12-29-2016, 11:25 AM
(12-29-2016, 11:19 AM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Exploiting the middle of the field is sort of the nature of the TE position. The injuries aren't limited just to Eifert, a lot of TEs get banged up for similar reasons as Eifert. I guess that we just notice it more in today's NFL, because the style has come to use TEs like "big WRs" rather than the athletic lineman body style of TEs of yesteryear.
Yes, but lets be honest, I'm not a Dalton hater but when he's off, its very frequently high and forcing guys to go high as they're going across the middle is not the best idea.
Eifert has also had most of his injuries on plays not involving going across the middle. The elbow injury he was just going to the ground, the ankle injury in the pro bowl was trying to catch a pass out of the back of the end zone and I don't think he was even touched by another player. The guy is just fragile and unreliable from a health perspective.
