Caleb King ‘pushing himself’
The Red & Black’s Tyler Estep checks in with Richard Samuel on the off-season state of the Dogs’ tailbacks, where Caleb King is penciled in at No. 1 but didn’t finish up the spring with a very firm grip on the starting job. Samuel’s still awfully young but showed flashes of potential last season. Then there are Carlton Thomas, the surprise star of the spring, and Dontavius Jackson, also coming back from injury. And if he doesn’t get redshirted, true freshman Washaun Ealey is likely to get into the mix, too.
Samuel, who estimates he’s “not quite” 100 percent recovered from wrist surgery in January but expects to be fine when camp opens in August, says the tailbacks themselves aren’t really paying attention to the focus fans are putting on the competition at that position.
“We don’t even really talk about it,” he says. “We just go out there and all help each other out, and if we see a person messing up we’re going to try to help the other person. So we don’t really see it as competition. We know it’s a competition in the back of our heads, but we just do the best that we can every day.”
Samuel tells the R&B he’s seen that King is “pushing himself. He has that drive to be better. He’s working hard in that weight room, working hard in that film room. Just the drive and determination that he has is stronger.”
Mark Richt is already on record saying King has “become an outstanding pass protector” (contrary to last season) and understands Georgia’s system better now. If he’s found the drive and determination that seemed to be missing in the spring — the spark to bust a tackle or go for the extra yard — that can only be good news for the Dogs.
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192 comments Add your comment
Cuz
June 25th, 2009
10:36 am
Someone just step up!
BruffDawg
June 25th, 2009
10:45 am
I worry about king’s toughness. He does not seem to ever make it past first contact. Pass blocking is nice and everything, but you still gotta tote the rock every now and then. Because of his high level recruiting status he will get a chance early on, but if he struggles he will find his way to the sideline yet again.
Cuz
June 25th, 2009
10:54 am
Or back to running back by committee, it works so well with Congress.
Saint Simons
June 25th, 2009
11:01 am
45-42!!!!!!!! hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Saint_Simons_Blows
June 25th, 2009
11:07 am
Dude, come up with something else. You look like a stalker
coachdawg 2000
June 25th, 2009
11:08 am
Saint Simons
when is last time you had an original thought. Maybe it when you decided that the best fit for you a campus in close proximity to Atlanta’s gay community.
Stephen
June 25th, 2009
11:09 am
I think we will really see who wants it once game day comes…it seems to be a wide open race but the one who deserves the shot will get it and the Dawgs will be fine. They always are at TB.
Saint Simons i find it funny that tech fans are bringin that game up still…just look back at the past 7 years. I guess this is all you have to do though since nobody cares to write about Tech. Nobody in the country cares about Tech. They have all forgotten about that win.
WTF???
June 25th, 2009
11:10 am
Perhaps he can push himself to at least attempt to run a defender over, instead of spinning or stepping out of bounds. This ain’t highschool Caleb…. Lower your pads & hit some-damn-body….
Josh
June 25th, 2009
11:10 am
Saint Simons wets the bed.
dobearsbare
June 25th, 2009
11:10 am
Halley’s Comet hahahahahahahahaha
John
June 25th, 2009
11:12 am
You know I don’t think I’ve ever opened the GT blog once. Your team gets one win finally and it’s like you won a NC game or something. How about the past 7-8 years that we kicked the crap out of ya’ll huh? Why don’t you get a life and stop trolling the UGA blogs with your bull**** Lame A**
Josh
June 25th, 2009
11:14 am
Saint Simons got his first pimple!!!!
Josh
June 25th, 2009
11:15 am
Saint Simons got his first pimple!!!
Josh
June 25th, 2009
11:16 am
Oh, there’s another!!
Yellow_Jerkit
June 25th, 2009
11:16 am
I still think Bill King is Saint Simons —as an blog interest generator!!!!!!!! hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
true fan
June 25th, 2009
11:19 am
Here’s a new one for yall, Have Faith in our team. If you call yourself a true bulldog fan, have faith that our players will put last year and all the bad things that happened behind them and are trying to get better. Just because Caleb had one bad year doesn’t make him a bust. I’ve seen what he can do, he’s still a good player.
coachdawg 2000
June 25th, 2009
11:20 am
These techies,including pajamas,are so pathetic that they stake their entire life on a regular saeson game. We want to beat Florida but our goals are to win the SEC. This is isn’t on the geeks radar because it hasn’t been done in 19 years. So enjoy your 1 victory every 8 years and we’ll continue to see yall as the final scrimmage before our Conference Championship game. We’ve been relevant in the last 20 years HA!HA!HA!HA!
