Post Game GB Defeats LA 24-19

GBP4EVER said:
Guressing this percentage went up after the Rams game. It might be time to demote Wicks out of the passing game. There is only so long you can wait for him to figure it out and keep going to him to have him try to work it out.

Dontayvion Wicks had a 16.7% drop rate the first 4 weeks, the 3rd highest among wide receivers with 10 or more targets per @FTNFantasy

On the season Wicks is only 10 of 29 for 124 yards. Thats not what you can accept from a guy you want to be your top 3 WR's
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The problem is who do you replace him with? Heath? Heath is not close as far as route running, IMO. This is why we need to draft another WR high next year. Reed is the only true great WR we have.
 
realitybytes said:
i've never been a fan of that guy. he was a first round draft pick who took 3 years to develop into a starter. he's never had a 10-sack season, and he's performed at a decent level for two out of five years in his career. next year he has a $25m+ salary cap hit and an identical dead cap hit so it is unlikely we will cut him. i never thought he was worthy of that 4 yr(s) / $96,000,000 contract.
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I thought that this new defense was going to highlight his abilities?
 
realitybytes said:
i've never been a fan of that guy. he was a first round draft pick who took 3 years to develop into a starter. he's never had a 10-sack season, and he's performed at a decent level for two out of five years in his career. next year he has a $25m+ salary cap hit and an identical dead cap hit so it is unlikely we will cut him. i never thought he was worthy of that 4 yr(s) / $96,000,000 contract.
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Even before the draft Gary had the rep of being hot/cold and taking long stretches off.

I would have let him test FA before I gave him that contract. But GB has always over valued its own players.
 
rpiotr01 said:
I've re-watched a bunch of times that last 3rd down GB had, the deep throw from Love to Wicks that was incomplete. They only played it once in real time and just wanted to see what went wrong. The ball obviously went through Wicks' hands but I wanted to see what else happened, did Love get there late, did the OL hold up, did Wicks stop running etc.

Looking at it again I think Wicks was read 1 on that play, it was a kill shot for him. Love gets the snap and takes a beat to look off the safeties - a good thing - and then turns and fires to Wicks. Before re-watch I thought he may have been late seeing him but I think that was fine. He did one pat the ball, which seems to be part of his throwing process sometimes. One thing I didn't notice earlier was that as Love is going to throw, he gets a lot of muck from the pass pro right around his left (i.e. injured) plant leg and he made the throw off his back foot. He does that a lot but in this case probably smart/lucky. A DL split Myers and Rhyan and then walked Jacobs back into Love's leg, around the same time that Rasheed Walker's guy was approaching from Love's blind spot. Not ideal. And as for Wicks, for as good as he is at getting open, I don't think he actually plays the ball very well in the air. Trying to figure out what's off about his game and that might be the thing. I don't know that he needed to turn and leap for that ball like he did. People can say it was under thrown, but it ultimately went over his head and through his hands as he leapt for the ball - I don't think both of those things can be true. Really good WR in the league - and Reed is one of them - can catch that ball over their shoulders without doing a pirouette. I think Wicks misjudged it - thought it was more under thrown than it was - and then simply misplayed the ball with his hands.

So that's my breakdown - Love was a tick late patting the ball, couldn't get 100% on it because of the OL/DL trash incoming, but it was a pretty good ball, completely catchable and Wicks - after smoking his guy off the line - just misjudged and misplayed it.
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Wicks had these issues in college, he made some plays at Virginia but dropped more. Not an unknown. OL has to hold up better in pass pro...we talked about this before the season...in preseason and it's still an issue 5 games in.
 
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rpiotr01 said:
whew 78 snaps on D? Didn’t realize it was that much. Can’t keep that up for too long
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williams played all 78 snaps on defense and all 11 snaps on special teams.
nixon and mckinney both played all 78 snaps on defense plus 6 snaps on teams.
quay played all 78 snaps on defense plus 2 snaps on teams.

you can kind of understand why the defense was not so good when the rams were staging a comeback at the end.

the rams had the ball five and a half minutes longer than the packers. the packers offense only had one sustained drive in the second half. and to make matters worse, that drive came up empty.
 
realitybytes said:
williams played all 78 snaps on defense and all 11 snaps on special teams.
nixon and mckinney both played all 78 snaps on defense plus 6 snaps on teams.
quay played all 78 snaps on defense plus 2 snaps on teams.

you can kind of understand why the defense was not so good when the rams were staging a comeback at the end.

the rams had the ball five and a half minutes longer than the packers. the packers offense only had one sustained drive in the second half. and to make matters worse, that drive came up empty.
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yeah i think ideally they want about ten more snaps on offense and ten fewer on defense.
 
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