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A Funchess Reminder


Jeremy Igo

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Last year Funchess was about as green as a NFL rookie can be. Not much football experience under his belt.

We saw him grow from week to week and by the end of the season he was a solid piece of the puzzle.

Fast forward to September when he has a full season, post season, another entire offseason under his belt.

Thia year,I suspect Devin will be as big of a receiving threat as KB was his rookie year.

 

That is all.

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He was green coming in and he missed a lot of invaluable reps in camp with hamstring issues.  

Expecting a breakout year for Funchess.  

Could be Cam's year if the WR group lives up to potential and avoids injury.  

Hopefully with the big WR tandem Shula will install a few more quick hitters to alleviate some of the QB pressure.

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I like Funchess, but we have a lot of WR that are the same size, speed and skill set.  We needed a true route runner with speed--i.e.. Shepard.  We needed DLine help and CB/S help and we got it.  But we totally ignored the fact that Denver bottled up our WR and they got no separation, hence exposing our second weakness--the Oline.  We did not address either.  Ginn is gone after this year and we have no replacement.

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22 minutes ago, OneBadCat said:

Yup. And I don't get why everyone is so quick to get rid of Philly. That sumbitch is slowly becoming a pretty good WR.

 

25 minutes ago, chknwing said:

takes a little while to get use to those missiles Cam throws.

And Philly figured out how to beat the dropsies between preseason and regular season. 

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24 minutes ago, top dawg said:

The competition between receivers should be interesting.  I hope that our coaches allow evolution to take its course and don't come in with preconceived notions. 

YUP, counting the 2 UDFAs we'll be signing, we have  11 WRs on the roster:

Benjamin, Kelvin
Bersin, Brenton
Brown, Philly
Byrd, Damiere
Funchess, Devin
Ginn, Jr., Ted
Hamilton, Cobi
Hill, Stephen

Norwood, Kevin

Garrett, Keyarris
Stoshak, Jenson
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34 minutes ago, OneBadCat said:

Yup. And I don't get why everyone is so quick to get rid of Philly. That sumbitch is slowly becoming a pretty good WR.

it is of my opinion that our will was broken in SB50 when Philly was thrown out of the game. He was our only movable piece on offense and he excels at that roll.

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