Where’s Marlon Brown? And other stuff.
Athens – A few things I thought you might find of interest from Tuesday that didn’t make it into my stories:
– Surprisingly, Marlon Brown and Rantavious Wooten –- the touted freshmen receivers –- have been non-factors in the first two games. They didn’t get into Game 1 and barely got into Game 2. Quarterback Joe Cox offered an explanation for why they haven’t been part of the receiving rotation yet:
“I definitely think they can help us, but we want to make sure they know what to do,” Cox said. “It gets crazy trying to hear my call in the huddle, and then we start moving tight ends and doing certain motions with them. We just want to make sure they have it down. They definitely have the ability, but you don’t want to have them come in and miss something important because they weren’t sure. . . . You can tell they are learning every week, and they’re anxious to play . . . and that’s good. I can’t wait for them to get in there and help us out because I know they can.”
– As I noted yesterday, Georgia ranks 108th among major-college teams in penalties with 83 yards per game through two games. That’s after being assessed 13 penalties for 108 yards vs. South Carolina. Mark Richt addressed the issue, saying he doesn’t like it “but it doesn’t make me crazy.”
“We’ll keep disciplining it,” he said of penalties. But he added: “The way we played with energy, fire and enthusiasm the whole game –- if the byproduct of that is penalties, I’ll take that over a team that doesn’t have a penalty but doesn’t have a pulse to go with it. ”
Richt said certain penalties, like being offsides or having too many players on the field, are inexcusable. Others, he indicated, can be subjective or the result of playing with passion.
– Justin Houston is happy to be back from a two-game suspension, but he is pained by the loss of fellow defensive end Rod Battle to a season-ending and maybe career-ending ACL tear. “That hurt me to my heart when I saw him go down,” Houston said.
On a lighter note, Houston figures one of the happiest people to see him back in action will be Jeff Owens, the defensive tackle who got considerable action at D-end after Battle was injured in the second quarter of last week’s game. Owens wound up playing 33 snaps at D-end, Houston said, “so I think he appreciates me coming back.”
– A few other things, quickly: Richt said the blocking on the kickoff return team showed “astounding” improvement from Game 1 to Game 2. . . . Backup safety Quintin Banks has been cleared to play after a preseason knee injury, but didn’t get into last week’s game because of missed practice reps. “I wouldn’t say he’s 100 percent back to the best Quintin Banks can be,” Richt said. . . . Injuries at linebacker have resulted in Marcus Washington shifting back to that position from defensive end, where he worked most of preseason. . . . . And here’s a story I enjoyed doing on Branden and Brandon.
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GATOR CHOMP
September 16th, 2009
12:44 pm
WTF I see you’re still popping off at the mouth as usual.I thought I ran you off coward.And poor Cuz that Moron does’nt have a clue about how the game is played let alone how many players are allowed on the field what a joke.And by the way I like the Hogs Im taking all bets.GATORS REPEAT NATIONAL CHAMPIONS “BOOK IT”
McDawg
September 16th, 2009
12:52 pm
what about Kiante Tripp?? still hurt?
DOUBLE G
September 16th, 2009
12:53 pm
For those who want a coach with FIRE on the sidelines, I offer you none other than…
Ray Goff. Ray was the epitome of a coach who would get emotional on the sidelines. He’d yell at the refs and at the players.
See what it got UGA?
Yellow Fuzz
September 16th, 2009
1:03 pm
26-0 (beat down in 3rd quarter)
Yellow Fuzz
September 16th, 2009
1:03 pm
31-0
Yellow Fuzz
September 16th, 2009
1:04 pm
49-10
Yellow Fuzz
September 16th, 2009
1:04 pm
24-10
Yellow Fuzz
September 16th, 2009
1:05 pm
out of the top 20 (hahahahahahahahahahahaha)
Joey
September 16th, 2009
1:12 pm
Double G, So you can’t have both, fire and brains. Uh, think Urban Myer, Nick Saban, Pete Carroll, Steve Spurrier, need I go on?
