Carr Bomb

FSU Sports Information Excerpts:

The first full scrimmage of the pre-season was a typical first scrimmage. There were highlights and lowlights on both sides of the ball and all four of Florida State’s quarterbacks kept the pressure on one another. The only touchdown of the day came on the biggest play of the afternoon as Drew Weatherford connected with Greg Carr on a 61 yard bomb. Carr led the receivers with 101 yards on two catches, Antone Smith was the leader among the backs with 47 yards on the ground and FSU’s three returning QB’s all had over 80 yards passing.

STATS
Quarterbacks
E.J. Manuel: 3-for-4, 57 yards; 2 first downs
Christian Ponder: 6-for-11, 104 yards; 3 first downs, sacked three times, fumble, FR
D’Vontrey Richardson: 5-for-10, 81 yards; 2 first downs, sacked three times, fumble
Drew Weatherford: 4-for-8, 91 yards, TD, INT; 3 first downs, sacked once, fumble, FR

Rushing Stats
EJ Manuel: 2 rushes, 9 yards; first down
Antone Smith: 5 rushes, 47 yards; two first downs
Christian Ponder: 4 rushes, -22 yards
Brandon Paul: 3 rushes, 6 yards
D’Vontrey Richardson: 6 rushes, -19 yards; first down
Drew Weatherford: 3 rushes, -3 yards
Carlton Jones: 8 rushes, 33 yards; first down
Marcus Sims: 1 rush, 9 yards

Receiving Stats
Corey Surrency: 1 catch, 37 yards
Preston Parker: 1 catch, 7 yards
Antone Smith: 2 catches, 11 yards
Avis Commack: 2 catches, 28 yards
Louis Givens: 1 catch, 6 yards
Greg Carr: 2 catches, 101 yards, TD
Marcus Sims: 1 catch, 20 yards
Jarmon Fortson: 2 catches, 67 yards
Bert Reed: 3 catches, 19 yards
Rod Owens: 3 catches, 26 yards

Defense
Benjamin Lampkin – 2 sacks
Ochuko Jenije – 1 PBU
Vince Williams – 1 fumble recovery, TFL, 4 tackles
Jamie Robinson – 4 tackles
Darius McClure – 3 tackles
Michael Ray Garvin – 3 tackles
Derek Nicholson – 3 tackles
Nick Moody – 3 tackles
Everette Brown – 3 tackles
7 total sacks by the defense

Head Coach Bobby Bowden:
“Had a pretty good scrimmage. I don’t think we had any serious injuries, I’m sure we got some bruises out there. But both groups had a good time. It’s wasn’t like one of them got the first out of the other. One of them didn’t dominate. I mean offense got their share; defense like they got their share. Offense had too many, I think they had three fumbles. They fumbled on a fourth-and-one and fumbled on the third-and-one, you can’t do that. Had a couple of interceptions; good plays by the defense, it’s pretty good. We came out this morning to work on the kicking day. Worked on the kickoffs, worked on the field goals, worked on punting. We really had a good day of it. Thought it was not a bad first scrimmage. The kids held up pretty good. It did get hot out there today.”

On the problems in the red zone:
“The fumble exchanges killed us a couple times; fourth-and-one and a third-and-one. Tough in the red zone, that’s where we’ve got to get better, we’re working a lot on it, but we hope to get better. We’ll keep working on it then there are some things offense didn’t run down there that I thought would have been real good against goal line defense but then they wanted to look at something else. Sometimes you’re wanting to look at certain plays under certain circumstances that might not be the best. I think we can solve that.”