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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Correct.
The idea was that Toney would be roughly what he was last season (though he hasn't been) while some combination of Moore/Rice would make up for what we lost in JuJu.
Then we figured James could provide what Hardman provided.
Oddly, they tried to use Toney to replace Hardman and Rice/Moore have definitely replaced JJSS.
No, nothing changed in the thought process - simply in the execution. And with Hardman back to be Hardman, we're actually EXACTLY where many people expected us to be.
there's nothing revisionist or hindsight about it. The point was always that the strength of last years WR corps was overstated. The value of JJSS was WILDLY overblown and the rest could be carried over.
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But you’re acknowledging it. Toney was elevated to a role he shouldn’t have been, skyy was depended on to carry most of the weight of the juju target share. The initial rotation didn’t work and a lot of people thought it would be solid until the long period to where rice was ready. These were misreads.
Playing the rookie up to 50% wasn’t expected and is very uncharacteristic of Reid. And we made a move for a guy we cut which indicates that veach didn’t think our current unit was good enough. How can you say anyone either of those 2 scenarios were expected this early? Because they are easily the 2 biggest things holding our pass offense up to the bare minimum standard of what we think they should be capable of.