, David Sims was 7 for 33. Charles Perkins seemed to have the misfortune of running smack into the line multiple times and was 7 for 11.
But, as he’d said the other day, Johnson thinks the B-back spot is the deepest and that any of them could play.
"O.K., fellas, let's make sure we get our share of the calls today..."
3. Inside linebacker Quayshawn Nealy doesn’t look like a backup. He was, to me, the most impressive player on the field Saturday. He had 7.5 tackles, a fumble recovery, a sack and he tipped a Washington pass that was intercepted. He is playing behind Daniel Drummond and Julian Burnett, though. Defensive coordinator Al Groh said it’s a little early to say he’s ready to be a capable backup, saying that Nealy relies too much on his speed and needs to learn to take on and defeat blocks.
“But he’s really bought into it and certainly done better with it and seemed to have some success with it today,” Groh said.
Non-sequitur fact: Nealy said he was named by his aunt, who got the name from a television show. He and I are sort of similar in that way. I think my mom named me after W.S. Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan fame. No joke. (My first name is Gilbert, which, as I like to say, is why I go by Ken.)
4. Kicking game – not so hot. Justin Moore missed from 49, David Scully from 47 and Andy Elakman from 28. Last week, Moore, the only kicker on scholarship, missed two inside 40. I asked Johnson if he learned anything new Saturday about his kickers, and he said no, which I don’t take to be a good thing. It sounds like Moore and Scully will be competing for the job in the fall. No preferred walk-ons are coming in as freshmen, by the way.
5. A link to Johnny Crawford’s excellent slideshow.
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117 comments Add your comment
Old Blind Dawg
April 26th, 2011
11:35 pm
I’m sorry Stinger, please forgive me. I don’t want another azz whipping from you. You hunka-hunka!!!!
Old Blind Dawg
April 26th, 2011
11:38 pm
Hit a nerve – surely you jest. All I did was point out your stupidity.
I have experienced far worse – trust me – your childish leaves me laughing. Sleep tight tool………………………..
Old Blind Dawg
April 27th, 2011
12:19 am
Hey Stinger what was it you were saying about baseball LMFAO
Stinger
April 27th, 2011
9:27 am
Old Blind Dawg I do believe that you attended UGA. Easy to get into UGA, so you probably were admitted. You flunked out your freshman year and began working for Pulpwood Smith at the Clark County sanitation department. Pulpwood drove the truck and you hung on to the back of the truck as you ran from house to house picking up garbage. You fell off the truck injuring you at the age of 4o and filed for permanent disability. Two years later you were placed on permanent disability and called yourself retired. You are now living on a disability pension and have nothing to do except worship the Jacket nation and stay on our blogs 24/7. The only football games you actually went to was sitting on the railroad tracks along with 20,000 other red necks drinking PBR. You have a Napoleon complex which is a personality that consists of power trips and false machismo to make up for short height and feeling of inferiority. I’d say you are about 5’5” and weigh about 135 lbs, never played any sports but probably played the flute in the high school band. Bottom line, a girly boy.
Why are you talking about baseball? This is a football blog you moron. LMAO
Have a nice day Stupid!
College Spring Football Recap - 4/26/2011
April 27th, 2011
11:07 am
[...] Tech quarterback Tevin Washington was horrible passing the ball last weekend, throwing three interceptions in 10 [...]
404
April 27th, 2011
11:36 am
Old Blind Dog:
Thanks again for spending so much of your “retirement” time on the GT blog.
GT Fan
April 27th, 2011
1:36 pm
I sure wish CPJ would take some of Al Groh’s advice and apply to the offensive side of the ball. “We need to be coming up with solutions to new problems or new solutions to old problems. If that book stays the same from year to year, we’re probably losing ground.”
Come on CPJ – let’s see some modifications to our playbook to leverage our current players talents.
Old Blind Dawg
April 27th, 2011
3:38 pm
Believe what you want fools. My time is spent as I see fit and remember your tax money is going into my pocket as disability payments on top of my retirement. You could say I’m living large thanks to my fellow tax payers and that my friends is the absolute truth read it and weep
GT Fan I agree with your assessment – spot on.
Stinger
April 27th, 2011
5:26 pm
Old blind dawg I am starting to feel sorry for you now. Maybe I will throw you a bone every now and then. I probably make more in one year than you did the last 10 yrs. There is one thing that really bothers me. Did you really drink PBR on the railroad tracks or was it Mad dog 20/20?
GT Fan
April 27th, 2011
5:33 pm
I’d back off Stinger. Sounds like Old Bling Dawg is a veteran. After doing 20, veterans get roughly half their salary of active duty plus any disability for random things like hypertension or any other ailments. You can do the math, but if Old Blind Dawg lives another 40 years, that’s well over a million dollars…
Stinger
April 27th, 2011
8:31 pm
You’re probably right GT Fan, I didn’t think about that. He did say that he really lives high on the hog. However; I doubt seriously that he has the intelligence to invest all that money to last another 40 years. I also question anyone that is a dawg fan wanting to live that long. Could you imagine watching those thugs for another 40 years. Do you believe that they could actually win another Championship in the next 40 years? It has already been 31 years.
Old Blind Dawg
April 27th, 2011
9:34 pm
Stinger I didn’t attend UGA and I’m damn sure you didn’t attend college at all. Stop acting like a child and postulating about how much money you have or have not made it is irrelevant to the discussion grow the FU.
GT Fan you are pretty clever – you are close to the truth – 100E back in the day – which is now 152H or 152F but I didn’t put in 20 more like 3. I co-found of a construction company and sold my interest after 17 years retiring when I was 42. It’s really not that complex.
Now let’s get back to talking GT football and how UGA flat out owns them. I come here for fun nothing more nothing less and like I said earlier 6 relatives graduated from the North Avenue Trade School.
Stinger
April 28th, 2011
8:24 pm
Old Blind Dawg I can assure you that I graduated from college in fewer years than it took you to get your degree on line from Devry University. You’re worse than I initially thought. I gave you too much credit. Of course if you had gone to UGA, it would have proved that you were not as smart as a fifth grader. I am questioning that fact anyway.
No one really cares anything about you on this blog. You are obsessed with the Jacket Nation and you wish you were part of it. You are the most childish 42 yr old that I have ever heard of. I am sorry that you were terminated and can’t find another job in this economy; however I don’t care to hear your story day in and day out. You don’t have to worry about me being around during football season. I will be your worst nightmare. Sleep tight until football season.
Winning Spirit
April 29th, 2011
8:52 am
Paul Johnson will produce a National Championship at GT. Write it down!
Denver Dawg
April 29th, 2011
9:12 am
Winning Spirit, put down the crack pipe. Do you also see visions of Tevin Washington becoming college football’s next Cam Newton?…
What a joke!
Stinger
April 29th, 2011
10:23 am
My screen name is Stinger because my real name is really dorky. I am a wanna be bee. I live in my mom’s basement. I love computer games. I am clueless and ungrateful. I have never played any sports but I am great at computer games. I once scored almost 100 points in Madden Football. I would be a great QB in real life but I am afraid I will get hurt.
GT will probably go undefeated next year and kill the mutts. GT will be in the hunt for the national championship. Coach Paul Johnson sends a tingle up my leg every time I think about him.
Stinger
April 29th, 2011
10:34 am
Stinger imposter is playing Madden games what you do with your unemployed idle time? You really are a Jacket wantabee. LMAO