(12-04-2021, 01:07 PM)Khan Artist Wrote:

(12-04-2021, 11:54 AM)NYC4jags Wrote: Just imagine if Bevell had been wise enough to see :

• He had the most perfect security blanket for Lawrence in James Robinson and let him carry the load
  
• Laviska Shenault is a weapon to be used more like a Ty Montgomery hybrid than a slot or (gulp) now an X receiver. 
  
• Knew he'd have trouble at both tackle spots and prepped Little for work at RT
  
• Asking a rookie QB to throw more vertical routes and fewer high completion % throws than nearly every QB in the league is a recipe for disaster
  
• His line blocks better than it protects
  
• Spelling Robinson for Hyde on critical downs is not a "fresh legs" upgrade, it's a talent sacrifice
  
• His receivers and QB haven't been on the same page since week one route-wise - and it isn't getting better
  
• He never had anything at TE all offseason and he needed to get creative there - keeping Collin Johnson would have been wise in the redone / F-routes dept. 
  
• and on and on and on...
  

I think Meyer definitely shoulders some blame here too.  After all, he's in charge of roster management.

For sure

It seems pretty clear the discussion, analysis, and alignment of scheme-fit prior to acquiring players was haphazard at best.
Meyer should have been working in concert with Baalke/Bevell/Cullen there but instead - they seemingly phoned it in.

I mean, when you inherit a roster with a James Robinson on it and neither the HC nor OC seem to have the faintest clue of his worth, you know good and well personnel-related things were handled poorly from the get-go.

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