I’m disappointed how underutilized Shaheed, Cooks, and Vele are

Why would we not focus on Olave and Kamara?

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Why would we not focus on Olave and Kamara?

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They get all the focus. Olave doesn’t seem to be worth market value at all

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I guess reading isn't your rhing.

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Cook was widely panned as a terrible FA pickup by the league and had 25 catches for 250 yards last year. Yet, you think he should be our featured guy and “don’t get” why he’s not.

Jesus. this place…

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Brandin Cooks is doing what a veteran #3 WR is supposed to do
400-500ish yards, clutch catches (which he has done when targeted), and the locker room stuff. All of things he's done thus far from what it sounds like.

6.5mil a year is/was a little excessive, but in reality we're talking about 1-2mil overpaid. It ain't absolutely back breaking

notice how I asked why did they sign this guy if he's not going to be more utilized?

big difference between saying why isn't he more utilized than asking why did we sign him in the first place.

not talking to you so much.

just some dumb frick drive by poster.

Well when your QB sucks, its hard to get production from all your WRs

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Well when your QB sucks, its hard to get production from all your WRs

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Hmmmm...I'm thinking when your receivers suck it's hard to get production from your QB

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Brandin Cooks is doing what a veteran #3 WR is supposed to do
400-500ish yards, clutch catches (which he has done when targeted), and the locker room stuff. All of things he's done thus far from what it sounds like.

6.5mil a year is/was a little excessive, but in reality we're talking about 1-2mil overpaid. It ain't absolutely back breaking

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I haven't checked other teams but I doubt the average salary for a WR3 is what we are paying Cooks.
Brandin Cooks signed a 2yr/$13M deal with $7.75M guaranteed.
If I'm interpreting spotrac correctly it's essentially a 1yr/$7.75M deal getting $6.05M of that this season. If cut prior to week 1 next season he'd account $4.9M dead cap but save $3.1M, leaving us paying him only $1.7M guaranteed for next season.

Juwan Johnson's 3yr/$30.7M deal with $21.5M guaranteed was another bad contract.
Looks like we are locked in with him through 2026 at least, paying him in 2025/2026 basically a 2yr/$21.2M, plus still having dead cap spread out in voided years.

Chris Olave's 5th year option we picked up for the 2026 season will pay him $15.6M, another dumb contract.

Shaheed I haven't been able to focus on too much. I don't know if he's not getting separation, or if Rattler is not seeing him, or if he's deeper/longer developing routes that o-line hasn't given enough time for the route to develope. I feel like like the last 2 seasons when I watched, and saw a few breakdowns that showed he was running crisp routes and getting good separation.

Vele I'm hoping starts getting included more. Couldn't expect too much too soon coming in during season without camp, then had a little injury.

2026 WR corps should be, after trading Olave;
WR1=High Draft pick and/or higher profile Free Agent
WR2/3=Rashid Shaheed #22, 6'0" - 190.....Could be great weapon if we had a true WR1
DeVaughn Vele #14, 6'5" 210.....Hope he continues to be utilized more and Moore carves out a good role for him in this system
WR4/5=Brandin Cooks #10, 5'10" - 190...Since he won't cost too much until regular season begins, maybe keep him through camp as veteran presence
Bub Means #16, 6'2" - 215.........Hopefully he can get past injuries and compete as he seemed to have a decent camp before IR
Free Agent pickup/mid-late round draft pick
Battling for a Spot=Mason Tipton #15, 5'11" - 187.....Camp beast that cannot seem to do it in a game. I though last season was mainly because he got hurt just before preseason game and he never got back on track from camp status, but this season he hasn't done anything of note yet either.
Kevin Austin Jr #81, 6'2" - 200....Looks to only be camp body
Ja'Lynn Polk #89, 6'1" - 205.......Good potential if he can get past injuries and commit. Maybe the change of scenery will help

I think they need to trade Shaeed. He has proven to only be a deep threat on a team that does not throw deep. He is also low key injury prone. I don't think we will be able to sign him anyway, so might as well move on

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Cook was widely panned as a terrible FA pickup by the league and had 25 catches for 250 yards last year. Yet, you think he should be our featured guy and “don’t get” why he’s not.

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Micky is paying him legit money. Why pay that when you are trying to get out of cap hell. Totally unnecessary. He’s a great insurance policy if you are expecting this team to win.

Now he’s just taking snaps from someone like Tipton who we could see what we have instead.