Bri - Titans fan if I remember correctly. Any chance they're hiding him, playing games with the injury report and teasing Oakland, only to unleash him on Sunday?
Oakland's secondary is ... not great.
I don't think that's really possible. Oakland (and everyone) knows he was the top WR in the draft and is a wow athlete.
He's barely practiced. Everyone seems to want these reasons to consider him like Odell. ODB missed most of the offseason and still came in and rocked. He was like the first ever to do that out of thousands of WRs before him.
People keep asking me what I think his limited plays will be- block (because Mularkey and his staff are old school and WRs must block well) and he is a big dude. Go deep. And red zone to use that huge frame and ups.
Everyone seems to be confused or thrown or some word because the worst team in football in 2015 is suddenly deep on offense. That was the goal and it appears all of the draft picks panned out for a change.
Mularkey wants defenses confused all year. This is not good for FF, not at all.
FF people love past data but Mularkey has been running a 3 TE offense for a few years now. He was Whis' assistant head coach. They played mostly 2 TE (1 WR) and 2 WR sets this summer. They did use 3 WRs a good amount, but those two sets were used primarily. That's the change we wanted for FF, but the historical data is pretty useless for this.
The confusion-
Both TEs have lined out wide and in the slot. Murray and Henry have been both as well. Matthews, Decker, Taylor, and Davis are a real real good four. One could make an argument for any playing over the other. This is exactly what Mularkey wants- a good luck to defenses preparing for this O and mismatches on Sunday.
Here's this grand passing offense with a wonderful young QB and....they prefer to run as often as possible. Mularkey would be the happiest man on earth if they never passed.
In FF we usually have this thought that "week one should give us starters" that we consider the primary two WRs. Can you really say that with Taylor an upstart and Davis learning the ropes? What about if a rook does well and then the next game is "off?" Don't ya think Decker or Matthews replaces them as the primary WR there?
They're gonna be an FF nightmare this year.