Greg Olson Sucks

Greg Olson was supposed to be an elite TE. He had the size, build, and talent to be in the class of Witten or Gates or Clark or Gonzales, but where has he been. More stats will come, but seriously, just by watching him, why isn't he as good!? It's not the fact he isn't getting thrown to that's the problem (although it is a problem), he's doing well well with the limited targets that he's getting. After seeing him and Cutler become butt buddies this off season, I expected Olson to have a monster season. Yet, this hasn't manifested. I expect Olson is entering Vernon Davis territory, huge expectations and a lot of talent, yet not performing on the field. I've seen Olson drop some key, good catches from both Kyle Orton and Jay Cutler. I'm sorry to say, that if Olson doesn't start performing in the next couple weeks, I'm calling him another offensive Bears bust.

So anyways, here's some stats on Olson. This year, he ranks about 8th to last among all active TE's. In fact, Kellen Davis, the third string Bears TE is technically better than Olson because he so far has done amazing with the limited catches he's gotten. Guys I've never heard of like Stephen Spach, Sean Ryan, Will Heller, and Daniel Fells are all doing better than Olson right now. Detriot, New England, Carolina, Denver, and Tenneessee all have two TE's that have performed better than Olson this year. He only has a 50% catch rate this year and only one TD. Kellen Davis this year has two. Now last year he had 66% catch rate, which sounds good. But most TE last year had a catch rate above 70%. Last year Olson ranked about 23rd among all TE according to football sabermetrics. Guys ahead of him were Viscanthe Shaincoe, Tony Scheffler, Anthony Faisano, Daniel Graham, and Kevin Boss- just to name a few. Now those guys aren't really per se a bad clas of TE to be grouped in with, but Olson is supposed to be better than all of those guys.

I don't buy the "he has a bad QB throwing to him argument" because Schiancoe had an even worse QB throwing to him last year and he was great. Plus, Olson has sucked with both Orton and Cutler throwing to him. I also don't buy the "he hasn't been thrown to enough" argument. While I agree he should get thrown to as much as guys like Gates or Clark, it doesn't matter because the reason Olson sucks is not becaus he hasn't been thrown to enough. First, I believe the best receivers make sure they gte thrown to and make receptions because their good. Secondly, Olson hasn't done shit with the receptions and targets he's gotten.

This year, Olson is 18th among all TE's on the Yahoo! player rater. In 2008, he ranked 11th, and in 2007 he ranked 19th. There's no reason Olson should not be top six.

I think Olson has entered the "he's good solely based on reputaion- and is college one at that." I think there's no reason he can't improve, but I need to see drastic improvements.