Saturday…IN ATHENS
What could be finer? And them Diamond Dawgs are number one after finishing a National Number 2. On the heels of our FOOTBALL National #2, we dropped three games, a bunch in big, bigtime college ball. We dropped three and consider it a bunch, my hunch: that makes us one of the tip top programs in the country. We have finished #3; we have finished #2. There is only one goal unchecked on the Richt list.
Joe Cox seems a solid answer at QB with AJ Green back for his second season – He led the SEC in grabs last year!!! The edge on D is focus again, where penalty must be replaced with production. Hit harder, interfere less, tackle better and we can be okay there. The questions remain overall, especially in the running game where Caleb King takes over for Uber-stud MORENO. Just thinking, but the best overall athletes in the state over the years have usually been the running backs at GEORGIA: Herchel, Moreno, Hearst, Hampton, Davis, Edwards to name a few. Moreno was our second best runner, ever.
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You don’t maybe know Joe as well as you want to. He has been around GEORGIA for years, four of them to be exact. Heck, he – red-headed and clipboard carrying, ballcap wearing – went off in as noticeable a fashion as any in the J-Ville endzone celebration two years ago. And he saved the Colorado game when Stafford was cold, and is 1-0 as a starter, though he was removed for Stafford in the one game he did start. He was 50-0 in high school, and I like his winning percentage and winning attitude. He is a fifth-year senior Richt once praised as the best backup QB in the country. Plus, no Knowshon Moreno to eat up carries. This season is on Joe as a one-season shot was on DJ Shockley. Shock won an SEC ring and was upset in the ATL-played Sugar Bowl post-Hurricane Katrina. I Love DJ, and I really like what I’ve seen in Cox to date. He has great touch on his mid-range passes, which is beautiful to watch. Less cannon than the soon-to-be number one pick, Matthew Stafford, Joe Cox is if anything a more proven leader. He backed Shockley up as a True Frosh in a redshirt year and knows what it takes to compete and win. He is no Joe Tereshinski III, we hope. Spring game on the 11th is free this year!!! And it will be SATURDAY IN ATHENS…GO DAWGS!!!
