Practice update: Crowell, Samuel, Herrera star in Georgia’s first scrimmage
ATHENS – OK, here’s a raw rundown of the Georgia Bulldogs’ first scrimmage of preseason, conducted Wedneday at Sanford Stadium. . . .
- Isaiah Crowell had 13 carries for 84 yards and a touchdown with a long run of 15 yards.
- Richard Samuel had 11 carries for 82 yards with a long run of 33 yards. However, Samuel fumbled once and Amarlo Herrerra scooped it up and returned it 65 yards for a TD.
- Ken Malcome had 12 carries for 19 yards with a long run of eight yards.
- Carlton Thomas had eight carries for 21 yards with a long run of six.
- “It was evident who was working with the No. 1 unit and who was going against the No. 2 defense,” coach Mark Richt said. “It was rougher going for the 2 offense.”
- Quarterback Aaron Murray was 9-of-15 for 100 yards with no TDs or interceptions. Hutson Mason was 5-of-19 for 59 with a TD and Christian LeMay was 2-of-4 for 17 yards with the No. 3 offense.
- Receiving: Aron White 3-47 (32); Samuel 3-32 (14); Marlon Brown 2-46 (35); Jay Rome 2-22 (12), Bradberry 1-20 (TD)
- PK Blair Walsh was 7-of-8 on field goals with a long of 58. Yes, 58!
- PK Brandon Bogotay made a 68-yarder in warmups. Yes, 68!
- Richt really impressed with inside linebacker Alec Ogletree. “Tree,” as everybody calls him, had scrimmage best eight tackles.
- Other defense: LB Mike Gilliard 4/7 (unassisted/total), LB Herrera 3/7, OLB Jarvis Jones 4/6, DE Abry Jones 4/5 with sack, PBU; LB Ramik Wilson 2 sacks, 1 TFL; LB Christian Robinson 2 TFL, 1 sack; OLB Reuben Faloughi 2 sacks; S Corey Moore 2 PBU; CB Devin Bowman 1 int.
- Richt on RBs: “I thought (Crowell and Samuel) ran very well. They did have more space than the other two guys by a long shot. But there were times there was nothing there and they knocked the pile back. . . . Their running styles are very different. Richard is power and speed; Isaiah has got quickness and change of direction. He’s got a burst of speed and does a good job of breaking tackles and getting yards after contact. Both have good balance.
- Richt overall: “I still don’t know what we have yet. I do feel better about how we’ll be able to run the football.”
- John Jenkins working with both 1s and 2s, but mostly No. 2.
- No significant injuries. CB Brandon Boykin (hamstring) and OLB Cornelius Washington “very close” to coming back.
- Richt on Jarvis Jones news yesterday: “I was the one that got to walk into the defensive staff meeting and tell them about it. There was a pretty good celebration in there.
- Richt on Crowell’s blocking ability: “In general he’s picking it up at a good pace. I’m not worried that he doesn’t understand. He’s certainly eager to show he can do it. Sometimes a back doesn’t want to do it; sometimes he can’t do it; sometimes he’s scared to do it. None of those apply to him.”
- Richt on Ogletree: “The guy that’s making the most plays is ‘Tree.’ He’s in a position where he’s supposed to be. If they run away from Jarvis there’s nothing he can do about it. But Tree is in there where he can run to either side and, if I had to point out one guy on defense it’d be Tree. He’s having a great camp.”
- Richt on safeties: “Shawn Williams has been very impressive. . . . He’s bigger, stronger, faster, tougher and more mature and he’s doing it the right way.”
- Richt on Corey Moore: “Corey’s going to be a good player. It’s indecision that can get you at that position but he’s really coming on.”
- Richt: “Michael Bennett has had a really good camp. If I had to pick a top three (receivers), I’d say TK, Marlon and Michael. Malcolm Mitchell just has a lot to learn. Rantavious Wooten is ready to play and do things the Georgia way.”
