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Originally Posted by Detoxing
He ain't taking MVS's snaps.
He ain't taking Toney's snaps.
He aint taking JuJu's snaps.
Assuming the Chiefs retain Watson, which seems likely, it'd be doubtful he takes Watson's snaps.
In the words of Pecheco, he's gonna have to take a grown man's job if he wants targets. You think that grown man is Watson. I don't think that's correct.
And lets not forget there's likely to be some combo of journey men, ala Watson and/or Rookies that he'll need to outplay as well.
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Well, not the deep stuff, obviously, in regards to MVS' snaps.
But some of those intermediate stuff, like the 7-12 yard 7s/ins/outs, comebacks, or the shallower overs? I don't actually see why not. MVS has had plenty of trouble running those, and those aren't really in his wheelhouse anyway. Toney's been the best WR running those kinds of routes, definitely better than MVS with the overs, and the 7-type routes are actually right in Skyy's wheelhouse, I think. The shallow (10 yard?) overs could be. The comebacks should be something Skyy could do; he had at least one earlier this season where he was wide open, but he wasn't aggressive enough on the comeback and that allowed the defender to make a play. But that's something that should be a pretty easy fix for him.
And there might be a few snaps he could take from JJ.
it's kind of tough to say; I think there's some fundamental gaps in Skyy's game I didn't see before. Take jet sweeps; he ran a couple recently, but his initial reaction was to try and widen and try to get to the corner, when he should've basically said, "eff it," and dive upfield for whatever he could get. Can that be fixed? I think it should be relatively easy, but he might just be wired that way.
He also did something similar on one of his returns; tried to get wide, instead of just going north. That should be fixable (not talking about the return game, settle down), but some guys just don't ever flip that switch.
obviously time will tell, and I still have high hopes for him. Just needs to come a little further than i thought.
Of course, there's a chance that MVS gets better at some of those as well. But right this second, he isn't that great at them.