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Seeing the names on that pass catching list is just a slap in the face reminder of how little talent we have at the skill positions. Our best options are a quality slot receiver masquerading as a #1, a one-legged All World TE and a decent third down back. Good times.
Dobson will make a better deep threat soon.
Thats troubling to me a TE who can catch shouldn't have any trouble learning the Pats Offense. Wright have shown that he has Big play ability and could be match-up nightmare but McDaniels for some reason put him in there for minimal plays???? I cannot even imagine what Peyton Manning would do with such a player a TE with a WR's body. We should be going Two TE's more Wright would give us a heck of alot more than both Lafell and Amendola combined. I hope they were holding him back for the upcoming games because if we play Offense the way we have the past few weeks KC and Cincy will smoke us and one of those loses would be in our own building.
I hope so because I'm starting to get tired of watching LaFell called for offensive pass interference penalties let alone offside on a kickoff.I hope you're right about the above. I hate to be overly skeptical, but until Dobson proves himself a lot more, I am going to be cautiously optimistic.
We've been hearing all about Dobson's potential since the spring of 2013, so let's hope it's just an unfortunate case of being injured and slow to heal.
As Gisele reminded us, Brady cannot both throw the ball and catch it. He also cannot block the D-lineman and drop back, etc. etc. etc.
There's a frustration here about WR quality, OL quality, and the possibility of (gasp) a Brady quality issue. One Gisele is plenty, right?
This is the problem with a team game. I think with more time in the pocket the Dobsons and Thompkins of the world look a little better. But it's not like they've scared people before. We have no history of either of them being scary good. Ditto Amendola. He's been "pretty good at getting open" in his prime, but never "OMG we're playing against Amendola, it's a nightmare for the DC!"
HOWEVER, given that information -- given the information of where this team already was going, w/much more defensive splash both in the draft and Free Agency -- I did not expect enormous #s. I did not think we had the receivers for it.
The O-line depletion at the last moment was the most worrying factor.
In Miami we could not overcome these various decrements (or if you prefer, Brady could not overcome them.) Since then, we have - against the Peterson-less Vikings and the Raiders.
That said: I cannot wait to see this D against some of the better teams on the sked, including Denver. I expect the offense to be better than it is now, but no more than middle of the pack. Of course it's possible that the names we now deride will hit some yet-unknown breakthrough and get much better... or that a healed thigh bruise will fix throwing mechanics and blah blah blah blah blah... I just see this as a 20-aerial TD team, and that's only because production increases.
This is not 2007. It's a somewhat exciting concept to me in some ways. This can be a ****-hot D; to some extent, necessity might be the mother of such defenses. If that's the case, we're starting to look like we have necessity in spades
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