In the Cowboys game he just looked awful. He was knocked off his route on a deep throw and then ran the wrong route on a 3rd down pass in the RZ. If you have Gamepass you can see just how physically dominated he was by the Cowboys' DB. And he was drafted to be a physical WR that could make contested catches
With Patterson I think they were trying to give him that last chance to be a real WR. He's great on the short stuff, but once teams figure that out, all he can do is go routes. Against CHI he ran a really lazy post route that got picked off b/c the DB ran the route. Probably should not have been thrown but it is the kind of play you see all over the league where a big body WR or TE walls off the defender for the catch, but it takes good technique and Patterson just doesn't have that capacity as a player. Unless he will come back cheap as a KR guy I think he is gone
You nailed the analysis on Patterson. They worked really hard to get him touches this year, but it's never really flashed like he did in his first season again. Apparently there's also a short coming in either the work ethic or the intellect, possibly both. The local talk radio guys are such blue bloods that criticism comes in riddles.
Honestly I've not even really seen Treadwell play. Seeing him on the field is like seeing a unicorn fucking a thin 'sconi woman.