so it's Dak's fault? in your opinion, Dak doesn't look at Jarwin….
and in regards to forcing it to witten and he comes up with...if Jarwin could come up with it, it would be forced to him too.....
Jarwin is not the primary read, because he is not yet capable of handling that role, his work is as the 3rd or 4th option and matched up against lesser players. no one game plans against him and for him. they game plan for cooper, gallup and to some extent witten….so Jarwin, every few games, finds an opening and makes a play and the fans extrapolate that based on stat sheets to him being a 1500 yard TE if he made x number of catches and was targeted x number of times...
Jarwin is learning....he is getting better....as he learns he will be targeted more and more and will be part of the game plan more and more...for now he is serving his role and makes plays now and then that's needed...
nothing wrong with that..
not liking witten and wanting to get rid of him (which I too would like to improve that position) does not make Jarwin better.
First, I haven't seen enough evidence to suggest Jarwin couldn't make 95% of the catches Witten makes. And really, much of Witt's catches are 3 to 4 yard gains, so even if Jarwin
did drop most of those, it's not a heavy loss.
Nevertheless, I'm not ready to conclude that Jarwin can't catch 3- or 4-yard routes in traffic. And even if he can't at this point, he can definitely separate from defenders better than Witt, so maybe these catches won't always have to be so contested by the defender in the first place.
I simply think Jarwin needs more targets, ESPECIALLY on those play action passes to the TE, that are often small-ish gains with Witten in the flat, but could be bigger gains with a more athletic TE. And Jarwin certainly stretches the field better than Witten on the seam passes these days, because he gets into the 2nd level of defense much faster, opening up lanes for other WRs to sneak in behind his seam route.
And I LIKE Witt, he's been great. But at this point, I don't think he should be a primary read on many passing plays, he should be the outlet. And I believe Jarwin deserves some plays that are designed just for him, whether it's a sneaky TE screen, or a play action pass with a deeper route, where I know he'll be pretty open behind the TE because of team's respect for the running game.
I almost feel like it's a waste of a well-designed PA pass play only to throw it to Witt in the flat for 4 or 5 yards. It's hardly worth the deception, it's barely making the defense pay. Hec, with that, I'd still key on the run every play if I'm the defense if the threat is simply Witt for 4 yards in the flat. We can't get Coop or Gallup open on a deep out or in route for 15 or 20 yards? We can't get Jarwin open on a TE corner or seam route for 15 to 20 yards?
So, yes, I blame Moore for not using the personnel correctly, and for Dak not demanding in practice more out of the play action pass plays.
I don't blame Witt, he's giving us what he can. Jarwin can give us more on most of those pass plays, I do believe that. But if you need 3 or 4 yards near the goal line or on 4th and 3, I'm all for going with Witt in those critical situations as a primary read. Otherwise, we need the more athletic TE on the field more, and Witt (being the mentor I know he is), he can teach Jarwin how to block better.
It would be one thing if the 37-year-old TE had a high probability of breaking a tackle on the curl route and getting 5+ more yards, but that's not happening at this point in his career.
