Georgia Bulldogs Countdown to Kickoff: Day 19
The Georgia Bulldogs get to work on beating the Oregon Ducks in 19 days. I mean the actual, on-the-field, in-the-game work.
You can read about the scrimmage work they did over the weekend right here.
The number 19 has present and past significance for Georgia.
Obviously, Brock Bowers is one of the most dangerous offensive weapons in all of college football, let alone among all of college football’s tight ends.
He wears the number 19. Ask defenders at Alabama, Georgia Tech and UAB. They remember.
Most of their defenders got a good glimpse of that number as he ran away from them, and into their endzones.
It’s fun to talk about how good Georgia’s tight end group as a whole – not just Brock Bowers – will be this season.
But until you see them in action, it’s all just a hypothetical.
Yes, Georgia has all of the talent in the world at the position.
But how till they mesh together?
It seems like Todd Monken’s a lot more cautious to just line up four tight ends than I would be, if I were an offensive coordinator.
(And that’s exactly why I’m writing this, and not an offensive coordinating.)
But if Bowers’s fellow big Dawgs – Darnell Washington, Arik GIlbert and others – do eat, it will be because Bowers is no longer surprising anyone.
He isn’t a freshman. The tape is out there. Teams may sell out to stop Bowers in 2022.
But they can’t stop everybody else.
The other Georgia Bulldogs #19 that came to mind for me is also pretty obvious
Hines Ward finished his four-year Georgia career with a Swiss Army Knife-stat sheet.
And he did it all without a left ACL.
Ward broke his knee cap in a bike accident when he was in fourth grade. The doctors just ‘forgot’ about it when they put him back together.
One less injury to worry about, I guess.
The Forest Park High School alum ran for 1,066 yards and five touchdowns, passed for 918 yards, with three touchdowns and three interceptions, and hauled in 144 passes for 1,965 yards and 11 touchdowns.
Ward also set Georgia bowl game records for pass attempts, pass completions and passing yards in the 1995 Peach Bowl when he completed 31 of 59 passes for 413 yards.
Of course, his renown exploded as a dedicated wideout for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Ward finished with 1,000 career receptions, 12,083 receiving yards, 85 receiving touchdowns, two Super Bowl titles and a Super Bowl MVP on his NFL resume.
He also became the NFL’s greatest blocking wide receiver.
Fellow Georgia wideout George Pickens looks to be honoring that legacy with his infamous ‘Pickens Push.’
Theres’s only one preseason game under Pickens’s belt.
But if he can stay the course and continue his production, a Georgia wide receiver could once again get countless Terrible Towels waving for years to come.
