You don't get to do that.
We have receivers that drop the ball because we don't value receivers that catch it.
We value measurables and we value 'upside'. The reason a tremendously talented and physical specimen like Tanner was available was because he was flawed and because his tape was incomplete (since he played various positions).
But watching the guy, it is clear he does not have soft hands. We kept him because he does other stuff, and hell I like how he played safety, but he is going to drop passes - especially in the rain.
He fights the ball a bit, and maybe you can train that out of him, but soft hands are either there or not. He does not have them.
Same thing with WR. Remember when they asked Baldwin who had the best hands on the team? Some guy that is not even on the team anymore? Lawler apparently runs really great routes (not sure he has great hands either though). But we like our WRs to do things that have nothing to do with catching the ball. So when you throw the balls to guys like that, and they do not catch it reliably, you have only yourself to blame.
(Another example where we seem to emphasize secondary qualities over primary... like how we like our OL to be 'mean and nasty' instead of just 'competent and skilled'. It kills me.)
