This year's vs. last years FAs

[Mr. Scot]

Two reasons for Avant dropping balls now:

 

#1 - this team sucks and no one on the team cares about making hard catches when you're down 45-7

#2 - Cam throws balls so hard that he makes even sure-handed receivers drop the passes because who seriously wants to catch a fastball at 10 yards?

 

The second is my theory.

 

[rodeo]

We all knew when we signed DeCoud that he was shy about contact, but I still have hope that if our pass rush returns to form he could once again be a Pro Bowl calibre ball hawk.

 

Harper, on the other hand, we knew was a liability in coverage but signed him because he was meant to be a tremendous in the box safety and pass rusher who we could use on running downs. So the fact that he constantly misses tackles in addition to getting burned makes him just an absolutely worthless waste of roster space.

[LinvilleGorge]

We signed two safeties who both sucked ass for division rivals. We got to see them both twice a year. Hell, probably actively game planned to exploit their suck-assness. Yet, we signed them and both were penciled in ass preseason starters. What the actual fug?

[updownsigma]

Defensive signings were done with the expectation that we'd have the same sort of pass rush this year as we did last.  Had our pass rush remained consistent, who knows?

 

On the offensive side, they were building back toward a straight Coryell offense and expecting the line to take a step forward.  Early results looked promising but since the Steelers game it's been an absolute mess.

 

Some things are honestly just mystifying (like Jason Avant, the guy who never dropped anything, suddenly being unable to catch).

 

How are the WRs signings building towards a Coryell system? I was under the impression that in a Coryell offense you'd want receivers who can stretch the field vertically (i.e., faster guys).

 

And didn't Avant play in a west coast scheme under Reid for most of his career?

[toldozer]

The difference is all these guys have had a big pay day. Or are never going to get one. Ginn probably got a big rookie deal but never actually "earned" a big pay day. Those guys were hungry. These guys are just collecting a check

[chknwing]

we are cap challenged. deal with it

[Mr. Scot]

How are the WRs signings building towards a Coryell system? I was under the impression that in a Coryell offense you'd want receivers who can stretch the field vertically (i.e., faster guys).

 

And didn't Avant play in a west coast scheme under Reid for most of his career?

 

Coryell isn't solely longball.  And Avant, while he played in a WCO, wasn't that well suited to it.

 

The biggest emphasis this offseason was sure hands.

 

Obviously that's not exactly panning out

[MV%doe]

We signed two safeties who both sucked ass for division rivals. We got to see them both twice a year. Hell, probably actively game planned to exploit their suck-assness. Yet, we signed them and both were penciled in ass preseason starters. What the actual fug?

lg, maaan I know about six games have sucked boner balls.. .... I just hate to see a good poster become one of the many negative huddler force.

I hate the what if game, but..... say the DL was the 2013 version(early on, no reason to think otherwise). Old harper, shy 35 yards deep decloud could Could have repeated the success of 2013 FA class. Fans would be lining up to blow don dave. Forget hardy for a sec, all others not named short have sucked outside a few plays into 10 games. Even luke and TD had struggles. Harper and decloud where former probowlers, even if its a joke. Plus its not like either will kill the panthers if cut. The O, ST, and coaches havnt helped either, at all.