I was uptight about our receivers after the season. I am throwing the TEs together with the WRs. It scared me. I was and am thrilled to get Meredith and drafting Smith and getting Watson back. But somewhere in here, i forgot/didn't realize how freakin good Ginn was under Curtis's coaching. These stats are not exact but pretty darned close.
- over 750 yards with nearly an 80% target to catch rate
- 4 TDs
- Plus he had running yards
- His drop rate was actually quite good
This is with Kamara and Ingram getting over a 1,000 passing yards and Thomas over 100 receptions.
In the Minny play-off game, he caught 8 of 10 passes for 79 yards. And he ran all the routes: over the middle, outs, come back hooks, and had 2 great dragging the feet catches. And what we forget, or at least I did till I watched the 1st half last night is that he absolutely torched the Minny DBs, and was wide open when Brees nailed him for a 40 yard TD in mid 2nd quarter. That play was called back because Hill was not set.
With another year under Curtis, why can't Ginn be a lethal #2 WR? Now that he has a real WR coach, he seems to have blossomed. And he still has burner speed.
Can he really be a top #2 or do I have Homer glasses on? Thx