03-18-2023, 10:46 AM
(03-17-2023, 10:42 PM)casear2727 Wrote: A TE defitniely needs to be able to run routes in the NFL, but not just run them but win them in order to be a truly successful TE in the league. Synric is correct, he is catching slip passes off blocks or running straight seams.I really like the assumptions that can be made as fact. Is Washington incapable of running other routes or did the Georgia offense just not ask him too? You are stating he only catches passes coming off of blocks but also acknowledge him being a seam threat...so which is it. Can you explain to me how it is that someone can know that in the Bengals offense that he is only going to catch 2-3 passes a game coming off of blocks? I find these silly notions sorry.
We all really like the guy, he isa physical beast, but he has caught like 40 passes in his entire college career. Musgrave has only caught a few as well but he can run every route and win. The PFF guys made a lot of sense questioning if a guy that is going to catch 2-3 passes per game simply coming off blocks is truly worth a 1st Round pick... especially for a team that passes as much as we do. A team like the Titans? No doubt he would be optimal.
However, we can laud a guy like Musgrave that is a very average blocker, something a TE for Cincinnati must do, and who has demonstrated a very average catch radius. Then there is the fact that there combine testing shows nearly identical results for the events both competed in with Washington actually demonstrating his feet in the 20 yard shuttle while Musgrave did not.
What is even more hysterical is we are talking number of catches a game yet Washington in three seasons caught 45 balls for 774 yards while Musgrave in four seasons (senior season only 2 games because of a major knee injury...should we factor this as well) caught 47 balls for 633 yards. Oh yeah and then there was that major knee injury he is coming off of.
A questioned posed earlier is Washington a guy you throw a quick out to on 3rd and long and expect to create? Well you tell me by watching at :20. At 1:18 do you believe that Musgrave has demonstrated the catch radius to catch this pass? At 1:21 oh yeah that quick out and creating again. Oh yeah 2:59 that quick out yet again and creating for a first down. At 3:31 can you tell me you believe Musgrave is going to do this? Oh Hey 3:55 there is that quick out again and creating yet once again for a long first down.
I guess I am confused when I watch the agility of this man after the catch why people would believe he is incapable of running other routes? I then ask when I watch this highlight tape what else you would really want to see from that demonstrates the dominant strengths this man brings to the offense of a football team?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ymu1OA0czBk
