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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longDawg
September 16th, 2009
4:43 pm
where’s wally butts when you need him
Nick
September 16th, 2009
4:47 pm
“We want to make sure they know what to do.” -Joe Cox
These guys plays football most of their lives and has been in campus since summer and you telling me that they are that ignorant to know the play book? Give me a break. Joe C. needs to watch and learn from Tebow. Lead by example, not your mouth.
Flo-Ri-Duh!
September 16th, 2009
4:52 pm
Yellow Fuzz is a wussie and Nick is a prick!
nuetral observer
September 16th, 2009
4:55 pm
Caleb=Jasper
Richt=Fulmer
Nick
September 16th, 2009
5:05 pm
Flo-Ri-Duh must have been playing with Joe’s CK…
Denver Dog
September 16th, 2009
5:05 pm
Paul Johnson = Haystacks Calhoun
Tech Fans = Bovine excretion
Yellow Fuzz = Nanacy Pelosi
Denver Dog
September 16th, 2009
5:06 pm
Ga Tech Football = Insignificance
shane#1
September 16th, 2009
5:44 pm
I have been learning a lot from these blogs and I have applied for the posistion of Head Football Coach at the University of Georgia. New blood is needed in the program and I am as new as you can get, having never been a Head coach, or a college assistant coach, or a Division 1 football player. I will be the fan’s coach. If you guys yell for me to go for it on fourth down I am going for it, be it a fourth and one or fourth and twentyseven. Boo a kid and that sorry sucker is getting yanked so fast his head will be spinning! Hell, I’ll even stop by when ya’ll are tailgaiting and drink some of your beer! I will work for 500 bucks a week and a company car, oh, and a condo in downtown Athens. Some free passes and a tab at the 40 Watt Club when the Drive By Truckers are there wouldn’t hurt either. I see no need for a morals clause in my contract, I am not Tony Soprano, besides, if I want to take some twenytwo year old art history major to the beac, er, the Marine Research Center so she can study “like fish and whales and like, stuff” that’s my business. I do demand an eight figure buyout, if it’s good enough for Charlie Weis it’s good enough for me.
guy
September 16th, 2009
5:56 pm
UGA needs to make an all star coaching team from all of these email experts and let them take over. Then the rest of us can email in about how smart they are once they enter the battlefields.
Can’t wait!!!!!
clickdawg
September 16th, 2009
6:48 pm
jimmy carter hit the button on the nail head…
DOGGIE IN NC
September 16th, 2009
6:49 pm
Me thinks we will be having some Pork BBQ for dinner Saturday night. Doggies keep getting better every week! OINK! OINK! GO DOGGIES!
The Chickenman
September 16th, 2009
7:29 pm
Keep running the ball.. samuel looks so close some plays to busting the big one.. im sure if we can get him 1 big play he will thrive off of it… as for aj green hes a freak but he gets double so much its hard to get him involved… throw MARLON BROWN 6′5 out wide right and AJ wide left then lets see them double aj with a fast te like charles running underneath.. i like our chances this season to make a stand in the SEC but we cannot allow our defense to be on the field all game long with the 4-3 scheme but thats a whole other issue (martinez) nevertheless LETS SIC THEM HOGS
Carl Spackler
September 16th, 2009
8:08 pm
Wouldn’t it be great to see Brown, Green, Charles, Wooten , etc. in the game at the same time and give Cox a chance at this type of offensive scheme…as much as I would like to see Murray play, I’d really like to see Cox get the respect a div 1 SEC QB deserves by putting in a top flight game plan…it just seems that the game plan is so vanilla and cautious…give him a chance to shine, open it up and shock the heck out of them…”Wooble & Win” w/ Joe…come on put the speed team out there and if doesn’t work then the plays from the prior two games can always be brought back…
Footballnut29
September 16th, 2009
8:10 pm
The only thing better would be remembering the 45 – 42 game
Footballnut29
September 16th, 2009
8:15 pm
It was a cold November day. There was one school who said the other team had a high school offense. Little did they know they had a middle school defense of their own.
bulldog1962
September 17th, 2009
4:25 am
CMR needs to realize that penalties and energy do not have to go hand and hand. This is what seperates the good from the best.
rosezee
September 17th, 2009
6:12 am
Could you imagine Bear Bryrant or Vince Lombardi or Bill Parcells EVER saying something this stupid??????:
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. ”
Unfortunately, this program will never compete for a national championship with Richt at the helm.
Dawg Tired
September 17th, 2009
7:38 am
Based on what I’ve seen of our offense, it is more than a little scary that these guys haven’t picked up what’s going on. AJ played form the get-go last year. What’s this tell us about these two?
Oconee Dog
September 17th, 2009
8:34 am
My concern is the amount of energy that CMR spends on the sidelines encouraging the crowd to cheer. Shouldn’t his focus be on the game?
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masivatack
September 17th, 2009
10:26 am
Sure AJ played as a true freshman last year, AGAINST GEORGIA SOUTHERN! Say what you want about Oklahoma State, but there has been far less margin for error in our first two games this year. If we had started the year against Tennessee Tech, Marlon, Wooten (the ballcarriah) and Troupe would have all played. I totally understand that until we build a significant lead against a team, we will not put these guys in a position to fail.
NorthGaDawg
September 18th, 2009
8:45 am
Yellow Fuzz: ((((((33-17))))))) Wahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!
mdawg
September 18th, 2009
6:25 pm
how many games is willie going to lose for us? fire him now
bobo is an idiot and is to conservative with his play calling. you have the weapons, use them bobo or you will be next to be fired