WTF???
June 25th, 2009
11:24 am
I think they should do a 20/20 special on immaturity of Tech fans.
Investigate their childhoods & pitiful lifes to see if there is a way for them to join a 12 step program similar to Alcoholics.
That’s it, Bitches Anonymous…
Co-Founders – Saint Simons & Ramblin Rick (perhaps the same person?)….
WTF???
June 25th, 2009
11:25 am
oops, lives…
Bill, please have spellcheck installed onto blogs.
Thank you
coachdawg 2000
June 25th, 2009
11:28 am
As far as CK:I think that he is on the verge of having a monster year. Last year was sort of like what Shockley went through his first 3 years behind Greene. I think Caleb was trying too hard to do something exciting to make a huge splash with limited snaps. Playing running back is closer to running a marathon than a 200m sprint. If your given enough carries those 3-5 yard carriers become 15-20 yard explosions in the 4th quarter. Also hopefully he won’t tap himself out in the redzone or be bizarely removed from the game by Coach BooBoo.
billy
June 25th, 2009
11:29 am
As a person that has known and coached Caleb since he was 6 years old you don’t have to question his toughest he is plenty tough enough. He is not a fullback he is in mold of a Barry sanders in the open field he going make the guy miss, but he will always stick it up the middle also run hard and bring the hammer will he needs to. If you Ga fans don’t want him as a Tech fan I would love to have him.
GOOD LUCK CALEB,RENNIE, AND CHRISTIAN ALWAYS ROOT FOR YOU TWO JUST NOT YOUR TEAM.
Corrine Brown (D) FL
June 25th, 2009
11:31 am
go gatuh
Robert
June 25th, 2009
11:31 am
Its gonna be real interesting to see who steps up. Tough call on Washaun getting redshirted. We have so many backs already, is it necessary to throw him in there? Is he that good?
Can’t wait for football season.
RxDawg
June 25th, 2009
11:31 am
Agreed WTF, but spellcheck wouldn’t have caught that one.
I hope Caleb King wins the Heisman next year.
Cuz
June 25th, 2009
11:36 am
billy, my family told me what he did at Parkview. I have a gut feeling that he will have a breakout season this year. Either that or it is the Pizza I ate last night. Less anchovies next time.
coachdawg 2000
June 25th, 2009
11:38 am
ALERT:
Wes Durham has resigned as the Play-by-Play voice of Georgia Tech and Atlanta Falcons to accept the position as the body double for the French’s mustard jar.
When reached for comment: Coach Pajamas said “Will someone please pay attention to ME!Did mention that I am having ring made to celebrate the bowel movement i had this morning? Oh yeah, I’m a genius of peewee football offenses”
Me
June 25th, 2009
11:39 am
UF license plates and gators in the ‘Hooch….What is this world coming to? Oh the horror!!!!!
Will this never end? All I’m saying is that we are being invaded….don’t you see it? It is all part of a huge plot……
Cuz
June 25th, 2009
11:42 am
I went on the Tech fan blog to see why all the Techies are on ours. Their fan blog has been cancelled for lack of interest. It promises to come back this Fall with a free coke and a slice of pizza.
coachdawg 2000
June 25th, 2009
11:42 am
PERCY HARVEY don’t take no jive! corch meyers says go gatah!
GT-Jake
June 25th, 2009
11:42 am
Caleb can’t even stand in Jonathan Dweyer’s shadow.
mark
June 25th, 2009
11:43 am
King has been living off his junior year at Parkview for the last 3 years. Its time for hime to step up or prove he was over-hyped from the beginning.
