Well I don't believe losing Graham has anything to do with Wilson's or the Seahawks level of play. The way the rest of the receivers have kicked in, I definitely wouldn't want to face them with Graham also.
Originally Posted by: PackFanWithTwins
You are 100% correct that Graham makes no difference. You probably recall I was laughing at Schneider for making such a stupid deal.
Doesn't it stand to reason that if New Orleans lost a strong weapon that their offense would suffer? W/ Shockey 2 years before Graham and the 5 years Graham was there, the New Orl. offense was a touch better w/ shockey. In 2015 w/o Graham New Orl. had 100 more yards in 2015 than in 2014 and Brees missed a full game an parts of 2 others with injury.
A guy like Gronk would improve an offense; but not a guy like Graham. But you're not gonna get Gronk away from NE because they know how good he is. Likewise, Seattle got Graham away from New Orl. because they knew how good he is.
Did any of you notice Rudolph in Seattle game. He made 2 plays: Chancellor had Rudolph blanketed both times positioned his body and Bridgewater made good throws; Chancellor had to interfere with one and couldn't get a and on the second to knock it down.
If you WATCH you'll see on most of the throws to TEs, the TE is covered, it's either a perfect throw or the TE is positioning his body to make a catch. A guy like Rudolph is a complete and valuable TE; but if he was the GB TE, he would at best only improve the GB offense slightly and this year not at all w/ Rodgers playing like Sanchez.
R.Rodgers can do what Rudolph does and he continues to ascend. And next year Perillo and Henry [he will be #2 next year] will ascend as well as Bachman. We are loaded at TE.