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Interestingly, Ginn's last year in Charlotte and first in NO are pretty much identical (54/752/4 vs 53/787/4) despite having much less targets in NO (95 vs 70)BassNBrew said:
It wouldn't be. Benjamin came into the leeg with fat and lazy issues, so him expediting his exit from the leeg due to fat and laziness seemed inevitable. Funchess came into the leeg with focus and attention to detail issues. They remain, but a potential attitude problem has also developed. Was that just a product of his environment? or is that a new normal? Team's can deal with (some) focus drops as long as you're productive enough. They aren't going to deal with what he was doing last year though.
In the fun game of arbitrary end points I think it's important to note he put up 94 rec/1,273 yards/12 TD's (57% catch rate, 7.7 yards per target) over a 22 game stretch across both 2017 and 2018 - 68 rec/926 yards/9 TD extrapolated for a full season. But I don't think his production issues late last season were a function of Cam's injury. The dude quit.
I certainly didn't watch every one of their games, but that sure wasn't the impression I had and the output from the skill position players does not support that statement. From a cursory review, the others performed somewhere between better and marginally worse whereas Funchess face planted. He only caught 15 balls week 8-on, 3 in 5 games across the whole month of December, never had a snap count below 72% through week 11, then in the month of December saw 46%-39%-19%-24%-healthy scratch.
The rest of the offense doesn't need Cam to be able to throw more than 10 yards downfield with power though. DJ, Samuel, and CMC all can operate well near the line of scrimmage. My comment was less about fantasy production and more the team as a whole. They lost 7 straight.
Fair point. They also wanted to see what they had in DJ/Samuel down the stretch. He probably knew where he stood with the team in terms of resigning as a UFA. Doesn’t excuse him for quitting if that’s what actually happened. We’ll see.
My quit comment was based on how Funchess actually played. The team played poorly around Cam's bad shoulder, but I only noticed a lack of effort with Funchess. Not saying he was the only one, it was just the one I noticed. And the team then deciding to cut his playing time tells me they saw the same.
I agree with all of that. I feel like I'm taking the con-Funchess angle, but as I wrote before I have Funchess dynasty stock and think he's a hold. I guess I'm just saying if you're a Funchess buyer (or holder) then I don't think you can dismiss what happened last year as nothing. It's something. Just hope it was a fluke and that the change in scenery was what he needed to get back to where he was trending over the 13 months prior.
He can probably act as a pseudo-TE for them since they don't really have an established TE.Chicago Hooligan said:
If your team was counting on Funchess to contribute in any way it already was!
