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Putting all those other unprovens ahead of our guy is business as usual among the so-called experts (who are way more often wrong than right). Bennett used being slighted as motivation… hopefully Gunner will, too. Go Dawgs!

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Oscar Delp and Lawson Luckie are undersized (240 lbs) TEs who lack the speed, quickness, lateral movement, change of direction or strength to separate from defenders. It would have taken elite play at the other skill positions, WR and/or RB, to draw the linebackers and safeties in order for Delp and Luckie to get the mismatches underneath that they needed to be productive. And even if that happens, getting the ball to the WRs and RBs would have made more sense than getting the ball to Delp and Luckie anyway. Also, it is fascinating how everyone scapegoats Bobo when UGA had the #1 scoring offense in the country 2 years ago when Brock Bowers and Ladd McConkey - two guys who had 1000 yard seasons in the NFL as rookies - were healthy, plus Daijun Edwards and Kendall Milton were better than anything UGA had at RB in 2024. Todd Monken had those two plus AD Mitchell (2nd round pick), Darnell Washington (a guy who has the strength and speed to separate from defenses and the size to block DLs instead of just LBs and safeties like Delp and Luckie, yet he only went in the 3rd), George Pickens (2nd round), James Cook (2nd round) and Kenny McIntosh (1300 yards rushing and receiving). Give Monken an entire year with Nate Frazier (straight line runner with no breakaway speed) and Arian Smith (to be fair, while he was a disaster as the 1st option in the offense he could be pretty effective as a 4th option in a limited role, which is what the Jets are counting on) plus the below average play at OT and he wouldn't have been any better. How do we know this? From the 2020 season when Monken's offense couldn't even win the SEC East for UGA.

If it were possible to take average players like Delp and Luckie and scheme them into All-Americans everyone would do it.

@SnakeScott13 Understand, and Kirby acknowledged that, but it's the lesser of the two evils — better than April, May or June when you've prepared an entire spring with a kid thinking he's gonna play a major role. Ask Tennessee, right?

Little archie with the highest odds to win, what a joke! Unlike Klubnik, Allar, ,Nussmeier, or several more listed, manning has proven no more at the college level than Gunner Stockton has. If he didn't have the manning last name, he'd be very lucky to be in the top 15 Heisman candidates..he's way overhyped, AND highly overrated. I needed a good laugh, and got it after i saw who the supposed heisman favorite was. Happy, and safe 4th of July to ALL the DAWG fans out there..GoDAWGS!

Explosive plays happen with more regularitywhen the O-line can give the Qb that extra second to look downfiel and when the running back has a decent crease to get to the next level. Go back and watch the ganes from last season and CBhad to get the ball out quick! RB's getting met behind the line of scrimmage! Watch allof these 4 and 5star Rb's in highschool on the tape Sentel provides. On most of their big gains or TD's they run untouched through the line. All of that changes in the SEC.

I've said this repeatedly, the most important thing for the Dawg's offense is to create explosive plays especially in the run game. That means the offensive line has to be better and give the RBs room to get to the second level. This will open up the play action pass and create opportunities for explosives in the passing game. While fans are always complaining about play calling, every play is called to be successful if executed properly. That execution starts with blocking and then the QB and RBs have to make the correct reads. We will know a lot about this team after their first two games: can they run the ball and can they stop the run.

That was the first thing that came to my mind when I saw the heading. Go Dawgs!