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TEs are great for short safe routes. Fromm actually threw more deep routes than those short safe throws. He also threw many out routes, those are not typical freshman throws.
There is nothing about Fromm that should limit the offense from targeting it's TEs.
Which of the two has the best hands? Sorry we haven't seen enough passes go their way.
Nauta doesn't have the length most top TEs have these days. He does have excellent hands and route running ability though. There's nothing ability wise to limit either Woerner or Nauta.
The TE’s were used this year. It was just different than what we’re used to seeing. Happy Ford wants to come here
@WCDawg The middle was crowded due to all the effort to stop the run. Leaves corners on islands. Hence the out routes, fades, slants, curls (easy throws on man coverage). Either you agree or you think he’s incapable of throwing over the middle.. it’s not like they weren’t running routes
It doesn’t matter his potential in the Chaney system. TE’s come to UGA and see their potential die cause Chaney doesn’t have a clue how to incorporate them like he should.
Hey @CoachRob16 , there’s a TE position coaching spot open! Maybe you should coach!
It's up to coaches to put TEs in positions to succeed, it's not the job of a true freshman QB.
An average OC can make the easy calls, it takes some talent to get the ball to your best players when defensive schemes take away the easiest routes.
Our TEs have far too much collective ability to be confined to some 1970s notion of only throwing to them on 10 to 15 yard routes in the center of the field.
I want players to come to UGA and both help the team and achieve their potential. I'm not interested in conning 18 year old kids.
The truth is these guys will not get the attention of NFL scouts the way they are being used at UGA.
They should be concerned with their futures, just like everybody else.
Given current evidence I would not have advised Ford to come to UGA, Oklahoma would have made good sense, which might explain why our TEs coach just went there.
I would love to see all the kids on our team to be the best at their position..
This is my thinking.
I don't want kids to be selfish, but that goes both ways.
If we're not going to give a kid an good shot at achieving his potential and dreams, don't recruit him. All of our TEs combined had 250 yards and 2 tds over 15 games. That comes to 20 yards a game and a single td every 7th game divided among 4 players, that won't get a kid drafted or prepared for The NFL.
By contrast Oklahoma's top TE had 958 yards and 8 tds over 14 games, now they have our TE coach as well. It couldn't have been fun for Beamer either.
Seems this dead horse has some life. We kept the TE’s in to block due to teams loading the box. It worked. We ran the ball welland made the NCG. Would rather we’d targeted the TE’s and not run the ball as well? It’s what the staff wanted. I have a feeling the Chaney knows how to throw to the TE, when the situation requires it.
Someone may transfer, and if so dont worry about it. Attrition is a necessity.
You should check out Chaney's offenses at other schools before he inherited the best running back duo in SEC. He uses TE's in a wide variety of ways and they have historically caught a lot of passes for him. If you saw the amount of formations UGA lined up in this year you would know that we have used the TE's in a vide variety of ways. There are a large number of reasons why our TE's were not productive this year. One is that people don't quite understand that Jake Fromm ran a spread system in High school with no TE's. It is difficult for a QB to jump from a system that has 0 TE's to a offense that uses 1,2, or even 3 TE's at a time. Remember, Fromm was not the starter all of camp, spring practices and the offseason. He did not have time to get confotable with the TE's and we did not design a playbook that utilizes his talents to get the ball into the hands of our TE's. Fromm was more comfortable throwing balls to receivers on the outside of the formations as that is what he did in high school. Fromm's job for a majority of the year (minus Bama, Oklahoma, and auburn) was to take care of the ball, make checks at the line and hand the ball off. We ran mostly play action routs to receivers and RPO's that only include one receiver. It is not fair to blame Chaney or the coaches, its safe to say our offense ran at a high level this year.
My only point is use them or don't recruit them.
This is the biggest opportunity almost all of these guys will get in this life. We owe it to them ALL to do everything we can to make sure they reach their potential.
If it's not at UGA, let them sign elsewhere.