Tate delivered today.

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(11-04-2020, 06:35 PM)Wes Mantooth Wrote: Regarding seperation, or lack thereof, I really don't think you can gauge Tate's ability to do so based on what we've seen Zac Taylor's offense.

I actually started a thread on this, and was tempted to bump it again after last week's game.  I've never seen offense that has receivers so blanketed on almost every play.  Our guys have guys draped all over them, or immediately have defenders around them when the ball is caught.  We make what should be relatively easy throws look like a damn miracle sometimes due to the coverage.

I'm not sure if this is due to the defenses just knowing what we're doing, and we're not fooling anyone, or if it's by design to just beat people to balls.  But when you watch this offense it looks like no one is getting any seperation, not just Tate.

Boyd is getting 2.9 yards of separation on average per NFL Next Gen Stats, which is pretty middle of the pack.  Higgins is at 2.3, which is bad, but he's a rookie and not a polished route runner yet.  AJ is at 1.8, which is bottom of the heap, but he still draws double teams which hurts him in that area.  The lack of a true deep threat hurts, as well as the lack of team speed.at that position.  The big difference this year is Burrow has tremendous ball placement and can squeeze the ball into well covered receivers, whereas Dalton couldn't.

Sample is 6th among TE's in separation with 3.6 fwiw.