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Get White more involved in the pass game.
What ever happened to "next man up" on this team?
I think the Gordon hope seems a bit desperate, as if we are leaning far too heavily on an earlier prowess.
In case you haven't noticed, at WR there's been no "next man" to come in to take tgts. Only Hollister for the one game.
Gordon has shown that he can run routes, get open and catch the ball in an Erhardt-Perkins offensive scheme. The Pats haven't had anyone else on the roster this season who can do that reliably since Britt, Matthews and Mitchell succumbed to injuries (the last two during Camp).
That's all Gordon needs to do to help the passing attack - provide another viable target. Even if he adds only 35-45 yards per game over the next 13 games, that's a major plus.
The next man up won’t work at the WR position because the first men up have not been good.
Gordon is very much a desperation trade borne out of bad decisions being made at the position in the offseason.
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Speaking of Hollister, anyone heard what his status is?
CB Xavien Howard is very underrated. Terrific young corner.
The bad decisions were relying on Dorsett to be the Cooks replacement even though there has been literally nothing at this point in his career to show that he was capable of that, signing Patterson at all since his route running is substandard let alone relying on him to replace Amendola’s production, and not seeing injury potentials from a mile away with Britt and Mitchell in spite of the fact that they both have very checkered injury histories going back to college. I mean a lot of us saw that prior to the season but the coaching staff didn’t? Come on now. They didn’t do enough at the position. They know this. The devil is in the details and those details were the amount of scrap heap, chuck-it-at-the-wall-and-see-if-it-sticks transactions at the position before the ultimate desperation move of bringing in Gordon. But they should have done more and the fact that they didn’t has cost them two games now. You can’t give BB the lion’s share of the credit when things are going well without giving him the lion’s share of the blame when they don’t. That’s not the way it works.I'd say it's because there haven't been enough of them.
The injuries to Britt and Matthews (Matthews in Camp) and the final failure of Mitchell to return to viable health (also in Camp) were the result of bad decisions? For that matter, Hill tearing and ACL in week-1, and Hollister being out in week-3 with a "chest injury" (?!) suffered in practice were the result of bad decisions?
Those five unforeseen injury situations left McD and Brady with only Gronk, 3 WR, White, Burkhead and Develin as even marginally-viable passing targets against the Lions. That's simply not enough bodies to put on the field to catch passes, much less "get creative" with the offense.
The bad decisions were relying on Dorsett to be the Cooks replacement even though there has been literally nothing at this point in his career to show that he was capable of that,
Yeah there is no question he did not have the pedigree of Cooks However "If" there was a JE and a Matthews and a Britt etc getting all the attention from the top CBs of the other team I bet Dorsett would have had a much easier time producing. He also would have been able to focus on his routes as right now he is having to run the whole route tree.
We'll see. Edelman coming back by itself (to make no mention of Gordon) will make life easier on all of the wideouts. I personally think Dorsett is a bust but he should have more room to operate with Edelman in the line-up. If he still doesn't produce, cut him loose in the offseason.