In his debut with the Patriots on Sunday, JuJu Smith-Schuster saw an unexpectedly limited amount of playtime. Rookies Kayshon Boutte and Demario Douglas even saw more snaps than the veteran wideout. CLNS Media's Taylor Kyles and John Zannis discuss the lack of playing time for JuJu.
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00:00 I do think it is fair to talk about the receivers because that's something we do a lot.
00:06 And particularly Juju.
00:07 Juju wasn't not out for the entire second half, but he wasn't out there on that last
00:13 drive.
00:15 And he was asked about it after the game.
00:17 And so, you know, this is a desperation drive.
00:19 And this is the guy you brought in to be your number one.
00:21 He's your number one.
00:22 Well, you know, de facto number one receiver.
00:26 Because they don't have a true number one.
00:28 He should be a go to guy here.
00:31 He should be, but he's not.
00:32 Yeah, I get it.
00:33 Especially with DeVante Parker out.
00:35 Like, yeah, that's where you.
00:36 Well, I mean, he's brought in here to replace Jacoby Myers, who was the go to guy.
00:39 When you needed a completion, you went to this guy.
00:41 That's kind of what he's supposed to be in here to do.
00:43 He's supposed to kind of be the man.
00:46 You have DeVante Parker, who's your 50/50 ball guy.
00:49 They tried a couple to Butte, who simulated that and it didn't really work.
00:55 You know, everyone's got their roles here.
00:57 Hunter Henry's a safety valve.
00:59 But Juju Smith-Schuster, if you need completions, he wasn't in there.
01:03 They're running a set with Douglas and Butte in place of him.
01:09 In fact, among wide receivers all game, he was third in snaps.
01:13 Butte was second in this game behind Kendrick Bourne, which was also a bit surprising.
01:19 So Juju, it's fine to run different packages.
01:26 It's weird for Juju Smith-Schuster not to be involved in almost all of them, wouldn't
01:30 you say?
01:31 Yeah, I think that's just injury related.
01:32 Like, that just is what makes sense.
01:33 I don't want to over speculate about his knee.
01:34 His knee.
01:35 We're led to believe there isn't a knee injury and that's kind of what we're kind of talking
01:40 about.
01:41 He's probably lying.
01:42 I think he's lying.
01:46 Why else would you be out that long?
01:48 I don't know that.
01:49 I don't agree that he was supposed to become the number one.
01:52 I think he was expected to be a high volume target.
01:54 I think they knew that Devante Parker was the best guy and that Kendrick Bourne could
01:58 be much better in the right system.
01:59 I think Juju was like, all right, a solid, like worst case scenario, we have a guy who
02:04 can be a thousand yard receiver.
02:05 But yeah, I think he's lying.
02:07 I think it's only on his knee.
02:09 Yeah, plain and simple.
02:10 Unless they really trust a Mario Douglas and considering how often he and Mac didn't seem
02:15 like they were on the same page.
02:16 I just don't think that's likely.
02:18 And it's not like the Eagles are playing so much man coverage and I'm like, okay, you
02:21 need to Mario Douglas as a separator.
02:23 I thought, especially with all the bunches and stacks they use, they're basically just
02:26 playing with rules.
02:27 They're not really playing man or playing zone.
02:30 They're going into a certain area and getting picked up by certain guys.
02:32 And those bunches worked for them.
02:34 You know, it's just, but again, it's just, it was curious.
02:37 He played the third.
02:38 Yeah, someone did.
02:40 And that was a good question.
02:42 But again, in terms of snaps, he was third on the team behind born 73, Boutte 55, Juju
02:50 with 43, DeMario Douglas 33 among the wide among the receivers, among the wide receiver.
02:54 And I think booty was just like plugging in like your Devante Parker this week.
02:58 That's what yeah, exactly.
02:59 Routes run.
03:00 He was tied for third with DeMario Douglas with 27 targets.
03:04 He was tied for second with with DeMario Douglas as well.
03:09 He had one drop where sure, Matt could have put it in there better, but he probably has
03:13 got to come up with that as well.
03:15 But he wasn't impactful at all in this game.
03:18 And then he was out.
03:19 So there's going to be chatter among Juju.
03:21 And if he is in fact hurt, well, you know what?
03:24 That's some damaged goods there.
03:25 And that's going to be a problem as well.
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04:02 And if he is in fact hurt, well, you know what?
04:04 That's some damaged goods there.
04:06 And that's going to be a problem as well.
04:07 Taylor.
04:08 Yeah, I know you don't want this to be, but it might be.
04:13 Yeah, I mean, sure.
04:16 I think that really, especially we saw how much to running back sets they used with Zeke.
04:21 And I wanted to talk about this during camp.
04:23 I was going to Zeke in there.
04:25 I think there was.
04:26 I mean, that was a college offense.
04:28 Like that's what he was doing with Jameer Gibbs and the other guy.
04:30 So I think that really he was just trying it.
04:32 And I think they really do like Zeke.
04:34 I thought one, the fact like Zeke didn't look good.
04:36 A lot of it was because he was mostly running.
04:38 Neither one of them could run very good.
04:40 I thought, yeah, no, he had like highlights.
04:43 I'm just saying that it looked kind of funky.
04:45 I think the screens, they just were doing too much.
04:47 I understand they needed to protect their linemen, but he got to a point where it's
04:51 like you can't keep putting yourselves in these positions where you're basically it's
04:55 a dead play because the reacting was so well.
04:59 They did open up the offense to be fair to the point where I don't think it was as obvious,
05:03 but the screen game had one positive play that I remember the rest of it was great.
05:06 So yeah, I think it was the screen game, but I thought it was really interesting what he
05:09 was doing with the two backs.
05:11 And I think that that is going to really mitigate if Juju can't play because then you a lot
05:16 of the time, but that's the thing is even talking about that is a bit of a problem,
05:20 right?
05:21 You have no, you have Parker Miss Week one.
05:23 And if Juju is physically limited or he's just a guy in this offense, it's just part
05:29 of certain packages, but not part of all of them.
05:32 And you know, he's not, well, also remember a lot of his contract is incentive based.
05:36 So if he doesn't do anything this year, he doesn't get paid that much.
05:40 Like that was a big thing.
05:41 It looks like Jacoby Myers contract.
05:42 Jacoby Myers got that money guaranteed.
05:44 Showed why today Juju didn't because he was coming off a knee injury.
05:47 So why doesn't play and it becomes just a guy.
05:50 His cap is going to reflect that.
05:51 Well, why don't we talk a little bit about Jacoby Myers?
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