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Originally Posted by Megatron96
You add up JJSS, Watson, McKinnon, and Hardman's stats, and you get about those numbers. I allowed for a little fudge factor, but it's close enough.
What I'm looking at is simply what's missing, and realistically where that production is going to come from, no hopes and wishes allowed. From the FO perspective, I don't think you can just be hopeful that Toney stays healthy for the season and/or that Skyy just up and triples his production.
I know that if i were Veach I definitely wouldn't be just laying back thinking "No worries, I'm a draft wizard. I've got two rings that tell me so. I'll just draft a true WR1 (something we haven't been able to come close to in five years), Andy'll develop him, he'll be an instant success, and we're all good. SBLVIII here we come."
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Let's do an imagination exercise.
Envision that Toney triples his production. That doesn't seem overly far-fetched to me. He now has 42/513/6
Now envision that Moore doubles his production. I think that could be very reasonable given how he closed the season. He now has 44/500/0
So, lets say we bring Watson back and his 15/315/2.
That means of the JuJu/Hardman combine loss we need to make up 63/638/3
I don't know if it's unfathomable to think maybe a guy like Ross could come in and get 20/220/1. I mean, that's pretty much what Moore did his entire rookie year right.
So you're left with 43/418/2
It doesn't seem ridiculous to me that Reid can manufacture that from a couple of rookies. A lot of 2nd round WRs have put up that lately.
The part of the equation we have to hope gets answered is McKinnon's 56/512/9 and that's not missing from your WRs.