GeorgiaCard88
Veteran
I'm having a tough time seeing many positives in this loss. It just seemed like a truly bad team losing a game to a good team starting to find its footing.
What stuck out to me the most was the lack of involvement of the young guys today outside of Demercado and Stills. Antonio Hamilton started over Clark. Michael Wilson wasn't targeted until the last 2 minutes. McBride failed to top 20 yards receiving again. Cam Thomas appears to have regressed since last year. It would be different if we were watching a bunch of young players trying to develop, but instead we are watching Zeke Turner get run over by RBs for the 6th year in a row.
Maybe I, like many others here, have set the bar so low that I am please with moves in the right direction instead of a complete performance.
Would be interesting to evaluate, maybe in a separate post, the players with 1-3 years of experience on this team and where they are at/what they are contributing. Regarding the guys you mentioned:
-Wilson- would love to see this guy involved more, too early in the season to dump on him, I think he had a very quiet game but has overall been trending up
-Clark- honestly, have seen enough from Clark to say, I think his ceiling is back up/dime corner with special teams involvement. What more can you expect really from a 6th round pick? He is not the corner of the future - our CB room is just in dire straights
McBride- 100% correct, where is this guy? It’s tough watching Laporte on the lions tearing it up, but McBride barely showing a blip on the radar in his second year. I said it earlier, one of my biggest concerns coming out of preseason is we heard almost zero chatter about McBride. Worried this guy won’t emerge to what his draft stock is/what we need him to be
Cam Thomas- also looking like another keim masterful draft pick. Not sure where this guys future is with the team, but at least for now hasn’t seemed like a bedrock for the future. More of a depth/role player guy