Sorry Tex I'm w/ Nerd on this one; but [I'm gonna speak for Nerd here] we hope it is you serving us a massive portion of crow!
You look at Rollins and you can see he has "IT." You look at Goodsen, not so much. If Goodsen doesn't look like he has more "IT" this year, his ceiling is probably Jerrat Bush.
It's year 2 and I just doesn't see "IT." You got the wrong routes and drops, ya some 2nd year guys with "it" can still do this; but how can a guy who played WR for 6-7-8 years not be aware of the sideline on a deep out or fail to turn DB if you cant get the ball. Here's some notes I took on Janis’ play in Pitts game, some good, some bad, there is some potential, he shouldn't be cut yet:
2nd Q at 14:24. CB was 8 yards deep. Janis and seemed to communicate w/ Tolzein presnap. He ran a nice out for 7 yards, perfectly timed w/ Tolzein. Aware of the sideline, he was able to stop his momentum from going OOB to try to turn it upfield but was tackled.
2nd Q at 3:43, 3rd and 10 and Playing Y, Janis ran a go route down right sideline that was overthrown by Tolzein. At about 4 yards Janis did a studder step, had he not made that studder the pass would have been on target. Don’t know if the studder part of the pattern, because it was so quick and worthless and Janis has 5" on CB, I would think no. If it is then Tolzein overthrew.
On a 3rd and 4 at :55 2Q Janis made a move as if to go deep and cut off route at sticks and made the catch for 1st. The CB should have been sitting on the route Janis ran. So either Janis sold the deep route perfectly and read the flip of the hips perfectly timed his cut perfectly or the CB was swayed by film study of the go route Janis ran for TD @ NE.
2nd Q at :35, CB was playing way off, Janis raised his hands palms up like he didn’t know what was happening; but he ran slant that Tolzein was expecting. Somehow Janis got on the same page w/ Tolzein. Perhaps the “I don’t know what to do palms us” was Tolzein and Janis’ way of communicating.
3rd Q 13:44 Janis was playing X and Henry the H [in line]. Henry ran a 5 yard square out, got separation and Tolzein threw a perfect strike. Only problem was Janis ran a 5 yard inside stick or curl and would have ended up right next to Henry, if he didn’t stopped and kinda jump out of the way. Janis’ CB drove in front of Henry knocking ball down almost getting INT. I’m certain it was Janis who messed up. I’ll bet there are times MM wants to strangle Janis, first he screws up route and then compounds the screw-up by being really stupid and not sealing off his man from Henry.
At 3Q, 12:52 on 4th and 4, Janis ran a real nice stick route on CB, but ball went to White for 1st
At 11:43 CB was playing way off, Janis tried to pressure CB before making his cut on a deep slant, and it was not effective, but the timing between Janis and Tolzein was perfect, the throw a touch behind [at Janis’ left earhole], was dropped. Though the ball fell behind him, Janis only thought about his drop as he slowed to a trot, he didn’t consider in the slightest that he better make sure that hits the ground and is not INT.
At 11:38 3Q Janis was in Z, Monty in Y; the route was designed for Monty and Janis to both run outs, Monty at 5 yards and Janis at 15. Janis made a nice snatch of the ball, but was OOB. On this play, Janis is near the sideline must break to inside and pressure his CB inside far enough so when he cuts outside there is enough real estate for QB to make the throw. So 1 of 2 things happened: Tolzein was either late with the throw or Janis didn’t pressure his guy inside far enough and made his cut outside too close to sideline. I believe it was the later, because if the throw was late the clock in Janis’ head and awareness of the sideline would have caused Janis to slow; but he was running full speed when he made the catch as if sideline was 20 yards away and made no effort at all to tap his feet in bounds. He seemed 100% unaware that the sideline was there.