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Olsen or Benjamin

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1 hour ago, PhillyB said:

i actually am betting olsen. teams will have safeties high to try to bracket both funch and benjamin and olsen should be able to have a field day in the middle and against confused safeties. 

Makes sense that Olsen may get more TARGETS, but does that mean more TDs?

1 hour ago, ItsNotGonnaBeAlright said:

See, I agree with this, but think it leads to more yards for Olsen and not TD's.

I agree.  As others have noted, Olsen has a ridiculous number of plays where he's been stopped just short of the goal line.  Last season it was something like 5 or 6 just barely missed TDs, I think.  

Greg IS a red-zone threat for sure, with his 100% catch rate of all his targets in the the redzone.  But I think we'll use Greg more to move the chains, and KB, Funch and Ginn to score TDs.

Hard to predict who will lead in TDs this early in the preseason.  The way Funchess is looking, it wouldn't be a shock if he led in TDs.  But who of us would have predicted Ginn would have 10 TDs in 2015?!!

I'm thinking we may have 4 receivers with close to double-digit TDs:  Olsen, KB, Funch & Ginn.   Last year our top 4 receivers had 26 TDs in the regular season.  I'm predicting at least 32 for this group of guys....

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2 hours ago, PhillyB said:

could be - also could be he stops getting stopped at the 1-yard line this season

 

That was one of my predictions for the year. Cam will throw more TDs, because Greg will stop getting tackled at the one. What? Did everyone know about this? And here all this time I thought I had me one of those original thought thingies. Oh well, maybe next time.

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keep in mind all last season teams didn't have to worry about bracket coverage for any of our wide receivers. they could safely trust any one of their corners to match up decently against any one of our receivers.

this allowed teams to dedicate guys towards olsen. the old "bracket olsen" quip is still hilarious, but that's actually how teams managed to slow him down last year, if they did at all. he's so, so good going vertically up the seam, and cam is so, so good at threading the needle on throws up the seam, that the only way to really stop it is dedicating deep linebackers and shadowing him with a safety over the top, to help when he invariably runs past the linebackers.

this year nobody's going use safeties to shadow olsen. they're going to stay back and roll out to bracket benjamin and funchess, and cover large deep zones when the backers are invariably sent on blitz after blitz to try to disrupt passing rhythm.

olsen wil have a field day this year.

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