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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501
That is a rosy view of how quickly and easily this will happen. It is not stupid for the coaching staff to experiment with what WR fits in what spot. Spags spends the entire year figuring this out for his defense. That meant making a lot of bad rotations, playing the wrong guys, relying on guys he shouldn’t have. That doesn’t make him stupid. And so much of our WR stability depends on Toney thriving as WR1 and, more importantly, staying healthy and taking a full snap load.
They had 4 of these guys last year. Watson and Mvs are role guys. Toney is an injury risk. Skyy is unproven which I love for experimenting at WR2 but given toneys past could be forced to take on WR1 in stretches. All the while we’re talking about rice and Ross and James as if they’ll all just easily plug and play. If we lose Toney early in the season I don’t think I’m alone in saying that makes our WR room very concerning. There is even quite a bit of uncertainty even if he’s healthy. And not because these guys suck but because it will be way too early to know what we have or for some of these guys to step into these roles naturally.
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Pretty much nailed it.
Theres a real and steep learning curve in Andy’s offense. Every receiver needs to be able to operate from every position in every play. You can see why when the playcalls are 25-30 words long.
It might be an 11P formation, but where everyone lines up, what their route might be, blocking assignments; audible mods, etc. change every time. Andy literally never calls the same play in a game. And his play sheet is the largest n the business by about 75+ plays per game.
It’s likely these young unproven WRs will have brain farts here and there initially, just as Skyy did last season. Maybe even more than one player on the same play, the if we’re going to put Rice/Justyn/Skyy or any combination of new/young receivers out there at the same time. Just as our young defensive players last season had ups and downs, so will our new/young receivers.