- Richt on Aaron Murray: “aaron had a good day but not a great day. couple of times he had a guy he should’ve hit or could’ve hit. . . . If it was a year ago I’d have said it was a pretty good day for a freshman. But he’s a sophomore now, so it could have been better.”
- The No. 1 offense scored every time during red zone drill.
Tell us what you think about the site
Customer Care »
Vacation stops, manage subscriptions and more
AJC Services
Sections
Other Editions
Visitor Agreement | Privacy Statement
© 2013 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
303 comments Add your comment
bham dawg
August 10th, 2011
4:21 pm
@B1Bomber… team?
DawginLex
August 10th, 2011
4:22 pm
Impostor? How do you know my name?
I have never seen you post until today so you must be the stat boy troll who changes blog handles like most folks change clothes.
Ignore
DawgByte
August 10th, 2011
4:23 pm
It should be totally obvious that Saint Simons has crawled out from under his rock, sported a new name and will be in full trash talking mode until such time as the Dawgs once again destroy Georgia Tech and Saint B1 crawls back into his hole for another 9 months!
this dawg want hunt!!
August 10th, 2011
4:23 pm
Lex, will take the second of your 2 scenarios,just dont see it with this team. You might be right, but not sold on Murray like everyone else. Until he proves he can win a big game in the 4th qtr like David Green, all of this b.s is worthless. Orson charles disappears just like murray in the big games. couple that with the fact the defense was the worst in the sec against 3rd down conversions, and today they had no stops(ZERO) in the red zone, sorry, but that is where games are won and lost, 3rd downs, and inside the red zone, this team has proven it can do neither. No q.b. play late in games, and no stops on 3rd down and in red zone=disaster. We will see.
B1Bomber
August 10th, 2011
4:24 pm
DEAR KOOL AIDE UGA KLUB:
NONE OF YOUR #1 RECEIVERS, KING, BENNETT, CHARLES, SCORED OR PUT UP DECENT NUMBERS.
YOUR #1 RB DID NOT SCORE EITHER.
YOUR #1 QB DID NOT SCORE.
EVERYTHING’S JUST ROSY!!!
Charlie Hayes
August 10th, 2011
4:24 pm
B1Bomber- You are not considering the running game in the scrimage. Aaron Murray doesnt have to throw TD’s when the RB’s are carrying the load and scoring on every Red Zone attempt. I dont think at this point, anyone (even CMR) knows if we have a great running game or just defense adjustment problems at this point. Two more scrimmages down the road will start shedding light on if the O or D is more dominant.
Charlie Hayes
August 10th, 2011
4:25 pm
Also, they dont count the TD’s in the overall numbers while in the red zone scrimage. Only the TD’s from the full field scrimmage are counted….This is why you dont think Samuel had a TD.
DawginLex
August 10th, 2011
4:26 pm
Charlie
you are wasting time typing to that moron.
He comes on these blogs EVERYDAY under a different name.
He will never answer you directly as to who his team is. Only bashes UGA at any evidence of anything bad.
This is why we desperately need registration under one blog name with one e-mail address from one IP address.
B1Bomber
August 10th, 2011
4:26 pm
UH RICHT SAID ‘A COUIPLE OF TIMES MURRAY MISSED’. HE WAS 9 FOR 15. THAT’S 6 TIMES.
B1Bomber
August 10th, 2011
4:28 pm
Bill King exposes you DawginLex as a namechanging troll. I am not what you’re saying.
D BAG TROLLS!
August 10th, 2011
4:29 pm
B1- you are wrong my doucher. The #1 RB did score and Murray scored. Smoke another my doucher. No go take a shower because you smell weird.
B1Bomber
August 10th, 2011
4:29 pm
Mason was 4 for 19 sure, Crowell’s passblockinG was SUPERB!
