Auden Tate: Where to play him

[*bengalfan74*]

(12-31-2019, 12:53 PM)Au165 Wrote: I'd like to once again bring up, Auden Tate had a 70.8 PFF rating. So aside from all the data I am trying to give people, a service that actually watched him play is also telling you he was good at his job. The advanced stats thing is going to be a losing effort as people are going to keep nagging about this or that so I'll shelve that for a second, Although I would like to point out Mike Williams gets less separation in LA but gets more catchable balls and is producing because of it. If you turn on the tape you get a guy who shields defenders and makes contested catches, it's plain as day on tape. You got a guy that if given more opportunity would have had a bigger impact but was performing at a level of alot of WR's who are much faster and much higher regarded (Fuller/Hilton/Brown/Sanders/ETC.)

Somewhere this has turned into people acting like I am telling you he is the next AJ Green. What I am saying is that Auden Tate with a full season and more opportunity with catchable balls can be a 1k reciever in this league. People saying he is a 3 or 4 at best are laughable as there is nothing backing that up other that "needs more separation/speed" which his actual production does not back up.

People get an idea locked in their head and it's final, there's no changing their mind. They hear announcers saying separation, separation, separation, 25X during a game, stretching the field, deep threat, blah, blah. Then they think if a guy can't out run a gazelle he can't possibly be good. To hell with what the numbers say.

And people get to caught up in labels. It doesn't matter if he's a 2, 3, 4, or 5. If he gets the job done I don't care if people wanna label him a 17.