Joe Gibbs lied

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Originally Posted by skinsguy

I think you're just trying to be argumentative for the heck of it. As I have stated, Donnie Warren was a BLOCKER first, but he caught his fair share of passes. The Giants refused to cover our TE because he was a BLOCKER first and not a threat to catch the ball, but that does not mean the ball was never thrown to him. Diddier was more of a threat as a pass receiving tight end..which proves my point that we did throw to our tight ends and saying we didn't is a naive and wrong.

Your point is fair share, please define that, what do you consider to be a fair share of passes for a TE?

let me help you he caught 158 passes in 11 years and as Gibbs offense evolved his catches went down, after 1983 he caught 20 passes 1 time with a total of 7 career TD's thats about 14 catches a year.

In 8 yrs Didier caught 141 passes and only 3 times did he catch more than 13 in a season which breaks down to about 17 catches a year.

Which then breaks down to 31 catches a year between 2 players.

The top 7 TE's last year averaged 75 catches each.

Gibbs doesn't put any focus of the game plan around the TE, of coarse their going to make some catches and some plays even a broken clock is right twice a day but their not a big part of the game plan by any means. There is a reason a guy like Warren stuck around so long, it was because Gibbs values a TE's abiltiy to block more than to catch.