BATON ROUGE, Louisiana -- Starting near his own end zone, quarterback John Lampley dropped back into the end zone on the opening play of Southern’s full-team scrimmage Saturday, when he spotted a streaking Kendall Catalon over the middle of the field.
Lampley threw the ball 40 yards just in front of the undersized receiver and past the trailing defender where only Catalon could catch it with a sliding effort.
If only for a moment, Southern’s offense was in control at A.W. Mumford Stadium.
The defense controlled most of the rest of the day.
For the next two hours, the Jaguars defense locked down Lampley, Catalon and the offense to limit the number of big plays any of the first-, second- or third-team groups produced.
The offense rarely replicated big yardage gained on that opening snap and failed to break into the end zone until drives began in or near the red zone as the day progressed.
Coach Dawson Odums said he was mainly looking for the offense to garner a few first downs on those early drives and said what he saw was adequate.
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