A blocking wide receiver who can catch (2 Viewers)

[StudioSaint]

Describing a receiver as a good blocker and prototyping them as a blocking receiver are two different things despite the same phrase.

For decades, some receivers have been referred to as blocking wide receivers which is the exact same phrase you claim to have coined. You may be trying to redefine it, but you didn't coin the phrase.

Smith caught passes, he wasn't "prototyped" as a "blocking wide receiver," so where do you get the idea that any NFL team has a "blocking wide receiver" prototype? Some coaches value wide receivers with good blocking skills, but that doesn't mean it's a protype.

It's not like a coach tells his scouting department, "go find me a wide receiver who can't run routes, is as slow as a glacier, can't catch worth a darn, can't ever get seperation, but they can block like the dickens. That's the prototypical 'blocking wide receiver' that I want you to get me. I don't care if the wide receiver can't do anything else, as long as he can block, I want him."

 

[meily]

The 49ers literally have a saying, "No block, no rock".

Then why did we release Smith?

Being a capable blocker only means to provide effort in the run game, but a receiver who is racking up catches and yards should not take a back seat to a guy who "blocks good".

That mindset just would have Kubiak reinventing the Sean Payton offense in which he rotates receivers in and out the game according to skillset.

 

[Snakehead]

Then why did we release Smith?

Being a capable blocker only means to provide effort in the run game, but a receiver who is racking up catches and yards should not take a back seat to a guy who "blocks good".

That mindset just would have Kubiak reinventing the Sean Payton offense in which he rotates receivers in and out the game according to skillset.

I don't know, I'm not DA/PC and ML. That decision was made by them and most fans rejoiced. Now we have a super finesse dude, another guy who doesn't shy away from contact, but does get nicked up, a rookie who is big, but played small at first and is developing and then some journeymen.

McDaniel went the finesse/speed way for Miami and that didn't work when it mattered. I don't know what KK is going to do, but I would guess it's closer to SF or when he was in MN. I'm not sure how much SF games you've watched, but Jennings was a budget TQS for a couple years and then got more involved in the passing game due to necessity with Deebo always getting injured.

I'm interested to see what he does with the WRs. If he wants a Jennings role player, he can just has Juwan trim the 10-15lbs off he gained to play TE so he doesn't look like a fat WR playing TE anymore and let him play the X. Johnson was the better WR prospect coming out of college anyway and he's on the roster. Then we can draft/sign a couple real TEs.