(08-23-2019, 10:57 AM)Firesky Wrote: Firesky's musings from the "Dress Rehearsal":

1) Josh Allen looks like a generational talent and the front runner for DROY; I hope they employ more of those 3-4 looks to get him on the field with Yan and Calais.
2) Our Defense is good enough to carry us to the playoffs regardless of how the Offense plays.
3) Fournette looks primed for a big year;  Rock Armstead needs to be more patient, we need Blue back for depth at that spot and we need to add a pass catching RB off waivers
4) Taven Bryan is still raw but showed some good things despite the boneheaded penalty; he'll be a solid rotational guy at the 3-tech but should not be starting.
5) Our passing game will be the Dede Westbrook show, we also desperately miss Marqise Lee
6) Foles is the real deal, i could care less about the pick since they put in a lot of 2nd unit guys after the TD drive.
7) Wester needs to be cut TODAY; he's god awful
8) Minshew is a lock for the backup job and i feel comfortable with that
9) Ronnie Harrison is a star at the safety spot and i'm more confident with him, Wilson and Reavis than I was with Church and Gipson last year.
10) We need to make a trade for a TE or an additional WR ... they need to add an additional playmaker if we're going to get serious about winning this year
11) Did I mention that our Defense looks terrifying??
12) Keep Terrelle Pryor over Keelan Cole if we don't go with 6 WR's
13) Our Offense hasn't been unveiled yet ... it seemed like they ran the same basic play concepts over and over and are trying to avoid tipping their hand
14) Foles is really good at the RPO, there was one big run by Fournette where he was like 6 yards upfield and I still thought Foles had the ball
15) I don't think I can mention enough just how impressed I was by the Defense including their 2nd unit

"12) Keep Terrelle Pryor over Keelan Cole if we don't go with 6 WR's."    Agree with this (huge Pryor fan) but a larger issue might be what about Cole vs names like McBride and CJ Board.
I think they keep 6 WRs,  maybe even 7 if that works at all.   There are Jaguar receivers who are all assumed to be good,  be improving,  be unquestioned core members of the WR group,  players like Conley, Chark and Cole.   And these guys might all be great, maybe.  But in this preseason,  they really haven't played much, and they really haven't performed all that well on the field.   Cole was targeted once, penalty removed that play,  Conley had a big pass interference,  Chark wasn't targeted.  In the first 2 preseason games,  Cole and Chark got targets, and in games 1 and 2,  they combined for 2 catches, 9 targets, 7 passing yards.    So, you've got those 3 players who are all presumed to be good, but don't really look that good.

And then you have 2 other guys,   Tre McBride and CJ Board.   Both McBride and Board have been playing all along, and if you look at their stats,  it looks like they're doing pretty well.  And both of those 2 guys are top 10% sparq guys. 

Board
week 3   4/5  56
week 2   5/6  54
week 1   1/2   5
total 10/13 115

McBride
week 3   3/6  31
week 2   4/5  47
week 1  3/5 42
total  10/16  120

Those numbers look pretty good.  Is there going to be any consideration of keeping Board and/or McBride instead of Cole?

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