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Originally Posted by albany ed
The team is 3 and 1 and already I see a weakness in DJ. Unless I'm wrong, he doesn't have a strong enough arm to stretch the field, thus long passes to Pierce and Mitchell will either be under thrown or they'll take too much time to get there and the safety will be able to recover. Soon, defenses are going to adjust to this weakness and tighten their coverage on the shorter routes. Getting Kamara won't resolve this problem. Before the season is half done, there will be clamoring to put AR in. If we're lucky, he'll succeed, if not, we need to draft a QB. Ya'll may not agree with this, that's fine, it's only my opinion.
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I agree about his deep ball being a huge issue, especially with the way offensives play now. We have the if not the best, damn near the best downfield receiver in the NFL. Not having arm strength really degrades Pierces impact. I am not convinced his arm is to weak (seems to be as strong as Brady's was and nobody complained about his) but something is missing from his long passes and needs to be fixed.
I am not with Sherk at all with AR. One of the things I really like about this Jones/Steichen team is that this looks like what a well integrated and run team (mostly) should look like. We have leadership apparently on this team now. It is exactly the situation AR should be in to learn. I have no idea if he is learning but am hopeful. AR has to much talent, seems to be to good of a person to give up on this easily to me.