Can Alec Pierce continue being the #1 option in Indy?
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This is a guy that's got, you know, eight targets, excuse me, eight receptions on 10 targets. He's got an 80% catch rate, 181 receiving yards and two touchdowns. Alec Pierce is going absolutely banana pants right now. Buy yourself this, not maybe, again, not this level of production. I can't imagine he's going to see, you know, 90 plus receiving yards per game, but godly, he is an absolute splash play merchant right now. Buy yourself Alec Pierce. Yeah. I mean, I'm selling Alec Pierce as the sixth leading receiver in the league in terms of receiving yards. That's insane. I don't think he will finish among the top six, top 10 receivers in the league. I don't think he will be the Colts leading receiver by the end of the year, although I don't know by this point, I don't know, man, I don't know with the way the Colts passing ovens looks right now. So I'm selling in that regard, but I do think that the, I think the fantasy community kind of just like completely through Pierce to the side, you know, and we didn't talk about, I'm not saying everybody's stupid and we're so smart. Like that's not what I'm saying here because I don't think we talked enough about Pierce's potential impact in this receiver room too. But if you go back and you look at his 2022 reception, perception profile, he doesn't profile as a useless player. Okay. So he is not a zone beater, 9th percentile success rate versus zone. So that's limited, but 72.4% against press and 69.6% against man. Now I've always said with Alec Pierce that he is very, again, very, very limited, you're getting nothing in terms of the middle of the intermediate and the middle of the field. But you know, nine routes, post routes, slant routes, he can run those. Okay. So he can stretch out the defense. And now he's got a lunatic at quarterback who will just do it. I mean, Anthony, Anthony Richardson is truly like, he's an, I mean, he's an insane player. I know he, I know people are kind of down on what we've seen so far. You know, I get that he's a guy that people have a lot of feelings about, you know, and like there's hyper analysis and things like that. I totally, I totally understand like he's, he's a frustrating player. I would say he's a, he's a developmental player. He's not going to be perfect. You know, there's no question about that. He is, he's going to have his moments. It's going to be kind of frustrating. But he has a 12.8 average depth of target against zone coverage. That's wild. Okay. In week one, it was like 17 average depth of target against zone coverage. Anthony Richardson. So what I mean by saying he's a lunatic of a quarterback is that anyone, almost any other quarterback on plan earth is seeing the Alec Pierce run these nine routes and these post routes that are, you know, open if you're charting it against zone coverage. But they're like, yeah, I'm, I'm not taking that. I'm going to take the normal throw. And Anthony Richardson is like, oh, my Anthony Richardson, bro, I'm going to take that thing. When I'm my pro day, I bumped the frigging football off the ceiling so I can hit Alec Pierce down there and he's doing it. So that mesh of style is pretty real. So no, I'm not buying Alec Pierce as like one of the best receiver on this roster. I think if everybody is, everybody hits their ceiling. He's the fourth best receiver on the roster, but, you know, Downs hasn't been healthy yet. Mitchell is kind of work in progress. He's had some rookie mistakes, some flashes, but rookie mistakes. A long term, I think he'd be the fourth best receiver. But you know, I am buying that he's going to be a part of this passing game. Okay. So addendum to this by yourself, what we are seeing right now from Michael Pittman. I think Michael Pittman will go down as a disappointing pick and fantasy this year because of several reasons. One, the developments we're talking about with Richard is into the passing game. Yeah, it's not going to be consistent. It's not going to be clean. That just is what it is. But the second thing is like, yeah, this is a really crowded room. And this is why as much as I like Michael Pittman, I didn't take a lot of Michael Pittman and fantasy this year. I certainly have him on some teams, didn't like totally avoid him or anything. But he was kind of the last guy that I had in my third tier of fantasy receivers this year because there was always this risk that Pittman, that Richardson would be a developmental player and you've got now three other dudes when down says back that are competing for the football here. And so it's just like from a fantasy perspective, I think it's going to be tough, but I'm like Pittman's a good player. I'm not worried about him as an individual talent. So my thought on Michael Pittman was, and I was completely wrong on this, but it is actually true. This thought process was right. I picked the wrong player. And by the way, if you guys go back and listen to any show, I'll go the lone Alec Pierce defender. Okay. Yes, I like Alec. Of course, I of all people, I'm going to like Alec Pierce, a big bodied athletic X receiver that can like run down the side of course, of course, I'm going to like this player guys. Of course, I get it. Okay. So my process was he's, Anthony Richardson is a developmental player and young quarterbacks love to lock in on one guy. Who's he going to lock in on? He's going to lock in on the guy that's probably the most open the most. And so my thought is he's going to lock in on Michael Pittman. I did not account for the lunacy as Matt Harman said, I did not account for the lunacy of Anthony Richardson locking into a player. And that player right now is Alec Pierce. That's what's so interesting about this man, Matt, I know we got done with this whole GM coaching thing, but how do you put that toothpaste back in the tube? I just don't see how that's possible. How do you take Alec Pierce off of the football field knowing that Pierce and Anthony Richardson have now developed this, you know, unbelievable chemistry, especially downfield? Well, you're not, that's the thing is you're, you're just definitely not going to do it. And I think that's- But you can't take Michael Pittman off. Okay. And, and when Josh Downs comes back and he plays in the slot, you can't take him out. So this is a third addendum, but like, well, so what are we doing with Ad and I Mitchell then? Yeah, Mitchell's tough because I think he's just a guy that I think he's, he's flashed really well. You know, I know like other separation metrics really like what they've seen out of him in terms of his performance for two weeks. I think there have been some mistakes, which is fine. He's a rookie. I think he's swimming a little bit, you know, and, you know, just overall, I'm with you that you can't take Michael Pittman off the field. I think Pierce plays a critical role stretching the defense out. Yeah. So I think, but I know for a fact, this staff is so high on Mitchell. So they're not just going to take him away, but dude, I look at this team right now and I'm like, this team needs Josh Downs when Anthony Richardson is pressure, pressured, he throws to his first read only 33% of his passes. That is a bottom half of the league figure. And that to me is the Josh Downs role, why they have Josh Downs and you actually saw proof of concept of this and his first, you know, obviously barely played as a rookie Anthony Richardson. But when, when he was playing as a rookie, he liked to get to Josh Downs in those second read plays when he's under pressure, when he's in trouble. So I think that down, like they need Josh Downs. I watch this cold team, like this cold team needs Josh Downs. So it's tough. I don't really know what you do because you're not going to take off Michael Pittman. You're not going to take off Alec Pierce, fully, but I think they will still have to rotate and 80 Mitchell in there because he is very, very talented and I know the team really likes him. When you're worried about underarm, sweat and odor, it can be distracting like this, or this, or even this, it's time to silence those distractions with a spray of powerful Dove men plus care antiperspirant, featuring our 72 hour protection and soothing one quarter moisturizing cream. Because when you forget about your underarms, you can focus on being unforgettable. Dove men, forgettable underarms, unforgettable you. [MUSIC PLAYING]
Can Alec Pierce continue being the #1 option in Indy?
Whether it's the biggest stars in the league or new rookies bursting on the scene, you won't get better wideout information anywhere else. Along the way, they'll break down the biggest stories in the NFL and offer up a few big-picture fantasy football thoughts.
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