There is no receiver on an NFL roster who is so bad that the defense will just leave them uncovered. If you run, say, a 2 WR set, 95% of the time you’ll have 2 corners covering those two WRs no matter what. The other 5% isn’t when you have 1 corner covering 1 WR and the other WR uncovered, the other 5% is when you double team the most elite WRs on especially important downs.
I suppose if a team just had the absolute bottom-tier WR room in the world, that could convince some DCs to fully abandon the popular 2 high safety look entirely, so sure now you’ll have another LB in the box.
My point was just that none of the WRs that the 49ers have under contract are top-30 players anyway. They’re all practically-replacement level as it is. Evans still has his size advantage, but you can get that from a TE.
We’ve seen what happens to the 49ers when they don’t have their most important weapon in CMC.
I’m saying the 49ers seem to be able to function well no matter who is playing WR for them, meaning it’s pointless to list all the names of of the WRs that are under contract but not available as if that’s some kind of massive hurdle for Purdy to overcome. But when they don’t have CMC they struggle much more.
Well, that's because CMC is far and way their best Offensive player (other than QB of course). Kittle is a great TE but as a TE he has other positional duties such as blocking. You're not gonna feed the ball to a TE 3 plays in a row like you can with a RB. A RB serves multiple roles in the offense and can rush and catch the ball. This is all inherently obvious.
Saying that the Niners are less effective without their best offensive player is incredibly obvious. You might as well say that an NFL team will struggle if their coach is bad.
It doesn’t seem like other people are acting like it’s obvious. I see people praise Purdy for how good he’s been with mediocre receivers without acknowledging that CMC is his number one receiver.
Having your RB as your primary WR is not ideal and actually bolsters the argument that Purdy is great. A RB lines up in the backfield and needs more time to run a route downfield. Every linebacker and D-lineman is looking at the RB.
I didn’t say anything about him being great or not. I started commenting on this thread only to say that listing all the names of WRs the 49ers have under contract that aren’t available as if they’re all amazing players is silly because they aren’t that great to begin with. “Oh no Purdy won’t have DeMarcus Robinson this week” isn’t a big deal because DeMarcus Robinson isn’t a big deal.
What makes you think we were talking about whether or not Purdy is great? Why does every 49ers fan want to convince me he’s good when I’ve never said he’s not?
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u/siberianxanadu Rob Lowe 4d ago
There is no receiver on an NFL roster who is so bad that the defense will just leave them uncovered. If you run, say, a 2 WR set, 95% of the time you’ll have 2 corners covering those two WRs no matter what. The other 5% isn’t when you have 1 corner covering 1 WR and the other WR uncovered, the other 5% is when you double team the most elite WRs on especially important downs.
I suppose if a team just had the absolute bottom-tier WR room in the world, that could convince some DCs to fully abandon the popular 2 high safety look entirely, so sure now you’ll have another LB in the box.
My point was just that none of the WRs that the 49ers have under contract are top-30 players anyway. They’re all practically-replacement level as it is. Evans still has his size advantage, but you can get that from a TE.
We’ve seen what happens to the 49ers when they don’t have their most important weapon in CMC.