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Lawson Luckie quickly becoming a major player at tight end for Georgia: ‘Lawson can be really good’
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Lawson Luckie quickly becoming a major player at tight end for Georgia: ‘Lawson can be really good’
Georgia tight end Lawson Luckie continues to impress for Georgia.
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Production! Luckie should be #1 TE.
I must say that the lack of development by Oscar Delp has been puzzling. He seems to have all the tools to be a very effective CFB TE. He touches may be limited by the coaching staff. He seems to have trouble catching and holding on to the ball. Yurosek has also been a head scratcher. He was very successful at Stanford. He is not being asked to do anything different at UGA than he did at Stanford. As a graduate of Stanford you would expect him to be able to pick up the offense quickly.
That TD catch by Luckie was circus like. Difficult and showed difference between the UGA and AL defensive back coaching philosophy. AL DB's are in your face, hyper aggressive. UGA DB's are giving big cushions and reacting. Maybe UGA should've left TRob at AL and hired the AL DB's coach?
Need to throw to the TEs more often. Especially Luckie since he’s got the hot hands now. But I wouldn’t write Oscar Delp off, in the past he’s made some pretty good catches.
Delp is very efficient at blocking but gotta reward him some by targeting him on throws along and along to. I guess Yurosek is just having a hard time picking up the UGA system though as stated already him being a veteran player you wouldn’t think that’d be a big problem. I don’t know.
The lack of TE and RB involvement so far this year is concerning IMO. Our offense has been one dimensional. I hope to see change this Saturday.
Go Dawgs!
We are what we are. No elte receivers. Arian is the epitome of hit and miss. He may catch it he may not. Even if it hits him in the hands. BAMa receivers making adjustments on the ball and catching evertything.
Arian didn't pick up the checkdown to the quick screen and casued the interception, made CB look like a nobody. I think if CB had bama sreceivers and MIlroe had ours, it be a different story.
still have high hopes for big Oscar cause dude is big and physical but he missed catches he should’ve made against Bama. Let’s get this offense rolling, and once it rolls, everybody eats (WR, RB, TE)…. The expanded playoffs changes the weight of each game now, so one loss won’t doom us. Get everyone ready for the long haul.
Just asking a random question: I know we cannot rewrite history, but assuming the Dawgs hadn't turned the ball over at all Saturday night, does anyone believe that they would have actually beaten Alabama?
I like your point to an extent. Agree that Arian Smith just isn't consistently reliable, and that really hurts us. It's hurt him during his time at Georgia. And sure, you could switch the receivers around but the difference would be, Milroe would STILL have the ability to change the game with his legs, whereas Beck would not.
Gotta target and use Luckie more. While Delp has the time and definitely a physical presence, he just can't hold onto the ball when thrown to him. He had a couple of drops in that game, on top of a few others, and Luckie seems to catch just about everything. Yurosek may be getting less time due to his poor blocking. Haven't seen enough of all his plays, but he had a really bad whiff in the UK game that blew a play up.
I get the disappointment with Smith but he has been surprisingly reliable this season, with the exception of that big drop last weekend. My concern, and another article out today about needing to get Dillon Bell more targets kind of backs it up, is that Beck (when under any sort of duress) tends to lock in on one receiver and is going to throw it no matter what. For some reason, Bell hasn't been that one as often as he should.
DAWGs are still a very good team and just need to keep their focus where Smart always hammers - exactly where their feet are. Roll over Aubarn baby.
Georgia's DB get flagged if they look at a receiver funny. And I think it's pretty widely accepted that Bama's DBs, well everyone at Bama, are fairly consistently allowed to get away with murder. Switch that treatment, and I'd be willing to bet the "philosophies" would follow suit.
Agree. Wow !! I don’t know who down voted you and really don’t care, but apparently they haven’t watched much of the games !! The TEs haven’t been targeted very much at all. And though we have ran the ball it hasn’t been nearly as much as in the past. Part of that last might be that our O line is struggling to make Big holes for the RBs. They pass protect Beck pretty good but not to adept at opening holes for the RBs. Thus as you said making us pretty much one dimensional. Go Dawgs !!
@ navydawg-
"They pass protect Beck pretty good but not to adept at opening holes for the RBs. Thus as you said making us pretty much one dimensional. Go Dawgs !!"
Thatw what Iv'e been saying for some time now, they are not elite run blockers. THey don't move people much.
Exactly what BEn Jones said on the Aaron Murray podcast. OK pass protectors, not great run blockers.
I continually talk to the TV saying, “Throw it to 7!” Luckie is clearly the best receiver among the tight ends and can outrun defenders after making the catch. Plus he catches the ball! That Smith drop on a perfectly thrown ball in the 1st quarter of the Bama game was a huge momentum killer. Gotta go with the guys who can catch the ball and win the 50/50 balls a majority of the time.
I said it at the beginning of the '23 season. The ref's are checking out on all the WR/DB hand fighting. The difference between the AL DB's and the UGA DB's was never more clear than the last AL TD last week. The 2 UGA DB's were looking for the ball and for an INT. Neither player knew where the AL WR was or laid a finger on him while he made a juggling catch (or after as he ran untouched to the end zone). He was wide open to a timely hit to put him in the 1st row. You just have to zero in on him. Remember what Cine did to Kyle Pitts? As I said DB 101: 1) keep the receiver from catching the ball 2) tackle the receiver after catching the ball 3) intercept the ball.
AL DB's cover the man THEN look for the ball. They are in proper position to try and make a play on the ball. Hence their contact is considered more "incidental". UGA DB's look for the ball while they get out of position on the WR's. Then they run wildly to the WR because they have been watching the QB and not their assignment. They get there early w/o turning to find the ball and make contact. Interference.
Based on USC's defensive stat's when Donte Williams was DB coach indicates that he was a recruiting hire not a coaching hire. TRob seems to be a recruiting hire as well. Time for CKS to get way more involved with DB coaching a la Nick Saban.
"There’s a reason he’s seen as the greatest tight end of all-time." Conner's Brock Bowers man-crush continues unabated! 😎