09-16-2020, 01:46 PM
(09-16-2020, 01:11 PM)Wes Mantooth Wrote: The thing that makes George Kittle so good is that he's had 2,430 yards reveiving over the last two seasons. An average of 1,215.
Is blocking important? Sure. Do you invest 2nd round picks on blocking tight ends? No.
Until Sample can prove to be anything of value in the pass game then he's just an amazing, distaterous waste of a pick.
As the point stated, what allows Kittle to get so wide open? It's the scheme that uses his aggressive blocking as part of his release. Again, Sample isn't Kittle but his blocking prowess can allow the team to do some of the same things. The other thing here, and I can't stress this enough, is that opportunity is as much the issue as performance here. I want to see him get more targets to see if he can be a reliable pass catcher, it's not like he is dropping balls. Delanie Walker spent years in SF as essentially a glorified FB ( I know 2nd round blah blah, not what I am talking about here) until they finally let him go catch and figured out he could, I want to see Sample get his targets to see what exactly we have.
