Flint
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I would agree and would include Ryan Switzer whose role has diminished this season when it looked like they were going to give him a bigger role.
The pitch and putt or dink and dunk approach for so many white slot receivers in college and the NFL has become even more exaggerated over time. Wes Welker, who many cite as the "original" white slot receiver for sure had quite a few "shorter" routes but nothing compared to the miniscule way they are being utilized these days. Hell the passes to Switzer must rank among the shortest in the history of the NFL.
And all of the above showed in college the ability to pick up huge chunks of real estate and in some cases like Switzer take it to the house and not just occasionally either.
It really starts to feel like yet another belittling device put upon the few white skill players out there and I for one am sick of seeing it.
Most white receivers are not allowed it seems to move into the black domain of long hero passes. White receivers are too often reduced to
playing the role of newspaper delivery boys.
Again it is designed to make the white athlete seem a little less like men as they perform the little tasks and leave the big stuff to the black athletes.
Also Hockenson and Amendola have not gotten anywhere near their first game results for the Lions. Which is something else we see a lot of, one great game followed by being throttled back as if high production is messing with team chemistry.