GaBoi, don't know if you follow David Hale or not. He stays up to date on the football team. Will post this, thinking that maybe it might answer some of your concerns.
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Thursday, August 13, 2009
A.J. Green is Scary Good, Part II
Remember three days ago when I posted a quote from Joe Cox indicating that maybe A.J. Green would be significantly better this year?
Well, Mike Moore went one step further...
\"He could be a lot better. Last year, he was truly playing off of what he did in high school, just his natural ability. He's a freak athlete, and his ball skills are amazing, But now he really knows the offense, he's able to move around now, he comes in and out of his breaks a lot faster, and he's playing with a lot more confidence. He just knows he can go out there and dominate, and I think that's what he’s going to do this year.\"
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Thursday Links (8/13)
We didn't finish up with interviews until around 11 p.m. last night, and even then, it was simply because players are kept to an 11 p.m. curfew during fall camp. Needless to say, it was a later night than most of us were used to (at least when it comes to work).
The reports out of last night's second session of two-a-days were pretty encouraging, and Rodney Garner said it was good to have a chance to review some film during the afternoon and get right back to work Wednesday night.
\"There was some good and some bad when you look at the film,\" Garner said. \"But the thing that's encouraging is if the kids will continue to work hard and we can stay healthy, we can continue to get better. Just going out there (Wednesday) night was really good because we got a chance to work on some things that we saw from the scrimmage. Hopefully we can get that corrected before we scrimmage again on Saturday. That's the biggest challenge right now.\"
Back to the scrimmage, however, as I mentioned on the blog yesterday, it's probably a little too early to take a lot away from the final statistics.
For one, Georgia's first team offense and defense went against the second-teamers, but even that wasn't an accurate depiction of the depth chart, Garner said.
\"It's really hard to gauge when you have the ones going against the twos,\" he said. \"Obviously (the ones) aren't that good. We can't be that good. But I still think our twos may not be that bad, either. Somewhere in between is the truth. And it probably wasn't even the twos because, working with the 1 group, I had (Jeff) Owens, (Geno) Atkins, (Kade) Weston and (DeAngelo) Tyson. They rotated with the ones. My twos I had (Brandon) Wheeling, (Derrick) Lott, (Abry) Jones and (Kwame) Geathers, so really it wasn't a true two.\"
Beyond that, there were a number of starters on both sides of the ball who sat out of Wednesday's action. Mark Richt's catch-all explanation was sore hamstrings, but linebacker Rennie Curran 'fessed up to the truth Wednesday night.
\"I'm good, I'm good,\" he said, noting that the rest was more about seeing the younger players and avoiding injuries. \"You want to have that depth going into SEC ball. Anybody can go down. We started off with all our linebackers at the beginning of the year (last season) and you guys saw what happened. So you've got to have everybody ready at the beginning of the season.\"
With Curran and the rest of the starting linebackers all sitting out the scrimmage, a few of the kids got into the action, and Curran was impressed with what he saw.
\"They were definitely impressive,\" Curran said. \"(Mike) Gilliard had a huge hit, and at times he really took control of the defense. It really showed how much he's learned and how much they're progressing. It's good to see them get out there and show the coaches what they can do and earn their trust.\"
Of course, even the shallow depth on D doesn't mean there weren't some strong performances on offense, including the big day from Richard Samuel. Sure, his 178 yards came against the third- and fourth-stringers, but Curran said it was obvious watching Samuel that his success was well earned.
\"He definitely ran with some power, ran through some tackles, made a couple jukes in there,\" Curran said. \"You can tell he's been working hard this offseason.\"
I asked Curran if anyone else jumped out at him, and his answer probably didn't do much to help sort out the depth chart at tailback.
\"Carlton Thomas looked real good,\" Curran said. \"He hit the holes hard and made cuts to do what he had to do to pick up those extra yards. He's a real tough runner.\"
Georgia hits the practice field again this afternoon and will hold its next scrimmage on Saturday.