LAKE OCONEE DAWG
September 16th, 2009
1:12 pm
ceph and altamaha dog…..find a life outside of criticizing our coaches….you don’t know yours from second base about critiquing football coaches…..anyone knows that sunglasses keep a good coach from coaching……..guy averages 10 wins a year and some idiots telling him how to do his job….and if you like the way the DC Muschamp at Texas coaches, go support the LONGHORNS, cause we got his arse when he was at Auburn, even with all that fire you like so much…. see you in arkansas
Joey
September 16th, 2009
1:19 pm
Lake Oconee Dawg, 10 wins a year ain’t really that great any more, what with 12 game regular seasons plus a bowl game. I mean are you that impressed with last season’s 10-3 record?
Dawgs 73
September 16th, 2009
1:25 pm
Mark Richt addressed the issue, saying he doesn’t like it “but it doesn’t make me crazy.”
“We’ll keep disciplining it,” he said of penalties. But he added: “The way we played with energy, fire and enthusiasm the whole game –- if the byproduct of that is penalties, I’ll take that over a team that doesn’t have a penalty but doesn’t have a pulse to go with it. ”
If that isn’t a championship mentality/quote, then what is???
Nick
September 16th, 2009
1:26 pm
Can’t wait to see the Crayola gang, Green & Brown in the there. What will a defense do to stop that train once it gets rolling??
Go Dawgs!
Yellow Fuzz
September 16th, 2009
1:27 pm
Lake Oconee Dawg is a typical georgia fan.
Shaneneeee Faneneeeeeee
September 16th, 2009
1:32 pm
Florida is going to shut him down.
how2fish
September 16th, 2009
1:32 pm
I want and really think we have Robert E Lee on the sidelines but in the locker room I want Nathan Bedford Forrest.and Yellow Fuzz, Nov 28th!
Yellow Fuzz
September 16th, 2009
1:32 pm
Too bad you azzholes can’t count on beating Tech any more. At least not until you reschedule that off week before us so you can prepare for our offense). Glad we played a role in keeping you from going 11-2!
Yellow Fuzz
September 16th, 2009
1:37 pm
how2fish,
Like I told you last year. We are not intimidated by Georgia any more (well, maybe in gymnastics). You had your fun running over us and running your mouth along the way. Now, STFU, bend over and take your medicine like a good dog.
reservoirDAWG
September 16th, 2009
1:39 pm
Hire Jon Gruden at UGA? Are you kidding me? Yellowfuzz, you’re a punk. Go do your homework.
djawjuh
September 16th, 2009
1:40 pm
I too am concerned about the statement that Richt made about penalities. Is that a concession statement? Namely, that they can’t coach these guys up?
And all you folks who have “faith” and “believe” that we will do such and such. Where does that come from? Do you folks have a direct line to the Almighty? If so, let me know the result now so I can go borrow some money and bet.
Now to the nitty gritty. Here we are at game three with no steady RB other than Samuel. What is going on? We have more but we’re not using them. Is that it? Why?
sec
September 16th, 2009
1:41 pm
If your worried about CMR being intense, im not. David Pollack once stated that CMR is one of the most intense persons he has ever met. Just because he doesnt jump up and down on the sideline and make a fool out of himself and his staff and players doesnt mean he doesnt get his point across. He has something called respect. There is a time and a place for everything.
TROTTINGHOMETUDD
September 16th, 2009
1:43 pm
Jimmy Carter is a peanut.
He also knows about Southern tendencies. Did anybody in GA ever hear of that South carolina Boy before his outburst?NNNOOOOO
That Punk Bytch wouldn’t have said anything if Obama was a white facist.
LOVE THIS STUFF
September 16th, 2009
2:11 pm
I love when yellow fuz’ mom puts a mint on my bed pillow at the Four Seasons. She is the best girl on their housekeeping staff.
P S she also gives a nice massage for only $10.
RabidDawg
September 16th, 2009
2:16 pm
Can someone please tell CMR that you HAVE TO make the other team punt on 4th down. There is no rule that makes them punt. You force it. The first 3 punts for Okie St., we had 1 guy stay and all others turn and run away at the snap! It kills me that our defense forces a 4th and 7 and he doesn’t make them punt.
CWM teaching our DBs to face guard and not look at the ball accomplishes 4 things:
1. More interferences penalties, especially if the ball is short.
2. No interceptions.
3. Lower draft position for the players – illegal in the NFL.
4. More losses.
DBs, after 20 yards, the receiver isn’t making cuts. Run next to him and find the BALL. Catch the BALL.
