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What are you disagreeing with?

 

Either:

 

(1) That I said we have guys that can go deep: Matthews (4.46), Jones (4.45), Streater (4.37), Brown (4.37), Lewis (4.46), Ross (4.36)?

 

or

 

(2) That I said Brown, Lewis, and Ross are not super talented? ("Not arguing Brown, Lewis, or Ross are super talented." - Me)

 

Listing these guys at all as if they've shown themselves to be anything resembling deep threats at the NFL level because of 40 times. Matthews is no deep threat. We hope Zay Jones will be, but he's yet to play a real game. The rest of those guys are nobodies.

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Listing these guys at all as if they've shown themselves to be anything resembling deep threats at the NFL level because of 40 times. Matthews is no deep threat. We hope Zay Jones will be, but he's yet to play a real game. The rest of those guys are nobodies.

 

Goodwin is a nobody, but we still considered him a deep threat last year, no? I think most fans did. You can keep ignoring that I'm conceding half of them aren't that talented if it makes you feel good, but I'll keep refuting I said it.

 

For Matthews, I think you'll remember I posted this yesterday:

 

"BTW for long catches (just by looking at the long for each game log and taking those 30+ yards):

- Matthews has catches for 44, 40, 33, 30, 43, 78, 41, 30, 32, 33, 54, and 32 yards in his career
- Watkins has catches for 43, 42, 35, 84, 30, 38, 37, 48, 47, 53, 48, 63, 39, 53, and 62 yards in his career"
Streater has consistently made long catches in camp, but I'm sure the goal posts will be moved to not just guys who can do it while the pads are on, but against only 1s and only during regular season games. He's been more of an intermediate guy in the past couple years (catching a lot of 15-20 yard passes), but I'm assuming his catches of 26, 48, 27, 36, 66, 44, and 28 in 2013 are just too far back to count for anything. Same with 2012, there's no way his catches of 38, 58, 64, 25, or 23 mean anything.
Zay Jones? He had catches of 33, 33, 26, 20, 21, 51, 39, and 77 at ECU last year, but I'm sure the excuse for that is he was only the most productive WR in college. The focus will be that he played against West Carolina, UCF, USF, UConn, Tulsa, and SMU, not Stanford, South Carolina, Virginia Tech, Cincinnati, Navy, and Temple.
Just because Watkins is really fast, doesn't mean other WRs don't get to be fast too.
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Goodwin is a nobody, but we still considered him a deep threat last year, no? I think most fans did. You can keep ignoring that I'm conceding half of them aren't that talented if it makes you feel good, but I'll keep refuting I said it.

 

For Matthews, I think you'll remember I posted this yesterday:

 

"BTW for long catches (just by looking at the long for each game log and taking those 30+ yards):

- Matthews has catches for 44, 40, 33, 30, 43, 78, 41, 30, 32, 33, 54, and 32 yards in his career

- Watkins has catches for 43, 42, 35, 84, 30, 38, 37, 48, 47, 53, 48, 63, 39, 53, and 62 yards in his career"

 

Streater has consistently made long catches in camp, but I'm sure the goal posts will be moved to not just guys who can do it while the pads are on, but against only 1s and only during regular season games. He's been more of an intermediate guy in the past couple years (catching a lot of 15-20 yard passes), but I'm assuming his catches of 26, 48, 27, 36, 66, 44, and 28 in 2013 are just too far back to count for anything. Same with 2012, there's no way his catches of 38, 58, 64, 25, or 23 mean anything.

 

Zay Jones? He had catches of 33, 33, 26, 20, 21, 51, 39, and 77 at ECU last year, but I'm sure the excuse for that is he was only the most productive WR in college. The focus will be that he played against West Carolina, UCF, USF, UConn, Tulsa, and SMU, not Stanford, South Carolina, Virginia Tech, Cincinnati, Navy, and Temple.

 

Just because Watkins is really fast, doesn't mean other WRs don't get to be fast too.

 

There's a lot more to it than being fast in shorts.

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Not to mention, the WCO Dennison is going to run needs guys that can get YAC, not necessarily catch a deep ball here and there.

