Historically Blessed at WR

[SoulfishHawk]

I like Bobo, but so far he's been pretty average. So far.

 

[pittpnthrs]

Put him in down near the endzone and watch Geno's redzone issues disappear.

Bobo for President

 

[SonicHawk]

Jake Bobo doesn't even have 300 yards in his career.

 

[pittpnthrs]

Jake Bobo doesn't even have 300 yards in his career.

That's why the Hawks are an average team. Feed the man.

 

[SoulfishHawk]

Put him in down near the endzone and watch Geno's redzone issues disappear.

Bobo for President

Come on brother, there's no way you honestly believe that. But, solid

 

[pittpnthrs]

 

[pittpnthrs]

Come on brother, there's no way you honestly believe that. But, solid

Would I ever lie to you?

 

[TheLegendOfBoom]

That's why the Hawks are an average team. Feed the man.

I agree, he needs to increase his caloric intake and digest some more food….

 

[onanygivensunday]

Steve raible… I don’t know I never really saw him play

He's a much better play-by-play broadcaster than he was a WR. He's the perfect complement to Pete Gross, who we lost way too soon.

 

[SoulfishHawk]

Very true. But he def. had some talent. And he was lightning fast.

 

[SoulfishHawk]

Some fun Raible highlights. He def. made his share of plays.

 

[Aircrew]

Some fun Raible highlights. He def. made his share of plays.

I like Raible, but I think he was at his best along side Pete Gross. He complimented Pete's style and I will always miss his nasal voice when he shouted, "Touchdown Seahawks!!" Steve's calmer and deeper voice, and background as a player, just seemed to counter balance Pete's exuberant personality. Good stuff all around.

 

[Aircrew]

Bite your tongue! That whole situation was a fustercluck.

Agreed, Devil Dog. I'll never emotionally recover from Jerry wearing #80 in a Seahawks uniform.

 

[Torc]

One thing that the raw list doesn't show is how the best WRs we've had over the years have overlapped in time. They found a good one before the previous one retired, so there has been continuity in there where the work ethic and teamsmanship has been handed down since the beginning times. It's how we still see a bit of Largent in all of our better WRs over the years.

It helps that Blades actually played with Largent at the beginning of his career. And I remember Doug Baldwin talking about talking with Largent after joining the Seahawks and getting some really good advice.

Baldwin watched the others play while growing up, but he had to go back and look at old film of Largent, who played from 1976-89. And what Baldwin said stood out was “his ability to catch the football and his focus. If you want to be one of the best, you’ve got to ask from the best, so I reached out to him asking him how he practiced catching the ball.”

Largent, who retired in 1989 with the NFL record for receptions in a career (819), yards (13,089) and touchdowns (100), told Baldwin that one of his keys was to focus on the tip of the ball when it was in the air and not the entire ball.

Interestingly, it was something Largent picked up in 1980 during a trip to a clay-pigeon target range in Redmond.

A shooter he met there told Largent “to focus on the leading edge of the clay pigeon when we were shooting, and I transferred it to football and not watching the ball but the tip of the ball,’’ Largent said.

Largent said it helped because, “It gave me a specific thing to focus on instead of ‘just focus on the ball.’ ”

Baldwin recalled what he took away from Largent: “He mostly talked about focusing on catching the football. It’s not necessarily about the physical aspects when people say receivers have a lot of drops or can’t catch the ball. It’s that they are not focusing on the right things. That their mind-set is not in the right spot.

“What I took from him is the techniques he utilized catching the football and being more efficient at it.’’

Specifically, watching the tip. So shortly after the texting sessions with Largent, Baldwin had the posters made, and he has them up at his home and in his lockers at the team facility in Renton and at CenturyLink Field.

I think our receivers could be even better if they tried the Largent technique. DK and JSN both catch the ball with their body a lot. Or don't catch, sometimes.

 

[SoulfishHawk]

So many receivers around the NFL don't catch with their hands. It's all over the league. Just watch one day of Red Zone and it's a trip how many people just catch with their body. Larry Fitzgerald always caught with his hands. He was phenomenal. Without a doubt my all-time favorite non-Seahawk WR.

 

[Aircrew]

So many receivers around the NFL don't catch with their hands. It's all over the league. Just watch one day of Red Zone and it's a trip how many people just catch with their body. Larry Fitzgerald always caught with his hands. He was phenomenal. Without a doubt my all-time favorite non-Seahawk WR.

I played receiver in middle and high school and all my coaches POUNDED it into our heads to catch with our hands. Even if you caught a pass with your body successfully, you had better be ready to get an ear full when you went to the sidelines. And God forbid you dropped said pass. It really surprises me how many receivers at the pro level make that mistake like you pointed out.

 

[SoulfishHawk]

Tyler is def. a body catcher, often. But he rarely drops passes.

 

[SmokinHawk]

D-Jack was frustrating. As a #1 he was pretty meh. Dropped so many easy passes, wide open, 30 yards downfield.

 

[IndyHawk]

He's there!

He snuck back on after getting those doughnuts!

 

[IndyHawk]

Some fun Raible highlights. He def. made his share of plays.

Earlier in that vid, he looks huge but it was the pads!
Did they wear some real wide ones back then?