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Todd Hartley says even after losing Brock Bowers, Georgia has the best tight end room in the country
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Todd Hartley says even after losing Brock Bowers, Georgia has the best tight end room in the country
Todd Hartley believes he has the best tight end room in the country, even after losing Brock Bowers.
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Anyone know how the 2 freshmen TEs are progressing? One of them is a total beast. Go Dawgs!!!
The coach's confidence may foreshadow a great season for his tight end room. Let us hope.
(Still, Bowers, as the best tight end in college football history, will be missed. But for some of the plays he made, we would have lost several games. How do you replace a generational talent?)
I'm sure Kirby & Company are doing everything possible to give us the best chance to win which is all anyone can ask especially when we consider who brought Bowers to Athens and who developed him, but, at the moment, we don't know for sure what our team without Bowers will do to pull the fat out of the fire when the game is on the line.
Go, Dawgs!
Hartley should be excited about our TE room—-three excellent players with two very much anticipated freshmen. GO DAWGS
Yurosek was a timely and much needed pickup from the TP. Delp is solid but Luckie has been inconsistent and the 2 freshmen are freshmen. Hartley saying "we're going to need all three of those guys to play significant roles" tells me not to expect too much from the freshmen unless there is an injury.
What made Bowers Bowers was his athleticism and ability to catch the ball. In 3 years I only remember Bowers dropping 1 ball while making a couple dozen (?) circus catches. Phenomenal hands. During crunch time he could be counted on.
Not sure Delp is that consistent catching. Hartley said, "we've worked really on catching the football". For this O to live up to last year, UGA has to have consistency catching the ball from the TE position (and WR position). Something tells me that Yurosek ends the year as the leading TE receiver barring injury.
Yurosek can make some of the same BB catches, like running over the middle of the field in traffic and high pointing the ball. Not just your basic square in type stuff. Insider at practice said assistants were holding up trash cans in the endzone that were roughly the same height as the goal post and Yurosek was catching balls in the back of the end zone heigher than that.
In his Stanford clips, Yurosek looks athletic and really tough. He made a few of his own one-handed grabs and juggling catches. If he gets back to that form with us, he'll be an incredible weapon.
Re: "I only remember Bowers dropping 1 ball … " Me, too! And he was playing hurt at the time (if we're thinking about the same one).
"What made Bowers Bowers was his athleticism and ability to catch the ball. In 3 years I only remember Bowers dropping 1 ball while making a couple dozen (?) circus catches. Phenomenal hands. During crunch time he could be counted on."….the catch off the Gator's tip and helmet will be the greatest catch ever made by a TE……focus, concentration and ultra human hand/eye coordination…….Oscar is going to surprise a lot of Dawg Fans this year…..you can't spend all that time as the "under-study" to the greatest TE in college football without honing your on natural skills and adopting BB's mental attitude.
That was a great catch BUT not in Bowers Top 5 IMO. The TD vs SC, the catch vs MI (fully extended, pirouetting, close to the sideline, on a long pass) early in a BIG game, the 2 one handed catches last year vs AU (back to back during the comeback). There were so many phenomenal athletic catches. Those are just off the top of my head. Any one of those catches would be the cherry on top of any TE's career.
Probably the biggest catch had to be the Matrix 1st down vs OSU. Not a circus catch but a circus play.
The man just didn't drop the ball. That's why when he did drop 1 it was like, "I guess he is human". I don't remember him ever fumbling either.
Yurosek looks like a receiving TE w/size. He has a history of 40+ receptions/season. Not sure about his toughness or speed but regardless the UGA TE room is in as a good a shape as any in the country.
Delp seems to be cast in the DWash role. He should be a more consistent receiver this season in addition to a very good blocker. Luckie was a freshman last year and was hurt. He will be better this year. The one of the 3 that is the most consistent catching the ball will take on the Bowers role.
In the other Bobo article Bobo said that (after 6 practices) ("Maybe we’re not as good at this as we were last year.") the '24 offense has a ways to go to catch up to the '23 offense. TE consistency and production will be the key.