The Ghost of Jessie Bates

[Housh]

I am very critical of Bates because of the off-season and i am very pro player when it comes to getting what you are worth.


Bates should’ve signed the contract we offered.


I think we offered him what we did because Lou plays his FS so far back that he realistically can’t be counted on to make plays at the LOS or on routes with medium depth. On top of that Bates just doesn’t get targeted deep, meaning he’s playing well. But while playing well is good, I’m Bates’s situation it’s actually bad because he’s not able to rack up those sext stats like pass defenses, INTs and strips. I look at whole drives at times where Bates is just invisible. And i know it’s not fair because the reason he’s invisible is because he’s doing his job in coverage but when you look at FS like Minkah and Derwin, they are just more versatile.




Then there is the elephant in the room that he’s mailing it in and not getting involved in more collisions because he’s playing to not get hurt. There’s also a small chance he was lying to us about working out in the off-season and he came into the season rusty