BringBackFergy Posted October 16, 2015 Posted October 16, 2015 Tough to be a target from the whirlpool Sammy. ..LOLThe main thing that pisses me off: he asked his agent to pull some strings!! That means it's all about $. He's already looking for his big contract. Go play the game Samuel.
stony Posted October 16, 2015 Posted October 16, 2015 LOL The main thing that pisses me off: he asked his agent to pull some strings!! That means it's all about $. He's already looking for his big contract. Go play the game Samuel. I'd be worried about the money too!! With that said, perhaps a more subtle approach next time, Mr. Watkins? Getting the "agent" involved is always a weenie look.
LB3 Posted October 16, 2015 Posted October 16, 2015 How many passes should I throw out due to this by your estimation? For Sammy to catch up in Catch%, 33 of the 141 balls thrown his way would need to be completely uncatchable and 0 of OBJ's would have to qualify the same way. There are so many factors that can skew these numbers that are out of the WR's hands. You'll have to account for QB accuracy and routes run. OBJ ran a lot of screens last year. Sammy, not so much.
filthymcnasty08 Posted October 16, 2015 Posted October 16, 2015 Unreal some guys now want to burn Sammy down... Hes absolutely right.
BringBackFergy Posted October 16, 2015 Posted October 16, 2015 Unreal some guys now want to burn Sammy down... Hes absolutely right. Unreal how some people don't consider these comments inappropriate for a "professional".
bananathumb Posted October 16, 2015 Posted October 16, 2015 Do something on the field, Watkins, then you can talk. What a lousy draft pick!
ALLEN1QB Posted October 16, 2015 Posted October 16, 2015 Unreal how some people don't consider these comments inappropriate for a "professional". Professional? Come on......3 years from now when other receivers with same talent are making 8 million a year more than him where did being a professional get him? Lets be real here people.
BuffaloHokie13 Posted October 16, 2015 Posted October 16, 2015 There are so many factors that can skew these numbers that are out of the WR's hands. You'll have to account for QB accuracy and routes run. OBJ ran a lot of screens last year. Sammy, not so much. I do agree there should be more screens thrown to Sammy. That was one of his best things coming out of college
NorthBuffaloKid Posted October 16, 2015 Posted October 16, 2015 I want a competitor....Someone who is willing to go out there and play. He's been used as a "decoy" since he's gotten here. I've seen demonstrations of concentration and strength that would make you want him to get the ball more often. He's not wrong. We're keeping a Ferrari in the garage, occasionally bringing it out into the driveway to show off. Ferraris need to be driven! Sammy needs the ball!
ricojes Posted October 16, 2015 Posted October 16, 2015 Look it up, statistically, he is currently the 6th best WR from last year's draft class. This is exactly his point...
Canadian Bills Fan Posted October 16, 2015 Posted October 16, 2015 I dont blame him one bit. We traded so much to get him, I would try to target him way more than the Bills have when he has played CBF
jimmy10 Posted October 16, 2015 Posted October 16, 2015 While he's not wrong, there's a crowd that has had it out for him since the beginning, and this will do nothing to help him with that particular audience.
ricojes Posted October 16, 2015 Posted October 16, 2015 While he's not wrong, there's a crowd that has had it out for him since the beginning, and this will do nothing to help him with that particular audience This is true. If the Bills had drafted Odell Beckham Jr. and he said it, everyone would be on board with everything said. But since the Bills traded up to get Sammy, and paid a high price to do so, this will always be the case...
dave mcbride Posted October 16, 2015 Posted October 16, 2015 (edited) The bottom line: he is the most talented skill player on the Bills, and it's not close (sorry, McCoy). The Bills need to get him the damn ball, and they need to do it more than they're doing. This goes back to last season. The Bills targeted Watkins 128 times out of 572 targets last season (about 23 percent of the time). in the first two games of this season, they targeted him 11 times on 49 throws (same rate, essentially). And he's usually open. Last season, the Giants targeted Beckham 130 times on the 460 throws made in the games he played in (he missed the first 4 games) -- 28-29 percent of the time. This season, Julio Jones has been the target about 32 percent of the time (72 out of 227). In 2013, the Bengals' best offensive season in recent years, they targeted AJ Green 178 times on 587 throws -- about 30 percent of the time. All of these other teams have had had better offenses than the Bills for more than one reason, but the one thing they do strive to do better than the Bills do is to get the ball into the hands of their best player. Edited October 16, 2015 by dave mcbride
yungmack Posted October 16, 2015 Posted October 16, 2015 The bottom line: he is the most talented skill player on the Bills, and it's not close (sorry, McCoy). The Bills need to get him the damn ball, and they need to do it more than they're doing. This goes back to last season. The Bills targeted Watkins 128 times out of 572 targets last season (about 23 percent of the time). in the first two games of this season, they targeted him 11 times on 49 throws (same rate, essentially). And he's usually open. Last season, the Giants targeted Beckham 130 times on the 460 throws made in the games he played in (he missed the first 4 games) -- 28-29 percent of the time. This season, Julio Jones has been the target about 32 percent of the time (72 out of 227). In 2013, the Bengals' best offensive season in recent years, they targeted AJ Green 178 times on 587 throws -- about 30 percent of the time. All of these other teams have had had better offenses than the Bills for more than one reason, but the one thing they do strive to do better than the Bills do is to get the ball into the hands of their best player. This is it in a nutshell.
Storm Front Posted October 16, 2015 Posted October 16, 2015 Ok, I have changed my mind. He's moving into knucklehead territory, and is quite possibly destined to be a bust.
Webster Guy Posted October 16, 2015 Posted October 16, 2015 Does he realize he has been healthy for 2 games this season? It would be different if he was healthy. +1
mikef272002 Posted October 16, 2015 Posted October 16, 2015 I've never understood how guys like Hoptkins, Odell, Bryant, Johnson, fitzgerald and so on can get 10 -13 targets a game on a regular basis, but we can't get 3 to our guy because they roll coverage his way... I would think defenses roll coverage to all guys that are true #1's. So why is it our guy can't get the targets? ... I agree w/ Sammy, he's a good kid, keeps his mouth shut, but you know what, we did move up to get him, start using him or Whaley just looks like a fool giving up draft picks to get a decoy..
ricojes Posted October 16, 2015 Posted October 16, 2015 Ok, I have changed my mind. He's moving into knucklehead territory, and is quite possibly destined to be a bust.
Dorkington Posted October 16, 2015 Posted October 16, 2015 He's damned talented, and I wish we would find a way to utilize that talent more... but yeah, shut the !@#$ up about it in public. Talk to the coaches in private. The more I think about his comments, the more annoyed I am.
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