Tyrod hit Clay with a pretty deep ball last week.
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I grant you that he struggles with shorter stuff. I'm just saying that the reason he appears to be "great" at throwing the deep ball is that his first or second read vertical receivers are often running so open OR are so mismatched by the DBs that a high school QB could make the throws. NBP is right. Balanced offense. Stacked box D. Major play action and wide open first or second reads make a lesser QB appear to be a world beater. Put him against a top level D that can defend the box, rush the QB and defend downfield, and he'll be exposed worse than Newton was in the SB. (If Denver would have had a real QB instead of the corpse of Peyton Manning it would have been a blowout of epic proportions -- all because Newton didn't know what to do when he couldn't throw to major separation windows.)
Miami playing Bills twice a year totally added to Tyrod's "mystique," btw. It was like grade school DBs and LBs trying to play college all pros, lol.
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Ummm... you should get your news from sources other than Twitter, dude. This has nothing to do with Charles Clay who has been excellent in TC. The Bills backup TE, Chris Gragg, suffered a season ending knee injury in the preseason game against Washington. Gragg was both a blocker and a pass catcher while the other TEs on the rosters are blockers so the Bills are looking for somebody to replace Gragg and aren't unhappy with Clay at all.
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Last season read "Bills now regret paying Mario Williams all that money".
Not so much with Charles Clay.
Not so much with Charles Clay.
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Good lordy. Does everything with you has to be about Tannehill? Clay had one year above his average with us but he also played a couple more games. But otherwise he is a good and hard working tight end regardless of the QB.
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This is exactly right. Clay is just what the Bills want/need in a TE: a guy who can block when needed but who can catch passes as well. That enables them to keep the same guy in the game on running and passing plays. They had a "lesser" version of Clay in Chris Gragg who's been lost for the season, which is why they're looking for another guy in the same mold. Most TEs these days seem to be either blockers or receivers but can't seem to do both reasonably well.
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C'mon guys. Clay didn't get paid all that money to be a nondescript, average TE who happens to be able to block and line up in various spots. He got paid to be a difference maker.
Huge contract for a guy who "can block when needed but catches passes as well."
It's revisionist on several levels, not the least that Clay laid down some HORRID block attempts in a Phin uniform. My goodness, lol.
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Huge contract for a guy who "can block when needed but catches passes as well."
It's revisionist on several levels, not the least that Clay laid down some HORRID block attempts in a Phin uniform. My goodness, lol.
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Maybe he wasn't asked to block much with the Fins or maybe he got poor coaching or maybe it's just that he's got more practice at blocking with the Bills. At any rate, he's gotten much better at blocking since he left Miami.
It's easier for a player to learn/improve his blocking than it is his pass catching ability. RBs and WRs do it all the time.