Re: It was never about Cooks...

Yes, it’s fair to wonder about how the lack of a burner is negatively impacting McVay’s O.

But these things occur to me.

Woods plays fast. He might not time all that fast, but we’ve seen him get deep plenty of times.

Reynolds is deceptively fast with his long strides. He doesn’t look like he’s all that fast but he’s covering lots of ground moving downfield. If a defender hesitates then he’s toast.

Jefferson was described as the fastest WR at the Senior bowl, I believe. Might not be 4.3 fast, but he’s no slouch and his route running and hands make him a handful to defend both short and deep.

Those 3 WR’s should be capable of requiring S attention and distraction away from each other while Kupp is eating up a 3rd CB underneath.

In short, I really like our current WR corps. A lot.

Actually, I suspect that our current issues in the passing game is a combo of McVay’s play design, Goff’s hesitancy to throw deep a bit more often, and a slight neglect of TE’s and RB’s as passing targets. IOW, make the D defend every damned blade of grass.