Time for Troupe to Become Offensive Weapon

No joke.

 

It's been time for him to step up. I honestly believe, (barring injury), that he will turn the corner this year. Although, VY likes to spread it around, he needs a reliable go to guy, and that usually begins with the TE (see Wycheck, and Mac). kinda like he began developing with Bo Scaife.

 

I think that Troupe is going to have a break out season... when we drafted him it was a great selection in my mind... He defintly needs to step up tho!

 

To me, Troupe is the key to our offense. Scaife is very solid, but he's not a gamebreaker. Troupe can be. And if he has a breakout year this year, I think it'll go a long way for taking pressure off of Young.

 

Last year was also time for Troupe to become an offensive weapon... and the only thing we got was the one 4th down play that was called back because of the stupid 4th down fumble rule.

I hope he can do it, but I don't have great expectations. I'm just glad we have three seemingly solid TEs.

 

He needs to step up or else Scaife will. Basically though everyone needs to step up this year and become better players.

 

I think Troupe is lacking Scaife's heart to play the game.

 

Everybody keeps using the term "break out" but I think we need to be realistic in our expectations. VY is probably not going to throw for 4000 yards, probably closer to the 3000 yard mark. If Troupe duplicated his 2005 numbers that would be a darn good season IMO and with maybe a little better YPC give him ~600 yards recieving. Thats a good chunk of that 3000 yards. Scaife is going to account for 300-400 yards maybe himself so IMO if the TEs can account for 1000 of the receiving yards between them that would be pretty solid. I'm doubtful in the Titan's offense Gates would come close to his 900+ yards so 600 yards for either TE IMO is a darn good year.