Agreed about Tua being a rhythm passer. Most NFL QB's are these days. It's the crux of all these short passing offenses that spawned from the West Coast Offense. They all use the short pass as a surrogate for a running game. It leads to ridiculously high completion percentages these days.Dig I think Tua is a classic rhythm passer, he thrives in the action of 1,2,3 find the open target and release..
Im very confident in how Gesicki wins on his catches and its not about route running or seperation, it’s all about catch radius..so while I know Tua with his innate accuracy traits can get him the ball in rhythm and in tight windows, I don’t believe that’s what your looking for in his receivers..
Gesicki is a classic jump ball 50/50 catcher.Tua needs twitchy receivers who can separate at The line and cut the field up into angles..
I mean I agree that Gesicki can run a route down the seam and all you got to do is throw it high and no one else in football is going to beat him to that catch point, and yes he can catch the fade route, but to me that’s a receiver in the rotation..
its Pitts vrs Smith, Chase, Waddle.etc..
Pitts and Smith are the best separators in that group.one of those two I think is the call with the first pick, hopefully we can trade down a bit.
Pitts is the Gesicki guy actually, he's the size mismatch over the middle. Waddle is the true deep threat to freeze the safety high. Waddle, Chase and Smith are the outside WR's, with Smith being the best separator, followed by Waddle. Chase has the physical body to beat press better than the other two and the ability to win contested catches more often than those skinnier guys. All of them can work with a rhythm passer though, so I think we're good if we draft any of them. Tua just needs to grow into throwing to the Gesicki/Pitts interior guys with size. Much of that should come when he is able to trust his hip and the velocity returns.
I realize that the margin for "open" in the NFL must seem tiny compared to what Tua saw at Alabama, but I'm confident he can throw to WR's who aren't twitchy as well. Those twitchy guys are exactly the ones who have trouble consistently beating press coverage at the LOS. Once Tua regains his velocity and confidence, I think we'll see him able to throw those seam routes. He is an accurate passer, so in time we'll see him excel. We just need a bit of patience.