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Originally Posted by YDFL Commish
As mentioned many during broadcasts, Pierce ran the most 9 routes of any WR in the NFL, and by a wide margin.
He was open on a lot of those routes and Minshew just failed to find him, or didn't trust his arm. The hope is that AR hits on those open routes.
Besides they are still valuable routes as Pierce is a threat and he does move safeties from time to time.
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Minshew didn't have the arm needed to get it there. On all those go routes and fly routes he was open literally 80% of the time. He rarely got any respect from opposing DC's because they knew he was not getting the ball. If we have a QB who can get it there accurately it will also free up Pit on the other side and make those slants a little easier to Downs. Just being able to throw a deep ball makes a defensive approach to us a little more challenging. I don't think we need WR helps as much as some. We need to see if Pierce can catch the ball when thrown to him in stride. Most of his catches are made from him having to come back for the ball, or in a congested route where he has to fight for it cause it was woefully off target or underthrown.