Hell yeah. Now continue to use him in the red zone!
LFG!
Man, what a luxury pick am I right?
I kinda expected Caleb after his triple double and receiving TD, but I’m not complaining one bit.
Think he and Monongai should have gotten it combined. 176 on the ground is hard no matter what defense you are facing. (Even Bob Babich led ones).
Goat
Commanders fans holding in their tears after saying he wasn’t rookie of the week. Now he’s the nfc offensive player of the week. Eat shit
That’s the second time we’ve won that award in 5 weeks. Ryan Poles first pick in the draft last year, Caleb Williams, won it week 3 and his first pick this year, Colston Loveland wins it now. Long ways to go (and wish we could play the Bengals/cowboys defense every week), but positive signs.
“Every night, doin’ you right” 🎶
Still can’t believe they didn’t tackle him. Well deserved and 🐻⬇️
Has Tyler Warren got one of these yet?
HE’S HERE
So deserved. Lots of guys had great games Sunday. Williams, Monangai, Wright for sure.
But the one guy who absolutely blew me away on film on Monday was Loveland. I saw someone compare it to George Kittle and now I can’t unsee it, that’s exactly who he looked like.
It’s hard for a TE to justify being a top-10 pick, but this guy was doing everything you could possibly want a TE to do.
There was some interested mixed messages about his blocking around the draft, but I’m telling you right now: He’s a fantastic blocking TE. At 6-6 250 he can credibly mix it up with DL on the interior, and fights hard when asked to do so. But he’s still fast enough to square up to LB and DB when making blocks on the run. That’s two weeks in a row where I did not see him miss a single blocking assignment. Every single play, the guy you ask him to block gets blocked.
I said after the Ravens game that he looked really smooth running intermediate and deep routes but they just weren’t getting targetted. This week, they got targetted. He’s fast enough to run a deep dig in-rhythm, catch it 20 yards down the field and outrun the DBs for another 10 yards. But he’s big enough to absolutely just bounce off the CB trying to jam him at the goal line with the hands to catch a laser-beam on the slant touchdown.
And that’s before we even get to his all-time great game-winner. The speed to get behind the second-level defenders quckly on the skinny post, the body control to catch that ball on the jump and still come down on your feet facing forward, and the strength to no-sell the tackles. Then the speed again to outrun everyone to the endzone. He made that look easier than it was. (Kmet, who is a perfectly fine TE, comes down like a baby deer on ice skates every time he has to go up to make a catch.)
This isn’t even one of the TDs or anything like that, but this is my favorite Loveland play of the game. Lines up in the backfield at FB. Crashes into the defensive line at full-speed simulating FB lead, stands up two of them. Bounces off this contact, releases into a route, outruns the LB to the far side of the field, catches a 10-yard pass for a fresh set of downs.
You cannot teach this combination of size, speed, strength and balance.
If I’m being honest, Caleb, Runninguy, and Loveland all had good cases.
NFC North dominates this award
Well deserved. I hope we continue to feed him the football and Burden once he’s healthy.
Absolute bust. I’m disgusted
JJ McCarthy got robbed /s
My glorious king
He has the face of a seventh grade heartthrob and the tattoos of a grizzled biker.
Should of traded Cole
Should be Kyle
Scoring a game winning touchdown on a 58 yard spectacular play certainly helped.
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Deserved
Hell yeah
Hell yeah. Now continue to use him in the red zone!
LFG!
Man, what a luxury pick am I right?
I kinda expected Caleb after his triple double and receiving TD, but I’m not complaining one bit.
Think he and Monongai should have gotten it combined. 176 on the ground is hard no matter what defense you are facing. (Even Bob Babich led ones).
Goat
Commanders fans holding in their tears after saying he wasn’t rookie of the week. Now he’s the nfc offensive player of the week. Eat shit
That’s the second time we’ve won that award in 5 weeks. Ryan Poles first pick in the draft last year, Caleb Williams, won it week 3 and his first pick this year, Colston Loveland wins it now. Long ways to go (and wish we could play the Bengals/cowboys defense every week), but positive signs.
“Every night, doin’ you right” 🎶
Still can’t believe they didn’t tackle him. Well deserved and 🐻⬇️
Has Tyler Warren got one of these yet?
HE’S HERE
So deserved. Lots of guys had great games Sunday. Williams, Monangai, Wright for sure.
But the one guy who absolutely blew me away on film on Monday was Loveland. I saw someone compare it to George Kittle and now I can’t unsee it, that’s exactly who he looked like.
It’s hard for a TE to justify being a top-10 pick, but this guy was doing everything you could possibly want a TE to do.
There was some interested mixed messages about his blocking around the draft, but I’m telling you right now: He’s a fantastic blocking TE. At 6-6 250 he can credibly mix it up with DL on the interior, and fights hard when asked to do so. But he’s still fast enough to square up to LB and DB when making blocks on the run. That’s two weeks in a row where I did not see him miss a single blocking assignment. Every single play, the guy you ask him to block gets blocked.
I said after the Ravens game that he looked really smooth running intermediate and deep routes but they just weren’t getting targetted. This week, they got targetted. He’s fast enough to run a deep dig in-rhythm, catch it 20 yards down the field and outrun the DBs for another 10 yards. But he’s big enough to absolutely just bounce off the CB trying to jam him at the goal line with the hands to catch a laser-beam on the slant touchdown.
And that’s before we even get to his all-time great game-winner. The speed to get behind the second-level defenders quckly on the skinny post, the body control to catch that ball on the jump and still come down on your feet facing forward, and the strength to no-sell the tackles. Then the speed again to outrun everyone to the endzone. He made that look easier than it was. (Kmet, who is a perfectly fine TE, comes down like a baby deer on ice skates every time he has to go up to make a catch.)
https://i.redd.it/k1hjhruf2hzf1.gif
This isn’t even one of the TDs or anything like that, but this is my favorite Loveland play of the game. Lines up in the backfield at FB. Crashes into the defensive line at full-speed simulating FB lead, stands up two of them. Bounces off this contact, releases into a route, outruns the LB to the far side of the field, catches a 10-yard pass for a fresh set of downs.
You cannot teach this combination of size, speed, strength and balance.
If I’m being honest, Caleb, Runninguy, and Loveland all had good cases.
NFC North dominates this award
Well deserved. I hope we continue to feed him the football and Burden once he’s healthy.
Absolute bust. I’m disgusted
JJ McCarthy got robbed /s
My glorious king
He has the face of a seventh grade heartthrob and the tattoos of a grizzled biker.
Should of traded Cole
Should be Kyle
Scoring a game winning touchdown on a 58 yard spectacular play certainly helped.
Beast TE we finally have!