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JawnyBlaze

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  1. I can respect that take as well, at least it’s putting it into context and not “omgerd he’s dropping every other pass that’s thrown his general direction.” I can believe four or five drops. He definitely hasn’t been dropping at nearly the rate that a number of people here are claiming. He certainly has to work on it, but I fully expect the timing on jumps, catching with hands (which he showed plenty of in college), and concentration issues will be resolved when he’s more comfortable in the system and with playing at the NFL level in general. It’s obvious the game hasn’t “slowed down” for him yet, but I’m sure it will.
  2. Many stats are subjective and all you can do is try to apply them under the same standard across the board. And under the same standard as all other WRs are held to, he has four drops. We could all argue what constitutes a drop til we’re blue in the face, but if we’re going to claim that XL has more than four drops then every other WR in the league also has more than they’re credited with too. So whether you want to claim XL has four drops or 40, he’s not bad compared to other receivers when held to equal standards of what is considered a “drop”.
  3. I’ve never been a believer in Pineiro. The “most accurate kicker” nonsense is because he’s almost never asked to make difficult kicks. And when he does miss the easy kicks he’s asked to make, they always seem to be critical ones. Two misses yesterday that either would have won us the game in regular time, the miss vs Atlanta a couple years ago. He doesn’t miss the easy kicks often but when he does it hurts.
  4. XL has four drops on the year. A lot of you guys are calling just about any pass that is in arms reach that isn’t caught a drop. Yesterday wasn’t a “drop”, it was a difficult pass that wasn’t reeled in. By the standard XL is being held to, a lot of veteran WRs would have astronomical drop rates. XL’s is 6.8%, not great but not horrible by any stretch. In college his drop rate was 4.8%. McConkey’s was 6.3% fwiw.
  5. Yea, he should get a one or two year extension this off season. He’s still capable of being highly productive, especially as XL and Coker keep developing and Thielen can be the third option and clutch 3rd down guy.
  6. Our top run defender is out. Sure they gave up rushing yards but they stopped plenty of drives, got turnovers and sacks, and literally stopped two of the most critical drives in the game, one each at the end of the 4th and OT
  7. Defense stopped TB numerous times, specifically when it counted most on the first drive of OT. Holding TB to a fg instead of a TD on their second to last possession was huge too. Defense did their jobs today.
  8. We do look better. This is good. Bryce might actually be our long term answer, defense looked really good today even without the best player on the team, we have plenty of weapons for Bryce and they’re only going to get better (and healthy). Losing sucks, but looking like this when we lose sucks a LOT less than the Rhule years or Bryce’s first 18 games.
  9. Even good RBs worth their contracts fumble sometimes. And that fair catch interference that got picked up was on us. Picking it up benefitted us. The other two examples were spot on though.
  10. lol this bipolar fan base. One mistake after begging for more of him all game and “he doesn’t deserve that contract” “he sucks” jfc
  11. Man as good as Bryce has been this game, the defense at least has to share the game ball no matter the outcome.
  12. Incredible. Just incredible. Great drive by Bryce. That TD play reminded me of Cam to Olsen to beat Seattle in ‘15
  13. Good play by Bryce. He’s getting better at recognizing and avoiding pressure.
  14. Oof, then he needs to stick his foot in the ground and go in that situation, don’t stop momentum.
  15. Looked like it in real time but it might not have been. If he basically palmed the top front of his helmet it could have looked the same
  16. I said he should have caught it, but it was a tough ball to catch. I’m not mad about it being low, but it should have been ahead of him, not behind him (in relation to his direction and momentum, it hit him in the face cuz he showed himself as much as he could)
  17. See above. He had to slide and try to stop his momentum. If he had thrown it ahead of him in stride the catch would have been a lot easier. I’m not saying it was terrible, but he has to get better on placement and help his receivers.
  18. Because he had to slide and try to slow his momentum instead of catching in front of him.
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