(03-01-2024, 02:47 PM)flgatorsandjags Wrote:

(03-01-2024, 02:27 PM)Cleatwood Wrote: Sigh. Some people just aren't very bright.

LaPorta is good on the Lions and is TE1 as well as option #2. Fact.

LaPorta in an offense that already had Ridley, Kirk, Zay (I don't even like Zay) and Engram (solidified TE1)? Still good but wouldn't have seen the field as much because he would be TE2. Therefore his production wouldn't have looked like it did in Detroit. He would have never even sniffed 120 targets in Jacksonville. That's the point.

It's clear you arent very bright lol.  That would just open it up more for LaPorta being the opposing defenses can't just focus on LaPorta and St Brown. It wouldn't make him less dangerous it, it would benefit his game more if he had better weapons around him to where the defenses would have to concentrate on more than what he had in Det.  LaPorta was option number 1 at times last year and St Brown is better than any WR we have, LaPorta was just that good

  Just like if we drafted Bowers this year he could make this offense deadly if we can fix the oline as well and he would likely have a Pro Bowl type season.  With that said, Lions have Jameson Williams, a top 12 draft pick, and Josh Reynolds who is a decent WR.  La Porta would of absolutely got his touches if he was a Jag last year, this offense was missing and needed another weapon on offense especially when Kirk went down.

I think it's fair. Detroit clearly has a more established offensive line though. That's their strongest group on their football team and their investments have paid off over the years. 

I think if you look at Engram's production in this offense, yeah, it's possible a 2nd athlete of LaPorta's caliber would have garnered more options, looks and production on this offense.

Especially after the WR room began dropping like flies. We lost Agnew and Jones off and on throughout the year. We lost Kirk and we really only had Ridley as the guy fortunate enough to make it a full season. 

That's the problem I had down the stretch. It was because we COULDN'T rely on our 61st and 88th overall picks to pick-up any slack at all on offense. Bigsby was way over hyped as well. Even the local guys wouldn't shut the [BLEEP] up about him. 

It was nauseating. At any rate. Strange and Bigsby have the fortunate 2nd and 3rd round values on them so they'll get at least two, three years to prove Baalke was right. Hopefully they start returning dividends in 2024. Maybe we'll see a Travon Walker / Devin Lloyd type of jump out of them as year two players offensively.

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