I think everyone is trying to analyze this way to much! It has nothing to do with what Qb is throwing to them. By the end of Henne's rookie training camp the had each caught thousands of balls from him. Think about how many other teams you see experience a QB change for whatever reason and the receivers don't drop balls. Case in point Alex Smith comes in at halftime 2 weeks ago and lights it up.
The reality is we have to run block first tight ends, they are going to drop balls it is the nature of the beast.
Bess over achieved a little last year and has now become a focus of our offense and the opposing defense. I think the ball he stayed with and caught that was bouncing off the defenders pads, while tip toeing the sideline, and being interfered with shows he had a bad game against the Saints and nothing more. The problem is he is in a lot of formations were he is the only receiver and he is getting a lot off attention from defenses. He could very easily be as productive as Welker if we get a receiver that clears out some traffic.
Cam is a constant catches everything, just like Bess needs someone out there to stretch the field.
Hartline, I am pretty sure his only drop is a diving catch against New England. Yeah he let it get to his body, bad technique. The drive before were he sold out got drilled, caught with his hands and held on to the ball shows what type of receiver he is. 2 and a half seasons later and we have never seen that from Teddy Bear.
Teddy Bear, it is what it is! He is a average return that has blazing speed. He shies away from contact, he will slide or go out of bounds. We are stuck with him through 2009, and it is a catch 22. His lack of courage flat out pisses me off, but I know enough about football to know not only do we need him out there stretching the field we need to throw it to him on those routes 3-6 times a game. Henning needs to be smart, run him on fly routes, fades, and flag routes. He gets single coverage, man/press, defenses aren't fearing him and giving safety help. The problem is Henne isn't getting the time for the play to develop. Right now defense are attacking us on every passing down because we are not getting any vertical plays! Our longest pass against the Saints was a screen, we went over 20yds once against the Jets, and I don't think we threw one past 20yds at all against New England.
We all said wait for Henne and we will get vertical. Well guess what we really haven't. My best guess is the blame lies on Dan Henning, and lack of a vertical player. That said you can put the full blame for that on the front office.
