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Originally Posted by Chris Meck
Here's the thing (or where I'm at, at least)-
The front office and coaching staff are in constant communication always.
Veach surely was all off-season.
The front office AND coaching staff therefore felt good about assuming that everyone would take reasonable steps forward year two in the system. They added a #2 pick (Rice) to a #2 pick (Moore), a '21 #1 pick (Toney) to have 3 young guys with upside. Returned two vets (MVS and Watson) as well as bringing in a WR with nice production in a similar system in Ritchie.
Set aside your personal feelings about this decision for a minute and consider this-
EVERY SINGLE RETURNING WR HAS REGRESSED TO THE POINT OF BEING ALMOST UNPLAYABLE. I mean, an ENTIRE POSITION GROUP.
I mean, what?
How is that even possible? They got WORSE, all of them.
And the front office and staff stood pat, saying they had confidence they'd get it together.
I have a lot of faith in Veach and Andy...but it's clearly not happening, and the only guy that you can count on to make plays is the rookie, Rice.
EVERYONE ELSE GOT SIGNIFICANTLY WORSE.
It has to be the changes in the coaching staff. I mean, doesn't it? EB rubbed some people the wrong way, but as sloppy as everything has been this season, does Nagy bear some scrutiny? Is he not as detail oriented? Beyond just the regression of the entire WR room, the rest of the offense has been penalty prone and sloppy as well. And the first year WR coach? How do you STILL not have guys running the right routes? Even the veterans?
I counseled patience all season long, but we're running out of runway here, and not seeing any consistency from anyone but the rookie. That makes no sense at all.
Long Juju Silver cannot have been THAT responsible for the difference between the #1 offense by almost every measure and....this. Juju, who can barely even get snaps on a shitty NE team.
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Moore is the same player he was last year except now hes on the field a lot more. He was a nobody last year now he’s a nobody running routes where he is supposed to be contesting jump balls down the field?!
That’s worse because he’s playing.
MVS is the same player he always was.
Toney is injured and not playing just like last year.
As for JuJu just take the L. Using what he does without Mahomes after his knees got worse doesn’t compute.
He was our number one WR and he wasn’t replaced with a similar player.
Rice is a better athlete but he isn’t being used the same way.
And last years group wasn’t good either. The goal should not be to try to tread water but to get better.