Heath Miller in another offense would be a star. Unfortunately for him he just does`t get enough passes thrown his way. I have always said we should use him a little more. Love his run blocking too.

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why is quincy here? and why is he posting irritating comments on a steelers board. its one thing to provide good insight or useful information and another to post rubbish.

the reason why witten gets so many yards is because they dont need him blocking on pass plays so often.

the steelers come out on bunch and two tight end sets with miller blocking on a lot of those for pass plays. Thus he doesnt get the opportunity to catch balls as much. When thrown to him he gets the ball almost all the time. Stop posting rubbish.

They’re really about even as receivers. Especially if you project Miller to have as many throws come his way as Witten does.

Witten would win out on yards, 709 to 688

That being the case, he would have a slight advantage of yrds/ctch 12.2 to 11.9

But since Witten has played two more games this year than Miller, Miller would atually come out on top in yrds/game 68.8 to 59.1

Miller would also have 1 more TD than Witten, 4 to 3.

Once again, I have a similar amount of words. Both of these teams are good. If they werent, we wouldnt care and this game would be a blowout.

Witten has good skills. He can get open, and he makes clutch plays. He is however, to an extent, amplified by the system.

TE’s numbers are decided SO MUCH by the system. Dallas loves to get the ball in the air and over to the TE position.

Pittsburgh, not as much. When you average passing (typically) is under 25 a game, your TE is lucky to have a pair of catches.

However, whats worth noting is Heath makes plays. Clutch ones. And hes pretty hard ass.

Not to take much away from JW, because he’s played injured.

I honestly think they are both almost on an equal plane, but Heath gets the edge cause he mows people over in the run game.

to argue who is better, Miller v. Witten, b/c it’s all an opinion anyway. Both are really good and obviously, as fans, who watch our team week in and week out, we become enotionally attached to our own players. Myself included. In fact, I made the point in my other post, I love Miller and I would not take any other TE over him…none…and I know Witten is real good, as well as other top end TE’s.

But I think more to the point, it isn’t just a question of who is better, but do they fit your team, the style of play, their personality. Example, Ben v. Romo. I have always liked Romo, I think he is a hell of a quarterback. I remember watching him a couple of years ago, thinking…wow that guy is fantastic…their isn’t anything he can’t do. But if you ask me, would I rather have BB or Romo I choose Ben…no question. Why? His personality, his physical stature, his style of play, his toughness…is Pittsburgh. Romo is Dallas.

So, you can keep arguing who is better…but I think the bigger contexted is how do they fit into their respective teams. Miller is a Steeler guy and Witten a Cowboy…

But there isn’t really an accurate way to compare the two straightforward. They’ll never face eachother.

Witten plays behind a better offensive line on a team that passes quite a bit more often. Often times he’s the thid checkdown in your offense.

Miller plays behind a less able (asked to block more) OL on a team that has a tendancy to run more than pass. He also plays in an offensive scheme that oftens uses him as the fourth or even fifth checkdown with a quarterback who usually doesn’t have time and dislikes to pick hot routes.

I am not claiming one is better than the other. What I am claiming is that if Witten and Miller switched teams, I believe they would switch stats as well. Understand?

Any team would salivate at the chance of having Witten or Miller. Both are excellent TE’s, and are dangerous for their respective teams. Witten probably has the edge in being Romo’s go to guy. He’s key in their passing game, without him TO gets smothered.