I'm sure Palmer will continue to get plenty of snaps barring injury, but he has gotten 87% of the offensive snaps in the last 4 games without Williams. I will be surprised if that continues the rest of the season unless other WRs miss games due to injury. IMO that implies his target share will likely be less than it was in weeks 4, 6, and 7.
I'll take the over on the 87%, with the caveat of if his knee is sound. It was only down "that low" because of him coming out this week, because of the knee. I think he's a full time player in every sense of the word and it's not going anywhere.
OK, cool, I'll take the under and we'll revisit at the end of the season.
Technically his injury took away his playing time so congrats, you were right!
Seriously though I'm not sure what degree his knee will impact him assuming he returns for us to be able to see how his intended usage would play out. But I would think, or hope, you have come to the conclusion he's been missed by the team and had he remained healthy neither QJ or anyone else was a threat to his role.
Disappointing that you chose to respond to this post and give me sarcastic congrats because Palmer got injured, rather than replying to my previous post, where I listed a lot of data showing that Palmer was basically a JAG to that point.
You are right that Johnston has been disappointing and has proven to be less than a JAG. So it turns out that he might not have been much of a threat to Palmer's snaps had Palmer not been injured. I was apparently wrong about that through 12 games, but that is more about Johnston than Palmer. That doesn't really change the fact that Palmer is basically a JAG.
I'm surprised to hear the bolded. I thought we'd hashed that out already and left it with "we'll see how it goes" and I just assumed by this point you'd have realized you sold Palmer short but I guess I assumed to much.
I took the time to post a lot of data then. It was valid then and remains valid now.
I have watched every snap of Palmer's career. Particularly keeping in mind that he has played his entire career with Herbert as his QB, Palmer is a JAG IMO, or maybe just slightly above that level.
If Palmer is a JAG and Johnston has now proven to be below that level, at least for his first season, that doesn't change the fact that Palmer is still a JAG. Except now Palmer is a JAG coming off a non-trivial knee injury.
Also, we did leave it with "we'll see how it goes." And Palmer, due to injury, hasn't done anything since then. What is it that you think would have changed my opinion about Palmer?
Was not really looking for all this but here you go.,
Frankly when you got a point to prove you go overboard with your data, which you usually get from PFF. It's confirmation bias 101 to me the way you rely on whatever stats you want to prove your point and the convo's are just not that interesting to me, I can look up stats as well. Introducing stats is one thing, hammering away at them to prove your point as being the correct one is something else.
It's 2023 and most people here have access to watch every game as well.
You twisted the entire conversation from my original comment, which was that Palmers role was not descending and moved the goal post into an argument he was a JAG. While I don't agree that's also not the the least bit in line with what I said which was that his role, his playing time, was not getting reduced because even if he is a JAG he's the best option the team has. You took that comment and tried to avalanche me with PFF data when it was never what I was discussing.
And yes, I would have assumed his absence would have made that abundantly clear to you by now that's the best option they got at WR other then Allen and as such his playing time was never in jeopardy of being reduced.
I can honestly say I did not expect all of this from the comment I left to you today, was not meant to be that serious. I just honesetly assumed, as someone you know watches every game, that you'd know that this team has felt the loss of Palmer and that QJ was not ready to ascend and that it was plain to see they miss him and his role was not about to reduce.