Hasselbeck wants to get Cook ball more

Stats LLC keep 1,000,000 times more comprehensive and accurate and searchable stats compared to ESPN or Yahoo! or anyone else. They are who everyone else (including NBC, CBS, and ESPN) quote when they talk about the only 3rd year QB with a birthday in the first week of January to start a game in december weird stuff ... I will roll with their 81 target over ESPN's 82 targets all day long.

 

If you put that 1 extra target on him, going by ESPN, then he is #18 most targeted. And if you are wanting to go by sheer numbers, not by %s, then there WERE 17 TEs more effective than him in catching the ball in 2011 and 13 more effective in getting yards. Just by sheer numbers.

 

It sucks that stats don't show how good this guy has become. Top 10 TE in my eyes...

Graham
Gronk
Gonzalez
Davis
Hernandez
Witten
Gates
(Cook would have to come in somewhere around here)

Speaking of Gates, he's not all that anymore - even when healthy. Done.

 

He was #2 amount TEs with 25+ receptions in yards per receptions.

 

Well, like I've said before... if he's on the Saints or Pats, he might be just as good as Graham or Gronk.

He'd definitely be incredible with any elite QB throwing to him.

 

He's a beast! Some of the best hands in the league and one of the fastest if not the fastest TE in the league. Vernon Davis would prolly beat him, but thats it!

 

I agree with all that. He is one of the best. That is why I say you have to consider %s. Pats and Saints have 200-300 more plays than us over that time, so of course their TEs get more looks in the sheer numbers.

Cook is one of the best receiving TEs in the league ... but on a team that also puts a heavy emphasis on the run, you have to learn to RUN BLOCK to stay on the field. Because he can't run block, he has to come off the field alot more than other TEs.

 

Hes not as bad at run blocking as you think. Stevens and thompson is just really good at it. You either have to be a pass oriented team or a run oriented team you cant be both but thats what were trying to do!

 

I don't think you can be a smash mouth run team, like we use to be. But you can use a speed runner and run a pass game. So long as you are willing to still use run formations, we were trying tu use more spread and still run it, that doesn't work. It also helps if you runner can catch better than CJ.

 

CJ is not as bad at catching the ball as everyone thinks. Just b/c he had drops in the preseason does not mean he sucks at it! I mean he's catching 73% of the balls that are thrown his way for his career, not bad...