DefensiveEnd76
Football Guru
Gates is the proverbial all speed and no action. Kind of like a track star trying to play football.
He's a 6 time pro bowler and has over 1,000 yards receiving in all but 4 of his 10 or 11 year career. He's also a fabulous route runner. Let's not compare Gates to Chad Johnson please. Gates didn't even play football before Abilene Christian and was a poor route runner who seemed to only run 9 routes in college. There is not a route tree that Johnson has not run, so let's stop with the learning to run routes in the WCO conversation.
Imagine that...a guy who only knows how to run "9" routes is having issues with other patterns....wow...who would have thought of that?
You don't get his point. It isn't the routes, its the fact he doesn't run the right ones. He doesn't get on the same page with the QB and the rest of the offense because he is dense...
And my point is, unless you think he has early Alzheimer's, he may have gotten slower but he probably hasn't gotten stupider, and his brain hasn't stopped him from being a top WR in the league, so if that's the only problem he has a good chance for a resurgence.