That's No Moon

Last year before he went on IR in October: 1. 3 catches 18 yards 2. 5 catches 42 yards 3. 7 catches 70 yards in a game that played a full OT and the game that Dallas Goedert also got hurt. 4. 4 catches 9 yards 5. 1 catch 6 yards 6. 4 catches 33 yards He also wasn't the #1 TE to start the season. Dallas Goedert was. Yeah but the offense stunk, and Wentz is terrible and Pederson is an idiot, and they had nobody else to throw the ball to. Here's what journeyman TE Richard Rodgers did in the same putrid offense with Ertz out. 7. 6 for 85 8. 0 for 0 9. 4 for 60 10. 2 for 48 11. 3 for 53 Zach Ertz was an elite tight end. He is not an elite TE anymore. He's better than what we currently have on the team but if you expect to see the Ertz that gained 900 yards on 135 targets in 2019 or the Ertz that gained 1,100 yards on 156 targets in 2018 you're going to be disappointed. First off, he's not going to see anywhere near that number of targets. Diggs had 166 last year, Beasley had 109, Davis was 3rd most with 62. Lets assume that Davis got some targets that would have been Brown's as the 3rd WR and let's make Ertz the 3rd most targeted player on the team with something like 80 targets. His career catch percentage is 67%. His last 3 years have been 74.4%, 65.3% and 50%, respectively, which makes his 3 year average 63.2% That gives him 51 catches. Ertz' career average is 10.8 yards per catch. He has been under that average each of the last three years (10.0, 10.4, 9.3). His most recent 3 year average is 9.9 yards a catch. 51 catches at his career average of 10.8 ypc is 551 yards. 51 catches at his most recent 3 year average of 9.9 ypc is 505 yards. So barring a massive share of Diggs or Beasley's targets going to Ertz you are looking at somewhere between 500 and 550 yards receiving. Yeah but Wentz stunk and Hurts doesn't throw well so he must've gotten a lot of bad balls to see his catch percentage drop so much. Goedert was 70.8% last year. Rodgers was 77.4% Ertz is and always has been a compiler. He's not a game breaking player like Kelce or Kittle or Waller. He just isn't. Now you are going to have the compiler at age 30+. How much is that worth in terms of compensation for the Eagles and money for Ertz? Ertz isn't a top 5 TE in the league anymore. He's not even the best TE on the Eagles.

forgot there was a punt returner

2019 he had cracked ribs, injured rib cartilage and a lacerated kidney at the end of the season. Missed some games, played in the playoff game but was not effective in that game. Had a hamstring issue before that in 2019. Concussion and hamstring in 2017, rib injury 2016, concussion 2015, groin tear 2015. He didn't miss a lot of time for most of that until this past year, but having watched the majority of his games he has taken a ton of abuse, isn't the biggest TE ever made and is now 30. He was off last year before the ankle injury. He's not a guy I want on a deal of any length.

Sarcasm?

A word of caution to those super hyped up. Ertz has been very banged up the last couple years.

3 years ago maybe

And they are super pissed with their defense and changing coordinators, no?

Red Snapper https://youtu.be/KezvwARhBIc

Because Jeff George is/was such a douche noodle that team doesn't get the respect they deserve for the offense they put up. Metcalf, Mathis, and Emanuel all had over 1k yards receiving that year, Craig Heyward also ran for 1k yards and George threw for 4100 yards that year when that was still a rare occurrence. 4.1k passer 3 - 1k WRs 1k RB That's silly production, particularly for the time. The player who led the league in passing that year was Brett Favre. He had 1 1k WR and a 1k RB. The Chiefs by all accounts are the offensive gold standard in the league right now. This year they had: 4.7k passer 2 - 1k receivers (a TE and a WR) 800 yard RB We all speak in hushed/reverent tones about the 1991 Bills offense. Kelly threw for 3800 yards, Thomas ran for 1400, Reed and Lofton each had ~1100 yards. The 95 Falcons were arguably better offensively.

Win the game, stop whining.

If he's a passing game guru, you make him the OC at best. More likely something like passing game coordinator. Byron Leftwich is an ex NFL QB with actual coaching experience coaching an NFL offense right now in the NFC Championship game. But let's give Josh McCown a call because reasons.

There is no easy path. Mahomes, no Mahomes, beat who is in front of you. Win the damned game.

That game made me want to punch a deer too.

Taron Johnson made the tackle on Taylor in 3rd and goal in the Colts game too.

The wholesale price of crab meat is going to skyrocket.

Yeah that's weird. And super bad juju.

Things like this are what make people upset about diversity in coaching. Rob Ryan hasn't been part of a good defense in how long? There was NOBODY else who could have done a comparable job?

It's not a great time to be assy on Twitter.

Sub-par

This is where I'm at. I know if they play well they can win and that's enough. Nobody outside Buffalo truly expects them to win or wants them to win. The pressure is off. Just show up and ball and let the chips fall where they may.

She's a professional golfer.

When they say fired for cause, that was the cause, not the handouts.

It's damned near from MY rookie year. Also, I've thought about that clip several times but I haven't posted it because I'm not just a little stitious. I'm SUPERstitious. Our record in AFC/AFL title games is quite good, so we've got that going for us....which is nice.

You apparently get your own podcast that films inside your sneaker closet.

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