Chase vs. Sewell

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(02-19-2021, 08:10 PM)Essex Johnson Wrote: First you lay out a nice argument , I will take issue though with two things.. Frist Boyd is an established WR and has shown signs of separation and Higgins played well as a rookie  and can only improve  and the part of separation is can also be attributed to lack of time by line for WRs to separate , I think many times it is hard to evaluate, especially since we don;t know the route called or run... so Burrow with a intense rush gets rid of ball way before the intended route..  

Finally As the saying in coaching goes The Kiss Factor.. keep it simple stupid (not a reference to you obviously).. what does that mean here.. we know the line has been bad.. the down fall of the Dalton years can be attributed to a bad line.. lets go 100% fix the line first before we look elsewhere. 

Boyd was tied for 94th among qualifying pass catchers for separation per Next Gen Stats.  Tee didn't even sniff the Top 100.  AJ was tied for dead last.  I like Boyd as much as the next guy, but if you objectively look at the rosters of the two SB teams, he's a #3 WR at best for either.  

As far as the Aggressiveness stat goes, here are the %'s for the qualifying it's from playoff teams.

Trubisky 21.2%
Tannehill 18.7%
Haskins 17.4%
Roethlisberger 17.3%
Rivers 15.8%
Brady 14.8%
Jackson 14.4%
Mayfield 13.8%
Allen 13.1%
Goff 12.7%
Brees 12.3%
Mahomes 11.4%
Rodgers 11.2%
Wilson 11.1%

Burrow 21.5%

Only one team with a QB over 20% made the playoffs.  The highest % to actually win a playoff game was Brady at 14.8%.

Nobody is going to say we should ignore the OL.  However, we can't neglect WR, either.  If you get an opportunity to draft a star caliber player at either position group, you need to pull the trigger.