Love the Dawgs, frustrated to no end.
Jeff Luc
September 16th, 2009
2:20 pm
I wanna be a bulldog!!
Kingster
September 16th, 2009
2:22 pm
I was really enjoying reading what different types of comment and facts and I really love sports, I notice that JB went to the left, are you the type of fellow that thinks there are other types of fields some of the player should be in? Lets keep it clean and fun, its a game and its sports “JB”, don’t let your neck get red like your team colors….thank you
Dawg Nation
September 16th, 2009
2:22 pm
Ya’ll cry baby fans keep cryin and we’ll keep on winning!! Go Dawgs!!
Dawg Man
September 16th, 2009
2:24 pm
I heard that Isreal Troupe was soft!!
how2fish
September 16th, 2009
2:27 pm
yellow fuzz someone will get bent over boy and it won’t be me or the dawgs..but nice teenage come back what we have all come to expect from you…and like I told you I never said anything last year or the 8 years before that but I’m saying it NOW!
Carl Spackler
September 16th, 2009
2:35 pm
Good to finally hear something about Brown and Wooten, but I would love to hear something about Murray…did he really hurt his arm, as stated in a previous blog…last I heard was that he didn’t know all of the playbook…well Cox may know all of the playbook, but he can’t run all the plays…also, in another article Bobo stated that he gave the game film over a weekend to break down the QB position…well, according to Bobo he came in on Monday and had broken down the entire offense, position by position…yea, doesn’t know the playbook…the kid graduated from the best public school in Tampa a semester early to enroll at UGA in time for spring ball…graduated from H.S. w/ something like a 5.0 avg in the AP course, had somewhere close to 1300 on his boards, just made the honor roll at UGA again, yea, I believe ya’ coach, Murray can’t learn the playbook…Barkley’s starting, Savage is starting, and Murray has to wait until next year to get game experience, because why…keep this up and it’ll be “the real” USC or UGA, Ohio State or UGA, Texas or UGA, Florida or UGA and the pick will be obvious to recruits…anybody recruit watching this season so far must just be scratching their heads over this coaching staff, and if you don’t think it matters then you better take off the rose colored glasses…UGA will still be in the Top Ten in recruiting every year, but you’ll be getting what’s already been picked over from the Big 4 and any up and coming program w/ a new aggressive coaching staff…CMR reminds me of Dungy when he was in Tampa, great teams, but couldn’t get the job done….granted NC’s are very hard to come by, but being in “Transition Mode” every year is not a good thing…is it safe for me to assume that this is one of the top recruiting classes that UGA has ever had? It’s high time make something happen!
Ryan
September 16th, 2009
2:37 pm
WOW!!!! Yellow Fuzz is getting killed! HAHAHA!!!
Yellow fuzz
September 16th, 2009
2:43 pm
I’m talking all my crap now because after tomorrows but whippin we’re going to take against Miami we’ll be 2 and 1 and should be 1 and 2 if we didn’t get so lucky against Clemson. Plus once we lose to UNC, UGA, VA Tech and Vandy I won’t be able to say nothing. We’re lucky to go 7 and 5 this year. Has anyone seen my boyfriend m? He hasn’t come home from his 8am class? Maybe he went straight to bulldogs again.
Otto
September 16th, 2009
2:47 pm
Carl as stats pointed out Cox is doing just fine. Murray he is another highly hyped QB same as Stafford who did not win a championship and numerous Florida guys FSU has had over the past 5-10 yers which have amounted to nothing. If you were going to want another QB atleast ask for Logan. He knows the playbook and looked good in the spring game.
Good to hear Houston is coming back. Caleb needs to get in and take some reps. Thomas needs to be used in more of a Percy Harvin roll, put him in motion, line him up the slot, get him in space. Thomas is electric but you need more of a gap to get him in the open than Samuel or hopefully Caleb.
Otto
September 16th, 2009
2:51 pm
sec, CMR was also OC when Pollack was there.
