Report: Burrow pushing for Bengals to draft Chase

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(04-03-2021, 03:32 AM)Murdock2420 Wrote: It seemed like he was just being salty... but I watched this clip, it's Chase vs Florida. His big play is not really him, as much as a brilliant play design to get him open, using the RB and defender to create space.





I'm not trying to kick a hornets nest or be all negative but, for all the hype about... "Ohhh you gotta get Chase... and he's generational." Against a good defense, he looked like a good WR... but not superman that everyone is hyping him to be. Saw him blanketed on several plays.

I do love his fight after the catch and breaking tackles, that is nice to see. 

But his first touchdown, he's covered, there is no separation from the CB. That is a perfect ball from Burrow for that score. It's around the 50 second mark in the video. And all I hear from people on this board is how we need a WR that can create separation. I saw 2 catches where Chase created separation with great routes and one where the play design created it. Outside of that, I saw a guy covered and making contested catches. 

You realize that #1 for Florida that you see shadowing Chase most of the time is CJ Henderson, who was the #9 overall pick this last year?  They are literally taking an elite college CB and moving him around to keep him on Chase and creating easy matchups for Jefferson to take advantage of.  He still had 100+ yards and 2 TD's despite drawing the toughest matchup most of the time and would have had a 3rd TD if Henderson didn't pull his towel and his jersey to recover after getting beat.