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5 things on Georgia football receivers: Cobbled together, dynamic and tough group
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5 things on Georgia football receivers: Cobbled together, dynamic and tough group
Georgia football has a cobbled together receiving corps, but it's a dynamic, explosive group that should prove capable quickly
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Talk is cheap. Let them prove and show fans what they can do on the field
We have to pass the ball before the receivers can catch it. Hopefully we can get away from 80-90 % running plays and throw more.
Sounds to me like the WR room is mighty full and will have a great deal of good competition amongst everyone in there and that will only bring out the absolute best in all of them. Cant wait 30 days and counting till we get back to chopping wood and savage pads on Saturday. GO Dawgs!!!
What do you mean? I have to assume you've been going to practices to watch them or something. Your comment implies that they have trouble catching the ball.
Demetris Robertson had 50 catches for over 700 yards at Cal as a freshman before getting hurt and missing the majority of his sophomore year. From my digging, it doesn't appear he's been targeted with a pass yet for UGA in an actual game. In fact, he only had 23 plays from scrimmage over four games in all of 2018. The knock on him so far was apparently an unwillingness to embrace the physical, blocking first requirements for receivers in the UGA offense, not an inability to catch.
Matt Landers has played in zero games so far. He may or may not have have strong/weak hands for catching the ball, but this isn't something that we fans have had a chance to witness in a college game.
(Now, if you're talking about G-Day performances, I'll just keep my eye rolls to myself.)
I truly expect our wrs to be better than last year and I expect us to throw the ball more. Mostly for one main reason. We will be faster! Look at the times in the 40 from the early departing players. Hardeman was fast, granted. Other than mecole, we were slower than we will be this year.
fast receivers + better line= more passing
After this years performance, the talk next year at this time will be how the WR room is one of the strongest position groups for the Dawgs. The question is, will Fromm return for back-to-back nattys?
D-Rob was targeted in the LSU game but he had a foot out of bounds. It was ruled a catch but overturned by review officials.
One more time (as most posters on this one are saying), I don't think the receiver positions will hurt us this year. I think there is a better chance they will turn out to be a key strength.
cause of all those passes you have seen thrown to them right?!? just stop with the "i heard about this maybe being a problem for landers so im gonna make it seem like that ive actually witnessed it........the D-Rob "drop" issues I have no clue where you got that from - what he dropped one of the maybe 2 passes he was thrown all of last year - thinking before posting helps - try it
Oh and not to mention the numerous horrendous drops i did WITNESS hardman and holloman have last year - holloman dropped what 2 sure tds in the sugar bowl?!?!
I agree that the WR room is full of potential, but I'm taking a wait-and-see approach on all of these guys, especially D-Rob. I understand that the sample size is small, but what there was of it didn't show me any reason to get my hopes up about him. Quite frankly, I'm more excited about the freshmen I haven't seen because I haven't seen them crack under pressure yet. Frankly, though, I don't care which one of the guys steps up. As long as somebody wearing Red & Black is catching passes, it wouldn't matter to me if D-Rob never plays a down. But if he does, and he balls out, more power to him. But I think this is his year to show he's either got it or he doesn't. Then again, maybe it's a moot point. It seems to that if you have speed, it doesn't matter to the NFL whether you can catch passes or run great routes (see Isaiah McKenzie and Mecole Hardman).