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Lawrence Owen recently said that Brandon Aiyuk is a "system WR who wouldn't put up 700 yards on 90% of NFL teams." He's about as untrusty of a narrator as you can possibly get. And like us watching at home, he is not privy to the route calls, the playcalls, the reads, etc. But I watched the video. AP had a great game. However, Lawrence is driving this narrative with this one game against arguably the worst pass defense in the NFL last year. Fulton (#26), who was on AP much of this game, was especially bad last year, registering a 46 PFF grade. They had mismatches all over coming into the game and they exploited it from the beginning, hence AP's involvement. It's really not any deeper than that. This game was a complete outlier from any other game too, as far as production. So Minshew held back the whole team, but benefited MPJ and Downs? If AP was getting open all the time and it was "like this every game", he wouldn't have ended up #124 in win route rate or #110 in avg. separation (min. 45 tgts). The people who watch every game and the tools that track these stats don't support this idea. As someone said earlier, targets are earned. Minshew is executing the offense, but Steichen is the calling the plays and assigning reads in the RPO. So why wasn't Steichen dialing up more plays after this TEN game? Minshew made the throws in this game, so clearly he can make the throws. And even with AR, who we know can make all the throws, they were hardly dialing up plays for AP either. With the drafting of AD, it speaks volumes about who is holding back AP. -
It’s gotta be one of those two or Laiatu. I guess I’d say Odunze, since TE didn’t end up being a position we hit at all, so there’s no proof CB considered it a need. However, that doesn’t mean we wouldn’t trade up for a unique talent (Bowers) for whom we have a “plan”… -
By throwing BBZ · Posted
Does it mean anything to you that Kwity had 2 less sacks than $170M Joey Bosey? Bosa played 180 more snaps. Kwity did a great job playing his edge, the run, and covering his flat. He also got his breather on a lot of 3rd downs because... we were developing Dayo and had Lewis who was very effective in rotation on limited snaps. -
By throwing BBZ · Posted
Ballard had no idea who Turray was till the Senior Bowl. His trait was he was the fastest off the snap there. So let's take him and see if we can make a football player out of him. And your final answer - Ben Banogu Well he was a State Champion wrestler so he should a good tackler, a real leader, plays with unknown tenacity, a step slow but - Rock ya-sin. Dodds and his large team do the scouting, Ballard has an organization to manage. He/we have not risen to the top with his underlings following his process. We have been stumbling, bumbling for a number of years for sure. The good news is we can see some very solid pieces he did choose are foundations for our current reboot. The South is going to be a real battleground like we haven't seen. -
By funktacious2 · Posted
That’s my hope at least. We feel, more than any year in recent memory, primed to possibly go into next year’s off-season with no major holes (assuming we re-sign our FAs or our depth looks ready to step up). That lets us take BPA or try again to move up for an elite prospect. But there are a lot of IFs here (IF our DBs have an improved year. IF we don’t have any major fall offs in performance. IF we don’t have any late season major injuries, IF our rookies this coming year show us their trajectory is still high. I would classify myself as cautiously amped moving forward haha.
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