Didnt look good at all. Fumbles everywhere missed blocks and things like that. Nesbitt didnt play but hes not hurt bad should be back monday. Dwyer looked ok today he got hit hard onetime took a little bit to get up. But i cant remember who it was but they hit either jim henry or david coppage and knocked their helmet off. Luke cox played good again today. Hes impressed me. Defense dominated today.
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I wasnt there.
Maybe the defense dominated because the offense played poorly? Is that how it looked?
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CPJ wasn't happy about it either. There are some pretty stern quotes from him in an AJC article. I'll dig them up after the basketball games.
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Here's the AJC article (Linked)
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They fumbled snaps. They fumbled pitches. They fumbled handoffs. And they fumbled when they got hit.
Georgia Tech's football players fumbled every which way on Saturday in their second spring scrimmage. The unofficial totals: 14 fumbles plus one snap through the field goal holder's hands on a day when the offense and the special teams combined to take 130 snaps. There was an interception, too.
"Certainly there's no way you can win a game if you don't take better care of the ball than that," Johnson said. "The defense pulled a couple out, but the majority of them had nothing to do with that. They're just pitching them on the ground or dropping the snap. It's unacceptable.
"I'm going to guess there must have been 60 missed assignments, 70 missed assignments on offense. Clearly, we don't know what we're doing. That's a poor reflection on us as coaches. We haven't done a very good job coaching them if they don't know what they're doing. I'm embarrassed that they don't know what to do."
Josh Nesbitt, one of Tech's two scholarship quarterbacks, sat out the scrimmage with a groin pull but said he'll be back practicing on Monday. That left Calvin Booker running the first team and walk-on Bryce Dykes running the second team, and the offense produced almost as many fumbles as first downs.
Booker threw a 13-yard touchdown pass to Greg Smith, and Luke Cox had a 27-yard touchdown run, but the defense scored two touchdowns, too, on fumble returns by Anthony Barnes and Sean Bedford.
Eight of the fumbles came on pitches and two on the center-to-quarterback exchange.
"It's almost like it gets contagious. We've got to get mentally tough," Booker said. "It starts with me. The ball is in my hands. I've got to make the right decisions, make the right reads, keep us in good situations. Whatever you write, make sure you put it was on me. All the balls on the ground, everything we did that wasn't executed right, that was my fault."
Jonathan Dwyer ran 92 yards on 15 carries but also fumbled.
"We're coached to hold onto the football and make plays," Dwyer said. "We didn't do that today."
Cox ran 80 yards on 18 carries. He was the third B-back to play but took some snaps with the first string near the end of the scrimmage.
"In my mind he's the starting fullback right now," Johnson said. "I don't think he fumbled the ball. He ran hard. I'm not into the hype. They've got to show me. I've heard all the hype about everybody, but I'm not seeing it. Show me."
Osahon Tongo hit Dykes so hard he knocked Dykes' helmet off. Derrick Morgan hit Dwyer so hard Dwyer said he was momentarily knocked out. Jason Peters, Vance Walker and Tony Clark delivered big hits and big plays, and Dominique Reese intercepted a pass.
But though Johnson gave some credit to his defense, he was worried by what he saw as a lack of effort from his offense. Players were slow to leave the sidelines and get into the game when coaches called for a substitution. And the on-the-field problems didn't begin and end with the fumbles.
"It's more frustrating to me that nobody that's fumbled is trying to get it," Johnson said. "They just sit and watch it."
So, what do the Jackets do about it?
"You keep practicing," Johnson said, "and you get a little more intense and you put more onus on everybody including myself that they know what to do."
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They fumbled snaps. They fumbled pitches. They fumbled handoffs. And they fumbled when they got hit.
Georgia Tech's football players fumbled every which way on Saturday in their second spring scrimmage. The unofficial totals: 14 fumbles plus one snap through the field goal holder's hands on a day when the offense and the special teams combined to take 130 snaps. There was an interception, too.
A rainy morning at Bobby Dodd Stadium showed the Yellow Jackets how far they are from being able to run the offense new coach Paul Johnson has spent the last two weeks trying to install. Johnson has two more weeks before spring practice ends with the spring game on April 19.
"Certainly there's no way you can win a game if you don't take better care of the ball than that," Johnson said. "The defense pulled a couple out, but the majority of them had nothing to do with that. They're just pitching them on the ground or dropping the snap. It's unacceptable.
"I'm going to guess there must have been 60 missed assignments, 70 missed assignments on offense. Clearly, we don't know what we're doing. That's a poor reflection on us as coaches. We haven't done a very good job coaching them if they don't know what they're doing. I'm embarrassed that they don't know what to do."
Josh Nesbitt, one of Tech's two scholarship quarterbacks, sat out the scrimmage with a groin pull but said he'll be back practicing on Monday. That left Calvin Booker running the first team and walk-on Bryce Dykes running the second team, and the offense produced almost as many fumbles as first downs.
Booker threw a 13-yard touchdown pass to Greg Smith, and Luke Cox had a 27-yard touchdown run, but the defense scored two touchdowns, too, on fumble returns by Anthony Barnes and Sean Bedford.
Eight of the fumbles came on pitches and two on the center-to-quarterback exchange.
"It's almost like it gets contagious. We've got to get mentally tough," Booker said. "It starts with me. The ball is in my hands. I've got to make the right decisions, make the right reads, keep us in good situations. Whatever you write, make sure you put it was on me. All the balls on the ground, everything we did that wasn't executed right, that was my fault."
Jonathan Dwyer ran 92 yards on 15 carries but also fumbled.
"We're coached to hold onto the football and make plays," Dwyer said. "We didn't do that today."
Cox ran 80 yards on 18 carries. He was the third B-back to play but took some snaps with the first string near the end of the scrimmage.
"In my mind he's the starting fullback right now," Johnson said. "I don't think he fumbled the ball. He ran hard. I'm not into the hype. They've got to show me. I've heard all the hype about everybody, but I'm not seeing it. Show me."
Osahon Tongo hit Dykes so hard he knocked Dykes' helmet off. Derrick Morgan hit Dwyer so hard Dwyer said he was momentarily knocked out. Jason Peters, Vance Walker and Tony Clark delivered big hits and big plays, and Dominique Reese intercepted a pass.
But though Johnson gave some credit to his defense, he was worried by what he saw as a lack of effort from his offense. Players were slow to leave the sidelines and get into the game when coaches called for a substitution. And the on-the-field problems didn't begin and end with the fumbles.
"It's more frustrating to me that nobody that's fumbled is trying to get it," Johnson said. "They just sit and watch it."
So, what do the Jackets do about it?
"You keep practicing," Johnson said, "and you get a little more intense and you put more onus on everybody including myself that they know what to do."
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I'm embarrassed to ask but what coach was it that said "I'd rather die than to fumble the ball"? I don't think the quote is right either.
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Thanks guys, It's time to hand out this quote to all the ball carriers.
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I thought that was Bear. I could be wrong.
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Guys, that's the sig of one of the posters on this forum. I'm not looking through every post to find which one though. Great quote by a legendary coach.