I'm logging off before lightning strikes thru my mouse!!!!:no:
To be honest Witten never has been an athletic TE. He is just a workaholic & uses his strength & knowledge to his game. He's never been fast. He's always been one of the best route running TE's that has ever played the game.
At UT Witten wasn't that great of a TE. Let's just be honest. We also have to be honest that back then we didn't utilize the TE position very much in the passing game.
Witten changed that for us here at UT. However, he never had any great statistical seasons here at UT. His junior year was his best & he made some great plays to win games including the marathon Arkansas game. Good to see we have an athletic one headed our way. Ethan Wolf is pretty athletic as well.
To be honest Witten never has been an athletic TE. He is just a workaholic & uses his strength & knowledge to his game. He's never been fast. He's always been one of the best route running TE's that has ever played the game.
At UT Witten wasn't that great of a TE. Let's just be honest. We also have to be honest that back then we didn't utilize the TE position very much in the passing game.
Witten changed that for us here at UT. However, he never had any great statistical seasons here at UT. His junior year was his best & he made some great plays to win games including the marathon Arkansas game. Good to see we have an athletic one headed our way. Ethan Wolf is pretty athletic as well.
You just became my 3rd ignore.
You're ignorant and obviously never saw Witten play at UT as he's freakishly fast for his size. Instead of posting ignorant BS, educate yourself - go on youtube and watch his game against Michigan.
100 Days of Vols #62 - Jason Witten Burns Michigan - Rocky Top Talk
Yeah, Peyton wasn't that great of a QB either.
Statistically, Witten didn't really overwhelm at the position. He was mainly used in blocking as UT didn't utilize the TE that well during his years there. One of the greatest TEs in the NFL........pretty great considering that he was promised in recruitment to play defensive end and that's where he played initially until they had to move him due to injuries
To be honest Witten never has been an athletic TE. He is just a workaholic & uses his strength & knowledge to his game. He's never been fast. He's always been one of the best route running TE's that has ever played the game.
At UT Witten wasn't that great of a TE. Let's just be honest. We also have to be honest that back then we didn't utilize the TE position very much in the passing game.
Witten changed that for us here at UT. However, he never had any great statistical seasons here at UT. His junior year was his best & he made some great plays to win games including the marathon Arkansas game. Good to see we have an athletic one headed our way. Ethan Wolf is pretty athletic as well.
I got a really good idea, let's let someone state THEIR opinion on here and then let's all jump down their throats for it cause we don't all agree in OUR opinion that they are correct.
You just became my 3rd ignore.
You're ignorant and obviously never saw Witten play at UT as he's freakishly fast for his size. Instead of posting ignorant BS, educate yourself - go on youtube and watch his game against Michigan.
100 Days of Vols #62 - Jason Witten Burns Michigan - Rocky Top Talk
Yeah, Peyton wasn't that great of a QB either.
Statistically, Witten didn't really overwhelm at the position. He was mainly used in blocking as UT didn't utilize the TE that well during his years there. One of the greatest TEs in the NFL........pretty great considering that he was promised in recruitment to play defensive end and that's where he played initially until they had to move him due to injuries
Guys! I want to say false or negative things about him Good grief folks! hmy:
You see, a false copy and paste proves that sometimes folks pick and choose words / only hear what they want to hear.
Actually its not really high praise. Jason Witten is a surefire Hall of fame Tight end.. not once in his career has athletic been used to describe him as a superlative. Compared to say a Mark Bavaro would be be athletic? sure.Wow that's high praise. I can see him being a good special teams addition this year and then he can hopefully take over Ethan's role after he leaves.
Get off your high horse - Mr. Bolony didn't say "IMO Witten wasn't that great". He stated factually that Witen "wasn't that great of a TE" and "never has been an athletic TE" which are both ignorant statements.
FYI-Hop on a VOL forum and say one of their all time greats wasn't great nor athletic and you get what's coming your way?
Here's an opinion - of all the TE's I've seen play at UT, the most physically gifted of them appeared to me to be Dustin Moore with Witten next in line. Witten certainly maximized his talent whereas Moore got off track and we never saw his best.
All I know is, Witten's got one of the all time most badass highlight reel plays in football history.
Go play in the yard somewhere. I didn't post anything false buddy. I went back & edited my original post to CLARIFY(do you know what that word means?) what I meant.
All I had to do was add a couple words to a certain sentence in that post. You are going way overboard dude! It's people like you that make these boards a nightmare! hmy: