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True and PItts is in the same boat and at the same crossroads Chase young is in, prove your rookie year wasn't a fluke and live up to expectations being a top 5 pick or be labeled bust regardless of how you might become a decent producing player someday, yuor expcpactions was being labled generational , some Cowboys fans wanted Jerry to trade the house much like NO did with Ricky Williams to egt this guy. wow imagine that.. TG Jerrys not that tyope of gambler anymore and desperate to replace Witten or get his a novacheck type.Don't worry, you're right.
I don't see anybody saying he sucks or can't be better.
But he was really bad last season. As you astutely point out, if it was all on the QB, system, and coaches, you'd see the rest of Atlanta's receivers with the same issues. But you don't. That's simple logic.
The point of all this is if you're drafting a TE that high because he's supposed to be some transcendent talent, you'd want more than what the falcons have gotten from Pitts.
Imagine if Parsons had the rookie year he had, but then came back in his second year with like half a sack, 3 pressures, 2 TFLs and was injured half the year. Some people would still defend him and point to his rookie year as proof of his greatness. But there would be a lot of people who rightly would be questioning how good he really is.
Because when you draft a guy that high and he's touted as the next phenom at his position, he shouldn't be bottoming out like that. Part of what you want is consistency.
We're not talking about counting stats where you can say, well, they run a lot so the opportunities aren't there, or the QB isn't finding him or whatever. He got plenty of targets and he caught less than half. That's a problem.
For comparison's sake, Pitts had by far the lowest catch percentage on the team. The next lowest was 56.5%. Everyone else was above 60%.
But somehow it was the system/QB/coaches? That doesn't make logical sense.
Maybe Pitts was playing hurt, like really hurt. Maybe it was mental. Maybe he was lazy or disgruntled. Maybe he struggled with double teams. You can say a lot of things to explain it. But you can't say it didn't have anything to do with him. It clearly did.
Hell people were criticizing Lamb for far milder performance issues.
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Fans ride lamb sure but Zeke was also top 5 pick and at least put up 4 years of great ball before the offense and his injuries took him out.. zeke had career good enough to not label him a mistake, bad contract aside, his production showed he was worth it and Pitts will have to do that.