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James is in a better offense, but more mouths to feed. They have Brown, Rogers, Coates, Wheaton, and don't forget Bell catches passes out of the backfield too. The 9ers don't have as many options in the passing game. Plus, I don't see them holding most teams to under 200 yards of offense. They'll be trailing in games and have to throw and that will help McDonald.
Agree. Let's see what happens when SF goes to CAR and is down by 10+ for most of the game.
Like the "down by 10" but I don't think that will be enough to make McDonald startable when he's going to be covered by Kuechly and Davis...
I would like to see James block better....he looked overwhelmed at times in the blocking department. If he can get that down, he will be a solid TE option for as a long Big Ben is a Steeler.
Despite that, the 49ers ran a whopping 84 plays, 35 of which were passes by Gabbert. That equates to 560 pass attempts on the year. I doubt he has many games with over 40 pass attempts on the year. The real issue was 11 targets to Kerley. Does that continue?
I saw 42 rush attempts and automatically thought they were heavily skewed towards the run, forgetting it was Kelly's offense for a moment.
4.9 ypa + 42 rush attempts. 16 targets to Kerley and Patton. Celek had 4 targets, VMD had 3. Celek had 51 snaps, VMD had 58. I think we are going to see some good games from McDonald but usage will vary, like the Eagles TEs last year.
Exactly. My going against the grain by starting him sort of gives me that excited and anxious feeling that I get at the craps table at Benny Binion's Lucky Horseshoe.
But keep in mind the reason they were so low on the guy may have been because of the contract he just signed and because he doesn't fit into a completely new offense. Just because the Niners didn't value him doesn't mean he doesn't have any value in a new situation imo. I always like to see guys like this get a chance in a new situation with a team that values him enough to give up anything to get him.
He's a tight end who is a poor blocker, has bad hands, and a bad contract. As a Niner fan I'm thrilled.
Really? They still have James and Grimble. Though, I guess they may not be too high on either if they brought in McDonald, but I don't see him doing much right away.
I've always loved Vance and now he's coupled with a super underrated elite QB....he's not a great blocker but he's a freight train with the ball in his hands.....just destroys people trying to tackle him......
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He was surely about qb15 before this move?Ilov80s said:
