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Receivers:

Including plays where there were penalties, these were the following snaps/routes for our wide receivers:

Jakobi Meyers – 54 snaps/27 routes (one route in the 4th quarter, 8 in the 2nd half)

Parker Washington – 54 (56 total)/28 (one route in the 4th quarter, 10 in the 2nd half)

Brian Thomas Jr. – 25/13 (one route in the 2nd half)

Josh Cameron – 24 (37 total)/9 (two routes in the 2nd half)

For context here, Lawrence had 32 passing downs. One of those is the throw away to run down the clock before the half-time field goal attempt, which I will not be counting in any further statistics (though it is included in the above route share).

Meyers continued to be generally solid as a blocker and receiver, taking open spaces in between zones. Parker was great as usual, with fantastic catches for his two touchdowns (one hypothetical TD). The one thing I noticed is that he is a surprisingly poor blocker. I've seen this for a few weeks now – he puts in effort but sometimes he just gets blown past or misses his blocks. For CPCW poor blocking is a bit of a shock to be honest. Even BTJ who is well renowned now as a soft player is a much better blocker (though he was completely the opposite, a surprisingly good blocker).

Josh Cameron is a pure utility player – he's often out there for blocking, but also provides something as an X receiver which the team does not have (BTJ is more of a sacrificial X, would usually be a Z). He did register one drop on his two targets (somewhat difficult grab), but if you're familiar with him as a prospect, he was known for having extremely reliable hands and top notch ball skills. He struggled a lot with separation in college, and he also seemed to struggle in the few routes that he did run in this game with generating separation and using proper leverage – but he did find a nice spot in the zone coverage for his touchdown, and showcased his physicality after the catch there. He also has better long speed than everyone not named BTJ, though he's not very quick. He should at least offer a lot more utility than someone like Tim Patrick (who I think was meant to be replaced by Tanner Koziol instead). He should continue to be a good red zone threat, but don't expect a Parker Washington-esque surge at some point.

BTJ is not cooked – at least in terms of importance to the team. When BTJ ran a route, Lawrence went 11/12 for 92 yards and one TD. When he was not on the field Lawrence went 8/16 for 90 yards, two TDs, one interception (Strange's fault), and one sack. He ran 3 redzone routes, which resulted in two TDs (one was the Parker one called back for a penalty) and a 13 yard gain to Jakobi Meyers. This is not a viable sample size to make broad claims – I can only state what I saw in the all-22 film that would explain any of these stats, and I wouldn't pay much attention to the stats itself, but rather what the film showed.

First, the yards per completion was a little less. When BTJ was on the field, there was a large cushion given to him, and usually some kind of safety cover over the top. He ran a few deep routes, some garnered double coverage. With that kind of cushion, BTJ should be able to generate a lot of short plays for himself (schemed) – the problem with BTJ as we all know is that he is simply not very reliable. The effect instead was opening up a lot of room for Jakobi Meyers, who feasted when BTJ was on the field by taking some of that space generated. The beauty of a deep threat is that teams respect it, regardless of how good or reliable the player really is. Nobody wants to get burned deep. You could see that respect in the all-22. Perhaps this utility isn't worth the value of the pick they could get from BTJ (maybe a first?) – this is a team that just drafted a blocking tight end in the 2nd round – I doubt they care about that. It's still possible they trade BTJ, but keep in mind that a player of his length and speed is common, but with his fluidity is rare. Even in the NFL, he is a unique athlete, and is one of the few players on the team who actually generates good separation (and one of the few receivers who actually needs that separation). One note to that – teams rarely play in heavy man coverage these days (the Browns and Broncos often did though).

Running backs:

At this point, it is abundantly clear that Tuten is the best running back on the team. I am going to argue something further – I think he's one of the best running backs in the league. He really has that do-it-all utility. He's solid between the tackles, showing a lot more patience than he did last year. He has the explosive threat, though our run blocking rarely provides him the ability to showcase that. This game was stronger than last week's. He was phenomenal last week as well, but there was one run where he sought out contact when he really did not need to and possibly left a more explosive play on the board.

Negative two. That is the number of yards before contact for Tuten in week 3. It might have gone unnoticed, but the Patriots have a genuinely good defense. They got penetration, or at least did not allow for the creation of gaps very well. We don't have a very talented run blocking line – pass blocking they are generally above average. Tuten got 75 yards after contact, or 5 yards after contact per carry. That is an absurd number. He forced 5 missed tackles in the game. I don't really need to see anything more from him.

I have been seeing online that some fans are frustrated when Tuten is out of the game. While I understand that he is simply a better back, he can't and shouldn't be playing every snap. In the short yardage situations, Chris Rodriguez Jr (who had really disappointed me before this week) has shown the ability to churn. He is a plodder, but that's all we need, and is still a useful player to have. Ameer Abdullah should be getting more touches when in for Tuten breathers than CRod in most other scenarios. Rodriguez had a good week – he didn't generate much yardage, but he took what was there, and carried his momentum through a large gap for a touchdown (showing more speed than I thought he had). I was happy with what I saw there. It was enough. LeQuint Allen does not seem to be 100% yet – he should continue to be eased into his niche role, but he was visibly much better than last week.

Tight-ends:

Boerk has been a very good job blocking. There's not much to say there. Every play I saw him blocking, he simply completed his assignment. He had 29 snaps on offense.

Strange played 52 offensive snaps. He had some missed blocks, notably one in motion where he failed to block the defender on an Ameer Abdullah screen that got blown up. He obviously also dropped a pass leading to an interception – Lawrence made some adjustments prior to that play, and seemed to have designated Strange as the first read there. Hunter, a little to his left – was the correct read. I hesitate to say correct read, because that's not really a thing – but he was wide open, while Strange was tightly covered. It's best not to hyper fixate – but the pressure did come very quickly.

Linemen:

The team had an all-around great day pass blocking. I noticed Milum and Monheim got a couple snaps, which was nice to see. Run blocking, as usual – was average to poor. I want to give a shout out to Anton Harrison, who was an absolute mauler in the run game. That was apparent even before watching the all-22, but the film made it even more clear. Rest of the team – meh. Hainsey got into space once pretty quickly, which is nice considering he usually flubs that.

The first TD that got called back wasn’t shown on some broadcasts (RedZone skipped it too so I heard?), nor was it included in the NFL’s official game recap video on YouTube.
this shit was way too good to go by unnoticed so I just had to upload these clips to share.

This is a great clip. Strange doing what we know he can. Look at Boerkircher though. Helps on the Jacas block and then erases another linebacker. Boerk isn’t going to show up on the stat sheet much but he’s helping establish the physical identity Coen has been preaching. Beautiful play.

Liam is legitimately beaming about Josh in this clip. A really in depth response. You can tell the staff absolutely love this kid. It appears Gladstone may have unearthed a gem in the 6th round. Big, physical, good hands. He’ll keep getting looks on O if he keeps it up.

“He’s the personal protector on punt, he catches a touchdown in the end zone on a critical down, then he runs down on kickoff and gets the tackle, then he gets a kickoff return out past the 50 on an explosive.”

“Everything that he does, he does like a pro. He understands how to prepare, he’s super smart, and he’s selfless. And really so many ways what we’re looking for in a Jacksonville Jaguar.”

Cam Little is such an asset

All the good stuff in a speedy (4 min.) highlight reel.