05-23-2016, 08:04 AM
Trying to take a few things in to consideration here, I went 6-10. Here's why:
Competition. Who did they rack up stats against? The Falcons play in a division where they get to see the Saints and Buccaneers twice. They have been awful defenses over the past few years. Ditto the Colts and Texans getting to see the awful Jags (I know everyone thinks they are a playoff team now...but their defense was awful) and Titans. Does everyone remember how the Bengal's defense shut down Atlanta's offense after they torched the Saint's defense the week before?
Balls. (Haha) How many could the three WRs get on this so-called "run-first" offense that also had a top 3 TE on the field?
Going through the list of the big three for each team, there was maybe only a couple I would have selected over our big three LAST YEAR. AJ, MLJ, and Sanu were pretty damn good. I point to Sanu's performance when AJ was down, MLJs performance whenever he was seemingly targeted... But with MLJ and Sanu gone, I moved about six other squads ahead of ours and came up with 9th or 10th overall.
When I started thinking about why I dropped them the 6 places, it has to do entirely with the lack of experience of Boyd and Core. Lafell should, at the very least, be a solid WR. How great does the WR have to be to excel with AJ and Eifert drawing coverage? I think that is the huge opportunity for Lafell, and eventually Boyd and Core.
Competition. Who did they rack up stats against? The Falcons play in a division where they get to see the Saints and Buccaneers twice. They have been awful defenses over the past few years. Ditto the Colts and Texans getting to see the awful Jags (I know everyone thinks they are a playoff team now...but their defense was awful) and Titans. Does everyone remember how the Bengal's defense shut down Atlanta's offense after they torched the Saint's defense the week before?
Balls. (Haha) How many could the three WRs get on this so-called "run-first" offense that also had a top 3 TE on the field?
Going through the list of the big three for each team, there was maybe only a couple I would have selected over our big three LAST YEAR. AJ, MLJ, and Sanu were pretty damn good. I point to Sanu's performance when AJ was down, MLJs performance whenever he was seemingly targeted... But with MLJ and Sanu gone, I moved about six other squads ahead of ours and came up with 9th or 10th overall.
When I started thinking about why I dropped them the 6 places, it has to do entirely with the lack of experience of Boyd and Core. Lafell should, at the very least, be a solid WR. How great does the WR have to be to excel with AJ and Eifert drawing coverage? I think that is the huge opportunity for Lafell, and eventually Boyd and Core.
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