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Pratt looked good, no doubt about it. :) Quite a few Zips receivers looked good yesterday. WR seems to be the position that has the most depth and quality. It is a thing of beauty to watch how that group substitutes flawlessly during the game. They are becoming a well oiled machine.

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Hilltopper, I just watched those catches on the highlights real, and he looked real good. He seems to have good speed and can get some seperation, but if I was QB, I would drool at having a PF for a target down field! Don't let some negative poster dampen your enthusiasm. (I post this just after I take a shot at our "half empty" posters.)

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Judging from the few times I saw him on the field last Saturday, he needs to work on the speed of his routes.

He's a big guy who takes long strides. They threw it to him 4 times. He caught 2 and had 2 incompletion's. One was the play he was pushed out of bounds and the last one DW had to throw sooner than he wanted because of pressure in the pocket.

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He's a big guy who takes long strides. They threw it to him 4 times. He caught 2 and had 2 incompletion's. One was the play he was pushed out of bounds and the last one DW had to throw sooner than he wanted because of pressure in the pocket.

Let's not forget -- he played ONE YEAR of high school football! He is a true freshman! I know that a message board is the place to vent frustrations and arm-chair QB, but a little perspective sometimes is a very good thing. Let's not also forget - that players' families (and hopefully not players themselves) read this board. I'm not saying that the comment about Pratt was that awful, but I see so many positives about him - knowing how raw he is - that I couldn't even imagine criticizing anything about his playing at this juncture.

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I couldn't even imagine criticizing anything about his playing at this juncture.

I think Pratt is a top notch recruit with tons of upside. However, criticism shouldn't be reserved for those with lots of experience. I hope that he is being criticized in every practice and film session. That actually extends to all our players. Maybe it's just me, but I don't see criticism as completely negative. I just hope he takes it constructively. That being said, he's a huge, strong receiver that needs more targets, he's perfectly fit for jump-ball situations down the field. I don't see many opponents that can keep him from catching the ball at it's highest point.

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I think Pratt is a top notch recruit with tons of upside. However, criticism shouldn't be reserved for those with lots of experience. I hope that he is being criticized in every practice and film session.
Agreed. Is "criticism" what is going on in this thread, or is it evaluation? I think of criticism as a derogatory term, evaluation seems to be a more fitting description of what is going on to me. I'll let you wordsmiths figure it out. I wonder if Michael Jordon was "criticized" his freshman year or did everybody around him just tell him he was great, don't change a thing?
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Agreed. Is "criticism" what is going on in this thread, or is it evaluation? I think of criticism as a derogatory term, evaluation seems to be a more fitting description of what is going on to me. I'll let you wordsmiths figure it out. I wonder if Michael Jordon was "criticized" his freshman year or did everybody around him just tell him he was great, don't change a thing?

I 've always responded well to "constructive criticism"

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