(03-27-2022, 06:10 PM)Mandeezee Wrote:

(03-27-2022, 01:50 PM)Upper Wrote: We don't need to give him the grace of an offseason to prepare for playing outside. He played primarily outside his first 3 seasons, and his numbers were very not good...traditional or advanced. I believe just over 11 routes per catch and a very subpar 1.1 yards per route run from the outside. Last year was his first year as a primary slot, and his routes per catch plummeted to 5 and a half while his yards per route jumped to a very good 1.8. We have over a thousand of snaps of evidence of both.

This makes perfect sense when you look at his traits. He is small, linearly decently fast, and among the least agile WRs in the game. That lines up very nicely with a guy who gets bullied by outside corners but can be effective as a field stretching slot where he can't get jammed and gets to face off vs smaller nickelbacks or less athletic LB/S.

If I'm not mistaken 2 of his 3 years he was wr3. He was playing with Fitzgerald and Hopkins.

He isn't small, he's not as tall as some others but he weighs 200 lbs. Thats more than Chark, Lamb, and some other outside receivers. Height doesnt help you get off the jam. Speed and strength does. If he wasn't agile he wouldn't have been good in the slot since that position takes more agility.

Fitz played the slot for the Cardinals late in his career not Kirk.

I said Kirk was a vertical slot. He's not a Welker or Edelman type. The first real prototype for the nearly full time vertical slot was Victor Cruz. Think along those lines and that's about the type of player Kirk is.

I don't know what the coaches are going to decide to do, but we saw how the Cardinals used him for four seasons and he was bad for the 3 where he was mostly outside and good for the 1 where he was mostly slot.

I agree the coaches very well may use him incorrectly.

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