Our ball coach said they are looking for match-up problems at WR…here’s a quick review of 20

[hondo in seattle]

On 4/22/2024 at 6:21 AM, PBF81 said:

Aren't most if not all teams looking for match-up problems for their WRs.  That's the most effective way to have a highly effective passing game.  

 

 

Yeah, that quote was a nothing burger if we're using it to try to predict the draft.  Every HC and OC wants receivers who present matchup problems. 

 

The comment told us nothing about the future, but it might have told us something about the past.  I'm guessing McD didn't think we gave opponents enough matchup problems last year.  I saw some analytics that showed both Davis and Diggs were below the NFL average in separation.  

 

I'm 65 but can still catch a football.  If there were teams that didn't care about matchup problems and my 6-minute 40 time, I'd have a shot!  

[PBF81]

7 hours ago, hondo in seattle said:

Yeah, that quote was a nothing burger if we're using it to try to predict the draft.  Every HC and OC wants receivers who present matchup problems. 

 

The comment told us nothing about the future, but it might have told us something about the past.  I'm guessing McD didn't think we gave opponents enough matchup problems last year.  I saw some analytics that showed both Davis and Diggs were below the NFL average in separation.  

 

I'm 65 but can still catch a football.  If there were teams that didn't care about matchup problems and my 6-minute 40 time, I'd have a shot!  

 

Well yeah, I'm with you there, waddling down the field like a penguin en route to a 6-min 40 time.  LOL  

 

As to Diggs, I'm simply not seeing what everyone else that makes that claim is.  

 

I pulled down one random game, the last game of the RS, @ Miami.  Here's the highlights below.  

 

Early in the video Diggs beats Ramsey by several yards but Allen overthrows him by a mile, shortly thereafter he has Apple beat.  Two decent DBs.  Later on he dusts another DB.  

 

At the 9:38 mark Allen throws it to Shakir, but Diggs has his man beat down the right sideline, if Allen hits him it's a TD.  On a few other plays Brady's got Diggs running laterally across the backfield from the snap, which makes me wonder.  There was a LOT of that on Brady's watch.  

 

So yeah, I get the narrative that Diggs has lost a step," but I'm not seeing it, at least nowhere near as dramatically as people say.  In this game alone there were two plays, and that's only from a highlight video, not the entire game, whereby Diggs would have posted a pair of TDs had Allen first not drastically overthrown him, and secondly gone to him rather than Shakir OTM.  That was at the end of the season, when Diggs was supposed to have been the most washed up.  

 

This season's going to be very interesting watching Diggs in Houston and what Brady does here.