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I'm trying to adjust from working overnight to daytime. I read that when I went to sleep and thought "so this is what it's like when I write a long reply" which I often do.
I didn't call him Shockey some announcer did.
I said he's like outta the 80s 90s and not like the pretty ones and more Bavaro than Apollo. I seemed to have struck a nerve with you like I mentioned your favorite guy.
Bavaro is up there in my mind too. Also grew up in NJ. My dad was a lifelong Giants fan and that whole team was quite dear to him. I have a lot of stories in a book that still hasn't been published and am thinking about going an ebook way. Anywho, I appreciate them too.
I don't like Pitts and I don't like Chig. There's a handful more and I think it started with Jermichael Finley. In my memory, Dallas Clark was different but tough and that's fine. The Jets had someone (forget name) people kept incorrectly saying was like Clark and...maybe it was that guy and not Finley.
(We've also seen some WRs try to convert to TE too.)
The TE is a specific position expected to do certain things in my mind. Good on them being lightning fast and looking all smooth as they race for a TD but what about boxing out and being a target for the QB on what used to be a simple common route for a TE?
On gamepass or plus or whatever it's called, when I can go look....I'm just flat out irritated with Chig. Like now I can re-watch it and I literally don't know what he's doing. I remember one play where Levis or Rudolph was looking middle and his back is to them and he's like walking slow or idk...like I just yell "what is that" at my screen.
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Chig had two good games late. All season I have people tell me how good he is or how talented he is.
Why? Was it the two catches for 8 yards that caught your eye? The three catches for 6 yards?
Please look. His stats are awful. Not debatable not close just awful.
I remember specifically texting a very well respected FF person who said he loved Chig after his 2 for 14 game.
What does that? Guy is sharp, knows FF, all wonderful things. There's never been another player on earth to get 2 for 14, catch less than half the passes, and said he had a good game.
When Mariota turned bad, I had a lot of people point out to me how I was way wrong so I get it.
I'm aggravated and ready to go to fourth grade and say my grandma can catch one pass for six yards like Chig did. He's some golden boy in a lot of people's minds (that I respect) and can do no wrong.
I don't much do the "look how he was in college" replies for rookies. There are always some that play a bit different as a pro and it's usually on awful teams like my Titans. I figure there's a lot involved and maybe it's the threat of their career being over but I very much fall for the UDFA types.
DMR literally ripped the ball away from a DB while someone said he didn't have good my ball skills in college.
Oliver can't get open deep did you see his 40 time? Yeah well the Titans have a very good secondary and he's done it every day for months now.
I remember Gunnar being a good blocker and a not good blocker in draft writeups. If he gets his edge to move a few feet and the RB scoots by, I'm very happy. I saw him whiff and dive at a DEs feet. Umm not good but ..idk work on that.
He's not a finished product at all but the effort is there in a big way. I can root for effort and hustle. When Chig gets beat on a block and stands there looking back- he looks like a dufus. I wish I could slap his helmet and say wake up. Do something! I'll take the dive at feet on whiffs for now.
We're not the worst team and playing well as some fools say. I gotta root for weird things. I've seen a lot of bad QB play and the Titans affinity for drafting guys with my ball skills is resonating with me now. A far cry from Burrow to Chase but when you've had Treylon Burks and Robert Woods as supposed key cogs, Bryce Oliver ripping a football away like some kindergartner tried to steal his cookies looks pretty great.
Gunnar and DMR are full tilt effort yes coach guys and they're the perfect pressure to be applied to Chig. Do it right or you'll be pulled and they will. We had some fast pretty looking boys on defense that are gone now. Why does it matter if he has 4.5 speed if he doesn't make a play? So anyway they're gone and time for Chig to do what he's been taught for four years. What is that, 52 yards combined over the first five weeks last year? Good luck with that keeping the starting spot this year.
We need this. The defense was second in the league in points allowed because they got rid of pretty boys that don't produce. It's left over from Vrabel.
Did you see him talk about their WR corps? I used to want to vomit when people said ours was good before a Bengals or Vikings matchup. Bourne is not good. Diggs should be doing Ben gay commercials and who misunderstood McDaniel and added 42 slot WRs by accident? How does that happen? They need Boutte to pan out. We need Oliver. Both need a rookie to pan out as an outside WR and then next year both need an elite WR pushing the whole group. Vrabel didn't want AJB in trade but he sure kept him and told us he was talented every week. He should take him as punishment. The WR corps are not that different and neither is the shmoozing. I'm sick of it, but for now I gotta root for guys that rip the ball away.