If X can't step up, then JT needs to (if Canales allows)

[TD alt]

Look, I've still not completely given up on X (even if I did X him from my fantasy team), but he's not trending in the right direction...pretty much at all. That being said, I am loathe to overreact after one game. But, that being said, Ja'Tavion Sanders needs to step up. The thing is, will Dave Canales put JT into a position to actually step up and maximize Sanders' talent? I am skeptical sbout DC's willingness to even use a TE in the flow of the game, much less dial up a TE's number when it's absolutely warranted. I'm tired of DC treating the TE as an afterthought. Of course all of this may be moot due to QB play, but I think that JT has it in him to really help open up the offense for everyone, including X, if Canales would call up some plays for him. 

Basically, the X-factor on offense may not be an X at all, but a JT.

Edited 8 hours ago by TD alt

[tukafan21]

I haven't given up on him yet either, but one play from Week 1 has me now severely questioning what his ceiling might be.

Not getting his feet in bounds on a pretty standard play was really damning, it wasn't even a toe tap type of catch right on the sideline, he was catching it in stride, there is absolutely zero reason any NFL player, even one just on a practice squad, isn't aware enough to drag that 2nd foot in that situation.

That one play alone has me seriously concerned, more than any of his drops issues last year, because those things can be worked on and improved.  If you're not getting the basic mental stuff like that down when you played 5 years in college (yea, I know 1 foot vs 2, meh) and in your 2nd year in the NFL, then I'm not sure you have what it takes between the ears to ever be a high level player.

At worst, that one play made me already put Coker as the clear #2 the second he steps back onto the field for us, it soured me on XL that much.

[Super Grateful]

my new nickname for X is Boomhauer. dudes gonna get laughed out of the league. 

[mc52beast]

1 minute ago, Super Grateful said:

my new nickname for X is Boomhauer. dudes gonna get laughed out of the league. 

He’ll go somewhere, figure it out and be a pro bowler.

[Super Grateful]

1 minute ago, mc52beast said:

He’ll go somewhere, figure it out and be a pro bowler.

yeah, just like they said Terrace Marshall Jr would? lmfao name another time this has ever happened.

DJ Moore is the only successful Panthers receiver that we had to trade away for Bust Young, even he's looking worse off, though. 

[Khyber53]

There's an old adage that with a WR, you really don't know what you've got until the third season. Still, dude needs to pick it up or he'll be struggling to get called off the bench to participate in that third season much.

 

[csx]

39 minutes ago, mc52beast said:

He’ll go somewhere, figure it out and be a pro bowler.

Who has  done that besides Mathis?