pete said:
OK, so you had a beef with the family relationship thing and now you are using the fact that another rookie WR has better stats after only 3 games to justify your position. I still think that is a pretty shortsighted view.
Given the state of the rest of the offense, I see no other player in the draft that would have more of an offensive impact than Fitz has had after 3 games. WR is not the problem. O line and QB are the problems right now and will continue to be the problem until they pull their heads out and start meeting expectations. It wouldn't make a difference if Roy Williams, Stephen Jackson, or any other player that the Cards could have selected were playing instead of Fitz. Until McCown and the O line start playing up to the expected level, the skill players don't have much of chance to play to their expected levels either and that goes for Fitz, Emmitt, BJ, Williams, and the rest. After all, it is a team sport, and offensively, the team sucks right now.
You have an innate ability to read things in that aren't there and miss things that are there.
Well before the draft, even before Mike Williams was ruled out, I was saying I thought Fitz was not the best WR, that if we took him, it would be a mistake.
That we should take Mike Williams, then when he was out, I said if we wanted a WR take Roy, my personal pick for ages was Sean Taylor, said it repeatedly.I liked Ben but it was clear we weren't taking him so I stopped mentioning him. I didn't just watch Roy against teh Eagles Sunday and decide we should have picked him, I said it all along.
I was also the first to point out that starting Josh would affect the WR's because if you look last year his 3 starts at the end of the year Quan's YPC numbers dropped immediately, even with a 10 catch for 122 yard game he had one 60 yarder and 9 other catches for 62 yards. The fact that the WR YPC number are off is no surprise to me.
What does surprise is hearing the radio guys in 2 games, say over and over Williams was open, or Poole was, or Jones was or Johnson, but never once hearing them say "if Josh had the time to look left Fitz was clearly open." The one game I saw on TV, NE, same thing, I don't recall a single shot showing him being open and being missed, just plays with him and Law locked up.
So when you read all through minicamp and camp people saying he's not getting open, and then you see it again in games, you start to wonder, at least I do.
The only acceptable reasons for his start are his ankle, or the QB and OL are so bad that he's open but not getting the ball. I don't hear anybody actually saying with conviction that the 2nd reason is true, they're saying MAYBE he'd be better if ....
I was born in Missouri, you gotta show me sometimes.
