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Legette is killing us

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Khyber53 Grand Master

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He's going to be excellent. As will this team. 

Just not this year. 

The crappy record we post this time will be the manure pile that grows us something great.

I think we can all see the growth happening here. Coach is doing a good job, players on a very young team are growing up and we're standing toe to toe with the teams we will have to beat to be good.

XL will have some very good games over the next few weeks, and I think he'll have many, many over his career here.

I'm really, really looking forward to those post game interviews with him.

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XL has four drops on the year. A lot of you guys are calling just about any pass that is in arms reach that isn’t caught a drop. Yesterday wasn’t a “drop”, it was a difficult pass that wasn’t reeled in. By the standard XL is being held to, a lot of veteran WRs would have astronomical drop rates. XL’s is 6.8%, not great but not horrible by any stretch. In college his drop rate was 4.8%. McConkey’s was 6.3% fwiw. 

 

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9 hours ago, FuFuLamePoo said:

We could have had Ladd McConkey who is going to finish with over 1,200 receiving yards.

Are you going to second guess every pick? That is something every fan can do every year, and some just refuse to take situation into account.

It's year one, and it takes time to adjust. He's no worse than many other rookies, and better than some. Could he have caught the pass somewhat thrown behind him yesterday? Maybe. But it was hardly a drop. 

Stop nitpicking and look forward to his gradual improvement over the next couple of seasons.

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The comparisons between Legette and McConkey need to take place around Year 3 IMO.  McConkey was always going to have a wayyy easier transition to the NFL since route running is his strength, whereas Legette is more raw but with a prototypical NFL X receiver build.  I would guess McConkey, even as a rookie, is already close to his ceiling.  Legette hasn't even scratched the surface of his potential...we just need to see if he can get there.

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1 hour ago, JawnyBlaze said:

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XL has four drops on the year. A lot of you guys are calling just about any pass that is in arms reach that isn’t caught a drop. Yesterday wasn’t a “drop”, it was a difficult pass that wasn’t reeled in. By the standard XL is being held to, a lot of veteran WRs would have astronomical drop rates. XL’s is 6.8%, not great but not horrible by any stretch. In college his drop rate was 4.8%. McConkey’s was 6.3% fwiw. 

 

He is letting passes hit him in the head instead of going out and catching them...

I'm not going to claim he's a bust or to get rid of him (he's a rookie playing pretty well tbh), but he's missed quite a few catchable balls. 

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9 hours ago, flagfootballcoach28 said:

No one is allowed to criticize XL unless you want serious clap back. He’s just one of those players that is immune to criticism on this board. But sorry that I don’t expect week in and week out drops, body catching, jumping for every ball when you don’t have to, horrible spatial awareness from a 1st round WR. He has so much to work on that it’s insane these issues didn’t drop him to atleast the 3rd round during the evaluation process. To make matters worse, the best RB today was a 4th round RB we could’ve waited later for and gotten someone like Cooper DeJean who filled a need in the 2nd who a lot of posters were pounding the table for including me. 

Yes how dare Brooks not break the single game all time rushing record in his first game in the NFL and back from a serious knee injury. Dammit, cut him!

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5 minutes ago, Ricky Prickles said:

Yes how dare Brooks not break the single game all time rushing record in his first game in the NFL and back from a serious knee injury. Dammit, cut him!

Honestly, wasn’t real impressed with Brooks yesterday at the game. Bucky looked way better, unfortunately. I thought Brooks was quicker and more elusive and would be a compliment to Chuba but he looked more like a Chuba clone. Maybe he’s rusty but he was not elusive at all. One run at David and he didn’t have any wiggle just tried to run through him and well, didn’t.

We needed Legette, so I hope he improves but man, unless Brooks is really rusty, he’s going to be our big regret, especially with Frazier available to fill our C opening with a potential pro bowler.

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1 hour ago, JawnyBlaze said:

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XL has four drops on the year. A lot of you guys are calling just about any pass that is in arms reach that isn’t caught a drop. Yesterday wasn’t a “drop”, it was a difficult pass that wasn’t reeled in. By the standard XL is being held to, a lot of veteran WRs would have astronomical drop rates. XL’s is 6.8%, not great but not horrible by any stretch. In college his drop rate was 4.8%. McConkey’s was 6.3% fwiw. 

 

Yeah to be fair, the "drop" stat has never been a really great indicator.  He's had a drop in almost every game this year, multiple in some, and often important ones.  I think he's going to get better for sure but this stat is not a good indication of anything.   I don't think we are set at WR and probably should look to a draft another true #1 that will be a bit more dependable just in case this is the ceiling. 

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1 hour ago, WhoKnows said:

Honestly, wasn’t real impressed with Brooks yesterday at the game. Bucky looked way better, unfortunately. I thought Brooks was quicker and more elusive and would be a compliment to Chuba but he looked more like a Chuba clone. Maybe he’s rusty but he was not elusive at all. One run at David and he didn’t have any wiggle just tried to run through him and well, didn’t.

Yeah and after seeing how big those Texas linemen looked vs A&M on Saturday night, I'm not really sure what they were thinking with a 2nd round pick.  Just his first impression, but he did not jump off the page.

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