(12-28-2023, 01:42 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: When I watch the all-22 from before the bye week - it seems rather obvious how they "wanted" to use him.

He's in on 30-40% of the offensive snaps.
He is a blocker only on probably 70% of those snaps and they let him run a few routes.
He didn't receive a single target in many of those games because he was never an early read in those plays. Finally in week 6 - they called his number a couple of times where he was either the primary or second read.

I'm assuming something happened in that game or the next week of practice because they cut his snaps after that for a couple of weeks. I'd wager a whiffed block or two forced a change in strategy.

I don't think they ever had intent of throwing to the kid more than 2 or 3 times in a game and folks are just assuming otherwise because they unwisely selected him so early.

I hope he develops and can turn into that solid inline blocker who leaks out for a pass a few times each week.
But I don't expect more than that - and I doubt they intended more than that.

"What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky. The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing; Rush in and die, dogs - I was a man before I was a king."