Hot Takes Welcome (Post Tampa Bay Loss)
My multiple hot takes:
Kubiak is poor at in-game adjustment.
DA is good at picking secondary players.
Putting Willie Gay on Chris Godwin is pants-on-head.
Alontae Taylor is the best player on the defense right now.
Rattler needs more practice individually with Shaheed. He's gotta get his timing down with him. Carr has played with super-speedy guys before; Rattler hasn't played with anyone who remotely resembles Shaheed's ability to take the top off a defense.
Rattler played well for a rookie, but he's gotta keep his eyes more downfield in the red zone. He did miss a wide open Holker. The other TD pass he missed, I can let slide because there's a possibility he simply couldn't see the open receiver.
Right now we have two decent-good OTs and the guys between them are just barely serviceable if not outright bad. We miss McCoy, Patrick, and Ruiz in the worst way.
Kubiak needs to keep those designed rollouts for Spencer coming. That's exactly his game. Know who else excelled at that? Jameis (seriously, his statistics outside the pocket for his career are gaudy).
Brees was absolutely the GOAT of pocket passers. He was an absolute master of pocket feel, manipulation, and stepping up. That said, he'd get killed behind this OL because the replacement guards are THAT BAD.