Oh well, Crowell

What did I say at the end of my last post? Just to save readers from scrolling down, I'll remind them. I anticipated that some winning Dawgs would go out in Jacksonville and celebrate their win over Florida, but I also hoped they'd keep their noses clean. Well, apparently Georgia Bulldogs don't read my blog, because the next thing I knew Isaiah Crowell, Carlton Thomas, and Ken Malcome had been suspended from one game for failing a drug test.

Maybe they got hit in the head once too often, because anybody with a lick of sense would know that after a win over the Gators and a night on the town, he would have to pee in a cup.  I hope when those three players got home, Mark Richt gave them a taste of this:

Oh well. Now this afternoon, we're without our #1 (at least on his jersey) running back. What's more, poor Richard Samuel, after his day in the Florida sun, limped off the field last Saturday, and now he's out for the season, unless he can return for a bowl game (I'm really disappointed about that. I wanted to watch Samuel play some more).

Thank goodness today's game is against New Mexico State. The Aggies. Makes sense. During two games we played against chickens. Now we're playing farmers. It's not like we're up against a top-ranked team while our key players sit on the bench. At the same time, as I write this posting, we're in the first half, and the Aggies are picking up some yardage in Sanford Stadium. This game might not be the gimme lots of Dawgs fans might be expecting

Still, I  hope the Dawgs put a hurtin' on the Aggies, if for no other reason than to demonstrate to Isaiah Crowell that he's not all that. So who do we have left to show him?

• The Brandons--Boykin, Smith, and Harton:  Smith has already scored our first touchdown, and Boykin just gave us a beautiful run. And right now, the red shirt sophomore from Reidsville is probably thanking Isaiah Crowell for making a stupid decision. He's running the ball like his pants are on fire, and he just scored Georgia's second touchdown.
• Tavarres King: We'll see what he can do. So far, he's managed to get stuck in the hedges, but he's performed for us before, so he just might do it again.
• Orson Charles and Marlon Brown:  ditto (not about the hedges, but about the other stuff)
• Michael Bennett: He scored us some points last week. Maybe he'll earn us some more today.

It's not even half time, and the Dawgs have demonstrated that Aaron Murray can depend on more than the running back with a bad weave.

More after the game