I'm not going to keep arguing X's and O's with you
I wouldn’t either if I were you. That’s not a winning proposition since you already confused the X and Z receivers.
because at the end of the day all the WR's need position flexibility and can play anywhere.
That being said...
Watching these highlights it's evident from the fact Byrd had a slot receiver in between him and the QB roughly 80% of the time and played off the line of scrimmage,
You mean the highlights that all start after the snap? Christ. Go review the All-22. Having a slot receiver between him and the LoS doesn’t mean anything, so I’m not sure why you’re even going there. Byrd was often aligned away from the strength of the formation and on the LoS. Did he play off the line as well? Sure. But the majority of his snaps came as either the X or the Y.
he played flanker more often than not. Anyone can play anywhere obviously, but keeping your 180 pound speed WR's untouched from the jam is just smart football.
1) The Z can still get jammed. Aligned off the LoS doesn’t mean they get a free release.
2) Amendola, Dorsett, and Edelman also aligned at the X or Y. According to your logic here, lining them up there was dumb football.
3) Considering Harry’s inability to beat press with any sort of consistency, and coupling that with your logic above, why in God’s name would you want him as the X? Why did he struggle with beating press as the Z?
TE's have been a need for two years, you act like you're revealing the mystery of the pyramids. The team was also in cap hell last year so signing a gaggle of (expensive) free agents wasn't going to happen either way. They drafted two TE's last year instead because rookies are cheap, so upgrading the position was well known to both the team and fans alike.
Because the two they drafted didn’t show any immediate promise. If they had, there would have been no need to back the Brinks truck up a year later for the same position.
Drafted players or no they have an obscene amount of resources to spend this year by design... not because the money appeared out of the aether. The second most expensive player they signed was a defensive end, not a weapon.
Cool. They gave out a total of $77,500,000 of
guaranteed money to weapons - 2 TEs and 2 WRs. But keep acting like weapons weren’t a big need and Chatham’s take was a good one. The facts disagree.
They brought Byrd in last year as a free agent for peanuts, they brought Agholor in as a free agent this year to upgrade his position because they could afford it. Bourne... he's got paid a middling deal with a team out after year one... he's a middling talent so it makes sense. Edelman is gone, they need to provide depth. Every year they bring what... ten WR's to camp... you act like this is a declaration of something... there's 90 players here.
They brought in Agholor and Bourne when they already had Meyers and Harry. Meyers has played himself into a starting role this year. Harry has not. Harry was a first round pick. If Harry was producing or at least showing promise, there would be no need to sign two receivers to go along with two TEs. Harry sucks. That’s the common link.
When it's all whittled down to the final roster they'll keep 5-6 WR's. Harry just opened up a roster spot with his agent running his mouth. Otherwise the odds were the entire WR room was going to be made up of the same players that were here last year and Agholor.
Yeah, aside from three brand new faces in the WR room, it’s exactly like last year.
Even without Harry this is true. On the outside chance Tre Nixon is a revelation and knocks Bourne off the roster, it will be hilarious to watch your heads explode when the entire room is made up of homegrown talent.
Why would my head explode? I was very complimentary of Nixon in my review of him after he was drafted. I’d love it if he stuck. I’m guessing you’re forgetting Agholor, though, when you say that “the entire room is made up of homegrown talent,” though. Thats understandable. You’re contorting yourself into so many different pretzels here that I can see why you’re losing track.
I’m not sure why you think my head would explode over a WR room of mostly homegrown talent. I’ve been posting regularly on this forum for 15 years now and am probably close to 60,000 posts. You think that’s just a ruse or a cover because I secretly hate this team? That’s a Chatham-style hot take
Cam sucked last year, they ranked second to last in pass attempts... you blaming weapons for the worst starting QB in the NFL is a case of the tail wagging the dog.
Cam sucked and so did the receivers and TEs he had to throw to also sucked. Both things are true. That one is true does not mean the other is false and vice versa. If the weapons weren’t an issue, the guaranteed money would have went elsewhere
All the best QB's in the NFL can move the ball and pass with "average," we see it all the time, especially when the offensive line and RB's are exceptional.
Okay.
