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Originally Posted by Gary Cooper
He must have looked good enough in camp for them to assume he can handle NFL pass rushers. He looked fine the opening game of the season. The next game was a disaster and he got benched.
The coaching staff and Veach also assumed last year's WR core would be more productive with Toney, MVS, and Moore as the major weapons, with Rice chipping in as a rookie. I don't think they expected Toney or Moore to be flaming turds. They hit on Rice at least.
Veach has done a better job than other GMs but that doesn't mean he hasn't made mistakes obviously at other positions. He's drafted four tackles which haven't panned out. My guess is he'll invest in a first rounder in the next draft at LT or maybe RT. Drafting them in other rounds hasn't worked out.
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I hate that I keep coming back to this conclusion, but I really think Kingsley looked good because the guys he went against every day just...suck.
I mean we have ZERO speed to test him against (and those are the guys that really give him fits). And even someone like Danna doesn't have advanced technique - he's a motor guy. Hell, what little bit of bend/explosion we had at DE almost died on the field. He looked credible against Malik Herring and Mike Danna.
The staff's confidence in him was almost certainly misplaced due to really poor competition opposite of him. I just can't see any other viable explanation.