Trey Mcbride has only 129 receiving yards in 10 starts

[BritCard]

Brit saying he'd seen enough from McBride to "see" he was going to be a good player does not equate any statistical or logical proof that this was or is the case. Early in this thread was your typical blame Kyler for everything approach.

Any old hack can look at a stat sheet and say "This guys good, he has stats".

His physical talent was obvious both from college and his early games for us. Which was why I had no concerns about him long term. Talent will always win out.

You can argue we shouldn't have drafted a tight end and I agree. I said so at the time. But in regards to McBride himself I never had any concerns he would be worth the pick long term.

 

[Stout]

Any old hack can look at a stat sheet and say "This guys good, he has stats".

His physical talent was obvious both from college and his early games for us. Which was why I had no concerns about him long term. Talent will always win out.

You can argue we shouldn't have drafted a tight end and I agree. I said so at the time. But in regards to McBride himself I never had any concerns he would be worth the pick long term.

You haven't had any concerns with him doesn't equate to evidence of any kind. You were blindly supportive of the kid. That's okay; you're a fan. Fans do this sometimes. You kept trying to present it as fact, which it was not. But, hey, the kid starting to come good means we all win, so let's be happy and kill the arguing, eh?

 

[BritCard]

You haven't had any concerns with him doesn't equate to evidence of any kind. You were blindly supportive of the kid. That's okay; you're a fan. Fans do this sometimes. You kept trying to present it as fact, which it was not. But, hey, the kid starting to come good means we all win, so let's be happy and kill the arguing, eh?

lol ok

I watched him play and concluded that he was physically and technically up to the NFL then said I had no concerns about him. And I was proven correct.

But that doesn't matter because there was no evidence? Hilarious.

It wasn't blind faith. There are plenty of players on this team I don't rate. Byron Murphy being one of them. Simmons another.

There was no evidence he was going to be bad but that didn't stop people piling on.

 

[kerouac9]

The thing is you have to understand the player's role. On the Bill Simmons Podcast (I know; it's just a lifelong habit), one guy says every so often that there are probably 60 guys in the NBA who could average 30+ PPG. The reason why they don't is there are only so many possessions to go around.

Hollywood Brown is an interesting tweener. You can force-feed him the ball as a #1 and he'll get 100 receptions and around 1000 yards, but he's not going to get you anywhere. Did you see enough from him to decide whether he can be an effective complementary target across from/alongside DHop? Does it even matter, or can we live in hope that someone can draft and develop a good #1/#2 with some size?

McBride seems more productive because he went from getting four targets in the first 10 weeks of his pro career to getting 4.5 targets per game. How did that happen? A bunch of the other receiving options fell away — those targets had to go somewhere.

Zach Ertz has a $12.8 million cap number next season; maybe they can get him to take a haircut on his $8.75 million base salary. Keim sucks so much.

 

[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

Plus Ertz and McBride together is a mismatch nightmare for defenses.

And with kliff gone I suspect a more savvy coach will actually explore that potential.

 

[dreamcastrocks]

Zach Ertz has a $12.8 million cap number next season; maybe they can get him to take a haircut on his $8.75 million base salary. Keim sucks so much.

People love to rail about Connor's contract, but there are several that are worse. Including this one, and we already drafted Ertz's replacement, lol.

 

[nationsrj]

I'm not sure where McBride is considered a bust? He Started 13 games, He had 4 penalties(2 False Starts, 1 in CAR game, 1 in first SEA game, 2 holding calls in MIN game.
He had 3 catches in LVR game with 3 targets, other than that he had 0 targets thru game 9. Game 10 is when Ertz was hurt. He was 1 target and 1 catch in game 10, after that 35 targets with 25 catches. Until Ertz was injured he was only targeted in the LVR game. By the way Ertz had 5 penalties in his 10 games.

 

[Yuma]

I'm not sure where McBride is considered a bust? He Started 13 games, He had 4 penalties(2 False Starts, 1 in CAR game, 1 in first SEA game, 2 holding calls in MIN game.
He had 3 catches in LVR game with 3 targets, other than that he had 0 targets thru game 9. Game 10 is when Ertz was hurt. He was 1 target and 1 catch in game 10, after that 35 targets with 25 catches. Until Ertz was injured he was only targeted in the LVR game. By the way Ertz had 5 penalties in his 10 games.

I think it was the timing of the penalties killing drives, they low key hype from being our first pick when we had TE assets ahead of him that made people feel, wow, this guy must be GOOD. I think he wil be good. Could we have used a center more? Or edge rusher, etc? I think the way the season played out hurt this kid, too. It wasn't his fault he had a Zack Ertz in front of him.