moklerman said:
I always had a hard time fully rooting for Gibson and there are some good examples as to why already listed. I can forgive a guy for not being the most talented but being undisciplined was a killer with him. Didn't he ruin the 80 yard TD to Amendola vs. SF? Seems like he was always doing that but it might have been due to him playing a position of far too great of responsibility.
As it's also been said, dude's probably a perfect 3rd or 4th receiver. As a 1st or 2nd...? That's above his pay grade as they'd say in the military.
But, I've been very displeased with Pettis so far and I'd have to think real hard whether I'd rather the Rams had Gibson in that role or Pettis right now.
Yeah, that's what I said too. A good 3rd or 4th receiver, but not a #1. He doesn't have enough quicks, or enough strength, or enough consistency to be a #1, and that's why he was everyone's goat. If he did, he could be forgiven for not being perfect. Cook fails to protect the ball on a 55 yard TD, and it's okay, because he made up for it with 2 more TDs. If Gibson did that last week, we'd still be talking about it today. Even IF he scored two TDs in the process.
I think people just wanted better receivers, so they tended to be overly critical of him when he was forced into that primary role. We gotta remember though ... there were a lot of guys on this team who were playing positions they had no business playing, but that should be cause for praise IMO. Not condemnation. Now that he's benefitting from being a complementary receiver, he's starting to look more like Laurent Robinson in Dallas than Laurent Robinson in STL. Those kinds of receivers need other guys to take the pressure off of them and they tend to do just fine.