His overall drop % is not bad. In fact it was better than Bailey's last year if I recall. His lack of willingness to block IMO is grossly blown out of proportion. He is NOT, nor was he brought here to be, a conventional inline TE. I am not saying he is the prototype, perfect player for this team. But I think he is quickly becoming the new "whipping boy" of a struggling offense. There are far too many other issues on
this offense to call out Cook as the main culprit.
First, I want to say I'm glad to see more Coach O comments. I've missed your observations since TC.
A couple of things...I really believed Pead would have a decent season especially with the chance to entrench himself early. That fumble was like the very worst timing to be hit by the entire Seahawks secondary at once.
Cook is that dude I hate to love some games and love to hate others. He was killing TC and now...I don't know. And that drop last game just pisses me off. He's so damned talented and could be killing teams but almost none of the seam work we saw him destroying and then that drop.
My standing with Cook is you go to him in good times, when you can take a drop, and never when it's a must not drop. It's not his % as much as his timing. I think he gets nervous on the must catch passes. Unless he becomes more clutch, I see a cap casualty.
I just rewatched the Steelers game...damn we were close. Austin and Britt were very good. Mason has some nice runs called back. Foles missed only a couple, but they were important. Hekker fails for the first time. I saw a Gurley play where the Steelers did everything right but the Rams o-line DID make a hole for him, closed by good D LB play, then Robinson or Brown literally landed on his man and Gurley was one cut from making a big play in that direction.
Do you think we see Quick this week? A healthy dose of Gurley?
