Dez & Miles the NEW best wr duo? (1 Viewer)

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Duo?

 

[Tenacious]

Wow, a little harsh by a lot of people. It's the guys 1st NFL game....he barely played in preseason...to me he gobbled up every ball thrown near him, showed great hands and you could tell how green he was by Romo yapping at him constantly. I came away pretty impressed by him.

1st pro game of the kids career, after missing nearly the entire pre-season, that and all the protection issues.... Give him some time for pete's sake, but I came away impressed.

 

[zoonation]

People in here ripping on Bryant are going to be eating a lot of crow later this year as this thread gets bumped. He is a rookie that just missed all of training camp who caught 8 balls last night. People projecting fewer than 60 ctches are out of their minds. I think it is a safe bet that he can average 3 a game from here on out.

He is extremely talented, IMO.

 

[Morton Muffley]

What was unimpressive about the rookie? I did not see the game but am curious on how he looked. Was he slow, hesitant, ordinary, bobble passes, shy away from contact...etc?

They just didn't give him any opportunities to put his talent to work. They kept force-feeding him bubble screens at the LoS and letting him try to make a move, and he never did. He averaged 7 yards per reception, which is practically microscopic. He just never made anything happen.Here's a list of Bryant's targets:

1-10-WAS37 (12:31) (Shotgun) T.Romo pass short right to D.Bryant to WAS 35 for 2 yards (R.McIntosh, A.Carter).

2-8-WAS35 (11:48) T.Romo pass short right to D.Bryant to WAS 36 for -1 yards (D.Hall).

1-10-WAS23 52) T.Romo pass short right to D.Bryant to WAS 24 for -1 yards (D.Hall, L.Fletcher).

3-13-WAS37 (1:54) (Shotgun) T.Romo pass incomplete deep left to D.Bryant.

2-8-DAL32 22) (Shotgun) T.Romo pass incomplete deep left to D.Bryant (P.Buchanon) [b.Orakpo].

3-8-DAL32 16) (Shotgun) T.Romo pass short right to D.Bryant ran ob at DAL 46 for 14 yards.

1-10-DAL46 11) (Shotgun) T.Romo pass incomplete short right to D.Bryant.

3-9-WAS48 (7:03) (Shotgun) T.Romo pass short left to D.Bryant to WAS 42 for 6 yards (L.Landry).

2-6-WAS30 (4:26) (Shotgun) T.Romo pass short middle to D.Bryant to WAS 22 for 8 yards (A.Carter, R.Doughty).

1-10-DAL19 (1:45) (Shotgun) T.Romo pass short middle to D.Bryant to DAL 34 for 15 yards (L.Landry).

1-10-DAL34 (1:18) (No Huddle, Shotgun) T.Romo pass incomplete short left to D.Bryant.

2-10-DAL34 (1:13) (Shotgun) T.Romo pass short middle to D.Bryant to DAL 47 for 13 yards (R.Doughty).

2-10-WAS43 27) (Shotgun) T.Romo pass incomplete short middle to D.Bryant (L.Landry).

Notes:

*the 14 yard catch-and-run on 3rd and 8 looks impressive in the game log, but the truth is it came against a prevent defense that was more than happy to let Dallas waste game time dinking and dunking before the half.

*Dez also had an OPI penalty called on him.

Wow, a little harsh by a lot of people. It's the guys 1st NFL game....he barely played in preseason...to me he gobbled up every ball thrown near him, showed great hands and you could tell how green he was by Romo yapping at him constantly. I came away pretty impressed by him.

I'm not being harsh. I'm not saying that Dez played poorly, or that he's going to be a bust, or that we should trade him for Mark Clayton in dynasty leagues while we still can, I'm just saying that I don't see how anyone could look at that game and say "wow, Dez looked good out there tonight". If I had to come up with a description for Dez's game, I'd say "completely unremarkable in every aspect except for number of targets". I don't understand how anyone could have watched that game and felt differently. Surely there will be plenty of remarkable games in this kid's future, but last night certainly wasn't one of them.

You should watch the game again. You will realize that there wasn't room for him to show much. 3 step drops, just about the whole game. Even the TD to Austin was blown coverage. Everything else was underneath the zone. When Washington played man-to-man on the corners, the pressure got to Romo before anyone could create seperation and that includes Austin.

He did what the offensive playcalling and Oline allowed him to do: catch the ball.

Exactly, he did what the playcalling and O-Line allowed him to do... and not a single iota more. How does that qualify as a "good game", exactly? To me, that seems like the very definition of an average performance- taking exactly what you were given, no more and no less.Look, Dez's first 3 receptions went for a grand total of 0 yards. Somehow, I don't think that's exactly how Dallas drew it up. I'm sure Dallas was hoping for something more like "get it in his hands immediately and let him make somebody miss" and less like "get it in his hands immediately and watch him get tackled for a loss of one". Dez didn't make anybody miss. He didn't break any tackles. He didn't make any exceptional grabs. He didn't put any sick moves on any defenders to get open. I can't for the life of me fathom how anyone could say that he had a great game, unless their definition of a "great game" is "getting a ton of targets, doing very little with them, and never once making a play above and beyond what could be expected of an average NFL-caliber WR".

Is there reasons for optimism going forward? Absolutely, starting with that massive target total. But there's a huge difference between saying "Boy, I think Dez Bryant is going to be good this year" and saying "Boy, Dez Bryant sure looked good last night". In my mind, anyone who thinks Bryant looked great last night is suffering from a severe case of confirmation bias- they're only seeing what they want to see.

I'm a Bryant owner and am encouraged by the # of targets (especially considering he's a rookie who missed the pre-season)....moreover, I'm encouraged by the poor play of Roy Williams (who looked even worse than I expected...and I didn't expect much). But that said, Bryant didn't really do anything great with his opportunities. So those seeing a great game out of Bryant are misleading themselves a fair bit in my opinion. So at the risk or re-stating what SSOG has already said (but seems to have fallen on deaf ears around here).

Mediocre 1st game <> mediocre year/career

As always, just my 2 cents.

 

[moderated]

his numbers in his first game back are pretty much irrelevant as far as judging him as a player.

He was big, strong, looked pretty fast, and has velcro for hands. he was obviously out of sync with Romo as they haven't worked together due to the dez injury this preseason.

Also he wasn't afraid at all, he wanted the ball and and while he may not have broken free on the tackles, he flung the guys tackling him around like rag dolls.

 

[Nicolas Cocaign]

Also he wasn't afraid at all, he wanted the ball and and while he may not have broken free on the tackles, he flung the guys tackling him around like rag dolls.

Theres a ton of potential there.