Interesting Curtco Factoid

[WarHeel]

Our red zone offense is hot garbage but I doubt most of us would have bet on Samuel to outshine some big name WR and TE in this department.

[TheSpecialJuan]

deng

[jfra78]

Our red zone effeciency wasnt as bad as memory serves.  We were tied with the Browns at 14 for 58%.  Bad thing is the last 3 games was 44% and last game was 33%.  Seems force feeding McCaffery is not a good way to score TDs

[JawnyBlaze]

I don’t know why we’d be looking to replace him with any of these jags we’ve been signing (other than Anderson, not a jag). Curtis did the best he could with the trash we had at QB last year and the year before he seemed to score a TD every third touch (only a slight exaggeration).  He body catches a little, but still catches most catchable balls thrown his way. He just needs more opportunities. 

[WarHeel]

41 minutes ago, jfra78 said:

Our red zone effeciency wasnt as bad as memory serves.  We were tied with the Browns at 14 for 58%.  Bad thing is the last 3 games was 44% and last game was 33%.  Seems force feeding McCaffery is not a good way to score TDs

Collectively it has been garbage the last 4 years or so. At least it certainly feels that way.

[MMA]

Doesn’t mean anything. He is replaceable. He better come out rolling if he wants the #3 job. 

[45catfan]

People have been dogging Samuel seemingly since he was drafted.  Why?  Because he didn't put up stupid receiving numbers in college (as a RB), was hurt early on, has been working with backup QBs and a staff that tried to run the entire offense through one guy, CMC.  Never mind he's a helluva Swiss knife.  These are the people that want #1 WR talent three or four deep.  You know, the ones STILL wanting to take a WR at#7.

[jfra78]

6 minutes ago, 45catfan said:

People have been dogging Samuel seemingly since he was drafted.  Why?  Because he didn't put up stupid receiving numbers in college (as a RB), was hurt early on, has been working with backup QBs and a staff that tried to run the entire offense through one guy, CMC.  Never mind he's a helluva Swiss knife.  These are the people that want #1 WR talent three or four deep.  You know, the ones STILL wanting to take a WR at#7.

Its the hands. 

[Moo Daeng]

Yeah it wasn't garbage it was average.

[45catfan]

2 minutes ago, jfra78 said:

Its the hands. 

He has gotten better.  Hopefully this staff will shorten up some of his routes instead of using him as a one trick pony as the deep threat.

[Seltzer]

41 minutes ago, 45catfan said:

He has gotten better.  Hopefully this staff will shorten up some of his routes instead of using him as a one trick pony as the deep threat.

Exactly.  He ran shorter routes some, but definitely during the 2nd half of the season it seemed his job was to run deep and try to open up the underneath stuff for CMC.

In fairness to Samuel, he got open deep at least 10 times I can remember off the top of my head and Allen may have connected on 1-2 of those.

I hope Teddy can throw it deeper than it has appeared for most of his career.

Or maybe we paid Anderson $10M a year so him and Samuel can take turns trying to run the defense off CMC

[Matt62881]

I really hope with the Anderson signing we stay 3 wide most of the year otherwise someone is being wasted... Both can take the top off even out of the slot so it's exciting to see what this offense can do. TB is light-years better then Allen and dj still balled. Keep pounding! 

[Snake]

Samuel and Moore are good complements to Anderson's speed. None are #1 WR though. 

[4Corners]

He seems to be a pretty good player. No wonder the panthers are shopping him.