(11-20-2023, 11:49 AM)Cleatwood Wrote: https://twitter.com/JoshNorris/status/17...82572?s=20

Little Ridley thread here.

The whole "they are using Ridley wrong" thing is kinda off-base in my opinion. 

The team had no X receiver prior to the acquisition. 
So naturally, they tried to give hime some standard X receiver boundary routes now that they have a guy capable. 
Why wouldn't they do that? 
Because he played Z behind Julio in Atlanta most of his time there? No. 
That would be silly.
He has tape that shows him beating press coverage and getting open down the sideline. And we needed that. 
Everybody here was begging for it, right? "We don't have a number one!!" was a mantra around here. 

Anyway - I thumbed though those next gen charts. Looks like there was only one week they used him on the sidelines too much. There were others dislpaying some of the same routes seen in that chart. 

The biggest difference in yesterday's performance for Ridley was Trevor having time to wait on him during 2 or 3 snaps + the poor secondary he faced. Zay Jones keeping things honest probably helped keep him from being doubled on a few plays too.

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