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<blockquote data-quote="Dantés" data-source="post: 893218" data-attributes="member: 12283"><p>I think the team saw a specific type of WR as a big need, but that it never materialized in the draft. </p><p></p><p>The Packers pulled the trigger on trading up and taking Love only after the 49ers moved up for Aiyuk (who was the 6th WR off the board). My assessment is that Aiyuk was the last guy that they liked at the position in round 1, and that with him gone Love was the last guy they really liked in the first round overall. LaFleur has also talked this season about how they held Reagor in high regard prior to the draft. </p><p></p><p>They openly talked, after the draft, about how they had targets at WR in mind in the 2nd round, and tried to move up, but nothing materialized. </p><p></p><p>If you look at the WR corps, and the skill sets there, the thing that's clearly missing is the yards after catch threat. And this offense clearly has a place for such a player (look how Shanahan uses Samuel and Aiyuk, or how LaFleur has brought in and wants to use Austin). I think they saw that as a big need, but weren't able to make it happen. </p><p></p><p>So they instead chose to invest in players they liked for the future, and some posters still haven't gotten over it. </p><p></p><p>But yeah, to your point, the team felt like they had certain roles within the WR corps taken care of. And they were right. </p><p></p><p>1) This offense uses WR's about as little as any offense in the league. Some would argue that that's because they don't have enough talent at the position, but that's obviously not true because the same thing has happened in this basic system elsewhere (e.g. SF, MIN, TEN).</p><p></p><p>2) MVS has served his purpose to provide a vertical threat to the offense. He's tracking to finish the season near 20 YPR on somewhere from 35-40 catches. He leads the league in air yards per target by a big margin. And when your average depth of target is 17.6 yards down the field, a 52% catch rate is totally normal. He's not a perfect player, but he's fulfilled his role.</p><p></p><p>3) Given how much he likes to use condensed formations, LaFleur clearly had his eye on bigger players who can work from the slot, like both Funchess and Lazard. And again, the assessment of the latter's potential was correct-- his 16 game pace is 820 and 6. </p><p></p><p>So the position was not the black hole that a lot of people thought that it was. Gute/Petals understood better than us what they had, and what they wanted to do on offense. There's work to be done there, to be sure. But at this point fans are having to get pretty creative to justify all the pissing and moaning that's gone on since May.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dantés, post: 893218, member: 12283"] I think the team saw a specific type of WR as a big need, but that it never materialized in the draft. The Packers pulled the trigger on trading up and taking Love only after the 49ers moved up for Aiyuk (who was the 6th WR off the board). My assessment is that Aiyuk was the last guy that they liked at the position in round 1, and that with him gone Love was the last guy they really liked in the first round overall. LaFleur has also talked this season about how they held Reagor in high regard prior to the draft. They openly talked, after the draft, about how they had targets at WR in mind in the 2nd round, and tried to move up, but nothing materialized. If you look at the WR corps, and the skill sets there, the thing that's clearly missing is the yards after catch threat. And this offense clearly has a place for such a player (look how Shanahan uses Samuel and Aiyuk, or how LaFleur has brought in and wants to use Austin). I think they saw that as a big need, but weren't able to make it happen. So they instead chose to invest in players they liked for the future, and some posters still haven't gotten over it. But yeah, to your point, the team felt like they had certain roles within the WR corps taken care of. And they were right. 1) This offense uses WR's about as little as any offense in the league. Some would argue that that's because they don't have enough talent at the position, but that's obviously not true because the same thing has happened in this basic system elsewhere (e.g. SF, MIN, TEN). 2) MVS has served his purpose to provide a vertical threat to the offense. He's tracking to finish the season near 20 YPR on somewhere from 35-40 catches. He leads the league in air yards per target by a big margin. And when your average depth of target is 17.6 yards down the field, a 52% catch rate is totally normal. He's not a perfect player, but he's fulfilled his role. 3) Given how much he likes to use condensed formations, LaFleur clearly had his eye on bigger players who can work from the slot, like both Funchess and Lazard. And again, the assessment of the latter's potential was correct-- his 16 game pace is 820 and 6. So the position was not the black hole that a lot of people thought that it was. Gute/Petals understood better than us what they had, and what they wanted to do on offense. There's work to be done there, to be sure. But at this point fans are having to get pretty creative to justify all the pissing and moaning that's gone on since May. [/QUOTE]
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