Check out the statistics from UGA’s scrimmage …
Georgia’s football team held a closed scrimmage in Sanford Stadium on Saturday morning. Coach Mark Richt provided these “very unofficial official” statistics afterward:
PASSING
Aaron Murray: 11-for-16, 125 yards, 1 touchdown, no interceptions
Hutson Mason: 12-for-19, 192 yards, 3 touchdowns, 2 interceptions, long pass of 45
Christian LeMay: 2-for-2, 67 yards, 1 touchdown, long pass of 66
Parker Welch: 4-for-10, 33 yards
RUSHING
Carlton Thomas: 8 carries, 26 yards, long of 9
Caleb King: 7 carries, 16 yards, long of 10
Brandon Harton: 9 carries, -6 yards, long of 2
Wes Van Dyk: 2 carries, -3 yards, long of 2
Bruce Figgins: 1 carry for 1 yard
Zander Ogletree: 1 carry for 1 yard
RECEIVING
Michael Bennett: 3 catches, 94 yards, 1 TD, long of 66
Tavarres King: 3 catches, 77 yards, 1 TD, long of 45
Marlon Brown: 4 catches, 57 yards 1 TD, long of 33
Orson Charles: 3 catches, 45 yards, 1 TD, long of 20
Brandon Harton: 4 catches, 33 yards, long of 11
Artie Lynch: 2 catches, 21 yards, long of 14
DEFENSE
Shawn Williams: 7 tackles, 1 interception
Richard Samuel: 7 tackles
Brandon Burrows: 6 tackles, 2 sacks
Kosta Vavlas: 5 tackles
Chase Vasser: 4 tackles, 1 interception, 1 pass breakup, 1 sack
Reuben Faloughi: 1 fumble recovery, 1 sack
Jordan Love: 4 tackles
Jarvis Jones: 3 tackles, 1 for loss
DeAngelo Tyson: 2 tackles, 1 sack
Derek Owens: 2 tackles, 1 forced fumble
“Big play combinations” cited by Richt:
- Tavarres King 45-yard TD catch from Hutson Mason
- Michael Bennett 66-yard TD reception from Christian LeMay (”a broken play but those count too,” Richt said).
- Orson Charles 8-yard TD catch from Mason
- Marlon Brown 9-yard TD catch from Murray
- Taylor Bradberry 11-yard TD catch from Mason.
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RabidDawgFan
April 9th, 2011
1:58 pm
Bennett is really impressing it seems. He seems to be a very explosive player. 3 catches for 96 yards and a TD? That’s unheard of. And he’s only a redshirt freshman. Hell who knows? He may turn out to be our go-to guy during the season. Keep working hard young man and you’ll have a very good career here at UGA.
I’m also impressed with the defense. With MANY of our projected starters we held them to a low rushing total and picked off QBs 2 times. Remember, our defensive recruits haven’t gotten here yet (Jenkins, Drew, etc). Jenkins is the key clog. What we see out there on G-day won’t be anything like we’ll see against Boise and so on. Jenkins is going to change everything.
We’re going to be really good this season.
dawgfan
April 9th, 2011
2:00 pm
It looks like we had very little success running the ball and Bobo got impatient and started bombing it down field. Sounds about right. Same ole same ole.
RabidDawgFan
April 9th, 2011
2:01 pm
Gator Gus,
Murray lit up Florida’s defense. He’s better than Brantley, so I wouldn’t talk too quickly. He’s only going to get better. My gosh guys, what do you expect in a spring scrimmage? Over 400 yards passing and 5 TD’s? He only threw the ball 16 times. He splits reps. In an actual game, he will throw that pigskin about 30 times. Then he’ll have over 300-400 yards passing. He was 11-16 and 1 TD, key thing though is that he threw NO picks.
If he was 1-16, and only throwing for 50 yards and no TDs but 3 picks then I’d be worried. But those are manageable stats. Greg McElroy (Alabama QB) never lit it up with stats, but he’s gotta ring. Talk what you know.
td
April 9th, 2011
2:04 pm
Shawn Williams: 7 tackles, 1 interception
Richard Samuel: 7 tackles
You win championships with defense. Shawn and Richard being active and making tackles is what everyone should be excited about.
copper
April 9th, 2011
2:06 pm
lol at all the crybaby’s and couch coach’s that think they know more than richt and co…
Gator Gus
April 9th, 2011
2:06 pm
I agree with those who think Murray did great today. Please let him continue starting.
