10-21-2024, 08:09 PM
(10-21-2024, 07:44 PM)Bengalbug Wrote: lol, you are really over reacting. It’s obvious that unless Burton makes his way into the field, the room behind Chase and tee is very limited.
Iosivas and Burton are both wide guys more than slots. And for all we want to see Chase play more in the slot, and he has some this year, he's been almost exclusively a wide guy his first 3 years.
Jones was primarily a wide guy in college as well.
This is year 2 for Yoshi & Jones, I would not flgive up on them yet. Tee is a top 15 WR when healthy. Thinking Yoshi or Jones or Burton could replace that is cray-cray. Especially this early.
The guy they need no replace is Boyd, not Higgins. We need a jittetbug type guy to be the slot,,and we don't have one. But a lot of times pure slot guys drop in the draft.
Jones has 2 return TDs and was hurt a big chunk of last year. Yoshi had 4 TDs last year and 3 this year so far. The list of WRs drafted last year with more than 7 TDs is probably pretty darn short.
This year:
Boyd: 18 rec for 170 yards and 0 TDs. 24 tgts.
Yoshi: 14 rec for 189 yards and 3 TDs 24 tgts.
The game is probably just starting to slow down for each guy. They are all ahead of Irwin now. Who is headed for PS next year, where he belongs.
Next year we need to:
1) Restructure Burrow's deal & save $20 mil on the cap.
2) Extend Chase (there goes that $20 mil).
3) Tag Tee or do an extension.
4) Extend Hendrickson (or prepare to start tagging him after his deal is up.
We can make decisions on draft & FA & bringing people back after that.
Right now: DE, CB, and pass rushing DT would be my biggest areas of need. Followed by S, IOL, and WR3 (slot). Though the rest of the season may change that.
