(12-28-2023, 02:20 PM)NYC4jags Wrote:

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

It's pretty simple, the better he is and the better he plays the more they will use him.  Right now he isn't any better than Luke Farrell.  If Strange starts to improve they will start to use him more and more.  Hopefully he has a good game Sunday. They would love tonuse him more if he can start making some plays and not be a liability, the better he is the more playing time he will get.

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