Has anyone else noticed/thought about this? Nico hasn’t shown his best skill!
As we all know now is that Nico in his 3rd year broke out and had a huge year. And if you were watching in his first 2 yrs you would have known it was coming once he got good consistent qb play, he was all the talk of 2022 training camp and how he has improved but just didn’t have the season everyone expected.
But in his breakout out year he was missing a whole aspect of his game that we know he has and added one I didn’t know he had, when he was drafted and playing in year one and two he was what you thought, a big bodied fast receiver who would win 50/50 balls when needed, I remember in preseason of that year his big catch was right before half against rams I think where they threw a fade and he mossed the guy. So my fav part of that season was waiting for him to make those plays and they threw a good amount of fades to him or 50/50 balls and they were just never the best balls,(if you watched that season you know what I’m talking about).
Then in his actual breakout year with great qb play it was his RAC that actually did it, he was a monster after he got the ball and got open very consistently and didn’t have many contested attempts part being to our ball placement specialist, so with me being a fan of Nico I again was waiting for the big fade in endzone huge catch(moss) moment but it just never really came. They didn’t attempt them at all this season I wanna say there was 2-3 attempts and one he caught but just stepped out of bounds with one of his 2 feet (I think it was against broncos I’m not sure though).
Now I don’t want to say he can be even better because last year was a great year and would be unfair to hope he beats it especially with more weapons, but if they remember what he can do down in the redzone/endzone and add that back in the playbook I would not be shocked if he scores 10+ touchdowns this year.
Would love to hear your guys’ thoughts on this and if you noticed this or think different!
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