Football is not just x’s and o’s. We lost against the bengals bc mahomes lost his cool. He needs guys around him that make him feel confident and comfortable. There were plenty of wrs running around open in the second half of the bengals game. Getting open isn’t the only issue. MVS dropping balls is not that guy that keeps PM cool. Anticipate more than x’s and o’s. Anticipate pressure and frustration with mvs drops. Lack of trust develops. PM starts getting in his own head and over thinking. Sammy is the cheapest guy that checks the boxes. If he misses time, so be it. When sammy’s healthy PMs is better with Sammy on the field. If Sammy is hurt, next man up. It gives an opportunity for fountain or Gordon, maybe even Powell. As long as Sammy is healthy for the playoffs…
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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
From what I can see, he has 13 career drops over 247 targets. So 5% of his targets are drops over his career (he had zero in 55 targets last year, FYI).
Shit, double it, I don't care. Give him 6 drops in 60 targets and give some rando possession WR 1 drop in 80. Doesn't matter if the latter is not forcing hard decisions or doing damage when he brings the ball in.
Moreover, over an equalized sample size the difference between 'bad hands' MVS and 'elite possession WR' Jarvis Landry is, what, 5 catches over the course of a season? Call it 8 if you want - fine. That's a drop every other game that MVS has that Landry wouldn't.
Meanwhile every time he catches it he goes for more yards than Landry would. And every time he runs a route he puts a hell of a lot more pressure on the secondary.
We do NOT need a possession WR. And the fact that possession WRs are getting murdered on the market right now demonstrates that teams know this.
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