Ramblinwreck1378
June 25th, 2009
11:43 am
Actually coachdawg, we shared an ACC title in 1998, the year FSU won the National championship. Also, I know I’m a Georgia Tech fan, but y’all are right, no one blogs on Georgia Tech, so I need to find a place to say what needs to be said. Washaun Ealy will be really good, but I think he’s too small right now to endure an SEC season. And if you want full production from him, have him be an integral part for 4 years, not be just thrown in there in inopportune this season, not giving him a real chance to succeed.
And I apologize for Ramblin Rick and Saint Simons. They suck, and are annoying. Not all Tech fans are like that. But Caleb King won’t win the Heisman, and doesn’t hold a candle to that old Dwyer boy down in Atlanta.
jarvis
June 25th, 2009
11:44 am
Tech can’t beat Georgia in Atlanta. 1977, 1985, 1989, 1999….only times Tech has beaten Georgia in Atlanta since 1970. That’s almost 40 years boys.
coachdawg 2000
June 25th, 2009
11:46 am
i heard coach pajamas was going door to door to remind everbody that he has run the peewee rec ball offense for 78 years and how he is genius and how proud he is to keep player eligble but have the lowest graduation rate in every league that he is in.
Cuz
June 25th, 2009
11:47 am
Gators in the “Hooch”, UF license plates, pythons invading the Okefenokee. I read this in Revelations. Repent now. Don’t be left behind.
Will this interfere with the 2009 football season?
Coach D
June 25th, 2009
11:49 am
I was a little dissapointed by Caleb’s performance in the spring game, particularly with him dropping balls. I feel that the offense can be very successful if they let Joe Cox run a no-huddle offense but for that to happen someone besides AJ Green will need to step up and catch some passes, and that includes the running backs King and Chapas( who is an underrated receiver at FB like Southerland before him).Caleb is not going to be an every down/pound it up the middle running back, so if that is what he expects then he’s just going to have to get that out of his head.
But he can be a Ricky Watter’s type, where Bobo can utilize his speed on toss sweep’s and in the passing game. Improving his receiving skills will make Caleb a more valuable player to the team, because he has the speed to make people miss in the open field. And it will get him more playing time. The question is: does he have the drive to make himself a more complete player? Or will he pout if he’s not getting 20-30 carries a game?
Take Ronnie Brown for example. He got less carries at RB than Cadillac Williams did in 2004, but he was used quite a bit in Auburn’s passing game. And because he wasn’t one dimensional, he went in the first round of the draft. It’s something for Caleb to consider.
Cuz
June 25th, 2009
11:49 am
Wreck1378, I don’t lump you in with the great unwashed. Your opinion is welcome IMHO.
coachdawg 2000
June 25th, 2009
11:49 am
GT Jake,
Dwyer is only at the institute because he feared competing with Caleb for playing time. Go luck with your peewee football scheme.
Go Gators
June 25th, 2009
11:50 am
We are coming, we gonna get ya, Go GATORS!!!
Ramblinwreck1378
June 25th, 2009
11:51 am
coachdawg: I thought we were over this whole peewee offense thing. We beat you with it. We beat Florida State with it. It obviously works, because guess who else uses it.. FLORIDA, who’s beat y’all more times than y’all have beat us in the past 20 years. Oh yea, and they have 2 out of the past 3 national championships. But it doesn’t work, don’t worry. The only difference between ours and theirs is that they run theirs out of the shotgun.
Ooo, and I heard Mark Richt is going door to door looking for more unsuccessful motivational tactics, and another obnoxious, incompetent, incoherent play by play announcer.
coachdawg 2000
June 25th, 2009
11:55 am
Ramblin’ Wreck 1378-
FSU won it 1999 (they lost to Tennyshoes 1998) and besdies that I meant actually outright won a championship. Like yall’s sham of a MNC in 1990 with Colorado.
Ramblinwreck1378
June 25th, 2009
11:57 am
My bad, you’re right. And let’s be honest. Everyone knows Colorado got 5 downs in their game. I know, I know it still goes down as a shared national championship, but i think we all know who really won that year.
coachdawg 2000
June 25th, 2009
11:59 am
I’ve got news for the techies, being the best running back in the All-Cupcake-Conference is like being the tallest midget.
Pago Flyer
June 25th, 2009
11:59 am
Word on the street…..Tebow will win another Heisman.
