Gathers is an absolute Beast and smooth as Silk

[CowboysFaninHouston]

I’ll never understand the fan love around here for a 6th round draft pick who is starting year 3 with this organization having never earned the opportunity to play a down of NFL football. On a team screaming for TE help, our HC has been less than enthusiastic about him. I just don’t understand the Rico love.

but he is 280 and runs a 4.7 and has big hands...oh those big hands

 

[Bobhaze]

but he is 280 and runs a 4.7 and has big hands...oh those big hands

That doesn’t make him a great football player.
The great NBA Star Wilt Chamberlain once ran a 4.5 forty at 7’1” and 270 and had hands that allowed him to hold a basketball like a tennis ball. Former chiefs coach Hank Stram tried to sign Wilt to play for the chiefs in 1970. Wilt’s comment supposedly was, “Being a great athlete don’t make you great in every sport”.

 

[Stash]

I mean that's fine. But they picked a guy for a certain skillset....and then never used that skillset. It's the same thing they did with Switzer.

I just think they picked the wrong guy, pure and simple. Kelce does everything required of the position better than Escobar ever did or could.

And even after four years, Escobar still looked like a scared rookie out there. An awful miss of a draft pick, made worse by the success experienced by the players the Cowboys could have drafted.

 

[Pants]

....rrrrrrico, suave..........

yeah, let him show something before I deem him a player, let alone a lock for the hall that many think

 

[CowboysFaninHouston]

That doesn’t make him a great football player.
The great NBA Star Wilt Chamberlain once ran a 4.5 forty at 7’1” and 270 and had hands that allowed him to hold a basketball like a tennis ball. Former chiefs coach Hank Stram tried to sign Wilt to play for the chiefs in 1970. Wilt’s comment supposedly was, “Being a great athlete don’t make you great in every sport”.

it was sarcasm....you need to read the rest of my responses on this thread

 

[LocimusPrime]

I keep hearing TE like Gonkowski does not block he is just a pass catcher? BS

People dont wanna see that bro

 

[buybuydandavis]

If Rico has the upside we think he does at receiving, you let the blocking go and allow him to continue to develop there. I get the scheme we run, I really do, but you can't let go of a TE that has elite receiving talent because of poor blocking (I'm not saying he does have that ceiling, just if that's how we view his potential)

Don't listen to him, Rico.

It can take NFL WRs *years* to get up to NFL skill level in receiving, *after* high school and college careers of being the guy on their team. Developing your receiving skills will be a *long* road, if you even have any real receiving skills.

But we've turned LBs into FBs in an offseason. Learn to block, and you'll make the field and start getting opportunities to catch the ball. Can block, big target, soft hands gets you on the field at the goal line.

 

[sbark]

Tell him to box out....get him thinking in bball terms

 

[links18]

Just make him a WR and dispense with the blocking stuff already.

 

[Big_D]

Lets see how he does blocking in the preseason.

 

[Captain-Crash]

slow cuts and rounds them off.. looks like old old tank running 10 miles per hour rounding off his turns.. but he should be a superstar.. "The Legend" continues. I bet New England would trade Brady for him.. get it done

 

[Zekeats]

I love ricos size but I get in arguments with how people overrate him. Lol hes the least experienced te on the roster by far. If dallas only keeps 3 tes hes most likely the 4th.

He didn't look inexperienced in preseason. Now there have been a lot of preseason studs who became duds too but the majority of the time if you can shine like Victor Cruz in the preseason you could play in the regular season.

 

[Jipper]

Watch him pull a hammy in training camp and not even have a shot...would be typical

 

[4lifecowboy]

I think he is ready to be a offensive difference maker right now, if he was utilized correctly. He is simply too big and fast not to win a favorable amount of LB match ups. A most QBs would love to have a weapon like him. Can't wait until preseason.

 

[panchucko]

slow cuts and rounds them off.. looks like old old tank running 10 miles per hour rounding off his turns.. but he should be a superstar.. "The Legend" continues. I bet New England would trade Brady for him.. get it done

Heck yea, we would have the best backup QB in history.

I personally want the Rico experiment to end, but I can wait until TC.
Maybe he will do something to earn a spot, maybe not.

I am wore out on the Rico and ET threads, I click on very few of them but tired of seeing them

 

[LACowboysFan1]

No, they really don't.

After a certain number of reps you can tell a difference in a player's performance. They begin to look polished. For a receiver, they start taking the same steps with the same rhythm, the same lean and the same distances. Rico is starting to look polished running those routes.

Further those are not "basic" patterns being run. Basic means 1 cut but its obvious that Rico is working on making multiple moves in a route

It's a matter of degree, with really no defender, in shorts, it's easy to look "polished". Besides, he's not a rookie, pretty sure he's done those routes and practices many times, which means it is a basic route, at least for him it is.

Doesn't impress me that much.

But we'll see in a few months...

 

[LACowboysFan1]

Witten is no longer here to hog the snaps

Witten did not "hog" the snaps, he got passes thrown to him much of the time because he was open and the other receivers weren't. Never saw anything or heard anybody on the Cowboys say Witten was a selfish player, which someone who hogs the snaps by definition is.

But that's fine, now he's gone, when Dak gets buried under the rush or has to run for his life or throws to a tightly covered receiver & an interception or incompletion is the result, because NOBODY is open, then I guess somebody else will be blamed for "hogging the snaps"...

 

[Blackspider214]

I agree. If he gets cut or doesn't play, I hope it's for a better reason than lack of blocking. If my memory serves me right, Novacek wasn't the best blocking TE for us either. Besides, can Rico not improve at blocking? He certainly has the size.

Witten was not good at blocking, either.

 

[LACowboysFan1]

Witten was not good at blocking, either.

Not when he got to the Cowboys, but he was able to learn it...

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

That doesn’t make him a great football player.
The great NBA Star Wilt Chamberlain once ran a 4.5 forty at 7’1” and 270 and had hands that allowed him to hold a basketball like a tennis ball. Former chiefs coach Hank Stram tried to sign Wilt to play for the chiefs in 1970. Wilt’s comment supposedly was, “Being a great athlete don’t make you great in every sport”.

What at terrible example lol.....Wilt Chamberlain was 7 foot. Of course he was going to struggle to play low to the ground in football.