Originally Posted by RunKC (Post 17146186)

They're literally force feeding him. Guy has 52 targets. He's on pace to shatter the record for most targets in a season

Originally Posted by Chief Pagan (Post 17146098)

So I played Basketball as a kid, not football.

My serious question:

Why do so many NFL players seem to have problems with uncontested drops that stabilize after a couple of years.

Originally Posted by Pitt Gorilla (Post 17146157)

It's crazy how good Puka has been.

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut (Post 17146201)

Draft traits - hope you get lucky.

Rice has 'em. Moore don't.

One's a good pick in the 2nd round; the other probably should've gone late 3rd, early 4th.

Win some, lose some.

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut (Post 17145732)

Which would obviously beg the question - why is Rice seemingly behind Moore and Watson as the guy in a timeshare with Toney while those two are getting significantly more snaps despite being clearly less productive?

Watson I understand because the big-play potential and reliability. Frustrating as it is, he's oftentimes been our most critical WR to this point.

But Moore? In what world should Rice be behind Moore on the depth chart. Because that's clearly how he's being used at the moment - a backup Z rather than a starting X.

While Moore is getting an unchallenged starter's snap share.

That's just...wrong, IMO.

Originally Posted by Mecca (Post 17146206)

Moore is a guy who is supposed to have a feel for the game and so far he does not.

Originally Posted by Chris Meck (Post 17146208)

Year two in the offense is why.

Now, I agree that Moore isn't showing anything, and doesn't seem to be on the same page as Mahomes, so perhaps it's time to put more on Rice's plate. I'm sure that's going to be happening unless the lightbulb goes on for Moore really quickly.

And then maybe we some more of Ross, too.

But I understand wanting to give the high investment guys all of the rope.

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut (Post 17146212)

'Feel for the game' is like saying "Bryce Young has excellent poise".

It's what you say when someone doesn't have the necessary talent to justify the capital you spent acquiring them.

Remember when Patrick Mahomes problem was that he didn't understand how to run a pro style offense and his gunslinger style would create problems because he lacked a feel for how a pro offense would work?

It's dumb.

Originally Posted by Chris Meck (Post 17146208)

Year two in the offense is why.

Now, I agree that Moore isn't showing anything, and doesn't seem to be on the same page as Mahomes, so perhaps it's time to put more on Rice's plate. I'm sure that's going to be happening unless the lightbulb goes on for Moore really quickly.

And then maybe we some more of Ross, too.

But I understand wanting to give the high investment guys all of the rope.

Originally Posted by Megatron96 (Post 17146161)

Not to burst anyone’s bubble, bland I like what we’re seeing from Rice in his limited snaps so far, but he’s struggling against man. Went 0-fer vs. man coverage last night.

Originally Posted by Mecca (Post 17146219)

And that is fair too, I've never truly understood teams who avoid the major talents because "oh he's a jerk"

Originally Posted by Mecca (Post 17146116)

It's a mix bag.

Flowers is getting a ton of snaps. He's basically the second option in the pass game behind Andrews.

JSN is being worked in pretty slowly but he missed part of camp with injury and he has 2 high level WRs in front of him and a HC that wants to run the ball, with 2 highly drafted RBs.

QJ so far is an absolute dud, even without Williams his snap count isn't great and Palmer is getting a lot more targets.

Addison you can see the route running and explosion and the highlight plays he's making. Osbourne is ahead of him for now..I doubt that lasts much longer.

But as we move down, Tank Dell is getting starter snaps and it seems he and Nico Collins are taking turns on who will have the big game each week.

Mingo is getting starter snaps but he's been a dud...not sure how much is him and how much is the Carolina offense being a turd.

Jayden Reed is seeing a pretty solid role in GB as the slot guy and he has a good number of snaps and targets.

Marvin Mims is basically doing exactly what Rice is doing in that he's being slowly worked into the system, he has hit a few HR plays in that process.

Jalin Hyatt and Cedric Tillman seem to be MIA in being in bad offenses.

Josh Downs, basically echo the Reed comment, he's the starting slot and has a solid role.

Michael Wilson now this one is interesting, he's a starter, albeit on a pretty bad team but he has had solid production so far.

That's the first 3 rounds after that the guys are doing about what you'd expect of Day 3 WRs, some snaps here and there, specials etc. Unless you're Puka Nacua.

Originally Posted by dlphg9 (Post 17146224)

I think he's 0-5 vs man is what I saw in a thread. I don't really think the sample size is enough to say anything at all. It damn sure ain't enough to burst my bubble about his potential. Keep trying though, bud, I'm sure you'll get something to turn us all doom and gloom soon!

Originally Posted by O.city (Post 17146214)

I....actually think the best guys in the league now are going the other way with it.

Sunk cost fallacy and all.

Originally Posted by Detoxing (Post 17146229)

To keep things in perspective, this was also touted as a "bad" or "less than" WR draft class. Even the guys who went in the 1st were fringe 1st/2nd rounders.