Auden Tate: Where to play him

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(12-31-2019, 12:58 AM)impactplaya Wrote: Yes you are correct. But this where scheme comes in.
Who says he has to be strictly lined up on the outside to run a go route ?
You can put him on the heels of a TE and have him run a myriad 
Of routes.
I thought ZT and Callahan were porous in the route combos 
This year.and their lack of pre snap motion with WRs.
You can spin it any way you want .....but at the end of the day 
14 yds per catch is still 14 yrds per catch.

If I'm scheming a guy open for a go route, I'm scheming open a guy who has enough speed to take it to the house.  That isn't Auden Tate.  

It's hard to say if the lack of motion was by original design.  AJ was out.  Ross was in year 3, but missed a lot of time.  Tate was in year 2 and didn't play much as a rookie.  Willis and Morgan were rookie cfa's.  They may have felt the need to simplify things based on the lack of experience out there.

14 ypc is a good average, but it's deceptive without context.  You can give a guy 10 Targets and he catches 2 of them for 28 yards, he'll have a 14 ypc.  It doesn't mean he's good.  It just means he averages 14 ypc.  It also doesn't take into account all the other metrics that he's below average to outright terrible in.