{"id":1585,"date":"2009-08-03T19:18:22","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T00:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/08\/03\/speaking-of-football-season\/"},"modified":"2010-06-06T11:59:36","modified_gmt":"2010-06-06T16:59:36","slug":"speaking-of-football-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/08\/03\/speaking-of-football-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of football season."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Falcons got their camp under way over the weekend, and UGA officially kicked things off today [or maybe it is tomorrow; would not be the first time I ever went early].  I am surprised one of the top questions in this article from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/sports\/uga\/bulldogs-hit-practice-field-107137.html\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/sports\/uga\/bulldogs-hit-practice-field-107137.html', 'ajc');\" target=\"new\">ajc<\/a> was not about Cox\u2019s ability to lead the team and hold down the QB spot.  Assuming that Cox has the position nailed down (mostly because he is a fifth year senior) I think the tailback position is the next most intriguing.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Caleb King, once a celebrated recruit out of Gwinnett County, enters his third season in the Georgia program and gets his first shot at a starting job. Redshirted in 2007 and used sparingly as Moreno\u2019s backup last season, King starts camp No. 1 on the tailback depth chart.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not insignificant, but he will have to fend off competition from three teammates who weren\u2019t in the mix during spring practice: Richard Samuel and Dontavious Jackson, both of whom were injured, and Washaun Ealey, who was still in high school. Plus, 5-foot-7 Carlton Thomas showed in the spring that he intends to command playing time, too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a great time of year.  Hope springs eternal for the Dawgs, and I just got my Falcons tickets.  Good times!<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Falcons got their camp under way over the weekend, and UGA officially kicked things off today [or maybe it is tomorrow; would not be the first time I ever went early]. I am surprised one of the top questions in this article from the ajc was not about Cox\u2019s ability to lead the team &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/08\/03\/speaking-of-football-season\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Speaking of football season.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,29,55],"class_list":["post-1585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-atlanta-falcons","tag-nfl","tag-uga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2893,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions\/2893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}