04-12-2021, 11:07 PM
(04-12-2021, 10:57 PM)KillerGoose Wrote: I never brought up Tee’s 40 time. I said he was plenty fast enough and then gave a few examples of top WRs who ran a 4.5 because you said there weren’t many. That is where the forty came from.
The difference between a 4.54 and 4.48 is absolutely not huge. If it was, John Ross would have been a god. Pure speed, and especially forty times are incredibly overrated. What matters is short area quickness, footwork and route running. You can’t maintain your top speed in and out of breaks. Chad ran a 4.57, but he was elite. Chad had incredible footwork, route running and quickness.
If you want to make a complaint on Tee about him not being very quick then that’s fine. Tee has other attributes that make him valuable, like his strength and route running. However, his speed is plenty fast enough and acting like a .06 second difference in a forty is huge is just silly. Tee has the prototypical frame to play X in this league, and a successful one at that. Saying otherwise because there is some imaginary speed threshold is silly.
It’s not really silly when on at least two occasions he had nothing but green grass in front of him and got caught from behind. Turning sure 6 into possibly a 3 or worse. That WILL be what separates him from being a great #2/good #1, to being a great #1. Love Tee, but he won’t be AJ or even Chad like. I don’t care what his 40 time is, his game speed is still slow enough to get caught from behind after being in full stride.
