(04-08-2022, 10:06 AM)flgatorsandjags Wrote:

(04-08-2022, 09:28 AM)Bullseye Wrote: (emphasis added)

If the part in bold is a bad thing, why in the world do you like London?!?  Pick any highlight clip bundle of his.  All you see are contested catches because he can't separate.

I've seen Pickens get behind a defense a few times.

Go take a look at a lot of those throws, a lot are bad throws.   It's crazy that you think if a guy's is elite at making contested catches its a bad thing.  In the NFL, if you're going against a good corner most catches are going to be contested and I want my WR to be able to make those contested catches and London is the best at that.  You obviously hated A Rob.

But he's not! Making 3-4 contested highlight catches during an entire season doesn't make that player elite, it doesn't even make them very good, especially when the disappear for very long stretches at a time. Drake London seems to make 3-4 contested highlight catches each game. Now, that is a guy who is elite at making contested catches, certainly not Pickens. You cannot simply blame Pickens inconsistencies on bad throws. Stetson Bennett completed almost 65% of his passes during the season. He was actually one of the more accurate QB's in the NCAA. His TE Brock Bowers, certainly didn't have any problems catching passes from Bennett. 

I never hated Allen Robinson when he played here. I was actually a big fan of his until he proved he didn't want to be here. He was a very talented WR and I had him very high on my board coming out of Penn State. Now, he is older and not the same receiver he was in his prime. If he could magically turn back time and return to his 2019 or 2020 form and we'd be assured that he truly wanted to be here, I would've been all for signing him. He's not that same player anymore though.

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