BR
September 16th, 2009
2:52 pm
Yellow Fuzz… it’s not hard to stay in the top 20 when you continue to play unranked teams(even if you barely beat them.. Clemson)…doofus. When the Nerds play and beat a real team, run your mouth.
porkbelly
September 16th, 2009
2:52 pm
I would love to see a play action fake to Samuel, have AJ run a 20 yard slant, and hit TK on fly pattern
I-DOG
September 16th, 2009
3:08 pm
Altamaha: That is interesting that some of the best teams have been some of the most penalized (I didn’t know that) and I don’t disagree that the type and timing of the penalties is very important. Last year it was a killer starting with Alabama having a recovered fumble called back for a UGA penalty and against FL having an interception called back for the same. Those hurt.
Being next to last in turnover ratio and near the worst in penalties surely can’t be a good combination. I don’t like hearing Richt state that he can live wth 13 penalties in a game if it because we are being so aggressive. I didn’t see much evidence of our defense being aggressive Saturday night what with our giving up 26 1st downs and playing 8-12 yards off of the receivers pre-snap.
Playing soft coverage and being among the most penalized is like being fat dumb and lazy… to quote Dean Wormer “that is no way to go through life son!”
Tim Tucker
September 16th, 2009
3:15 pm
Carl Spackler: Murray has tendinitis in his tricep. He said it’s nothing significant when asked about it last week. But that’s why he didn’t throw in warmups Saturday.
Carl Spackler
September 16th, 2009
3:18 pm
Otto…believe me when I say this, Murray is not a run of the mill QB…don’t know if Gray should be playing, but I do know that you had a QB w/ flu like symptoms and they didn’t even trust him enough to give Cox a break…Cox is getting the job done? The team’s record is 1 and 1 against teams that sccording to the homers on this blog are not even in the same league as UGA…do you ever wonder why Bobo’s offense looks so bad, well take a look behind center…Bobo’s hands are tied w/ what Cox can run and he can call…I’d welcome to see Gray come in the game, I’d just like to see a little spark out of the QB position…heck, bring on Met to air it out to one of the wideouts…
Cedric
September 16th, 2009
3:20 pm
Dawgs have weapons that can be utilized its just up to the coaches to see where they can use these weapons to our advantage. Cox just seems to be a bit slow on gettin thru his reads and needs to speed it up a bit.
AltamahaDawg
September 16th, 2009
3:21 pm
Thanks Oconee. I can’t beleive that I didn’t know we were actually beating Muschamp and Thats why he was going nuts……on the opposing sideline…..a few times……..and me loving it.
Carl Spackler
September 16th, 2009
3:29 pm
Thank you Mr. Tucker for the update…
Nick
September 16th, 2009
4:22 pm
Pope Richt needs to get with the SEC Coaches’Program. Smell blood, go for the kill. Talking about his players plays with buring fires. What a joke. These are not the Junkyard Dawgs defense. We need to get better coaches from top to bottom. OC, DC, needs to go. They sucks! If Pope Richt wants to keep them, then he might as well leave too. Top coaches knows how to win game and Richt doesn’t have it. He just got lucky that UGA gave him the oppt.
Willie Martinez
September 16th, 2009
4:23 pm
I am the best DC in the SEC! How dare some of you say I need surgery to get my heard cut out of my azz! It is the players I tell you…they do not listen or perform. It is not me just askt
Willie Martinez
September 16th, 2009
4:23 pm
Besides CMR and me are tight…
gary
September 16th, 2009
4:25 pm
Dawgs have no defense. No matter how you spin it, the defense sucks. We can’t penetrate and get to the QB, we can’t cover receivers without facemasking or getting pass interference calls. Our linebackers can’t read pass routes. In days gone by we bent but never broke, well fellas the dam has major cracks and will break soon. We will be lucky to win 6 games this year. Richt had better do some soul searching and get rid of Martinez and BOBO. In the old days we didn’t have the best of QB’s, but we still managed to beat Florida, Auburn, South Carolina,Clemson and Tech almost every year.Enough is enough!!
Sanford Drive
September 16th, 2009
4:34 pm
“We want to make sure they know what to do.” -Joe Cox
Joe, do YOU know what to do? Because your noodle arm suggests otherwise.
Nick
September 16th, 2009
4:40 pm
Fee Willie please…
Nick
September 16th, 2009
4:41 pm
BoBo must Go!
Nick
September 16th, 2009
4:42 pm
Free Willie…