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I think we need to look at Jordy and Cobb side by side. Cobb is more of a slot receiver. We had Allison and Adams on the outside. Both Cobb and Jordy were making about 10M. They went with Cobb because he was younger and more of a slot receiver. I am not saying I agree with the decision but I can see why they made it. IMO, they could have cut both of them based on their production and salary; however, we had to keep one since we do not have any experienced WR's.
Let's look at the game yesterday. Without Cobb in the slot, our offense looked very average. In fact below average. Now I know we had 4 or 5 drops and AR threw some inaccurate passes but we still looked very average without those drops and inaccurate passes. I hate to say it but right now Cobb makes this offense better because he is the best slot option we have. Who was in the slot yesterday? Scantling? He did nothing. Sometimes Monty but he was only their a limited amount of time and is not a great route runner anyway. Whether we like it or not, Cobb makes this offense better. Cobb will be gone after this year anyway unless he takes a massive pay cut. We are also only 4 games into the season. Let's wait and see what kind of a season Nelson and Cobb actually have before we start saying we should have done this or that. Gute has tough decisions and he will have a lot more tough decisions before this is all said and done.
That being said, this offense has issues. Not sure they can be fixed. We need another #1 WR opposite of Adams and we do not have that. Allison is a really good #3 but not a #2, IMO. We continue to not use Lewis at TE which makes no sense to me. Why did we sign him? Why do we continue to use Kendricks and not Lewis or Tonyan?
I do believe this defense is better this year. Is it a lot better? Probably not but we all know it will take time to build this up to where it needs to be. The young CB's have played better than I expected so far. If King can actually stay on the field, we may have some solid CB's for the next few years.
On to Detroit!
Let's look at the game yesterday. Without Cobb in the slot, our offense looked very average. In fact below average. Now I know we had 4 or 5 drops and AR threw some inaccurate passes but we still looked very average without those drops and inaccurate passes. I hate to say it but right now Cobb makes this offense better because he is the best slot option we have. Who was in the slot yesterday? Scantling? He did nothing. Sometimes Monty but he was only their a limited amount of time and is not a great route runner anyway. Whether we like it or not, Cobb makes this offense better. Cobb will be gone after this year anyway unless he takes a massive pay cut. We are also only 4 games into the season. Let's wait and see what kind of a season Nelson and Cobb actually have before we start saying we should have done this or that. Gute has tough decisions and he will have a lot more tough decisions before this is all said and done.
That being said, this offense has issues. Not sure they can be fixed. We need another #1 WR opposite of Adams and we do not have that. Allison is a really good #3 but not a #2, IMO. We continue to not use Lewis at TE which makes no sense to me. Why did we sign him? Why do we continue to use Kendricks and not Lewis or Tonyan?
I do believe this defense is better this year. Is it a lot better? Probably not but we all know it will take time to build this up to where it needs to be. The young CB's have played better than I expected so far. If King can actually stay on the field, we may have some solid CB's for the next few years.
On to Detroit!