Lucas watch continues

By Os Davis  |   Thursday, May 11, 2006  |  Comments( 0 )

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Our story so far: After going undrafted out of Alabama State in 2004, wide receiver Chad Lucas was signed by the Tennessee Titans as a free agent and pretty much immediately released. After a season in the AFL, the Green Bay Packers picked him up and played him in one game in 2005; he caught zero passes. After the regular season, Packer brass relegated Lucas to NFL Europe, where he was drafted in the eighteenth round of that league's allocation draft.

In week four of the NFLEL season, Lucas put on a show, catching four touchdown passes and setting the league record for most in a game. Lucas currently leads the NFLEL in scoring going into last weekend's game against the winless Hamburg Sea Devils.

While everyone else is watching names go up on board and college kids taking their first baby steps in the frightening world of NFL-level clichés, some were watching actual football last weekend.

Okay, let's say semi-actual football. All right, all right, and it shouldn't be "some were watching" but rather a couple - I mean, we are talking about NFL Europe here. At least a few Green Bay eyes have got to be peeled for Chad "Burning in Amsterdam" Lucas, though, surely.

Two Saturdays ago, Lucas' Amsterdam Admirals squeaked by the 0-6-1 Sea Devils in Hamburg, 18-17. After a barrage in the second quarter that would see the Hamburgers score the sum total of their points and jump out to a 17-3 halftime lead, Lucas, QB Gibran Hamdan and the Admirals spent the game's remainder playing catch-up. After a pair of third quarter field goals made it 17-9, Hamdan found Lucas - the dude he's been depending on all year - in the end zone for a thirteen-yard TD that would represent the only touchdown for the Admirals. After missing on the two-point conversion, the Admirals marched down field to win the game with twelve seconds left on the clock. Lucas finished the game with six receptions for seventy-three yards and the one TD.

On Saturday (Won't someone please inform the Eurofolk that American football is played on Sunday? What? They play what on Sunday?), the Admirals were "stunned" by the Cologne Centurions (good name), thereby ending the longest winning streak in the team's history. Lucas, however, continued his good work.

The Green Bay Packers' man in Amsterdam continued his good work, however. The Admirals had Jared Allen at QB this week in lieu of NFLEL leading passer, blogger and Matt Hasselback-up Hamdan. Practicing his technique in pro jock sound bites, Lucas was quoted pregame as saying "It is going to be different but everybody is going to have to adjust ... it is going to interesting to see if [Allen and third stringer Reggie Robertson] can play the way they have been playing so far this season for an entire game."

While Lucas works on his delivery a bit more, Packer brass can check out Lucas' stat line for the week, which read a decent 5 for 76 in an offense that went from constant deep threat to one dominated by screens and dumps. Lucas actually gave the Amsterdam faithful hope in the fourth. After the Admirals had scored ten unanswered, the team began driving again. Allen connected with Lucas for a thirty-two yarder with less than three minutes remaining, but the QB's next pass was picked off to seal the deal for Cologne.

Lucas currently ranks fourth in receptions and first on the NFLEL scoring list.
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Os Davis has taken a twisted route to get to RealFootball365.com in his nearly 17 years in professional writing, working in any number of capacities in the sportswriting, news reporting and film criticism worlds. In print media, Os has served as editor at a few publications, including Albuquerque's...
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