(09-19-2023, 10:43 AM)JagFanatic24 Wrote:

(09-19-2023, 10:37 AM)cat bells Wrote: The young man is just starting out, he'll have growing pains ... No judgement here beyond gently suggesting if we're taking a short yardage back in the early rounds of the draft and can't find a use for him on 1st and 1 ... Well ... We're back to overthrowing the qb sneak again!

So you think a 4th is worth it ?

Apologies you've lost me slightly... 4th? (I've also just noticed a typo in my original post, should have read overthinking instead of overthrowing which I have corrected)

I wouldn't trade him for a fourth round pick currently no if that's the question! 

Neither would i have probably picked a power back in the third ... But given my lack of college knowledge that's neither here nor there! 

I think Bigsby probably needs to be given a little time to acclimate and find his range and hopefully week on week he can do that and come good for us. 

At the same time ... For me there are clearly some basic situations in which a player has to either do the job he's been brought in for ... Or in this specific situation given the opportunity to do the job he was brought in for. We've expended a reasonable amount of draft capital recently at running back (and in addition, whilst I'd rather Lawrence doesn't take unnecessary shots willy-nilly we do have a fairly mobile, decently sized quarterback which offers additional options) ... And yet we seems to have what amounts to an occasional recurring problem at short yardage situations! 

We've had the two week debate about whether Lawrence can operate a qb sneak, Connor seems to be yesterday's man already, (understandably) it's clear they'd rather limit the amount of heavy contact ettiene takes, Bigsby was brought in presumably to add ballast in 1at and 1 situations ... So ... Circling back to my original point ...

Not being in the huddle it's impossible to know what calls are sent out there, how a player is physically or any of the other intangibles that affect a game ... But it appears from the bleachers at least that we have a tendency of overthinking, outsmarting ourselves or taking the difficult option when the simple will do, (call it what you will) at particualar moments in games!

There's a place for that, Pedersons won a sb doing it ... But there's also a place for saying 'we brought Bigbsy in to crash over from 1 yards out, so go and do it Tank' ... My original point was less about Bigsby's ultimate ability and more a commentary on the decision not to use him in the position for which we ultimately hand picked him.

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