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On Saturday night, Georgia WR Terry Godwin made one of the most incredible catches you’ll ever see, snagging a touchdown pass with one hand while falling on his back against Notre Dame.
It was such a rare play that it’s difficult to imitate even if there’s no defender and you try it several times.
That’s what QB Jake Fromm (who threw the pass that Godwin caught in the 20-19 victory) and WR Javon Wims found out at practice on Tuesday, a they tried and failed to recreate the amazing play:
A reenactment: Terry’s one-handed catch (feat. Javon Wims & Jake Fromm) 🏈➡️🖐 pic.twitter.com/GQUY9dudPf
— Georgia Football (@FootballUGA) September 13, 2017
As you can see, Fromm actually displayed some pretty good hands while trying to mimic Godwin’s catch.
Could we see a trick play in which someone, perhaps even Wims, throws a pass to Fromm in an upcoming game? If so, Fromm has the hands to turn in another amazing highlight.
Fromm is an all-around athlete and is capable of a lot more than zipping the ball out of the pocket. If we weren’t so thin at QB right now we might be seeing some evidence of that in play-calling. He lines up at WR on every wildcat play – at some point the ball could actually come his way. The dude has outstanding hands and decent speed. Remember, Meco Hardman and Terry Godwin – the usual wildcat QBs – were QBs in high school and have experience throwing the ball. In fact, Godwin had the longest pass for UGA in 2015.
The current rumbling is that Eason could be out deep into October with his knee ligament. He’s still using a crutch this week. Despite what Kirby has said, this may be Fromm’s show for most of the season. Chaney’s going to have to get creative in moving the chains against SEC defenses. The good news is the offensive unit goes up against one of the very best Ds every day in practice, so game time shouldn’t be a surprise.
Yes, agree on most points, but I feel Chaney needs to throw the “Wild Dawg” or wildcat, whatever you want to call it, out of the playbook.
We need our bread and butter running plays and play action passes. It’s plain ole’ fundamental football. If Fromm viewed some of the plays Aaron Murray had, maybe he can bring it to the attention of Chaney. The game is won in the trenches and on the line. If we could just get better blocking for the best running back duo in college football, it would open up our pass game to let Fromm show his arm off.
I agree they need to scrap the wildcat. I mean I’d like to see if the stats from that formation actually justify the usage of it. Basically is Michel lines up at wildcat QB the defense can put 11 in the box cause I’ve never seen a hint of them throwing from there.
Speaking of some of the Aaron Murray plays, one of the things Bobo did so well was draw up the back shoulder go route and Murray always executed it well with Green/King/Conley/Wooten/Bennett/Mitchell. It’s a hard skill to master with timing and necesary arm strength but if georgia can get creative with the playcalling and force teams to resepct the deep ball, Wims and Godwin can be deadly with Fromm or Eason with the back shoulder sideline throw.
Also making teams respect the run game more aka create more creative run blocking schemes to get Chubb and Michel loose in space so that teams have to bring down the safeties and play one on one on the outside because they can’t stop the run with just the front 7