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8.11 Scrimmage
by parrishalford
 Inside Ole Miss Sports
Aug 11, 2012 | 1911 views | 3 3 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend | print | permalink

VIDEO: Freeze talks scrimmage

Hugh Freeze was not happy with either quarterback after the approximately 2-hour scrimmage, but Bo Wallace did seem to have some rhythm and was doing good things. In fact, Wallace was nearly turnover-free on the day until he threw two picks in his last four pass attempts.

He had the only touchdown pass of the day, a 28-yarder to Randall Mackey that was a short pass followed by a lot of Mackey.

When the dust settled, the quarterback numbers were fairly similar. Wallace was 10-for-23 with a TD and 2 picks for 134 yards. Barry Brunetti was 12-for-24 for 76 yards, 2 INTs, 0 TDs.

There were drops by receivers too. I've had good things to say about Cody Core through the first week of camp, but in the scrimmage he looked more like a true freshman.

There was good news from the freshman running backs with Jaylen Walton and I'Tavius Mathers both turning in good plays.

Mathers led all rushers with 47 yards and a touchdown on 10 carries, but he also had a fumble. Walton had a touchdown and 30 yards on seven carries.

Devin Thomas (8 carries, 26 yards) got a lot of work, and Jeff Scott, who took a hit to the head during the week, was held out.

Donte Moncrief is slowing working back into the mix. He had 4 catches for 27 yards but had a couple of other catches he could have made.

Defensively, DL Gilbert Pena had a big day with six tackles, a sack and an interception of a Wallace screen pass on the final play of the day.

Cody Prewitt (from Wallace), Quintavius Burdette (from Brunetti) and Senquez Golson (Brunetti) also had interceptions. Golson also had a nice PBU in man coverage.

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HornetDriver
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August 12, 2012
Freeze should be more worried about those gigantic chompers hanging behind his lips. Chew on some logs or something, man.
Churn
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August 11, 2012
gardenclaw, "QB play will tell the tale", I must agree with you on this, and this tale does not look good for the Rebels. In my opinion the Rebs do not have the right stuff as yet. It appears that they may be trying to build an offense first, but that was a disaster to them in the John Forcade days,putting their best athletics on offense and piecemeal the defense. that turned out as a disaster.

JB
gardenclaw
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August 11, 2012
There is ginormous chasm between juco speed and SEC speed. QB play will tell the tale for the blackbears this season. I forsee alot of dumps to Mackey, with a TE out front blocking. To which SEC defenses will smother, since there is really no deep threat, thus a lot of 3 and outs. It will be frustrating to say the least.