Pitts needs 60 (1 Viewer)

[Clintonrebel]

60 yards breaks the rookie receiving record for tight ends. That’s the only reason Atlanta writers are speculating he will play. 60 yards and then sit. Only the Falcons would risk the health of the best up and coming TE in the league for a meaningless record.

 

[Clintonrebel]

60 yards breaks the rookie receiving record for tight ends. That’s the only reason Atlanta writers are speculating he will play. 60 yards and then sit. Only the Falcons would risk the health of the best up and coming TE in the league for a meaningless record.

And the record is currently held by Iron Mike Ditka.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

17 game season
This **** is stupid

 

[Clintonrebel]

17 game season
This **** is stupid

Agree 100%. And I never knew how good of a receiver Ditka was back then. He set the record in 14 games.

 

[Saintman2884]

Agree 100%. And I never knew how good of a receiver Ditka was back then. He set the record in 14 games.

What's even more interesting is that after the Bears won the NFL Championship in 1963 and became a middling, mediocre, "bubble" team essentially for the next two decades, including most of Payton's prime years, Ditka only played on IIRC, two winning seasons until he was traded to an even-worse pathetic Philadelphia team in 1967 after he criticized Halas' spending habits or tendencies on rebuilding the team's roster. Throughout the late 60's and most of the 1970's, Bears had a league-wide reputation for being a fifth-rate, cheap organization. Their GM, Jim Finks, actually told Oakland in 1979 they were happy with three unknown backup QBs who were all terrible than considering trading for 4-time Pro Bowl QB(and future HOF) Kenny Stabler.
Finks wasnt perfect and while he was a genius at analyzing and reviewing talent, making wise draft classes, when he forked up, it could be pretty colossal and mind-numbing. His best work, IMHO, was with the Vikings and then with us from mid-80's until his death in 1994. His time as GM of Bears, was okay, I suppose, but a bit uneven. Chicago had some success while he was there, but a majority of the great championship teams occurred after he'd left and his players had matured...without him. Some Bears fans will tell you or argue Buddy Ryan had as much of a role picking Dan Hampton, Mike Singletary, Jimbo Covert, Steve Mcmicheal wasnt drafted by Bears anyway(NE in 1980) but picked up after released on waivers during Patriots training camp in 1981, Richard Dent, those were considered Buddy's guys.

 

[Zztop]

Seems like he only has 1 yard today so far

 

[saintmike23]

Pitts isn’t getting that record!