XL is a bust

[Puresteel55]

I personally feel that it is difficult to fairly analyze any player or coach on this team as long as BY is the starting QB.

 

Edited 1 hour ago by Puresteel55

[Mr. Scot]

Part of me thinks he might be better in an offense that emphasizes deep passing.

But the ultimate truth is that no scheme in existence is going to compensate for a lack of effort and commitment.

[Proudiddy]

I see enough good from XL that I’m withholding judgment.  TBH, the same excuse applies for him that applies for Tet and the others.  If you have a QB who is constantly misplacing the ball in shitty spots, as a receiver, you start playing different.  If you run a route and look back for the ball in anticipation, and you’re used to it being in a shitty spot from your shitty QB, but THIS time it’s placed better, now you’re not prepared for it.   know it sounds stupid, but it’s the truth.  Most of the throws on game day are dropped because they’re looking for a better ball and it’s not thrown well.  But there are times, like the play you posted, where the placement is better than they anticipate, and it throws them off.  And I emphasize placed “better” because that’s still not a great pass.  The thing with Bryce is, as I mentioned in another thread where our conversation turned to Jake in his heyday, is in comparison to other QBs, Bryce just doesn’t give his receivers a chance to make a play.  At all.  So until we get a QB who consistently can, I’m not evaluating any of these guys.  If we had a real QB, Tet would be putting up Prime Mike Evans numbers right now.

[OldhamA]

1 hour ago, jb2288 said:

Sucks we drafted him to literally out athletic people and go get balls like that…. And he doesn’t even try. What a waste of a pick 

That was a very technical catch and we've already discussed that he's raw as a WR.

Early in his career, while he's developing, he's meant to get the ball on jet sweeps, drags, slants etc - i.e. extended handoffs. 

He's already shown he can take the top off a defence and he can make difficult catches. He wasn't worth the 1st round pick, but there's clearly a lot of talent there.

[Castavar]

Cam made Devin fuggin Funchess look decent, and XL has WAY more athletic ability and potential than Devin Funchess ever had. It's the QB. How are you supposed to evaluate WRs when your QB can't even muster up 100 yds passing in the modern NFL? 

[KaseKlosed]

If XL is a bust then what weapons will always QB love here?? Just tMac and thats it. Imagine Peyton Manning trying to work on route timing with XL lol lol lol he would cuss his ass out every practice 

[strato]

2 minutes ago, KaseKlosed said:

If XL is a bust then what weapons will always QB love here?? Just tMac and thats it. Imagine Peyton Manning trying to work on route timing with XL lol lol lol he would cuss his ass out every practice 

And I bet he would make him better.  

[jb2288]

20 minutes ago, OldhamA said:

That was a very technical catch and we've already discussed that he's raw as a WR.

Early in his career, while he's developing, he's meant to get the ball on jet sweeps, drags, slants etc - i.e. extended handoffs. 

He's already shown he can take the top off a defence and he can make difficult catches. He wasn't worth the 1st round pick, but there's clearly a lot of talent there.

I don’t care about that. There was zero effort on that play he didn’t even try to catch it. 

[electro's horse]

how are you going to run a jet sweep with 10 in the box right now come on people be real