Replacing Josh Reynolds Is Not A Small Task

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00:00I know you're going to bristle when I read the first sentence of this next one.

00:04Okay.

00:05I don't think you know me well enough.

00:06Josh Reynolds is trash.

00:08Right?

00:09Yep.

00:10No, you know me well.

00:15This text goes on to say, anybody inside the organization or in the draft will be just

00:19as good or even better than Josh Reynolds.

00:21Reynolds benefited from the environment of Jared Goff, Amon Rice St. Brown, and the number

00:26one tight end Laporta and the number one offensive line and the number one running

00:30back duo in the league.

00:32Don't believe me?

00:33Look at what Jamal Williams has done in New Orleans after record-breaking TDs in Detroit.

00:37Well, I think that's an apt comparison going to the running back versus a wide receiver.

00:43And you know, I will say this, his point about the team around him, I'll grant that it's

00:48a really good team around him, but I think you're discounting what Josh Reynolds meant

00:52to this team.

00:54When they traded for him halfway through the first season that this new regime took over,

00:58that's when things started to click, because he already had a comfort level working with

01:01Jared Goff when the two were together with the Rams.

01:05And he became a reliable, dependable receiver.

01:09Unfortunately, we have the NFC Championship game dancing in our heads, and we downgraded.

01:14But Josh Reynolds caught 40 passes last year, 32 of those were for first downs, five of

01:20them went for touchdowns.

01:23So that's a hell of a percentage.

01:26Do I think that they can make that up?

01:28I do.

01:29I think they'll make it up in the aggregate, not necessarily with one wide receiver.

01:33I think you're going to see much more of a role for Jamison Williams getting passes.

01:38I'm not going to be, after watching a couple practices, I am not going to be surprised

01:43if I'm on Ross St. Browns, if I'm on Ross St. Brown, improves on his 119 receptions

01:49last year.

01:51When you talk about familiarity and reliability and the guy you have chemistry with, Jared

01:56Goff and I'm on Ross St. Brown have it.

01:58When Jared Goff needs a big play, he's looking for 14 and 14 gets open.

02:02We're also the show that just over a year ago started the, if we were a message board,

02:07we would have started a Khalif Raymond appreciation thread.

02:11And that was when he was the number four wide receiver.

02:14Now more will be expected, as Dan Campbell's anointed him the number three wide receiver.

02:19I always kind of thought of him as a slot receiver, but they're going to, I guess, play

02:23him outside with Jamo or move Amin Ra outside a little bit more, but whatever.

02:29Well here's when you know, like you start looking at percentages, right?

02:33And Khalif Raymond last year had 35 receptions on 44 targets.

02:40They only missed on nine passes when they targeted Khalif Raymond.

02:44Now to me that says that this is kind of a check down guy, option one not there, option

02:48two not there, tight ends not there.

02:50Okay, here's Khalif.

02:51I got him.

02:52Boom.

02:53Yep.

02:54And what a great thing to rely on.

02:56Yep.

02:57That you've got a guy who can get open when others are not and you have to find some way

03:02somehow let's do it here and throw it to him and oh, 14 yards per reception looks pretty

03:07good too.

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