(09-25-2020, 12:06 PM)Charlie Sheen Wrote:

(09-25-2020, 10:51 AM)JagFanFirst Wrote: Losing Chark hurt. Minshew loves the deep ball. It's what he's best at.

What?

His deep ball accuracy and arm strength is pretty mediocre.

Last year his deep ball was good and I believe I saw a stat saying that in last week's game like half of his passes were 10+yards. His deep ball is fine and while he may not have the strongest arm he is usually accurate and has good touch on his throws. 

(09-25-2020, 12:30 PM)Kane Wrote:

(09-25-2020, 12:08 PM)homebiscuit Wrote: I'm not comfortable with a QB who is so dependent on one WR that he is unable to utilize the others when #1 is down.

He's been spreading the ball around a lot though. He isn't so dependent on one WR. But to act like defenses don't pull coverages to Chark to open things up for other guys is naive. Also, Conley dropping a couple easy balls were drive killers.

Minshew wasn't perfect last night but he wasn't terrible either considering their pass rush got at him on like 15 drop backs (4 sacks and a ton of pressures) Linder being out hurt and Cam being (wrongfully) ejected made it worse.

It's one game. A bad one, but only one bad game from the offense, on a Thursday night short week...
I'm going to hold off on calling Minshew bad or looking toward the draft already.

Yeah, they were doing a good job of spreading the ball around especially in the first two games
 To the point to where I saw people with fantasy teams say Gardner wasn't targeting DJ enough.

While I have liked what Jay has done overall, I do hold him a bit accountable for.not doing more with the offensive.weapons last night. I definitely think the ball was given too much to Conley. And players like Laviska Shenault should have been utilitzed more. Laviska has created opportunties/distractions for the offense this years when teams were drawn to him. 

And it opened up plays for Gardner/other offensive players. He should have been used more especially with DJ being out.

And James Robinson could have been used more too, especially since he was the only person that was really effective last night.
 
All of that being said DJ is very valuable to this team. He really is a good deep threat for them. I hope he gets healthy and comes back sooner than later. I did see a Twitter post saying they were being cautious with him on a short week, but that he would probably be back for the Bengals. I hope so.

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