Fall Camp Stuff

Dawg With Style wrote: Hey Buc no you are taking a break but thought you might like looks we were right about Floyd :


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Stacy, you have been spot on since you came to this board. Enjoy watching you progress. We beat the Gamecocks, we will play in the final four. Spurrier has a very good, very good football team waiting for us in Columbia. Season comes down to that. My opinion.

Buc Gurley will write his name in Bulldog Glory the chickens will be one of 6 statement games he has this year.

He is going to show everybody what I've been knowing for 4 to 5 years.

It was tough to lose M Hall to concussion issues.

Someone will have to step up at FB if we want to have a lot of statement games with our RB's. I love our
guys, but I also understand a lot of success for our running game is still dependent on the big boy cleaning
the hole out in front of them.

This is a team player can't help but like him nice to know players like this are still playing.

this came from Dogbytes:



As a freshman tailback, he was well aware that playing time would probably be sparse as long as Todd Gurley and Keith Marshall stayed healthy. But Gurley suffered an ankle injury in late September and Marshall went out for the season with a torn ACL a week later, providing the 5-foot-11, 202-pound Douglas an opportunity to contribute.

“I pretty much came in to work hard and to do what the coaches tell me to do,” Douglas said. “I wasn’t sure what was going to happen because I had those two great running backs ahead of me. I didn’t expect things to happen like they did, but the coaches had me ready for it, so it was alright.”

Playing in 12 games, the Augusta native ran for 345 yards and three touchdowns and caught 13 passes for 172 yards and another score. Critical fumbles in both the Missouri and Vanderbilt games marked down moments for Douglas, but as far as he’s concerned, that’s all in the past.

“It’s something you’ve got to move on from eventually,” he said. “It shouldn’t happen – it’s not acceptable. It was disappointing and I was disappointed about it, but then again you’ve just got to move on, get over it and working on it every day.”

And as the Bulldogs’ Aug. 30 opener against Clemson moves closer, Douglas again doesn’t harbor any expectation as to when or if he’ll be called upon. Besides a healthier Gurley and Marshall, Douglas is also sharing practice time with high-profile freshmen Sony Michel and Nick Chubb, making for at least one spot where Georgia has an enviable surplus of bodies.

“I don’t know — we’ll see what happens,” Douglas said. “It’s up to the coaches, and if they want me to play I’m ready to go. It’s fine. I love competing and we’re competing for the job, but then again, we’re helping each other out and trying to make each other better.

Quarterback Hutson Mason, who says he considers Douglas a starter alongside Gurley and Marshall, added that he greatly appreciates what Douglas brings to the field.

“Brendan is that quiet bulldozer,” Mason said. “He does a lot of the dirty work. It may be that around campus that a lot of people don’t know Brendan Douglas, but he’s a tough downhill runner. He’s going to get that short yardage for you, those touchdowns in the red zone.

“A lot of guys have a respect for him because they understand he’s not the flashy guy who’s going to put up two touchdowns and 150 yards a game or get you a lot of fantasy points, so to speak. He’s just going to do that dirty work that you need on third-and-short.”

Georgia coach Mark Richt — who pointed out last week that Douglas had yet to miss a summer practice — echoed Mason’s confidence in the running back.

“He knows what to do and he’s ready to play in big games,” Richt said.

In addition to being teammates with Gurley and Marshall, Douglas said that in some ways he’s their student.

“It’s great. You learn from them so much, just watching them play and seeing what they do,” Douglas said. “You just want to try to carry it over from their play and learn from them — watching their film and seeing what they do.”

Should at the very least put him in the FB position just to get him on the field or even give him some time at H back. No doubt in my mind that BD can block and catch the ball. If he stays at RB he will get very little time on the field behind Gurley, Marshall, Chubb, and Michel. His attitude and work ethic deserves as much playing time as they can give him.

Came from bleacher report:


I'M very looking forward to seeing Fenteng play.




ccording to Nick Suss of The Red & Black, three newcomers are poised to start in defensive coordinator Jeremy Pruitt's renovated secondary. Damian Swann, as expected, will occupy one starting cornerback position, but now details have emerged regarding the other positions as well.

Junior college transfer Shattle Fenteng will line up at cornerback opposite Swann. Known for his combination of both size and speed, Fenteng has been in contention for this starting spot since arriving in Athens.


J.J. Green was expected by many to be the starter at the star position after switching sides of the ball (he was a running back in 2013), but true freshman Dominick Sanders received the first-team snaps at the position on Tuesday.


Farther from the line of scrimmage, Aaron Davis, a redshirt freshman walk-on, is set to start at safety. Davis, of course, broke out under Pruitt during spring practice and played well at both the cornerback and safety positions.

Corey Moore, an on-and-off starter last season, will start at the other safety position.



New Tight Ends Impressing

As Jay Rome continues to battle health concerns, a couple of new tight ends are turning heads.


Quayvon Hicks, a former fullback, has been focusing more on tight end than fullback and H-back as of late (per Seth Emerson of Macon's Telegraph) and freshman Jeb Blazevich is acquitting himself nicely at the collegiate level.

Georgia head coach Mark Richt told Emerson, "Quayvon Hicks had a heck of a camp" and added that Blazevich has "made some strides."

If healthy, Rome is still the starter. His combination of size, athleticism and experience could make him a potent threat downfield. Ideally, he gets the opportunity to earn his keep, but Hicks also gets chances in select packages.



The Offensive Line, as of Now

Currently the first- and second-team offensive line units look as follows:

Projected Offensive Line Depth Chart
Position 1st String 2nd String
Left Tackle John Theus Mark Beard
Left Guard Brandon Kublanow Isaiah Wynn
Center David Andrews Glenn Welch
Right Guard Greg Pyke Dyshon Sims
Right Tackle Kolton Houston Watts Dantzler
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Adding Spice to Return Game

Georgia coaches and players alike have been impressed thus far with freshman wide receiver and return specialist Isaiah McKenzie.


Punter Collin Barber told Marc Weiszer of the Athens Banner-Herald that McKenzie's athleticism and quickness is "amazing." He added, "That dude has God-given talent, man, to field balls and scramble the way he can."

Richt went so far as to tell Weiszer that McKenzie was right in the mix to return both kicks and punts in the season opener. "He's a heavy consideration in the return game," the head coach offered.

Georgia hasn't had a consistent threat like that since Brandon Boykin departed following the 2011 season.



A Rare Practice

Georgia opened up Tuesday's practice to the media and students, which is certainly an oddity. For a full hour fans were able to pour into Sanford Stadium and get an early look at the 2014 Georgia Bulldogs.

Sam McKinstry, a junior at the university, was one of countless Bulldog loyalists who took advantage of the rare opportunity. McKinstry was enthused by the afternoon, saying, "It was great being back Between the Hedges." He added that the open access further cemented why Richt is his "Dawg."



Unless otherwise noted, all quotes were obtained firsthand.