Wonderful-Ohio-On-The-Gulf Dog
April 9th, 2011
2:10 pm
Rushing stats seem disappointing. One to three yards a carry averages won’t cut it, nor a long gain of ten. Looks like five sacks, too.
I hope these stats don’t reflect on the O line’s performance.
RabidDawgFan
April 9th, 2011
2:14 pm
Apparently the O-line isn’t getting the job done. Not opening up holes for the RBs and allowing sacks. What is it? What’s the problem? Why can’t we blow open holes and protect the QB? Are our players lazy? Are they not used to the coaching? Are they soft? I don’t get it. Dominate the guy in front of you. That simple guys.
RabidDawgFan
April 9th, 2011
2:16 pm
When Carlton Thomas is your leading rusher with only 26 yards, we have a major problem on our hands. I think Richt is trying to turn our team into an air raid kind of offense where we do nothing but throw the football. You can’t do that and win in the SEC. To win in the SEC, you need a great defense, and a smash mouth running game similar to Alabama. This isn’t Florida State Richt.
WIN WITH RICHT
April 9th, 2011
2:19 pm
Michael Bennett could be big surprise for the Dawgs. Hopefully, Marlon Brown will step it up bigtime.
ThaDawgdude
April 9th, 2011
2:20 pm
Seriously, some of you guys are just plain retarded. I mean really, Lemay has thrown 2 passes? Anyone can have a great comp% if they’re good for two plays. What if Murray completed his first 6 and then they decided to try some new wrinkles they haven’t worked on yet or wanted to get other guys reps? You really have no idea what you’re talking about. You weren’t there unless you are in good with the staff and you didn’t see it with your own eyes in that case. I’m not saying Lemay isn’t good or potentially great…but to say that Murray isn’t any good or 3rd best or fading is freaking moronic. I mean for real you have got to be pretty darn dumb to really think that you know what’s up with everything involved. Thus your sentiment is even stronger because you need to try really hard to convince people you know what the hell your talking about. Most of us with an at least average to moderately well functioning brain see right through you however.
Trolls galore
April 9th, 2011
2:21 pm
Folks:
Eric/Louis/Gator Gus=one and the same. Ignore the trolls. Dawg fans know that Murray is the real deal. There will be an interesting battle for back-up. Mason can’t keep throwing picks and stay ahead of LeMay. What I like is seeing names like Vasser, Samuel, and S. Williams stepping up on defense. Remember, don’t feed the trolls!
WIN WITH RICHT
April 9th, 2011
2:21 pm
RabidDawgFan
Neither Ealey or Malcome played and Crowell is not on campus yet.
Paxton
April 9th, 2011
2:21 pm
No, you needa a strong rush defense, and a strong running game, pass defense, and pass offense, doesn’t help in the SEC. Look at Auburn & SC’s defense, strong against the run, weak against the pass.
Mark Richt
April 9th, 2011
2:24 pm
Gator Gus: “I agree with those who think Murray did great today. Please let him continue starting.”
Ok.
Down Under
April 9th, 2011
2:24 pm
Murray will be a great starter…in DIV 2.
WIN WITH RICHT
April 9th, 2011
2:26 pm
The key to wiining in the SEC is to always score more points than the other team that you are playing. Statistically, A team that outscores its opponent has a 100% chance of winning.
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td
April 9th, 2011
2:30 pm
Concentrate guys. Defense wins championships!!!!! The D had 3 interceptions and 5 sacks. These are the numbers we should all be concentrating on. The O strategy is simple, Pound the ball to set up play action and commit very few turnovers.
Will
April 9th, 2011
2:45 pm
All the positive comments about Murray are from the same troll.
Craig
April 9th, 2011
2:50 pm
The stats from 1st scrimmage were:
Mason, 2 td’s, 0 int’s
Murray, 2 td’s, O Int’s
So, I guess so far over 2 scrimmages, it’s:
Mason, 5 td’s, 2 int’s
Murray, 3 td’s, 0 int’s
http://dogbytesonline.com/bulldogs-spring-scrimmage-report-44155/
IBleedR&B
April 9th, 2011
2:55 pm
Really Erik? “Looks like Lemay & Mason are getting better response from receivers and teammates than Murray.” Yeah….right. Obviously 2 for 2 and one long pass on a broken play are great stats compared to the guy who was arguably the best SEC Freshman QB in conference history, and really help him earn a spot ahead of Murray. 11-16. Gosh, just awful right? and 1 TD to NO PICKS is much worse than 3 TDs to 2 picks on more passes. Are you that ignorant or do you just rent out that space between your ears. It’s the friggin SPRING man. Look around. You’re supposed to let your subs play more and give your starters a break. Their load will come in the Summer and Fall. Not to take anything from Mason and Lemay because I think they’re both exceptional, but come on. Murray’s one of the best QBs in the country, and the only reason we won the few games we did last year. Even Greene, Stafford, or Shockley would have struggled with that lack of a running game and a weak defense. Quit acting like you know anything about football and get off the sports page.
