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I was wrong about this group of WR.
Watson, Moore, MVS, Hardman, and Toney all have NFL ability in terms of their packages of speed, agility, and size. We’ve seen rare, isolated and sometimes unexpected moments of brilliance from all of them.
Collectively, their hands are well below NFL standards. And worst of all, the drops come in bunches.
But worst of all, they are football dumb. I’ve seen so many bad routes, miscommunications with Mahomes, not being able to track the ball, stopping their routes when they have beat their opponent, and losing concentration at critical moments. It just makes you shake your head. All of these contribute to the drops. But in many cases they just lack fundamental understanding about how to find open spaces, how to leverage physical talent to gain advantages over your opponent, how to help the QB, and where the ball is going to go. Football smarts and concentration to make catches are all learnable skills. They were all young enough to develop or had enough NFL success to expect more. But collectively they are colossally failing and not improving. WR by committee can work, but no one in this group seems to want to step up.
I hold hope for Rice, but he isn’t ready to take over games.
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