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Originally Posted by staylor26
How exactly are Renfrow, Williams, and a top 5ish TE in Waller “zero weapons”?
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Everything is relative.
How many teams in the NFL would rather have the Raiders top 3 pass-catchers than who they have? 5? Can't be more than 10, can it?
Dude has well below average weapons to work with - but frankly it just doesn't matter.
Again, using the "Derek Carr is Alex Smith" theory - Alex Smith's weapons simply never mattered, at least not until he had a truly top 5 unit. Alex Smith was exactly as productive when he had the 25th ranked set of weapons in the league as he was when he had the 10th ranked set of weapons in the league.
Dude was simply a metronome. He was 'Even Steven'. Regardless of what he had, he played roughly the same. And that was actually a good thing when his weapons were dog-ass (just as may be the case with the Raiders in previous seasons) but when they actually had weapons they could win something meaningful with, he was out of his element.
Give Derek Carr anything other than one of the absolutely premier set of weapons on the NFL, and he'll just be average as hell. Good, bad, whatever - he's gonna be average. Give him a truly exceptional set of weapons and he might manage to be 2018 Alex Smith.
And then we all know how that works in the playoffs.
**** if I care about Derek Carr. He's just completely irrelevant.