but it’s not a lack of opportunity for me, it’s more like he wasn’t used in those areas because he performed terribly at it, he was really bad attempting to catch in traffic, lots of drops with the least bit of contact near the catch point, pretty consistently actually, to the point that I’d consider it a very real pattern and a troubling one. He shrinks between the hashmarks and loses his hand eye coordination
i didnt see issues with catching in traffic - i saw some frustrating drops - maybe you could argue that he's hearing footsteps on some of those drops but i definitely dont see a pattern with regards to dealing with contested situations - i dont think the drops are related to contact or the MoF necessarily
and in terms of the usage in those areas - it's 100% about the offence and not dyami - this is literally the exact same coordinator as with dk metcalf and the similarities in terms of route tree and usage are uncanny - it makes sense to continue using that offence because it's incredibly effective but it makes evaluating the WRs an absolute mess lol...
the hand-eye coordination is an interesting point because he looks far more confident/natural catching those downfield balls and tracking them over his shoulder with late hands etc. than on some of the shorter stuff (where i saw some of the issues)
id be more worried about these things though if we hadn't signed sammy watkins to play the x type role for us - dyami would get a ton of 1v1 looks because of the offence we run and i think that's a massive opportunity for this passing game
im not finished with the idea of adding speed and more vertical elements to this offence (especially if that includes vertical route-running skills) - put enough speed and quickness mixed with vertical route-running on the field and the defence has to respect that because even if you miss a couple of times, eventually you're going to hit... the problem with duvernay is that he cannot route-run so is limited in his effectiveness right now
with the way dyami brown is able to release, stem and stack - he'd be lethal opposite hollywood