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I have heard that one of Mike Gesicki's biggest weaknesses is his blocking ability. I watched a lot of the Penn St. games and his poor blocking didn't really stand out to me. I wouldn't say he was the best at it, but in my opinion I don't think he was asked to do it much. He has a large frame at 6'6 and 250 pounds. The question I have is if in fact his blocking ability is poor, could he develop this skill in the NFL? It seems like something that could be taught.
 
We didn' draft him to block, we drafted him to catch and make the offense dynamic and prolific. We drafted Smythe to block.

Nobody cares about the way Ertz, Graham, Gates, Olsen or Any other pass catching TE blocks....its cuz Miami drafted Geisecki so the talking heads want to bash the Fins because it's en vogue. Don' pay any attention to the bumbling talking heads....

Geisecki will be a star and a matchup nightmare and will make life easier for DVP, KS10 and RT17. When he increases our 3rd down efficiency and red zone efficiency nobody will talk about his blocking ability!

I do think with time his blocking could improve, but honestly I wouldn' be concerned about that, especially if it took away from his catching ability.
 
We drafted kid from ND to block. Gesiki is going to be a Red Zone nightmare.
 
Dolph N.Fan said:
Who cares. I want players that can score touchdowns.
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Don't be sophomoric bro. A tightend's ability to block directly affects how many TD's we score in the running game. We can't expect to put Gesicki in on passing plays only and Smythe only on running plays and expect defenses not to know what is happening on that play.

To be honest these two guys seem like 2 TE's who are specialists in the area the other is just regular at. Meaning Gesicki is great at catching and scoring and decent at blocking while Smythe is great at blocking and has average receiving skills.
 
Personally I think Gesicki's blocking has been overblown as well as Smythe's in catching the football. They both are going to pleasantly suprise their critics in those so-called weaknesses. Gesicki is a freak with all pro talent and Smythe is absolutely a better player than Charles Clay ever could've been. Honestly Smythe is better than any tightend we've had in the past 10 years so the skies the limit with this pair.
 
cullenbigcstill said:
We didn' draft him to block, we drafted him to catch and make the offense dynamic and prolific. We drafted Smythe to block.

Nobody cares about the way Ertz, Graham, Gates, Olsen or Any other pass catching TE blocks....its cuz Miami drafted Geisecki so the talking heads want to bash the Fins because it's en vogue. Don' pay any attention to the bumbling talking heads....

Geisecki will be a star and a matchup nightmare and will make life easier for DVP, KS10 and RT17. When he increases our 3rd down efficiency and red zone efficiency nobody will talk about his blocking ability!

I do think with time his blocking could improve, but honestly I wouldn' be concerned about that, especially if it took away from his catching ability.
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Copy/Paste what he said
 
I saw an older interview with him after his first year at pen state where he said he took all the responsibility of being a bad blocker and he’s working really hard to become better at it. They asked him how many times he was asked to block before penn state he said “zero” and chuckled. I think he can learn. At first I thought he was just bad at blocking but I’ve changed my opinion.
 
danstilldaman said:
Personally I think Gesicki's blocking has been overblown as well as Smythe's in catching the football. They both are going to pleasantly suprise their critics in those so-called weaknesses. Gesicki is a freak with all pro talent and Smythe is absolutely a better player than Charles Clay ever could've been. Honestly Smythe is better than any tightend we've had in the past 10 years so the skies the limit with this pair.
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Yeah sometimes we forget they all parrot bs information. We dolphins fans should know better than anyone how full of it they are most of the time.
 
illscriptures said:
Don't be sophomoric bro. A tightend's ability to block directly affects how many TD's we score in the running game. We can't expect to put Gesicki in on passing plays only and Smythe only on running plays and expect defenses not to know what is happening on that play.

To be honest these two guys seem like 2 TE's who are specialists in the area the other is just regular at. Meaning Gesicki is great at catching and scoring and decent at blocking while Smythe is great at blocking and has average receiving skills.
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More and more in the NFL, offenses are doing exactly that. And it's been working. Nowadays there is SO MUCH situational stuff going on out there, defenses are over-stacking against the pass and getting away with it...so on those downs there's just less and less value in making sure you've got a guy out there that can block.
 
How many times have you seen a TE get completely tossed aside like a 5th grader by a DE resulting in a sack, only to have it pointed out after the play..."you have no chance to block that DE with a tight end, total mismatch"...

If you're assigning a TE to block a DE, that ball has to come out of the QB's hands pronto. You're not doing that with the assumption you're going to have time to work progressions.

I think a lot of the blocking talk regarding TE's, whether it be positive or negative, is more of a description of how often they were asked to do it. As opposed to bottom line ability to do it.

If blocking is what you're worried about, then put another offensive tackle out there. Otherwise, tight ends are used to control safeties in the passing game.

The only way you can be considered a great blocker and a great receiver at TE, is if you're O.J. Howard at Alabama and being asked to block every play. Meanwhile, being completely under utilized in the passing game.

Usually the best you can hope for from a tight end weapon nowdays in terms of blocking is simply interference blocking. If you can do that, you'll be fine in my opinion. Just don't whiff. Show some effort.

Ultimately, you're going to be paid according to how effective you are putting 6 points on the board.
 
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