Which is why I am surprised he isn't being used in more in the end zone. Put the ball up and let him go for it.
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Agreed. Doesn't matter how you beat your man. Probably less margin for error, and I'd love a separator, but we can work with this
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Some of you guys will take any negative about the guy to the nth degree. I get it, you have emotionally invested yourself with him .

But let's get real, I'm not taking your sister's virginity here. It's okay to recognize things that are showing up as some limitations.

He was maybe a half story in front of the guy. The safety was coming down. His only chance to catch that ball was to high point it, not because of any seperation.
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Do you watch much football?

Not every receiver has the Tyreek Hill jets to just blow by guys.

Guys like Mike Evans, Tee Higgins-hell, even a lot of Jamarr Chase's catches are just that sort of play.

When you're 6'4" you don't need much room to go up and get it. There aren't many corners that can match that catch radius and go up and challenge that.

Didn't beat his man? Looks to me like he beat him for an 18 yard catch.
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I really think the Tyreek Hill 2018-2019 version has totally skewed how a lot of you guys see WR's. That's gone, and was gone the last year he was in KC, too. Defenses designed their entire game plans to just flat not allow it.

Very few WR's EVER have had the quickness paired with the elite top end speed to just smoke man coverage like Hill can. In Miami, the presence of Waddle still allows for it.

That doesn't mean there aren't a bunch of other ways to win a rep. And the big bodied, high point guy is still a perfectly legitimate WR type that's difficult to defend. That 2nd and 18 play is a good illustration of that.

I'm not declaring that Ross has arrived or anything, but that's damned encouraging.
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Luckily we have all the tall long corners on our team or our IR.
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YOU said "he didn't beat his man" when he clearly did and now you're backtracking because you look like an idiot. So the moral of the story is try not to say dumb things (if you can help it) and people won't feel inclined to call you out on it :-)
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Michael Thomas is a master at it as is Hopkins and Allen.
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The thing about that play is, you can throw that every damned down and it'll go.
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this,

Hes the only WR we have that has the size to do this. Which is why I have begged for him to get more playing time.

If Mahomes is going to throw up a prayer I want the target to be Ross or Kelce. Those two are the only ones who have better than 50/50 chance.
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Sir have heard of a man named Randy Moss?
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One could argue that the ideal situation was to keep Hill and go find someone like Waddle so teams couldn't try to take it away (they didn't really, but they tried).
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Not drafting around 30ish you're not, and if you paid Hill the #1WR salary in the NFL, you can't pay for another WR with that skill-set or a Jones type for the defense. So here we are.
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So you can't get good WR's after 30? You don't think an addition like Rice or trading for Toney does anything like that?

Seems you're pretty dug in on a narrative here.
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Hardman was probably our best attempt at that. But then again, if it wasn't for the scandal, we very well could've drafted someone else. Still, that was probably our best shot at it.
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