Did we fully utilize our elite speed at wide receiver?

Well yeah, kind of. How many times to you see defenses guarding a WR that runs a 4.3 40 with a LB? Or any wide receiver to be honest?

MAYBE if it’s a corner blitz or something, but that has nothing to do with us creating that situation.

 

It can happen often if schemed for. That was the entire Genesis of spread offenses. It doesn't even have to be LBs, Aaron Gates is a solid slot DB, but in coverage Jason Marshall is just up another level. Very few teams have 3-4 DBs that are top tier coverage guys, heck most struggle get 2 starters to fit that role. Don't even have to look past our D. How often has WRs got easy catches over the middle vs LBs and Safeties, 4th and 17 certainly rings a nauseating bell.

 

The difference in other teams catching the ball over the middle on our LBs is not something their offense schemed up. That’s our defense running Zone. The point of my earlier “sarcasm” is that Offenses line up and then defense try to adjust to how the O lined up. Not the other way around. The closest thing our offense can do to that is shift/put someone in motion to see if it’s man or zone coverage. The only time you’re going to see a saefty 1 on 1 with a speedy WR is either in a Grantham defense or some sort of blitz that was schemed up by the defense.

 

Guess they weren’t THAT fast then. Actually I guess it’s more that TDs don’t equal speed. A better stat to use would be average yards per catch.

How many of those last seven games did we win? The only ones we lost we had a 3rd string QB where it didn’t matter how fast our WRs were.

 

Running fast is nice but other factors are much more important to football. Most rbs are faster than Emmitt, so ...... if only tge combine were a mathematical formula for football talent. There are important measurables but the old eyeball test tells a different story many times. Imagine having a track meet to determine the superbowl champion. I guess Bruce Jenner would be the goat.

 

Does history show us that the fastest 40 times leads the nfl in tds most years?

 

If DJ stays healthy this season, we will find out, I believe, if Napier's "scheme" makes passing TDs. But if we run it in for a ton of TDs, that's okay as well.

 

If DJ is as good as we think he can be, he will have td passes no matter what the scheme is.

 

And Caitlin could win the womens’ events. Would that be awesome or what?