Rob
April 9th, 2011
3:04 pm
I like to figure how effective each QB was by looking at their touchdown per play ratio.
Lemay had a td every 2 plays.
Mason threw a td every 6 plays
Murray threw a td every 16 plays
If you project that out over a 13 game season, let’s say 250 passes:
125 td’s for Lemay
42 td’s for Mason
16 td’s for Murray
ThaDawgdude
April 9th, 2011
3:06 pm
Has anyone thought about the fact that we may have a dominating front seven this season. Add to that some injuries at running back and our defense is really starting to shut the run down. It’ll be interesting to see the battle between the Boise passing game and our secondary if we really shut down the run game against them… It’ll primarily come down to our pass rush at that point. I think our offense will outpower their defense after having to face our front seven all fall camp. SC front seven will be a different story. Remember two seasons ago we started big Bean at guard against them and were able to run very effectively. Didn’t have him last season plus we were weak. This year we be strong like bull….dawg
G City
April 9th, 2011
3:08 pm
Rob, good post, agree, in productivity, you’d have to rank them base don today’s scrimmage as:
#1 Lemay, #2 Mason, #3 Murray
dawgfan
April 9th, 2011
3:13 pm
TheDawgdude, no, I did not think of that. We have not had a dominating front 7 in a long time and they just don’t magically appear out of thin air.
Memo to those who forgot and it seems like there are a lot of you: We went 6-7 last year.
Thanks.
BobDawg
April 9th, 2011
3:16 pm
Geez, according to Ray Goof I might as well take my bulldawg and go home… No need to get excited, I guess?? Mark Richt has a blip year or 2 in 10 seasons… I like our stability… If we have a fast start to the year… We will steal all the recruits later in the year. Richt and Fox has press tours in Jax, Greenville and Charlotte…. Gonna be fun this fall….
athdog
April 9th, 2011
3:19 pm
Last G Day everyone was abuzz that Murray looked less than impressive. All he did was have the best season a freshman has had in recent memory, better than D Greene stats wise.
Scrimmages don’t matter.
Rob
April 9th, 2011
3:20 pm
Another way to compare apples to apples is look at the yards per pass attempt:
Lemay: 33 yards per pass attempt
Mason: 10 yards per pass attempt
Murray: 8 yards per pass attempt
This tells you Murray was throwing a bunch of short passes, trying to get his accuracy numbers up, where Lemay was going long, and Mason had a nice mix.
Rollie
April 9th, 2011
3:22 pm
Last G-Day, Mettenberger beat Murray handily, so did Gray for that matter.
Mettenberger went on to have an 11-1 season, murray had a 6-7 season, so G-Day preidcited their win totals.
Rollie
April 9th, 2011
3:26 pm
Murray threw for 1 td last G-Day, and that went on to become his average against ranked teams. Murray threw for 1 td a game against ranked teams on the average, he passed for 5 td’s all season against ranked teams. G-Day kind of pointed to that, he seemed to be a guy that sort of wilted under the spotlight.
Rob
April 9th, 2011
3:28 pm
If you compare passing accuracy, based on today:
#1 Lemay–completed 100%
#2 Murray–completed 69%
#3 Mason–completed 63%
Juke N Jiver
April 9th, 2011
3:32 pm
Mason’s 5 td’s versus Murray’s 3 td’s, over 2 Spring scrimmages so far.
Mason is throwing 60% more td’s than Murray so far.
He’s making a case that not only will he win the #1 position, but he’s making the choice pretty overwhelming.
Juke N Jiver
April 9th, 2011
3:34 pm
If Mason’s throwing 60% more td’s than “the greatest freshman QB of all-time Murray”, says a lot about Mason. And it says a lot of about Murray’s LACK of development this year. Looks like Mason caught him, and is leaving him behind.