Cuz
June 25th, 2009
12:00 pm
wreck then you ruin it by poor mouthing Saint Larry, don’t get so worked up about it.
I prefer high school offense. It sounds more grown up. It seems to be working for Coach PJ’s. It sure worked in year one, let’s see if he puts in a few more wrinkles for 2009. Congrats on having a Coach with a pair, something the all wise and knowing CHAN seemed to be lacking.
Cuz
June 25th, 2009
12:01 pm
Pago I also heard that the sky is blue and the sun comes up in the East.
Ramblinwreck1378
June 25th, 2009
12:05 pm
Chan sucks.
Dawgtime
June 25th, 2009
12:05 pm
Okay class, you cannot get off topic. The topic is Caleb King. No, you can’t worry about what the special education kids in the other room are doing. They realize that they cannot be in the regular room so they they to get you to notice them. You must ignore the poor souls. For the ones that actually attended college, you realize that we all had to make adjustments as we matured as students. I really believe Caleb is going to be an excellent running back. He is a great kid that is overlooked because he is a reserved kid. As young adults, we all made mistakes. In terms of the other fans blogging childish comments, I remind everyone to consider the sources. Just pathetic people.
Carlos
June 25th, 2009
12:05 pm
Bill, I believe this blog is from a fan’s perspective so I’m not sure if you’re on the AJC payroll or not? If not, you need to be. Actually, you deserve a raise because you do 10 times more the work than the rest of those clowns do. Keep it up.
coachdawg 2000
June 25th, 2009
12:06 pm
rw1378-
Yeah Colorado winning the big 8 and beating notre dame with Rocket Ismail is less impressive than a tie with North Carolina. Bobby Ross knew, O’Leary knew, even Curry knew Tech is 3rd rate in this state behind UGA, and Ga. Southern.
Dawgtime
June 25th, 2009
12:08 pm
Before you comment, ask yourself what motivates you to read UGA blogs. You spew negative comments about kids that you do not know. You seek negative information about the flagship school of our state. Why? That is really sad. No, trying to pull down UGA will not pull up your schools.
mcdawg
June 25th, 2009
12:08 pm
i thought he came along quite well by the end of the season-i thought the comparison w/ R. Watters is adept
i’m not concerned w/ RBs still worried about depth at LB and secondary
ChefChuck
June 25th, 2009
12:12 pm
I heard that two tall midgets ran through ugay for 400 yards.
coachdawg 2000
June 25th, 2009
12:17 pm
I am a little unsettled by RB by commitee approach because in my time as student 95-2000 and the last 8 years I have seen some excellent runners come through and without exception when our offense was at its best we had a “featured back” . Sure Torin Kirtsey spelled Edwards occasionally but Robert Edwards was the man, and when we gave Musa the ball enough he was the man, and so on. I think we need to find a guy to carry the bulk and everybody else just needs to fill a role. I think it should be Caleb because (other than perhaps Ealey) none of the others combine size and speed. Just my humble opinion.
ramguy
June 25th, 2009
12:17 pm
I think King and all the RB’s are going to be just fine. I think the entire team will be too. The Dawgs may just surprise some folks this year. Look for them in one of the BCS games at seasons end.
Drew-G-A
June 25th, 2009
12:24 pm
I agree with all the comments that King just goes down to easy. He seems like a very capable runner full of speed, he just seems to lack the ability to not give up as soon as he gets hit.
Cuz
June 25th, 2009
12:24 pm
In the sited article it infers that Orson Charles is pushing hard for some playing time. He is already a Bulldawg legend and he has not played one down in a Bulldawg uniform. What other Dawg can say he shattered the Gators National Championship? Are those crystal footballs insured? How much does one cost? Did Mom and Dad Charles get a bill for a HazMat cleanup?
JB
June 25th, 2009
12:32 pm
My nephew played defense for Savannah Christian last year and he is SHOCKED that Ealey is going to UGA at all, much less highly rated. We held him in Check and we are very average. I’m a Dawg fan as most of you regulars know……This concerns me……..
coachdawg 2000
June 25th, 2009
12:34 pm
Ealey played on guts most of last year. He was only about 60%.
