What is going on here?
Obviously the physical talent is obvious. Had a huge opening week. Looked like a physical freak racing down the sideline on the TD after the half in TB.
Something is not clicking. Is he being asked to block more? Is he hurt? Jason Witten's corpse matched/exceeded his production last night.
We hold him out of preseason entirely. Apparently he's untouchable at the deadline even though there seemed to be a market for him and yet we're more than halfway through year 3 without much impact after a promising rookie season.
Not much sleep last night as I'm sure you all can relate.
Put Engram in motion, split him out wide, have him run routes of the backfield, etc. Engram has basically 2 routes in this playbook -- drag and hitch.
And don't get me started on the Barkley usage. Running shurmur's zone scheme into a wall of cowboys last night wasn't the answer. I'm screaming at them to line up and run power. The one time they did it should have been a 10+ yard gain but Ellison blew his block and it was no gain. So of course genius-brain Shurmur gave up on it.
This guy cannot be gone soon enough.
His blocking is night and day from year 1. He still struggles with consistency but give him some credit.
agree with many here. Its how we are using him
You have to get him on LBs....that is scheme...chess match.
And it was funny how the announcers were saying it was Evan Engram time in the red zone and he gets taken out again
good play calling. Lets see if Benny Fowler can get separation inside the 10!
Jones had to wait for him a couple of times.
Is this bad attitude, lack of understanding the situation, or is he injured?
at the same time though i feel like he is more of an athlete than football player
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when his hands work. But his blocking just isn't improving. I like his personality character and fire. I think you keep him but can we move him out to WR. Let him do any of the blocking he does downfield.
His blocking is night and day from year 1. He still struggles with consistency but give him some credit.
Well then it ws a pretty damn dark night cause it still seems like dusk at best;)
To my eye he's effective on a few underneath routes - the square in/square out, dig and crossing route.
He can't get downfield at all and he's almost nonexistent on fades and 50/50's.
And linebackers beat the tar out of him over the middle just like Jordan Reed. They've tried to get him the ball inside the 10 he just doesn't finish.
He is kinda soft out there. Should have moved him at the
deadline if you ask me.
This. Taking him out in critical red zone and 3rd down passing situations is just bad management by shurmur.
The game management issues are just a given at this point with Shurmur. But where is the creative play caller that we saw take Case Keenum to an NFC Title game? The red zone possessions were downright embarrassing and they have no clue what to do with Barkley either
Think about how the team uses him, then think about how good coaches like Andy Reid and Bill Belichek would use him. My guess is that your immediate thought was "he'd be a star playing for those guys", and he probably would.
Engram disappears and has lack lust games because our coaching staff has no clue how to use him. He's a Ferrari in the garage of a new driver.
And let's not kid ourselves, he's not the only one on the roster in this situation.
Think about how the team uses him, then think about how good coaches like Andy Reid and Bill Belichek would use him. My guess is that your immediate thought was "he'd be a star playing for those guys", and he probably would.
Engram disappears and has lack lust games because our coaching staff
has no clue how to use him. He's a Ferrari in the garage of a new driver.
And let's not kid ourselves, he's not the only one on the roster in this situation.
Fully agree ... he should never be asked to block at the LOS, especially against someone like Lawrence. He needs to play off the line, get the ball in space, on the move, etc...
I am tired of hearing about his blocking - the Chiefs send Kelce into the pattern almost every play, the Eagles do the same thing with Ertz as do other teams with pass catching TE. This team does not utilize him as a weapon to pressure defenses
Utilizing him on the 5 yard curl pattern is not the best use of his talents
next to Witten: it’s s tree vs a sapling
Maybe a better coaching staff could figure out how to better utilize his talents. But right now, does the offense really look better with him in
there? Not really
Its clear as day hes a mismatch advantage. But they don't use it which is amazing since we don't have any mismatches at WR or other TE.
The team sucks too. This doesn't help his "production".
Engram is a very good player and not being used right. Moving forard, we must improve the OL and upgrade the WRs.
If a player is going to be one dimensional, then they better be great. Evan is not a great player. With DG not considering trading him, then you have to assume that his 5th year option will be picked up in May. $8.5M guaranteed. If an extension isn't worked out to avoid that cap hit, then we are looking at extending him with a minimum guarantee of $19M (5th year option and FT for TE is $10.5M). His agent knows the guaranteed money and that will be the starting point in contract negotiations.
Now, one has to ask is 750 yards and 6 TDs per year (rookie year and this year he is on the same pace) worth a contract that he will looking for?