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Speed Kills

Nate Dogg

By Nate Dogg,
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Watching TNF and can't help but feel like poo thinking about how these two mediocre teams are a combined 19-5 and most likely playoff bound. Isn't it sickening watching guys like Tyreek Hill and Taylor Gabriel make game changing, hell, season changing plays week after week? How do scrubs like Colin Jones and Brenton Bersin continue to get jerseys with a guy as fast as Damiere Byrd on the squad? How long is this staff going to continue to suppress young talent with potential?

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5 minutes ago, Navy_football said:

The argument was that Cam needed tall, rangy receivers because he threw high and inaccurately. May have been true years ago, but not anymore. Speed receivers probably play more into Shula's down field play calling. 

Have you not been watching games lately. Newton is on a pace to complete 54% of his passes. He was very inaccurate against Seattle just last Sunday. He was pretty bad against Oakland the week before. He has been pretty bad this year even when given time. He is like Ginn. They can both make hard plays look easy and then miss easy plays all together.

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17 minutes ago, stbugs said:

Just one more thing where I question the coaching. Byrd in his college career had 3 or 4 punt returns and no kick returns, so he was pretty green. He had that one fumble on a punt return in preseason, but that sure hasn't seemed to hurt Ginn and his multiple fumbles. Outside of that fumble, he looked explosive on returns. He had a 50+ yard kickoff return and maybe only had 2 kick returns total. How many times has our kick return team gotten past the 20 without a touchback? Insane to think we never let him return kicks. Fozzie and Webb look awful. Fozzie's got some speed, but he's never looked electric.

I loved watching Byrd in preseason and was really happy he made the 53 and then we keep watching our poo special teams and wonder WTF we are doing.

So are you at practice so you can see how they do. If he was great he would be playing. It is ignorant to assume that we wouldn't put the best guys out there. And to assume that your talent evaluation skills are better than professionals who do this for a living is laughable.

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We need speed at several levels of our team...RB, WR, S, DE. The list of RB in the draft we should focus on includes: Sony Michael-UGA, Alvin Kamara-UT, Dalvin Cook-FSU, Christian McCaffrey-US

WR: John Ross-UW, DeDe Westbrook-OU, Curtis Samuel-OSU. 

DE-T McKinleyUCLA, D Barnett-UT, Carl Lawson-Auburn.

 

Just a few of the players I think could add the missing speed element to our team.

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27 minutes ago, Navy_football said:

The argument was that Cam needed tall, rangy receivers because he threw high and inaccurately. May have been true years ago, but not anymore. Speed receivers probably play more into Shula's down field play calling. 

They always have. nothing wrong with drafting KB. but then turn around and draft  Funch who was TE in college?  Now your just not fitting the scheme. look at the Raiders with Cooper and Crabtree.  They have the balance right. 

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21 minutes ago, panthers55 said:

So are you at practice so you can see how they do. If he was great he would be playing. It is ignorant to assume that we wouldn't put the best guys out there. And to assume that your talent evaluation skills are better than professionals who do this for a living is laughable.

IDK.  How many times have we seen a player forced into action due to injury,  out produce the starter.   Norwell immediately comes to mind.   

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34 minutes ago, panthers55 said:

Have you not been watching games lately. Newton is on a pace to complete 54% of his passes. He was very inaccurate against Seattle just last Sunday. He was pretty bad against Oakland the week before. He has been pretty bad this year even when given time. He is like Ginn. They can both make hard plays look easy and then miss easy plays all together.

Comp pct. =\= accuracy.

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I really don't know what it is with this team and not putting a emphasis on acquiring any skill players with top level speed. the receivers are slow and the DBs are slow too. ginn is really all we have. it was rough watching Lockett run circles around everybody last sunday. 

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