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    Why wasn't Duke Williams active?

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

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    2 minutes ago, GregPersons said:


    None of us are seeing Duke in practice, and the media doesn't have access either, so we do not know if he's playing poorly there. He could be catching every ball thrown his way in practice. Both are possible. Duke is Schrodinger's cat.  Why he hasn't been active on game day is not definitely "he isn't playing well in practice." We don't know that to be true. All we know for sure is that he must be practicing well enough to not get cut because he's still on the 53 man roster. 

     

    What we do know are these things:

     

    —In his one game appearance, Duke Williams played very well. Is this debatable, or do we all agree on this point?

    —Dawson Knox leads the NFL in drops, and Tyler Kroft has not made any impact as a Bill

    —In the 5 games that Tyler Kroft has been healthy enough to play, he's caught 4 passes for 52 yards.

    —Duke Williams is 6'2", which is shorter than this team prefers for TE — but it's still within the range of NFL average height for TE (which is 6'3)... Delanie Walker is 6'0.

     

     

     

    No. You can be as rude about it as you like, but that's not definitely true. Duke obviously has the potential to help the Bills passing game. He already displayed that, with this team, this season. He hasn't had the opportunity to repeat. Asking why he hasn't is a perfectly valid question. 

     

     


    See you started out completely correct then went somewhere else. 
     

    you know who does see him every day in practice? The coaches. Who decides who’s active on sunday? The coaches. So while you correctly point out that we don’t know, I will continue to trust the guys that have more info than me. Seriously most here seem more than willing to heap praise on McD except when it comes to this poor, poor 6th string receiver that can’t get a shot. Except he did get a shot earlier in the year.

    Why wasn't Duke Williams active?

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    2 minutes ago, Nelius said:

     

    ??? Pretty sure you just made it for me. It's outlandish for fans to talk about getting terrible guy 1 out of there so they can see potentially terrible guy 2 instead? Let's just continue to ignore our WR depth completely because we all know that everybody after Beasley sucks anyway? 


    And if Duke can’t crack the active 46 with terrible, below replacement-level receivers like foster ahead of him, what’s that say about Duke chief? 
     

    he’s trash. He belongs back in the CFL.

    Why wasn't Duke Williams active?

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

    Posted · Edited by JoPoy88

    37 minutes ago, Dopey said:

    Bingo to the part in bold. Dude, wrs should be able to separate and get open. Why would you prefer to throw contested pass vs a pass to an open wr? Why? The whole point of throwing a pass is NOT to throw to a guy who's not open. We had a couple of wide open receivers missed and too many dropped balls from OPEN receivers. You think contested throws are a better option?


    this exactly. Activating a guy that can’t get open to throw 50/50 balls to all day seems like not a very realistic formula for sustained offensive success. Yet here we are. Every week. The same people. (These people who, btw, do not see Duke in practice, as the coaches do, who are making the (likely) wise decision to park his butt on the inactive list.)

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    How about MVP Lamar Jackson today?

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

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    1 hour ago, ToGoGo said:

    We made him look pretty ordinary.

     

    Someone in the 2nd half thread said he is a great read-option QB, nothing more, and I agree. He looked lost when Andrews went out of the game, and kept throwing to the backup TE who fortunately for them is a good football player. 

     

    Hopefully, the book on him is now out. Don't fall for the ball trickery, set the edge, don't overpursue, and eliminate the TE's. Force him to throw long into tight coverage. 


    well, he won.

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    When will FOX stop pushing the Cowboys down our throats?

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    58 minutes ago, Stallions said:

    Is their dominance on TV driven by Jerry Jones?

    A long history of being the best NFL team in Southern TV markets?

    Fans across the NFL world hoping the Cowboys fail?

    The large TV market in TX, OK, Missouri & Arkansas?

    Playing in the NFC East with huge TV markets in NYC, Philadelphia & Washington?

     

    WHY?

     


    I mean, you sort of answered your own question in the body of your post. Those reasons, plus the fact that they are one of the very few teams with a true national fanbase, should spell it out for you. Have fun with it - watch them lose. Repeatedly. It’s very satisfying.

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