Gatormeat
August 10th, 2011
4:31 pm
dogs always look good in scrimmage, just not on the field. Be ready for your blowout loss to Boise and S Carolina to start your year and don’t even dream of recieving any mercy in Jacksonville. There are pictures of your coach threatening to choke our kicker up in the locker room already, there will be no mercy to give. Murray won’t finish the game, I see a Fairley incident coming and Crowell is going to get treated like Spikes treated Moreno in 2008. In the ground, all day
Hairy Perry
August 10th, 2011
4:31 pm
I can see the network of blog troll geeks has been unleashed again. These people are truly creepy,
spending all day on and off of a sports blog showing the world how sad and alone they are. Tell me gents, how many touchdowns have you ever scored for UF or even gained a yard or kicked a freaking fieldgoal for this team you hang all your pride and confidence in in life. I like the dogs but I don’t sit on the computer trashing people all day. Truly Pathetic.
DawginLex
August 10th, 2011
4:32 pm
Gatormeat
got any money to back that up?
D BAG TROLLS!
August 10th, 2011
4:34 pm
Gatormeat and B1 are making Yech fans cringe as you sit in your all male dorms and type on your dirty keyboards posing as a real FB fans. Get a hair cut, take a shower and stop smelling weird all the time. Gosh!
DCityJams
August 10th, 2011
4:36 pm
Aron White continues to impress. Kid catches every ball thrown to him. I charted him last year, and Charles had a 54% catch rate, and Aron White’s was over 80%. Nice day for White, I’d like to see him take over the #1 TE position. Charles only scored 2 td’s all of last season.
BSBomber
August 10th, 2011
4:37 pm
You spell it like this C-O-U-P-L-E. You must be a GATARD!
DawginLex
August 10th, 2011
4:38 pm
100% chance that DCityJams and B1Bomber are 1 in the same along with the other 250 names he has posted his inane stats under.
Later
DCityJams
August 10th, 2011
4:39 pm
C Rob needs to step up his game, spose to be a leader. Murray too. Look like Jarvis & Hutson are the real leaders.
BSBomber
August 10th, 2011
4:39 pm
Gatard meat and B1 probably ARE tech fans.
D BAG TROLLS!
August 10th, 2011
4:40 pm
DCity (many handles guy) please stop posing as a DAWGS fan. We can clearly understand that you are that same person that post against them everyday too. You should be banned!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!POS
Gatormeat
August 10th, 2011
4:40 pm
It is the same every year in Jacksonville, the dogs come in talking smack about what they are going to do and leave crying and making excuses about what happened on the field. It will be no different this year, your QB is overated, Crowell won’t average 3 a carry and will come nowhere near 1000 for the year, Greene is gone, and you only scored 3 on C Florida with him. Tough year for dogs, I can’t wait to mock you as you leave Jacksonville in October
Jim
August 10th, 2011
4:42 pm
Richard Samuel 7.5 Avg and 33 yard long for 82 yards is overshadowed by a fumble, get real people! Samuel and Crowell are a great pair. I still would like to see an old T formation with Figgins, Crowell, and Samuel in the backfield with King split wide and Charles at the other end.
Gatormeat
August 10th, 2011
4:43 pm
Might as well face it dogs, to us you are Kentucky, you are Vanderbilt. Enjoy your losses to mid tier conference teams in meaningless bowl games, we are on the way to more championships. Maybe you will get better after you fire richt this year and get someone else. I would not count on it
D BAG TROLLS!
August 10th, 2011
4:43 pm
Gatormeat you live on the flats. Why would you be in Jax? Dbag!
DCityJams
August 10th, 2011
4:43 pm
Aamarlo scoop & scores, good job, only 1 fumble receovered last year in big games.
chickenman
August 10th, 2011
4:45 pm
yall need to chill.. its a scrimmage
DCityJams
August 10th, 2011
4:46 pm
Like Brown–Rome–Samuel—stepping up and playin B-I-G as receivers.
Hairy Perry
August 10th, 2011
4:47 pm
THIS JUST IN:
UF fans loathing and spewing hatred across message boards, as thier little brains are illuminated to the fact that the glory years are gone! They have also been informed that dispite thier huge winning percentage vs. UGA the past 20 years the dogs still have the overall record!
bham dawg
August 10th, 2011
4:48 pm
B1Bomber
August 10th, 2011
4:29 pm
Mason was 4 for 19 sure, Crowell’s passblockinG was SUPERB!
