UGA Football Tight End Oscar Delp Talks About His Leadership Role
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ATHENS – UGA football tight end Oscar Delp spoke to the media on Tuesday afternoon as fall camp nears its close. They offered the following comments.
On growing as a leader on the team…
“It definitely wasn’t something that I was forced into. I think it just kind of happened over time and it just goes back to how I felt as a freshman. I remember those older guys just kind of bringing me along, and now I’m in that situation to kind of help them, so it just kind of all happens.”
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On what comes with being a leader on the team…
“There are days where I get called to break the team down and all that stuff. Really it just comes down to that, you know, in those meetings in the room. You can tell when a guy’s down and a young guy kind of struggles a little bit or you know just having a rough day. Just kind of little things like that where an older guy who helps you out can change your whole mood and change your whole day. And those guys, one bad play it’s kind of the end of the world for them almost in some aspects of practice. You just got to kind of help them learn that's how to grow, and that's part of the game. That’s how it is here. I mean you have to fail to succeed.”
On his run-blocking…
“It’s solely buying into the run game and all the techniques that he [Todd Hartley] taught me. I came here and I had no clue what to do in the run game. I was a receiving tight end in high school, basically a wideout almost. And I realized there’s going to be guys that are bigger than you or guys that are stronger than you, and the way to beat that is with technique and angles. You know football’s a game of angles and numbers, so you learn those angles and the proper footwork and everything. It will make you way more successful than not most of the time.”
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