Bench Washington for DHB

DHB is what the offense needs right now? LOL he is just a guy, average and contributer on special teams he will never be anything more than that

 

I think they would put one defender on him. He's not drawing double-teams.

 

It's not that he literally never catches the ball. This isn't a stereotypical stock character in a football comedy. (See Necessary Roughness or The Replacements) He just drops it so often that it isn't worth using him.

 

In Heyward-Bey's case, the drops happen at a very high rate. That's the other thing. Heyward-Bey doesn't constantly win his matchup. Even when he plays, he's not getting open consistently. The guy is a proven failure at receiver.

McDonald has gotten better. He also offers other skills. He makes an impact as a blocker on offense even when he isn't catching the ball. That is worthwhile in a tight end.

Heyward-Bey hasn't gotten better. He's the same scrub and special teamer he's been for years.

 

He does run one heck of a reverse though...

 

Yes, he does.

 

Yes and also this is what this place is for to talk about it.........

 

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/...ays-criticism-ben-roethlisberger-not-personal

Antonio Brown has Roethlisberger's back on this one. I guess he just had to go along with it, too, right?

 

Like I said earlier you can find receivers later in the draft, when you give up 45 points in a playoff loss defense is more of a priority. Washington college stats is inflated playing in that soft BIG XII conference, they play no defense. Washington was a deep threat in college, but he ran a 4.5 at the combine, that's not blazing speed in the NFL though. I hope he figures it out, probably won't be until next season though.

 

I agree that they should have been focusing on defense, but to say Washington didn't fill a need is not correct.

 

He still has blazing speed. People act like he's never made a catch before in his life. He's a threat to get behind defenses and if he catches one he instantly becomes a bigger threat. I just don't see the harm in throwing a couple bombs his way and if he does catch a couple it changes everything....

 

Just not on 3rd-and-1.

Conversely, if he drops those two and/or Ben makes a bad throw...defenses ignore the deep threat even more.

 

He couldn't catch in Oakland so he will never make another catch again. That's what I've got from the responses in this thread. Yet, there's 5 videos on the 1st page of him making big catches. That doesn't even include his reverse touchdowns. He could make big splash plays but lets keep butterfingers in the lineup or put Eli out there who is the same player as Switz.

 

Yeah but we don't live in our fears remember...seriously though he would have to be accounted for. Can we say that about our other options right now?

 

Well, the defense has to put a man on any deep pattern. What we’re looking for is a double-team or, at least, making a safety shade that way. Considering the known threats AB and JuJu represent, that deep threat has to be proven v. theoretical.

 

Well how do you prove something if you never try it. I just don't see it as asking a whole lot to try....

 

https://www.behindthesteelcurtain.c...-around-antonio-brown-juju-smith-schuster-nfl

 

I’m mostly agreeing with you. I don’t care who they send deep. The whole point is that it has to be seen as a credible threat in order to open up someone else. I’m on board with the idea, just worried that it’ll fail and the defense will pay it even less attention. Ben’s Long Ball has been more off than on, and our deep-man’s hands haven’t been scary-good.