This makes no sense you freaking know nothing tard. Crowell and Mason would never be on the field at the same time considering crowell ran with the 1’s and mason is the 2nd team qb. Good try though you low life.
Ramblin Man
August 10th, 2011
4:48 pm
Of all those stats I was impressed with the kicking. Feel free to send one of those guys to Atlanta we will need it. Good luck till the end of November.
DCityJams
August 10th, 2011
4:48 pm
What up with Boo today? 19 yards on 12 notes.
bham dawg
August 10th, 2011
4:52 pm
@dcityjam… running against the #1 D… could be a positive
Jimbo fisher
August 10th, 2011
4:52 pm
FSU 49
UF 7
It’s my world gatormeat you just get to live in it but you will always be my beeotch from now on
Hairy Perry
August 10th, 2011
4:55 pm
THIS JUST IN:
Evidence is building that if UGA played UF in Georgia every single year and had an off date 90% of the time before the game, the record of this series would probably be alot more balanced.
WE WILL KEEP YOU POSTED AS THIS STORY GROWS.
bham dawg
August 10th, 2011
4:57 pm
b1bomber… did you run out of idiotic comments?
Hairy Perry
August 10th, 2011
4:58 pm
GOODNIGHT!
DawginLex
August 10th, 2011
5:00 pm
This also just in:
Gatormeat only believes Florida started playing football in 1990
1980,1981,1982,1983,1985,1986,1987,1988 and 1989 never happened
DawgFaceBlues
August 10th, 2011
5:00 pm
should we be so happy that we have a great punter and field goal kicker?
DawgFaceBlues
August 10th, 2011
5:02 pm
DawginLex, he also needs to remember that most of the games since 1990, UF had week off before playing UGA
Atlanta87
August 10th, 2011
5:02 pm
Yes DawgFace. Ask GT.
DCityJams
August 10th, 2011
5:06 pm
Da punter & kicker were dere last year, still couldn’t win more than 6 games.
Will Jones
August 10th, 2011
5:12 pm
Has anybody noticed how CMR is calling out players bad attitudes on the sly. He like when he says Wooten is doing it the UGA way. That’s how you know who the vampires were. CMR is on fire lol
look at the koolaide falling from the sky....
August 10th, 2011
5:15 pm
Enter your comments here
East Repeat
August 10th, 2011
5:17 pm
UGA has hired Cynthia Tucker. Damn, dawgs were having a good summer and the administration had to go and do something stupid like that. I am sure all SEC fans and all football fans share my outrage! Gag, not Cynthia Tucker, barf-f-f-f!
tide roll
August 10th, 2011
5:30 pm
If Uga scored every time they were in the Red Zone, who else, besides Crowell, scored? And the 20 yd. TD pass doen’t count as a red zone score.
tide roll
August 10th, 2011
5:34 pm
Also, if Falougi, Vasser, and Stripling continue to develop at OLB, any thoughts of moving Cornelious Washington to Defensive End, his original position in the 4-3. Is 270 – 275 lb. big enough? If so, with his atleticism, he’d be a beast coming off the edge.
this dawg want hunt!!
August 10th, 2011
5:36 pm
C.Robinson needs to stfu and start making plays. Leaders lead by example and this guy was the 4th best l.b. on the team last year. He hasn’t made a big play his whole career so far. If this is all UGA has on defense as it relates to leadership, this team is in big trouble. The young freshman Herrera sorry about spelling will be twice the player Robinson is, but i’m afraid the Richt favoritism will not reward him for his efforts. This is why UGA has suffered so much the past 3 years under Richt, plays favorites, doesn’t play best players. It may also happen with Murray, just as it happened to Murray when Cox was a 5th year sr. Believe me, opposing coaches use this against UGA all the time and Richt has figured this out yet. We will see.
FaithfulDawg86
August 10th, 2011
5:40 pm
Slydog, does the name Knowshon Moreno ring a bell?