Legette is horrendous

[TD alt]

1 minute ago, Mage said:

I mean you can't compare him to RBs.  Among WRs he's 11th on that list and guys like Nabers and Lamb get way more targets than Legette, so it makes sense they would rank high in drops.  Drop % is a better number to look at for that reason.

Yeah I noticed that after posting.

[Bear Hands]

3 minutes ago, Mage said:

Yes, among qualified WRs.  Going into the game he was 14th among WRs with 100 snaps.  2 or 3 drops today, whatever the PFF officially marks him for, will likely push him into the top 10 if not top 5.  And the WRs ahead of him are mostly scrubs.

To confirm on PFF premium stats - he is now a 29.6 drop grade, only behind Darius Slayton and Dontaryon Wicks league wide for receievers over 20 targets on the season.  

[Mage]

I really don't understand how people can watch Legette and not think his hands aren't a MASSIVE concern for his long-term future.  I understand he is a rookie, but that is a big deal.  Having good hands is not something you should need to be working on achieving in the NFL if you are a WR.

And this isn't the 1950s.  The transition from college to NFL at the WR position has to be among the easiest alongside RB and LB.  And again, Legette will be 24 next year and spent 5 years in college.  Do people really think he's suddenly going to get his hands to the point where he can be a #1?  

[electro's horse]

3 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Player of the Game. That man saved us from shooting ourselves in the dick and costing ourselves draft position.

Just thinking the burner WR we’re going to draft that Bryce doesn’t have the arm to throw to

[SCO96]

3 minutes ago, hepcat said:

He will get better if he wants it. He was a raw prospect. He’s still a rookie in the NFL. Like I said earlier if he was in year 3 and playing like he is now, cut him. 

XL going to have put in some effort this off-season. As you and others have pointed out he is a rookie, so we expect "some struggles" as first year player. I'm old enough to remember Jerry Rice entering the NFL back in 85'. It seems hard to believe this now but the knock-on Jerry Rice after his rookie season was "He drops to many passes." 

We know how that turned out. Rice became one of the most sure-handed receivers in NFL history from 1986 until his retirement two almost 2 decades later. That said, Jerry Rice was also one of the hardest working players in the league. He worked his tail off to be the best. XL has got to realize his major flaw and get it corrected headed into the 2025 season.

[jb2288]

1 minute ago, Mage said:

I really don't understand how people can watch Legette and not think his hands aren't a MASSIVE concern for his long-term future.  I understand he is a rookie, but that is a big deal.  Having good hands is not something you should need to be working on achieving in the NFL if you are a WR.

And this isn't the 1950s.  The transition from college to NFL at the WR position has to be among the easiest alongside RB and LB.  And again, Legette will be 24 next year and spent 5 years in college.  Do people really think he's suddenly going to get his hands to the point where he can be a #1?  

It’s concerning. Today I am going to write off and just say it was mental cause he got popped in the first quarter. Let’s hope he shows that early season improvement we saw earlier to close out the season. Spend all off season with the jugs and go get TMac to complement XL 

[jb2288]

1 minute ago, electro's horse said:

Just thinking the burner WR we’re going to draft that Bryce doesn’t have the arm to throw to

You’re trying way too hard bro

[SCO96]

6 minutes ago, mrcompletely11 said:

Why the fug are we trading up for raw prospects in the first fuging round?

Unfortunately, that seems to be the Panthers way.

Trade up or trade down (in any round of the draft, not just the 1st) to get raw prospects that never live up to their draft slot while other teams take our draft choices to select players that would have improved our roster immediately.

[Joe Bear]

I was really rooting for Legette to pan out and he showed flashes early, but he’s dogshit like every Morgan pick. 8-9 more bags of dogshit incoming next April!

[flagfootballcoach28]

Laquon Treadwell 2.0

[kungfoodude]

1 hour ago, FattyFatFat said:

I’m at a loss for words. Absolutely disgusting 

That's not true. That was 8 words.

[KSpan]

56 minutes ago, Mage said:

"I didn't watch the game"

Also, two things can be true at once.  Legette can have had a terrible game AND the offense also could have played better the rest of the game. 

Where did I say otherwise? 

[KSpan]

Geez, y'all making it sound like that was a routine catch. That was a difficult catch for any receiver, only slightly easier than the ball Thielen couldn't hang onto in the end zone last week.

A star receiver needs to make that catch, sure, but it was hardly routine. In a perfect world there is more loft on that ball and he runs under it.

Edited Sunday at 10:37 PM by KSpan

[Joe Bear]

Just now, KSpan said:

Geez, y'all making it sound like that was a routine catch. That was a difficult catch for any receiver, only slightly easier than the ball Thielen couldn't hang onto in the end zone last week.

A star receiver needs to make that catch, sure, but it was hardly routine.

The problem is he simply cannot be relied on at all. A football approaching Xavier Legette's hands has as much a chance of going well for the Panthers as a Bryce Young downfield throw to a WR in 2023 (none).