jackal wrote:
I knew two guys very well that played college and semi pro football.. they were both very good guys, and worked for many
years, trying to get to the pro's.
It killed them, to never reach their goals...These guys would have done anything, to have the chances Patterson does.
Its been three years in the league. Time will tell, if he has learned a route tree, or not... My guess, is he hasn't ....That
just bugs me as a fan, and a person.
Patterson has had 2 years in the league. Training camp for his third season just started this weekend.
I think we'd all do well to remember that Patterson reportedly worked very hard this offseason and in reference to those efforts, Zimmer said he was
proud of Patterson. I understand that people are disappointed CP didn't work with the undisclosed former player Zimmer recommended to him but that doesn't mean he didn't put in a good, sincere, productive effort to get better. We shouldn't draw too many assumptions from a paucity of information. ALL we have is "He didn’t feel it was necessary to work out with the mystery former NFL wide receiver that coach Mike Zimmer set him up with, though he said he did chat with him at the Super Bowl and that Zimmer seemed cool with that". That's not much from which to draw conclusions. For example, for all we know, Patterson had already made arrangements to work with "hell's trainer" Frank Mastriciano before he met with the mysterious former player at the Super Bowl and when the latter heard about those arrangements, he might told Patterson he didn't think it was necessary to work with both men.
If Zimmer is actually "cool" with how things worked out, I see little reason for us to be overly critical about it. Patterson sounds like a young man who is quite sincerely trying to make the most of the opportunity he's been given.