JB
June 25th, 2009
12:35 pm
I feel better coach 2000………
blackout_dawg
June 25th, 2009
12:45 pm
We have not seen enough of any of the candidates to really form an impression.
King has been here the longest and should have been a clear #1 by this point but is not. Samuel is similar to Danny Ware. A bigger back but had a few fumbles last year. Other than the G-day game, none of the others have seen the field.
Other than DE, this group is my biggest concern heading into the season.
NORRIS
June 25th, 2009
12:46 pm
Dweyer is a joke. the guy will be a bust this year. With the option he will get nailed and be out for 6-8 weeks with a broken something…for him probably his pinky.
lets see what the score is this year with tech. they win one game and think that they have arrived.
hahaha. go home boys.
jeff
June 25th, 2009
12:47 pm
If UGA is ever able to get to the top of the mountian- the whole team needs to take a look at some of the other teams and see the drive and determination. That’s what UGA has been sorly missing over the last few years. This team needs to “man up” and take care of business instead of being ready with a stedy line of excuses each week like their former QB did so well. You have to want to win not just stand around and wait for it to happen
Cro25
June 25th, 2009
1:01 pm
Hey JB,
“My nephew played defense for Savannah Christian last year and he is SHOCKED that Ealey is going to UGA at all, much less highly rated. We held him in Check and we are very average.”
Let’s see…against Savannah Christian last year Ealey rushed 18 times for 143 yards and 3 touchdowns. Your nephew must have been thinking about someone else because to me that’s a pretty good game for a running back.
Pitbull
June 25th, 2009
1:02 pm
King reminds me of Musa Smith. Musa had all of the talent but did not have the heart and desire to be a good runner until his senior season in the Alabama game. That was the first time I ever saw him put his shoulder down and dish out punishment instead of falling down when someone looked at him hard.
Hopefully Caleb will develope some desire and decide to run hard and mean beginning this year. That has been the problem with Caleb so far.
He needs to become a determined mean runner.
Girls are Dawgs Too
June 25th, 2009
1:04 pm
Ramblinwreck1378: So what happen to Tech in the Chick-f-lay? They got their butt and head kick in by a not so good LSU Team. The one thing that game did point out is how to defend against Tech’s
Option Offense.
Rusty Squidbillie
June 25th, 2009
1:05 pm
NORRIS,
You don’t really think you’ll get a bite on that one,do you?
Gridiron Gator
June 25th, 2009
1:06 pm
Yeah, the crystal football that Charles fumbled has already been replaced and YES, they are insured. I think the whole incident really freaked him out as well as Coach John Hevesy, who is now with Dan Mullen at Miss State. Anyway, it will be nice to see Charles fumble a few actual(LEATHER) footballs in Jax, assuming the game will still be there. You know, it can get real hot there and your hands can get real sweaty with the weather favoring the Gators and all (just ask Richt).
Cro25
June 25th, 2009
1:08 pm
The word is Ealey is up to a solid 210 and has finally fully recovered from his injuries from last year and looks really good. I’m not saying he won’t be redshirted but I will not be surprised if he gets playing time this year.
Atticus
June 25th, 2009
1:10 pm
Caleb didn’t play for two years. Just give him the reps and he will be fine.
GT - real fan
June 25th, 2009
1:14 pm
I’m a Yellow Jacket but agree that St. Simon’s should shut his trap. Now as for coachdawg 2000, I think you may have topped St. Simon’s with your level of stupidity by comparing King to Dwyer. Caleb King is fighting for a job while Jonathan Dwyer is the reigning ACC player of the year. And not to mention a projected first round draft pick after this his junior year. Caleb King hasn’t proven he can walk and chew bubble gum at the same time. I’ll take actual gameday performance over lofty expectations any day of the week.
FLDAWG
June 25th, 2009
1:16 pm
Ramblinwreck1378 Washaun is up to 210lbs. Just saying 210 is a pretty good weight for a RB.
