theincrediblesok":4sx8n9hu said:
We all know Wilson misses some passes but all QB's do.
64.7% is his 2nd highest completion percentage with 4219 total yards in 2016 being his highest yards, without looking at TD/INT ratios many people will take a QB with those stats.
The problem this year was getting TD's, it seemed like we were pushing to run deep plays all the time. Also the misses on Wilson part doesn't help as well but how much did the injury really affected him in those passes. Unexplained amount of overthrows that he usually fixes at the halfway mark.
The other thing I notice was that there were many times our WRs had a huge play where they would almost reach the goal line but stopped right at the 5 yard line, couldn't break that one extra tackle. This forced us in a condense space where it was almost impossible for this team to score in the redzone because we had no run game to help open any passes.
Why did we let Christine Michaels go halfway when he was our leading RB, we could of had him and Rawls and eventually our run game would of been better once Rawls settled in. We could of had the dynamic duo, if CJ Prosise was healthy could you imagine the three of them terrorizing defenses. The FO made a bad decision on that part I think of letting Michaels go too early.
The reason this happened is that Prosise clearly established himself as the feature back of the future, only to suffer a season ending injury the next game. While the gamble that he would stay healthy was certainly risky and the wrong move in hindsight, I think there is something we don't see at play as well regarding CM. I think with Pete and JS it's all about "buy-in", the system, our house mentality. Percy definitely didn't fit the mold, and after a full year of trying to reset his mindset, they had no problem cutting him mid-season to sever the ties. I think the only reason CM had a longer leash whatsoever was that he was "born" here. But the numerous times you would see CM on camera when his number wasn't called near the goal line clearly displayed his selfish, whiny nature and lack of "buy-in" for the team as a whole.
CJ HAS to stay healthy in order for us to negate the underwhelming OL. But that's exactly what a RB/WR hybrid does- he negates pass rush by forcing you to account for a sure handed, super elusive player out of the backfield. I know in the past we've said this many a offseason, but seriously if this offensive line can shore up just by incremental levels, and Russ stays healthy, imagine Russ running wild again, CJ, Paul Rich2.0, Jimmy, Doug, no-E and co with Rawls to do some dirty work.
To answer a question you posed though, I believe we were then and are now about to be "all in" on CJ, and as soon as he had his breakout game Pete had no intention of the 3 of them terrorizing anyone and he made the decision on CM and wasn't looking back.
And I agree with Pete actually.
