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oldschoolramfan
And I was the biggest fan if his when we drafted him.

BUT.

He needs to catch the ball. He needs to stretch the defense "once in a while". He needs to return "all the punts and kick offs." And above all, he needs to be a player we can rely on to make "the big play" when needed. He drops way too many passes. We need 3rd down conversions, not 3rd down drops.

Tavon needs to stop "looking" the part and start "playing" the part of an EXPLOSIVE football player. Just my honest opinion.

To me, Tavon needs to be mentally tough and stop trying to "look good" and just start "playing good."

If you reduce Tavon's issues to catching the ball, to me, that means you're seeing him as a pure receiver, which from my perspective, is a mistake in the first place. He's not a pure receiver. To me thinking of him as one and evaluating him as one and discussing him as one is all massively beside the point.

In terms of his hands, remember last year Keenum had trouble throwing to him. PLUS it looked like Boras made the mistake ot trying to use him more as a pure receiver (which he's not IMO and never will be). So what that did is just undermine the whole thing. What Goff showed is that if you lay it right there within Tavon's real catch radius he will catch it just fine. You probably do not want to target him running into defenders in traffic like last year's pick 6--he is just not the guy who can do that. Which is fine if you do what he CAN do, which is a lot of other things, just not that.

So within his limitations, if you use him right in his role, he can catch just fine. But he is not going to make amazing catches on errant throws or near misses, he is not going to win contested balls, he is not going to snatch it in traffic, he is not going to sky for higher balls and impress you doing that, he is not going to catch one that's behind him and so on. That's because he quite simply does not have those skills. He's not (just to put it this way) a "born receiver." He's a fast and dynamic offensive weapon who can catch passes (depending on the routes) as part of his overall game.

You drop it into his catch radius and you run him on routes where he will be effective.

IMO if you do that, and that's just talking about the receiver part of his game, and he does just fine. He can do a lot for you, he's just not going to be Hakim or DeSean Jackson or Steve Smith etc. That's just not his DNA.

All IMO of course.

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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 02/11/2017 07:12AM by zn.