Saturday Auburn Scrimmage Notes

Auburn had a physical practice today at the intramural fields, but not physical enough according to Coaches Dunn & Price (we'll get to that in a minute). Brandon Cox looked very good today. Cox was 13 of 19 with 188 yards, 3 TDs and 1 interception. The interception came after a pass bounced out of Prechae Rodriguez's hands in the endzone and into Will Herring's. Tre Smith sat out again, as did Brad Lester. Devin Aromashodu had another great scrimmage as did Cooper Wallace. Anthony Mix ran brilliantly after the catch, but gave everyone a scare when he and David Irons had a vicious collision. Both were transported to the hospital. Irons has bruised ribs and should return in a few days. It was feared that Mix may have injured his spleen, but he received a good report from the doctors and is expected back in a few days. John Vaughn kicked a 51 yard field goal just 2 days after nailing a 45 yarder on a 10 second drill that kept the team from running sprints. Merrill Johnson went down early with a dislocated elbow. This allowed Tray Blackmon more playing time. Blackmon finished the day as the leading tackler, with 5.

After the scrimmage Dunn and Price held the defensive line for conditioning drills. This included what seemed like endless sprints in full pads. The first casualty was, freshman, Rudy Odom. Odom appeared to be having a heat stroke, but that didn't stop Dunn from lighting his tail up. Dunn made Odom, who was slouched over a cooler and being attended to by managers, stand during the drills. Odom promptly fell back to the cooler as soon as Dunn turned his back. After six sprints, Josh Thompson was heard muttering, "WHAT THE F&C#!". Dickens went down after the seventh. Josh, T.J. and Pat Sims walked the eighth. I believe Pat was saving up for the final sprint. Derozan was so tired and hot he almost passed out. He stumbled into Josh Thompson at one point. The 30 minutes of drills was very intense and was the highlight of the entire practice. Dunn was interviewed by AU Tigers immediately after the sprints and, in the heat of the moment, probably ran his mouth a little more than he should have.

Auburn Scrimmage Notes

Auburn held a 80+ play scrimmage this morning at the intramural fields. Brandon Cox caught Will Herring asleep on the first play from scrimmage and hit Kenny Irons for 79 yards to the 1. The offense lined up on their own 20 and handed it off to Carl Stewart who went 40 yards before fumbling the ball (the offense recovered). Two plays later Brandon Cox went deep to Devin Aromashodu, but was picked off by Wilhite. The offense failed to score until an hour later when Cox hit Mix for 15 yards, once again Will Herring was out of position. Blake Field ran the second team today, and looked average. He had one interception late in the scrimmage. Calvin Booker dropped 3 snaps and had one snapped over his head. Cox dropped one, but recovered it. Brad Lester got most of the carries today at running back. Overrall the defense looked pretty good. The offense ran mostly short routes until the end of scrimmage when they opened it up on the third team defense. Only one player went down with injury. Joe Cope hit the ground screaming in agony early in the scrimmage. Everyone stopped what they were doing and took a knee. His screams indicated that he was seriously injured, but 5 minutes later he stood and walked off the field. No one could tell what really happened to him, but it was apparent that he doesn't like pain.