Funchess getting pushed around still

[Car123]

Funchess reminds me more and more of Dwayne Jarrett with every passing game.

Dwayne Jarrett was on the inactive list most weeks in his rookie season.

[mav1234]

Jeremy knows how to generate thread replies. :p

Funchess is contributing.  Not as much as we'd like... but he's contributing.

We (or I think most of us) expected his development to take time.  He's not going to have a KB rookie year, but nobody expected him to.

[Pejorative Miscreant]

He has a lot of potential but still needs to work on a few things.  If KB had been healthy this year I somehow think he would have been further along. I am not disappointed as I think he will get better. 

[Matthias]

We need Michael Irvin to come in and have a few words with Funchess.  Remember this number...

 

 

[Bartin]

Whoa what happened in here. So much butt hurt, so little time. 

 

I was simply pointing out that Funchess is still struggling with one aspect of the game, something he has struggled with in camp. I didn't call him soft. I didn't say he was a bust. Just needs to learn to use his size to his advantage in certain situations here. 

 

So much dumb in this thread. Calm down. 

He was matched up with Browner all day who probably has the best jam at the line of any CB in the NFL which is why the Saints signed him. They want him to be physical at the line with all the big WRs in the division of which there are quite a few good ones.

[Proudiddy]

but if Bersin makes 1 catch on 1 target he is a "scrappy white guy"who's "a smart route runner and moves the chains" with his 13 receptions last year. 

Lol, not to me.   Dude is always one toe flexion from tripping over his own feet a la him falling down untouched on a key third down yesterday where he was the target. 

poo like that is why it boggles my mind that we don't AT THE VERY LEAST bring in WRs to workout, just to see what they have.  I mean, give someone else a chance to see if they're better than what we have, but we don't even make that effort.

[Mr. Scot]

Whoa what happened in here. So much butt hurt, so little time. 

I was simply pointing out that Funchess is still struggling with one aspect of the game, something he has struggled with in camp. I didn't call him soft. I didn't say he was a bust. Just needs to learn to use his size to his advantage in certain situations here. 

So much dumb in this thread. Calm down. 

It's been said before - and I think it's valid - that Kelvin Benjamin caused a lot of folks to have unrealistic expectations.

Funchess is actually developing pretty normally for a second round receiver. Some transition time is to be expected.

[CPantherKing]

A 30% receiving rate is not developing normally for a rookie.

2015 Draft Class > Funchess ranks 18th of 20 rookie receivers who have been targeted at least 1 time. We will see how this progresses through the season, but he is on pace to be among the worst of the rookie WRs.

Rookie WRs over the past decade > Funchess ranks 191st of 195 rookie receivers with 10+ targets in their rookie season.

Let's hope for a dramatic turn around.

[TheNewStandard]

On that last drive,  pushed out of the back of the end zone by a smaller corner.  Refs hat came down. 

 

In case you are wondering why he isn't getting more looks. 

apparently he's "too young," to garner holding calls for illegal contact downfield. 

Im so sick of this double-standard that the MFL refs are showing to bigger market teams and their players. 

Ive said it time and time again, Carolina is not a "small market." I don't care how you slice it. This fan base covers two states with good-sized cities...including the 17th largest city (population-wise,) in the USA.

heck, Raleigh alone has as more residents than Pittsburgh, and New Orleans (last-time I checked demographics.)

Now I know there are a lot of transplants here, but our stadium always sells-out and the Franchise is ranked #19 in revenue by Forbes.

Sick of having the Panthers Organization as "small market."

[Keith Moons Liver]

He played smaller than his size would suggest in college as well. I'm not sure why anyone is surprised. 

[Mr. Scot]

A 30% receiving rate is not developing normally for a rookie.

2015 Draft Class > Funchess ranks 18th of 20 rookie receivers who have been targeted at least 1 time. We will see how this progresses through the season, but he is on pace to be among the worst of the rookie WRs.

Rookie WRs over the past decade > Funchess ranks 191st of 195 rookie receivers with 10+ targets in their rookie season.

Let's hope for a dramatic turn around.

Yeah, in the category you chose to rank them by.

Check the others.