GT is a 4th rate high school team
April 9th, 2011
3:54 pm
For all TEKs, whether it is Lemay, Mason or Murray, GT is still a 4th rate high school team. LOL
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GT is a 4th rate high school team
April 9th, 2011
4:03 pm
At the end, the choice will be who can complete more complicated drives and formations, and only after actually analyzing those plays and defense employed in the video room that you can determine who did better. Lemay has not been given the opportunity yet to throw a lot of passes so these remains incomplete and I hope he does. If the interceptions on Mason is turned into points, then these negates his edge in touchdown over Murray.
87dawg
April 9th, 2011
4:09 pm
Seriously, are you boneheads actually saying the receivers don’t respond well to the starting QB? Seriously?! You’re probably right, why would they want to do their best with the first team offense against the first team defense which, incidentally, they played against. That makes a lot of sense. Idiots…..
And I’m not sure what games you people watched last year that think Murray is no good because you were apparantly watching one of thos old dial tune black and white TVs and didn’t quite hit the station. Freshman All American, Offensive MVP, Second most yards by a freshman in SEC history (compared to some big names), etc, etc, etc….
Again, you people are idiots.
GT is a 4th rate high school team
April 9th, 2011
4:10 pm
Murray says he likes to be like Brady and not Marino, so far last season he is showing the opposite.
MGFR
April 9th, 2011
4:16 pm
NO RUNNING GAME FOR TWO YEARS RUNNING! NO OFFENSIVE LINE! POROUS SECONDARY!
Bulldog Turnover
April 9th, 2011
4:20 pm
Sure, Murray averaging 1 td per game against 6 ranked teams last year was ana amazing display, perhaps the greatest in the history of college football. What were you people watching. 1 td a game, unreal. He’s in another zone.
87dawg
April 9th, 2011
4:26 pm
You do realize that the receivers actually have to get to the endzone before the QB gets credit for a touchdown, don’t you? You also realize Murray’s completion passing efficiency was 14th nationally and fourth in the SEC? Seems to me he did hit his target. The points were there, I personally couldn’t care less if they come at the hands of the quarterback or the running game. If you score 4 or 5 touchdowns in a game but only 1 was a pass does that mean the others don’t count? Did anyone notice that Murray ran a few that were pretty spectacular?
Oh, but he didn’t throw it to himself. My bad…….
Bulldog Turnover
April 9th, 2011
4:34 pm
Hopefully, Murray will be better than 86th in pass effic in the red zone this year.
http://www.cfbstats.com/2010/leader/national/player/situational21/category02/sort02.html
Bulldog Turnover
April 9th, 2011
4:39 pm
Maybe Murray will be better than:
55th on 3rd down pass effic.
53rd on 3rd & 10.
59th in the 4th quarter in pass effic.
81st in passing accuracy against winning teams.
119th in passing accuracy in 4th quarter against winning teams
Certainly has a LOT to work on.
Bulldog Turnover
April 9th, 2011
4:44 pm
Besides being ranked #55-119 in red zone, 3rd down, 4th quarter, passing accuracy, going 6-7, 0-6 against ranked teams, 4 turnovers against the biggest rival Florida, Murray had a great year last year.
Bulldog Turnover
April 9th, 2011
4:52 pm
Any Georgia QB on the roster could have averaged more than 1 td a game against ranked teams with AJ Green, Tavarres, Durham & Charles. Not Murray.
tide roll
April 9th, 2011
6:38 pm
You guys are nuts. Your QB plays soccer, carries a purse, and puts gel in his hair. The only other person that relates to that is your fake tan, blonde hair tinted, part down the middle, Boca head coach. The whole conference is laughing at ya’ll!! It’s obvious the team relates better to Mason and LeMay than Murray. At least you better hope so! Why don’t ya’ll just end the charade and change your jersey color to pink
Shawn
April 9th, 2011
6:40 pm
The guy was a freshman! He still had a fantastic year QB wise. Our problems in the red zone were due to the lack of a running game. If they know you cannot run it they play pass coverage in a short area but some of you bafoons don’t understand. I have never seen a bigger bunch of morons! Murray will be the QB next year and UGA will win at least ten next year. Live with it! You are either with us or against us! So climb on or STFU!
Shawn
April 9th, 2011
6:42 pm
LOL, the tide was 10-3 returning a heisman winner along with the rest of the O! Wow, talk about choke artist’s!!
Brucerugby79
April 9th, 2011
7:18 pm
ANYBODY that takes these posts serious is louis kaboie–GO DOGS HBTD