04-13-2022, 01:09 PM
(04-09-2022, 02:19 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: I don't hate the signing, though I think they overpaid a bit and were likely bidding against themselves.
I'm not sure I get the whole "TE Killer" thing, though....
He played 6 snaps against the 49ers in Week 14 and George Kittle had 151 yards and a TD
He played 12 snaps against the Ravens in Week 16 and Mark Andrews had 126 yards and a TD.
He played 13 snaps against the Chiefs in Week 17 and sure Kelce only had 25 yards, but he also had a TD.
He played 21 snaps against the Raiders in the playoffs and Waller had 76 yards, 16 more than his per game average in 2021.
He played 9 snaps against the Chiefs in the playoffs and Kelce had 95 yards and a TD.
Against the best TEs the Bengals played at the end of the year, Flowers barely played and the TEs went off for 473 yards and 4 TDs in 5 games.
PFR has Flowers as allowing a 111.0 QB Rating in his coverage with the Bengals in 2021.
PFF has Flowers as a 51.3 grade.
All this hype seems to be around the fact that they held Kelce to 25 yards (and a TD) in one game... in a game where Flowers played 21% of the defensive snaps. There's no way he can live up to "TE Killer" expectations.
Thanks for the numbers TLL. They look bad when seeing this, but these are the best TE's in the NFL as you say and they
go off on everybody a lot no matter the coverage. I saw even in his bad games Tre Flowers was still blanketing these great
TE's, it just didn't matter, the passes were perfect a lot of the time and when this happens these players are impossible to
cover. It isn't like in the past when our Safeties were just terrible at covering and the TE's were wide open in the middle of
the field. I like Tre's size and he is a very good ST's player aside from the one bad play against the Titans.