 

2016

Matthews: #78 in NFL (all players) with 256 YAC and 3.5 YAC per reception

Watkins: not listed in the top 300 players in the NFL

 

2015

Matthews: #23 with 433 YAC and 5.1 YAC per reception

Watkins: #143 with 167 YAC and 2.8 YAC per reception

 

2014

Matthews: #26 with 426 YAC and 6.2 YAC per reception

Watkins: #49 with 349 YAC and 5.4 YAC per reception

 

Let me guess. Now YAC isn't important in the NFL...

 

(Edit: source https://www.sportingcharts.com/nfl/stats/yards-after-the-catch/2016/)

 

DeAndre Hopkins in 2015: "Sammy or somebody said, 'Look, bro, you and me last in YAC,'" Hopkins said. "We were first in balls over 40 yards. It kind of evens out. There's a lot of things I can get better at as an individual, knowing where defenders are, having a better awareness. Those are things I can work on." (http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000636124/article/deandre-hopkins-wants-to-fix-his-yac-problem)

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Not to mention, the WCO Dennison is going to run needs guys that can get YAC, not necessarily catch a deep ball here and there.

 

2016

Matthews: #78 in NFL (all players) with 256 YAC and 3.5 YAC per reception

Watkins: not listed in the top 300 players in the NFL

 

2015

Matthews: #23 with 433 YAC and 5.1 YAC per reception

Watkins: #143 with 167 YAC and 2.8 YAC per reception

 

2014

Matthews: #26 with 426 YAC and 6.2 YAC per reception

Watkins: #49 with 349 YAC and 5.4 YAC per reception

 

Let me guess. Now YAC isn't important in the NFL...

 

(Edit: source https://www.sportingcharts.com/nfl/stats/yards-after-the-catch/2016/)

Was Watkins used that way in a WCO in Buffalo? No! He surely showed YAC ability at Clemson and he would have succeeded in Dennison's offense IMO. They were throwing screen passes to Sammy at SJF.

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Andre used to run by and run away from defenders all the time. He was a 4.5-4.6 guy. I don't really remember him getting caught from behind. I assume it happened but surely rarely if ever.

 

Reed had excellent game speed and how many combine superstars with stellar workout numbers have been busts in the NFL. Quite a few I'd say.

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So the Combine and OTAs mean nothing because everyone is in shorts.

 

Some WRs can be successful with 4.4-5 speed, so long as they don't play for the Bills currently.

 

Watkins would have been good in this WCO, but it doesn't matter that we traded for a WR with better YAC stats - it just matters that we lost one deep threat.

 

Zay Jones' college production doesn't matter, but let's talk about how Watkins was good at screens at Clemson.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_picking

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So the Combine and OTAs mean nothing because everyone is in shorts.

 

Some WRs can be successful with 4.4-5 speed, so long as they don't play for the Bills currently.

 

Watkins would have been good in this WCO, but it doesn't matter that we traded for a WR with better YAC stats - it just matters that we lost one deep threat.

 

Zay Jones' college production doesn't matter, but let's talk about how Watkins was good at screens at Clemson.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_picking

 

How do you not get that YAC is a function of how a WR is used in a particular system? :doh:

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If the argument is that they aren't going to use him, and therefore he wasn't worth what he wants to be paid, then at least the trade makes sense on its face.

 

The implication of that, however, is quite disturbing: the team does not feel that a WR of Watkins' caliber is part of assembling a championship team?

Yup.

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How do you not get that YAC is a function of how a WR is used in a particular system? :doh:

 

Our system is suited for guys who get YAC.

 

We traded away a more expensive guy who isn't good at getting YAC and obtained a less expensive guy who is pretty good at getting YAC.

 

Where's the disconnect?

 

(Edit: added more expensive, less expensive)

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Our system is suited for guys who get YAC.

 

We traded away a guy who isn't good at getting YAC and obtained a guy who is pretty good at getting YAC.

 

Where's the disconnect?

 

Again. Watkins played in systems under Hackett, Roman, and Lynn in a role where he wasn't going to get a lot of YAC. It doesn't mean he's not capable of that if given the role in a system that calls for that. Phew!

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