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Originally Posted by Chris Meck
I would agree with you, except that it's painfully obvious that they're not even as good as they were down the stretch LAST year.
It's not the same. It's far, far worse. Historically bad.
Rice is going to be a good player, I think, but he's a raw rookie.
Everyone else is performing at a absolute shit-show level. Mistakes are not corrected. Routes don't get adjusted. They don't know what they're doing, they can't catchthe ball at an even average level.
It'd be one thing if we were rolling with a room full of low round picks and UDFA's, but there are THREE #2 picks and a #1 pick in that room. The fact that NONE are developing or performing at an even serviceable level (other than Rice, who I'd argue is just physically talented and shows it) has got to be on the coaching.
I think Nagy is not holding people accountable. Mistakes are not being corrected. I think Embree is in way over his head.
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I agree that coaching is part of the issue, but the players themselves should be holding themselves accountable, and they aren't, and they haven't.
And someone else said it, and i agree; I think what happened last season was that we got lucky with this group and 'caught lightning in a bottle.'
JJSS was good enough for the first half of the season and had a couple decent games in the 2nd half of the season.
Skyy had that one decent game vs. LAC, then went back to being invisible for the rest of the year.
Toney showed several flashes in a few games, but never put together a whole game.
MVS had his one decent game in the AFCCG. Not one other good performance all year, but on the biggest stage in the biggest moment, he came through that one time.
And everyone got twitterpated over those flashy moments, and just assumed that they'd improve on those outlier performances. Some of us questioned the "why" behind that assumption, considering that MVS, JWat, Skyy, and Toney never showed any kind of consistency with their previous teams, and that MVS/JWat were clearly limited in their capabilities throughout their careers.
Anyway, what's done is done. We're in the last quarter of the season; they are who they are. At this late date, coaching isn't going to fix it. And they apparently don't feel any strong obligation to take things into their own hands and do better.
Fwiw, I hope I'm 100% wrong about that last part. I've been hoping they'd prove me wrong all season. But after watching the A-22 of the DEN game and then the GB game, and saw them all repeating the same mistakes, having to be told by Pat, Travis and others where to line up, what the coverage was, etc., and they still messed up a ton of plays, I realized that these guys are just who they are.
I still hold a tiny bit of hope they'll get sorted out, but at this point I'll believe it when I see it.