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WR Drops
We’ve been spoiled by ARSB to this point in his career, but he’s tied at 6th with 5 drops this year (Jeudy and Brian Thomas lead with 9). Jamo is tied for 12th at 4 drops. With the high leverage situations where ARSB often gets the ball, his drops have definitely stopped drives for us this year. Both had drops against Washington.
Could just be random, could be a symptom of the offense being just a little off in the first half of the season, could be just a little less sharpness for a team that has played a lot of high level football for a long period of time.
For the final 8, would love to see these two, at least cut those drops in half as we have big games for playoff seeding on the horizon.
I think a lot of the St Brown drops are due to how heavily contested his catches have been this season. We know Saint has great hands, but a lot of his catches are him leaking out, running a great 1-1 route that he can break off and get open on. This year, we were more predictable and teams are bracketing St Brown much more effectively. It’s one of the things I am thinking we see improve now that Danny C is calling plays. Against Washington, we finally saw a return of guys running wide open on leakout plays. The more other teams can’t lock specifically into plays or players, the more guys like Saint and LaPorta are going to get those 1-1 coverages they can exploit.
I think the most glaring examples of issues with the offense were against master DC’s Steve Spagnolo from the Chiefs, and Brian Flores from the Vikings. In both of those games, instead of the offense attacking the defense, they took plays away from the offense and instead of Morton dictating the game, they were. This game we have Philly with master DC Vic Fangio. I am very curious to see how Dan goes about calling plays and playing chess against a defensive wizard.