Not according to this....

http://www.mlive.com/lions/ind...ons_brando.html

Anybody that ever even began to think Pettigrew is a bust just doesn't know football. Flat out.

"The biggest thing is just being decisive about what I'm doing on the field. It's doing it and not thinking so much. It's gotten better, but I need to be more comfortable so every play is like that.''

How many times did I make this exact point about Pettigrew?  The game is moving very fast and he needs things to slow down before his mistakes will decrease.

Took you guys a lot longer to figure out what I already knew..... when he was born.

He can block and catch dont see him being a bust.........rookie qb throwing to a rookie te and you dont expect growing pains?  Once stafford and pettigrew get there timing down...which shows with every reciever we have at times this will be a good offense....it is real early to call him a bust....HE is the best TE on this team...just hasnt played to his potential yet.....If it takes 2 years it still doesnt make him a bust

Everyone knows you can tell a bust within the first 5 minutes of him being on the football field!!

the only people labeling him a bust were the ones that were screaming for guy's that weren't the best at their positions.

Oher is going to be a right tackle in the NFL guys. that's basically it.

Rey Maualuga regressed his last season at USC and was more of a youtube sensation, it's why Cushing and Clay Matthews went before him.. they were better football players

I personally like Peria Jerry, and he was a possibility at that position.. but you can get a Peria Jerry in the 2010 NFL draft in the 2nd/3rd round this year.  There isn't a Pettigrew in the draft this year.

Pettigrew was a LEGIT top 15 talent, and many mocks had him going to a couple different teams in the early teens.. he dropped because a few teams drafted for need..

This falls back into BPA.

I don't know that there is too many people calling him a bust yet.

Not a bust, just someone who has missed some opportunities that you would hope a first round pick would make. I have always heard how good is hands were, havent seen it a whole lot yet.

DETROIT4LIFE wrote:

Not a bust, just someone who has missed some opportunities that you would hope a first round pick would make. I have always heard how good is hands were, havent seen it a whole lot yet.

Where did you hear that? One of the teakest part of Pettigrews game coming out of college were his recieving skills..he is a very good blocker but needs to improve in the recieving game. He was miles above TE's in the blocking aspect of his game which is why he was such a high draft pick.

pettigrews not a bust

if you watched him play at oklahoma state... the kids a monster, give him a minute, hell be alright

(under my breath)... still doesnt mean we should have taken him

Radiofriendly420 wrote: Pettigrew is not a bust! Can I get an Amen!

AMEN!

Fans are manic depressive here.

I've seen wild things from this board.

Derrick Williams was proclaimed a bust after not being active for a few weeks before he even played a game. 

First two weeks you had everyone that wanted Sanchez post non stop and how Stafford was a bust.

Avril hsan't been productive where he on pace for about 8 sacks not bad for a second year player who missed a few games.

Pettigrew is a bust.

Kevin Smith was a must be healthy for a bears win to now needs to be replaced.

Where a young team and I can see the talent on this team it is a young core.  Its going to take time.  We played some of the best teams in the league with young young team and been in most games.  We won't know what we got for a while.

manchu wrote:

He can block and catch do see him being a bust.........rookie qb throwing to a rookie te and you dont expect growing pains? Once stafford and pettigrew get there timing down...which shows with every reciever we have at times this will be a good offense....it is real early to call him a bust....HE is the best TE on this team...just hasnt played to his potential yet.....If it takes 2 years it still doesnt make him a bust

Now I've watched all the games, however, it's hard to remember Pettigrews performances simply because they were forgettable. Maybe that's the way he wants it. He'll never be flashy, but as long as he progresses to make the catches he's supposed to make and gets his NFL caliber blocking technique down, I'll live with the pick.

From the looks of it Pettigrew has played and started all 6 games this year. He was shut out of the Saints game and tailed off during the Pitt and GB games. Here's what I see, his QB wasn't Stafford.

With Stafford playing: 10 rec 131 yards

W/O Stafford: 2 rec 21 yards

He provides our MASSIVE investment with a small insurance policy in the form of another weapon.

This Pettigrew talk is so irritating because, before the season, if anybody had listened I said this same thing.

There are people on here who, from the day his name was called, expected Gonzo. This was not only irritating, it proved a lot about expectations to me. I was ripped and ragged because I said Petty was a 400 yard, 40 catch 4 TD TE as a rookie. What is he on pace for? 405 yards and 32 catches. Not a bad estimate. I also said that Petty's value would be in the run game....last year we ranked 30th in total rushing....this year we're 24. Holy crumbs! An IMPROVEMENT!

This mind shattering logic I have? It's a complex system of checks and balances, nuclear physics and brain surgery. Or.....we can look at TEs drafted in the first over the last several years in their first year......

2008: Dustin Keller: 48 catches, 535 yards, 3 TDs

2007: Greg Olsen: 39 catches, 391 yards, 2 TDs

2006:Vernon Davis: 20 catches, 265 yards, 3 TDs, Marcedes Lewis: 13 catches, 126 yards, 1 TD

2005:Heath Miller:39 catches, 459 yards, 6 TDs

2004: K2 (don't bother, no real stats), Ben Watson:2 catches, 16 yards, 0 TDs

2003: Dallas Clark: 29 catches, 340 yards, 1 TD

2002: Jeremy Shockey: 74 catches, 894 yards, 2 TDs, Daniel Graham: 15 catches, 150 yards, 1 TD, Jerramy Stevens: 26 catches, 252 yards, 3 TDs

2001:Todd Heap: 16 catches, 206 yards, 1 TD

2000:Bubba Franks: 34 catches, 363 yards, 1 TD, Anthony Becht:16 catches, 144 yards, 2 TDs

And there wasn't a TE drafted in the first....before then.......EXCEPT......

1997: Tony Gonzalez: 33 catches, 368 yards, 2 TDs

HOLY CRAP! Tony Gonzalez was a friggin bust as a rookie!!!

Like I said my problem isn't educated posters who disliked the pick....it's people who take no time to actually sit down before they post and hit Google for the history of first round TEs and how far off Pettigrew will likely be. Fact is: Pettigrew is simply on par with EVERY first round TE since Tony Gonzalez (except Shockey).

If you're gonna gripe about him NOT being Shockey? You open up a can of worms....because, lets remember, for as good as he is? Calvin wasn't Randy Moss as a rookie.

Just quit with this Oher garbage. The guy wasn't worth the pick. TEs don't, by HISTORICAL FACT, do well as rookies when drafted in the first round. This has become such a joke (the Pettigrew a bust stuff) that it's really showing the level of thought that goes into some peoples posts.