_dan24
wha?
wait - this thread is a joke ...
Right?
Right?
_dan24 said:wait - this thread is a joke ...
Right?
You're wrong. He does burn by them. He just doesn't have a ball waiting for him on the other side. Watch the tapes. Ask the players, the opposing ones I mean. Ask the opposing fans. He has that gear, just hasn't been rewarded for it. Like I said before, I stopped counting the number of plays over the past three years where he was WIDE FREAKING OPEN and the ball was poorly thrown. I'm not just talking about one or two occassions. It was every stinking game, we all tend to forget because the play didn't happen the way we wanted. I distinctly remember thinking to myself during the 2002 and 2003 seasons that if we could just complete one of those two to three opportunities that were there for the taking (i.e. Chambers beat his guy deep down the middle by two to three steps) nearly every game, we would have been a much more potent offense. Turner was calling the play, Jay just couldn't deliver. Point is, don't knock CC for the outcome when he did his part.finfan54 said:I do not think I am far off in saying that Chambers has not caught many down the sideline for TD's while burning the CB. What Chambers is awesome at is catching sideline balls with exprertise, running the back of the endzone with precision and pure talent. Catching the ball over the middle and taking the hit and still hanging on to the ball. What CC has not done very well is burn a CB down the sideline with his "awesome speed".
As for David Boston. He has yet to make it through a season and a couple of knee injuries. He has been asked to go five yards and make plays on his feet. If he is so fast, then why arent they sending him long? Maybe we will, but we have not very much at all. So all this talk about how he can go long is yet to be seen. Thats all, its not a dig on our recievers like most of you would like to make it.
finfan54 said:And by the way, I havent seen chambers outrun anyone this preseason. Ive seen chambers make unbelieveable catches while getting slammed. I also have seen him covered tight alot downfield and no seperation. I have also seen all the recievers not turn around and read the blitz coming in on gus, they are suppose to break off their routes when that is happening. That is when Gus underthrows them.If they would just turn around, the ball would be caught.
finfan54 said:Why was he able to come in and win the games he covered Culppeper on? Its cus he had a WR who could go downfield and get his long ball. We simply do not have a reciever like that. Boston is trying to make a comeback and Booker is more a possession type and Chambers gets double covered and cant seem to get down the field fast enough. I love our WR's but we simply do not have a fast reciever (welker maybe) who can get downfield to get his long ball. I think that is a large part of the problem.
ccphinfan said:Let me get this right. Gus sucks, but he and AJ look about the same