Stinger
June 25th, 2009
1:16 pm
King is going to have to really turn it up a few notches to beat out the 5 4″ – 150 lb. tailback that starred against your defense this spring.
coachdawg 2000
June 25th, 2009
1:18 pm
I am concerned about everybody on the team except Joe Cox as far as preparation. I hope that there is sense of urgency and desrie to be great. Our chief concern on the entire team is whether they understand the fact that being good is the enemy of being great. i hope that they as a team are not satisfied with being good. No offense to the Cap 1 or outback but a BCS bowl is the minimum expectation at UGA.So my message to CMR and the team- Either embrace that and GATA or transfer to Berry college and study poetry.
Just Askin
June 25th, 2009
1:19 pm
Any truth to all the rumors that C-King left powerhouse Parkview to go to GACS because King wasnt going to be able to pass the State of Georgia High School Exit Exam?
And, did C-King get admitted under UGA’s notorious “Special Admissions” program for, you know, special circumstances?
GT - real fan
June 25th, 2009
1:19 pm
NORRIS- you topped coachdawg 2000 in stupidity points. Dwyer is a man child and King is a little boy. Don’t comment on a football blog when you have no idea what you are talking about.
P
June 25th, 2009
1:21 pm
Last week it was questions about your quarterback. Earlier this week it was questions about your defense. Today it’s questions about your running back. Do you all not see a pattern here?
V for Victory
June 25th, 2009
1:22 pm
coachdouche 2000:
Hmmmmmm…pee-wee offense puts up 400 yds rushing on the big bad fleabags.
Guess GT will have to beotch-slap the fleabages again this November.
austindog
June 25th, 2009
1:22 pm
Even less legitimate than the 1990 NC is the 1998 ACC title GT claims. Tech shared the ACC title with the FSU team that beat them. No tiebreakers in the ACC, titles all around!
KD
June 25th, 2009
1:26 pm
ST.SIMONS, WHY DON’T YOU JUST GO OUT FOR A MIDNIGHT RUN AROUND THE TECHIE CAMPUS.
Huh?
June 25th, 2009
1:27 pm
Last week it was questions about your quarterback. Earlier this week it was questions about your defense. Today it’s questions about your running back. Do you all not see a pattern here?
Yep, sure do. I see that UGA fans have the balls to address issues with their team. They don’t just talk about the good, like how Tech fans only want to talk about the 9 games they won last year and never want to talk about the other 4 games. We are knowledgeable objective fans. Techies are ill informed crybabies that only want to hear about how great they are. That’s not UGA fans. There is your pattern big guy. True story.
coachdawg 2000
June 25th, 2009
1:28 pm
GT-real fan
Why are you here? We, along with apparently the rest of the state, don’t care about your football program.Go discuss how your going to win the national championship this year and how the offense is going to be even better or how your players are smarter, or whatever else helps you feel better about the fact that yall are completely irrelevant.
RxDawg
June 25th, 2009
1:28 pm
Pitbull, Musa actualy left a year early in his junior year. But your exactly right in that he really didn’t come into his own till right near the end of his UGA career.
J Smurf
June 25th, 2009
1:34 pm
One thing is for sure. I will never get tired of the random comments made by Corrine Brown on this message board. Please, keep’em coming!
coachdawg 2000
June 25th, 2009
1:37 pm
We as the UGA blog should refuse to acknowledge the geeks.They like their coach are starved for attention. I am guilty of falling into the trap of getting into a stinking contest with what is apparently a consortium of skunks.Suffice it to say that Tech football is about as important to the local sports landscape as thrashers hockey(even they made the playoffs once).
GT - real fan
June 25th, 2009
1:39 pm
coachdudd 2000, its not Tech fans that talk about how good they’ll be next year, how their team will be better, and how they’re going to win a national championship. Thats the reason I read these blogs- to get a good laugh at all of the lofty expectations you have. I love hearing how Joe Cox is the answer and you’re as of yet unnamed RB will pick right up where Knowshon left off. You guys are the ones with delusions of grandeur every year. Its pretty funny.
GT - real fan
June 25th, 2009
1:41 pm
I’m sure the reigning ACC coach of the year, Paul Johnson, is “starved for attention.” Thats why every school that needed a head coach last year came knocking on his doorstep, including Auburn. You can’t hide stupid.
Cuz
June 25th, 2009
1:52 pm
Robert Edwards and Musa Smith all late “bloomers”. Caleb should “grow” into that role this year. Just using my Ag Degree for metaphors.
