(12-28-2023, 02:07 PM)flgatorsandjags Wrote:

(12-28-2023, 02:04 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: They are barely ever sending him on routes. They keep him inline to block the vast majority of the time. 
This should tell you something about how they intend to use him, but you aren't connecting the dots.

Because he's not good enough, that's why lol.  It isn't hard at all to connect the dots.  It goes right over your head.  They wish he could go out there and run all the routes and be some type of threat but he's not.  Not at this point anyway.

Nothing going over my head here at all, bud.
You made an unwise assumption about how they would use him and you were wrong. 
That's it.

You can try to cover your bad take with "he's so bad they aren't even trying to use him the way I said they would" but I'm not buying that. They keep giving Tank Bigsby chances to run and catch despite turnovers and a horrendous line. 

Yet yer boy - to be utilized like Sam LaPorta and Dallas Goedert according to you - has received a whopping total of SEVEN TARGETS in 12 games. 

He's meant to be an inline blocker who occasionally gets a target. 
If he develops some great receiving skillset - and Doug ends up with Strange and Engram plus only one competent receiver - That is the only way you'll ever see them use those two the way you've tried to predict it since August and September. I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you. 

That's the only reason/situation when Doug ever featured a second highly targeted TE in the past.

This was never going to be a Gronk/Hernandez or Ertz/Goedert situation.

The closest Pederson coached comparison would be Ertz and Burton in 2016 when Burton had 60 targets and lots of blocking compared to Ertz's 106 targets.
Obviously the rookie wasn't ready for 60 targets, or even 30 targets, but it was never going to be more than that and likely less.

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