re: Jamal Peters- Safety - top 5

This is a reasonable post and point -- and deserves one in return.

I'm pretty sure Freeze said it's a transition period until he's a fulltime receiver at some point this week -- but maybe I misread that? Been a pretty busy week with alot of time on mobile so my apologies if it's wrong or if Freeze is just playing games with us.

Is Freeze overruling Wommack here and "taking care of his offense" kinda in spite of the defense? Wommack seemed non-too-pleased with the swap from what I had heard. Bottom line is -- I don't buy "Jones being buried on the depth chart." No damn way he was passed by Cliff Coleman. Rumor from our side from several days before the game was that he was serving a one game suspension for an "off the field" incident that had been kept quiet. It was denied, of course, but it was awfully strange that he didn't play at all in game 1 while throwing a TrFR in the deep end, initially in a competitive game where one mistake could have been a big momentum swing...

Jones was good against a couple of really good receivers last year. Anyone that denies that is an idiot. In fact, your current staff has done a tremendous job with the element of surprise on some of that stuff like playing guys early/"in strange positions" -- and teams have been slow to adjust and get a good scouting report. IMO a good bit of that stuff is "gimmicky" and is pretty common-sensely exploitable -- but it seems your staff knows this as well and compensates/changes mostly before it catches up to them.

I was always in favor of us offering and chasing Jones and have never denied otherwise. All I heard from our side was that he wasn't quick enough -- and we've been pretty nitpicky with that on outside receivers. He became a very physical corner -- but I heard going into the Egg that it was his matchup that we were going after. Obviously, it didn't happen to any significant extent until Dak got in the game -- and even then, there wasn't shite Jones could have done with those De'Runnya out routes, so you can't really fault him there. We also didn't really trust anyone but Russell to throw deep last year, with that changing a bit for Dak in the bowl game.

Point being -- we thought Jones was exploitable deep and if you could shed him at the LOS, it was just a matter of time before it became a consistent reality. If your staff also saw this -- it would make damn good sense as to why they would make him into a red zone corner...