Just Askin
June 25th, 2009
1:54 pm
Still waiting for an answer, mutts.
southgadawg88
June 25th, 2009
1:55 pm
Wow…you guys are hard on this kid…pause for a minute…EVERYBODY seems to remember how Moreno just broke out in 07…I mean people were talking Hershel comparisons and all that.but what a lot of you forget is that he went thru spring and fall practice and was still 3rd on the depth chart behind Lumpkin and Brown.Once he was all we had left and was able to get the rock 20 plus times he blew up…don’t forget T.Brown STILL rushed for 900 plus yards that year and he missed 2-3 games!!My point is Caleb has not had the opportunities to tote the rock like those kids.He DID rush for over 100 yards in 1 game last year.He looked pretty good to me when he got more than 3 or 4 carries.He had to have the least amount of attempts as the backup as any player since that guy who backed up Hershel(anybody remember who that was?)so I say let’s slow down on the “bust” chatter.Along the same vein you really want to know why Knowshon was taking himself out a lot down the stretch?Because they ran him to death!!He took the bulk of the carries and in passing downs he was Stafford’s security blanket…Knowshon took on a hell of lot of blitzing LB’s last year.He kind of wore down over the stretch…that’s understandable to me..he’s not built for 30 carries a game over a season…he was at his best sharing the ball because it kept him fresh.In the pro’s Moreno will be more of a Westbrook than an Emmit Smith…that’s not a knock on him,he is a great player but I don’t think he is a 25 carry a game pro back.Back to this bunch..King looks the best to me..Richard…CMR promised him he would get a strong look at RB and he is a man of his word but…. OMG can u picture that kid at LB?He could be a “superstar” I’m talking high 1st rd pick..he has all the tools,even in his HS film he looked to be a much better LB than tailback.I think the key to the RB situation will be how good does D.Jackson and Ealey look coming out of camp.two 210-215 lb bruisers who look like natural running backs on film.If one or definitely if both impress heading into the opener I think Samuel is headed to the other side of the ball.C.Thomas will probably get some kind of package put in for him but I don’t see him being a real threat to be the no 1 guy.
Lost dog
June 25th, 2009
1:55 pm
I believe that GT opponents will be much better prepared for their offense this year. Everyone will look at the LSU game and see that staying in position works agains an option offense. LSU just plain killed the Yellow Bees.
BruffDawg
June 25th, 2009
1:57 pm
You don’t talk because you know it was a fluke. Wait and see what the acc does to Tech this year. Sec will do worse.
Pete Nose
June 25th, 2009
1:57 pm
JB—If your nephew goes to a christain school thats what concerns me.
Cuz
June 25th, 2009
1:57 pm
Just askin, no and no. I thought you were being facetious.
BruffDawg
June 25th, 2009
2:01 pm
Even if caleb had h.s. problems with grades he has made it through eight semesters of college now. Just askin, did you make it that far with all the extra effort it takes to be a collegiate athlete?
Cuz
June 25th, 2009
2:01 pm
southgadawg, the answer to the Herschel backup question is Carnie Norris.
Pete Nose
June 25th, 2009
2:02 pm
King will be one of the greatest running backs to ever play for UGA.
BruffDawg
June 25th, 2009
2:05 pm
I think he may be out of time on that one Nose but I hope your right.
Otto
June 25th, 2009
2:08 pm
southgadawg88, I agree with some of what you say. The RB by committee has worked well at times and mediocre at others. I would like to see 2 RBs step up with one taking 70% of the load and another taking 20% as a change of pace. RB are more likely to get on a roll if they start getting more carries same as a QB getting more snaps.
As for Moreno coming out I don’t remember Herschel, Hearst, or Hampton coming out and they carried the rock most of the game and blocked as well. Herschel rarely gets credit he deserves for catching the ball. Moreno was Mr Energy bouncing up in ‘07 but in ‘08 he looked to be wanting to come out at times.
Otto
June 25th, 2009
2:12 pm
C. Thomas reminds me alot of Kirtsey, a smaller quicker back but not for every down. However Kirtsey was a leading rusher one year. A good OC such as Mullens could do all sorts of things with them.