pdangle
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To my recent knowledge BB was the first coach to go 4 deep at RB. Seems ordinary now, but remember back 5-6 years when many teams still went with a 1 RB, and you'd even see 3-4 even 5 RBs drafted in the first round. The season I'm thinking of, If I'm not mistaken, BJGE was last man on the depth chart, and as fate would have it NE needed all 4 of them and BJGE too by seasons end. They all went down at some point two at a time.
So BB came up roses that season, when many of us in August were like 4RBs?, that's two roster spots for my binkies damn you! But BB got burnt the year before with crazy injuries to the 2 barely 3 deep RB corps I recall, and now with 4, it couldn't have worked out better. So I think this was the moment BB made a major shift in his roster construction.
Off track, but yet again, we see BB years ahead of the curve. 3-4 RBs is now commonplace in today's NFL. But again not the point of this post. Soooooo...
I was looking over our WR depth chart, and we really have 6 guys that are all pretty fungible talent wise. I think BB sees now what he saw with RBs, injury attrition erodes WR depth in today's NFL as surely as sands through the hourglass, so are the days... Or something like that. It's pretty much like death and taxes. Inevitable. You will lose players over a long run of seasons. Sometimes a bunch. You may get lucky a season or two, e.g. see tRex Ryan's paper thin NYJ skate injury free during their recent two AFC "Championship game" seasons, and then what happened in year 3 when it finally caught up to them. And that was just a normal season of injuries IMO. Again not the point here, but just some back story I guess to my point, which will soon be made.
I think we're seeing a shift, that, aside from a few dominant receivers, which BB can't get his hands on through the draft or in FA because they are completely overvalued in his opinion, he's going with the 6-man all-fungible #2a receiving corps. Train them to run the proper routes. And you'll never have a problem replacing any of them. At least compared to a dynamic #1 that is.
Maybe the days of a 1,2,3 WRs is over in the NFL. Were looking at a trend of 6-deep. Easier to acquire, easier to replace, more resilient, and overall over the course of a typical season, more productive than when your top heavy 1,2, or 3 guy or guys get hurt, and your stuck with a 2,5 and a 6. While with NE we still got a 2a, 2a and 2a.
So BB came up roses that season, when many of us in August were like 4RBs?, that's two roster spots for my binkies damn you! But BB got burnt the year before with crazy injuries to the 2 barely 3 deep RB corps I recall, and now with 4, it couldn't have worked out better. So I think this was the moment BB made a major shift in his roster construction.
Off track, but yet again, we see BB years ahead of the curve. 3-4 RBs is now commonplace in today's NFL. But again not the point of this post. Soooooo...
I was looking over our WR depth chart, and we really have 6 guys that are all pretty fungible talent wise. I think BB sees now what he saw with RBs, injury attrition erodes WR depth in today's NFL as surely as sands through the hourglass, so are the days... Or something like that. It's pretty much like death and taxes. Inevitable. You will lose players over a long run of seasons. Sometimes a bunch. You may get lucky a season or two, e.g. see tRex Ryan's paper thin NYJ skate injury free during their recent two AFC "Championship game" seasons, and then what happened in year 3 when it finally caught up to them. And that was just a normal season of injuries IMO. Again not the point here, but just some back story I guess to my point, which will soon be made.
I think we're seeing a shift, that, aside from a few dominant receivers, which BB can't get his hands on through the draft or in FA because they are completely overvalued in his opinion, he's going with the 6-man all-fungible #2a receiving corps. Train them to run the proper routes. And you'll never have a problem replacing any of them. At least compared to a dynamic #1 that is.
Maybe the days of a 1,2,3 WRs is over in the NFL. Were looking at a trend of 6-deep. Easier to acquire, easier to replace, more resilient, and overall over the course of a typical season, more productive than when your top heavy 1,2, or 3 guy or guys get hurt, and your stuck with a 2,5 and a 6. While with NE we still got a 2a, 2a and 2a.