So he had 5 rec. for 128 yards and 2 TD's tonight. 67 yards & 1 TD coming on 1 play. Good game especially against the 1's but I say he gets hurt by the 3rd game and doesn't finish the season.
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No surprise. Sanders will put up monster numbers in that offense, doesn't mean he was going to do the same for the Steelers.
Let's see how many passes he drops this year.
See what happens when the game is on the line.
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Based off the one notable drop in his Steeler career? People act like he was Limas Sweed dropping balls all over the place. From what I remember his hands were good normally. And compared to a guy like Mike Wallace he looked like he had Spiderman-espue sticky hands.
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He should be injured by week 3
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I remember him dropping a long pass down the right sideline in the first game last year. Many more critical drops followed throughout the year. Me, I had no confidence that he could make the huge catch - glad that he is gone.
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Rarely have I ever seen such a fast WR be so useless on deep routes. No physicality whatsoever and no sense of positioning.
They can have him. I'd rather bring back Sweed than pay Manny market value.
They can have him. I'd rather bring back Sweed than pay Manny market value.
The best catch I ever saw Sanders make was the TD last night where he was contested in the endzone and fought for it. I never saw him do that here. Perhaps, he is improving, but he is definitely driven to play well for his new leader.
but will it last?
I think he will show glimpses of what attracted the Steelers to draft him. I could see him even improving on his stats. But I don't think it is going to be a huge improvement. We'll see.
Based off of multiple drops and fumbles. He and Wallace both were inconsistent with their hands.
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He had 3 fumbles in his Steeler career, 2 lost. I wil have to research the drops because it didn't seem to me that he had all that many, hence my confusion.
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Pre-season at home in Denver against the Texans. Yawn.
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Sanders never had a chance to play his natural position with the steelers. He's a slot guy, not an outside guy. His injuries kept him out earlier in his career and then last year when he was healthy, the Steelers needed him to play outside when Wheaton was injured.
He's in a perfect situation in Denver. He can play the slot (or at least run quick, slot type routes) and he's the 3rd option. Defenses worry about Demaryius Thomas and Julius Thomas, so Sanders won't face tough coverage very often. That's why the Pats wanted him. He is good in that situation.
He's in a perfect situation in Denver. He can play the slot (or at least run quick, slot type routes) and he's the 3rd option. Defenses worry about Demaryius Thomas and Julius Thomas, so Sanders won't face tough coverage very often. That's why the Pats wanted him. He is good in that situation.
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Why did he have to play outside here? They had Brown and Cotchery outside.
Last time I checked Welker is the slot guy in Denver.
Sanders will have a good year.
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I didn't know that the deep post or go was a slot type route :shrug:
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I'd call him a slot guy by default, due to his inefficiency on deep routes. All you can really do with the guy is send him speeding across the middle. Problem is, he has zero physicality and ****** hands, so he's not much to look at in the slot either.
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He was one of the league's least effective deep receivers last season. 23 deep balls resulted in 7 catches and one TD.
An interesting blurb I just read on Manny:
Sanders has the speed to go deep but isn't a great deep receiver and was one of the more inefficient deep players in the league catching only 26.1% of passes thrown to him deeper than 20 yards on 26 targets, that 60th in the league. The Steelers were using Sanders to run deep routes to try and do two things. The first was to get open, try and get that big play, the second was that he'd draw the safety away from the more potent wide receivers Antonio Brown and Jerricho Cotchery. This second reason is what some call "taking the top off the defense." What the Steelers found was that the second reason was also ineffective. I tracked on often in single safety situations (where the safety has to choose between two targets) the safety went to Sanders side and it only happened on 19% of his deep routes. Even when lined up opposite Cotchery the safety slid away from Sanders. What this means is defenses didn't respect Sander and Sanders didn't make them pay for their disrespect. This became more evident as the season went on, in weeks 14 through 16 opponents used their 3rd corner on Sanders 73% of the time.
http://www.milehighreport.com/2014/7/13/5865543/what-kind-of-receiver-is-emmanuel-sanders
so what will the Donkeys do when Welker misses significant time? While Sanders may still be the 3rd option there behind the Thomases, he'll still draw the opposing defense's #2 CB and we saw how well that worked for him last season.
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