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It sure looked like Pitta stood out yesterday. Sure, Dickson will outproduce for at least a few games, but I wouldnt be surprised if it is no more than that.
Amazing to think that the Ravens could have had Graham and Hernandez quite easily.
Yeah, I would use "rattled" versus "sniped"...either way, he did OK...just happened to misfire slightly in what will likely go down as the "Class of '83 of TEs".
Dickson was the guy who people thought was the slightly better athlete and being a couple years younger seemed to have more upside. I'm doubting that assessment now and finally coming to the conclusion that Pitta is the better player. Other than Dickson's 10/72/2 game last year he has looked rather ordinary.
Agreed. It's not like I'm sitting a Top-5 TE for him though. I'm giving him the nod over Olsen, which is still kinda risky since every site I look at ranks Olsen higher. I just like what I saw last week from Pitta and I don't see how Flacco can overlook him now.
Have not heard that about the route running. In fact, IIRC, I heard the opposite. According to the combine Dickson is just barely faster (4.67 vs. 4.72). Not sure that is enough of a difference to make one of them a deep threat and one guy a zone dump off.
He's scored in three of his last four games played and Baltimore's WR's are overrated across the board. Pitta is emerging as a low-end TE1. He'll have a quiet week against the Eagles who are always a nightmare for TE's, but after week 3 you won't find him on any waivers.The combine was 4 years ago? I've seen these guys numerous times at training camp before they shut out the public, I've seen them play in person in 5 or so preseason games, I've seen Flacco and the TEs play in person 15-20 times in regular season games. The rest of the games I've watched on the ole TV. I was attempting to provide a distinction between the two: Dickson looks like a WR on the field, Pitta looks like an H-back/TE. I haven't timed em in the forty to see who's faster, just eyeball test based on their play against defenders. Dickson has been laid out a lot by defenders running post and deep crossing routes recently. I'm starting to wonder if he's hearing footsteps as the ball is being delivered. Pitta, on the other hand, catches just about everything thrown his way. I wasn't saying that Dickson was only a deep threat guy and that Pitta never ran anything deeper than 5 yd routes, just if you're comparing the two; it may help distinguish them. I can say with a %100 percent degree of certainty that Flacco trusts Pitta more than any other rec on the team.
Good stuff...it should also be noted that citing 40 times is not always a good indicator of whether a player is a good deep threat. There are plenty of fast players who don't have the skills to be a consistent deep threat.
I suspect your eyeball test would've been the same 4 years ago. I seriously doubt Dickson is much faster than Pitta now, just as he wasn't much faster than Pitta 4 years ago. Basically, I'm just saying that your eyeball test has no worth. But don't take offense. 99% of eyeball tests have no worth.
They certainly put him in a position to do that in Week 1. If that's going to be their approach and not just a game-specific plan for the Bengals Pitta could definitely reach that number. He was clearly the preferred TE in the passing game ahead of Dickson against Cincinnati.'Mystery Achiever said:
I seriously doubt that was just the game plan for the Bengals... this is supposed to be a new pass happy Raven's offense where Flacco runs the offense the way he wants too.... and he looked very comfortable out there doing it, and one of his comfort zones is getting the ball to his good friend, and the guy he warms up with before every game... not to mention like all the damn jerk off NFL analysts say.. this is a "copy cat" league.. and the Ravens look like they play on taking advantage of their TE's a lot more this season
Well, starting Pitta over Olsen turned out to be the right call. But I also have Bennett, and he outscored Pitta.Gonna be fun picking the wrong guy every week.
Guess that's what happens when you miss out on Graham/Gronk.
Looks for real. He's on the field a lot and Flacco is targeting him constantly. The targets may decline as we go along but it seems pretty clear Pitta's a big part of their passing game.
