1. Kadarius Toney (college) - 75.7%
2. Kyle Rudolph - 68.1%
3. Streling Shepard - 66.7%
4. "He Hate Me"(Evan Engram) - 60.7%
5. Kenny Galladay - 58.1%
6. Darius Slayton - 54.4%
7. Dante Pettis - 56%
8. John Ross - 41.5%
I DESPERATELY want the receiving corps to be a stretch-the-field type offense because Jones seems to have a good strong pro arm, but do we have that kind of reliability in the deep zones ?
Last year, the Giants had a team completion rate of 62.1%, good for 29th best; Saints were 70.9, Packers 70.7, Texans 70.1, Seahawks 68.9
https://www.nfl.com/stats/team-stats/
I couldn't believe the Texans either. True about Jones being #1 in deep balls, but the percentage of completions is lousy.
There are a lot of seemingly contradictor factors; no matter - how good will he be (given good protection) with targets that don't seem to be that good at catching the ball (given their historical performance numbers).
Time will tell.
It doesn't say anything.
Golladay had the best contested rate in the whole league over the past two years. He's a downfield machine.
A guy who will get slants or short routes will have a better rate but is not a better player.
Let's MF Goooooooooo
The chickens (the receivers) must catch the balls (the eggs)
I for one like Jones a lot and think he is going to be a very good QB. I have seen flashes and we just need consistency. The key factors that have not helped his progress is that last year he had a new system with little practice, one of the worst OLs in the game and one of the worst WR corps in the game. The WR corps is no longer an excuse nor is practice but the OL is a big question mark for me. The Superbowl showed how important that is, heck we won Superbowls because our DL dominated and forced the best QB in the game to run for his life.
But as you said, it is a different era; the successful execution of a pass offense is a lot more important these days.
The development of the Bucs is a great study of how a sub ordinary team can rise from a 7-9 season in 2019 to a Super Bowl winner the next year.
To your point, it did help that they secured the services of Tom Brady, but just as important; suddenly, their offensive line woke up in the middle of the season and became the foundation of their success (both in pass pro but also in run blocking).
As you noted, even Super Man (Mahomes) was running for his life, when his O-line was injury decimated coming into the the Big Dance
Winning is everything, I get it, but over the recent years the one offensive stat I always look at is TD-to-INT Ratio (in 2019: Packers 9.6, KC 5.4, Bills 3.6, Bucs 3.5, Seattle 3.1)
Kind-of-shows-you how good Rogers still is - 48 TDs, 5 INTs !
https://thehuddle.com/2020/06/28/2020-offensive-line-rankings/
And were still playing like that in 2020 when the Giants 2-5 almost beat them. Then they caught fire.
As far as Tom Brady (THE most competitive player in the NFL) holding anybody back' I didn't think I'd ever hear anybody suggest that.