wayne_motley said:
Neither Jones nor Witten will go to the probowl this year. They're both good players, but neither will be taking that trip, imo....don't argue with me on Witten. I don't want to hear about last year, about the offense, or anything else. I'm not putting him down, just saying he won't be in the probowl this season.
I'm going to have to agree on that one..neither Jones or Witten sniff the Pro Bowl.
If you want to be blunt, both these guys having not built on their success from last season have severely crimpled the offense this season.
Everybody assumed Jones and Witten would have repeated or expanded their play over last season with all the additions made to the offense with Bledsoe, Rivera and NBIII and Thompson, too. And Price..too.
But whether due to injury like Jones or just not making a concerted effort to involve Witten in the offense more..
..without dramtically increased production from those two players in these next 5 games, playoffs is just a dream IMO.
And when you look at how much these two had the offense built around them as impact players coming into '05 and were counted on as huge tools to control the clock and score inside the RedZone..
..while I wouldn't go so far as to say they have failed in those roles this year..
their lack of production is glaring.
And I have to say..it's inexplicable to me how, last year, Witten, after losing our other TE Campbell early in the year, having Julius Jones out for the first half of the year and Terry Glenn gone early in the season..The OL playing mediocre, etc.
..was still able to have the season he had..with Vinny at QB.
As a team, we have improved the offense with a better QB, healthy WR's as starters and Campbell has played all season so far and the OL should have improved even if Pettitti is a rookie with Riviera at G and Tucker is playing LT instead of RT this year.
That's a whole lot of improvement in players and I'm at a loss to figure out how that has translated into Witten being less effective.
Jones I understand, but not Witten's production.
So Sean Payton and Bledsoe and Witten are going to have to get this straightened out on Sunday and every week we are still in the playoff hunt from here on out if things are going to improve offensively.
We'll see.
parcellswaterboy
