This isn’t to suggest Randall Cobb’s career is finished. His career with the Green Bay Packers looks like it’s finished after this season, however.
Cobb has been consistently sidelined or playing through some sort of injury for the past three seasons. He missed three games in 2016, one in 2017 and has already missed three this season.
That’s strike one.
Cobb hasn’t come anywhere near his production of 2014, his last contract year, since. In 2014, Cobb went for 1,287 yards and 12 touchdowns. His highs since then — 829 yards and six touchdowns, both in 2015.
That’s strike two.
Meanwhile, the Packers seem to have found other weapons at the receiver position. Davante Adams has become the team’s clear-cut No. 1. Now, rookies Marquez Valdes-Scantling and Equanimeous St. Brown have started to earn regular playing time. Geromino Allison also appears to have passed Cobb on the depth chart.
That’s probably strike three.
The loss to the Los Angeles Rams in week 8 was pretty telling. Valdes-Scantling was second in receiver snaps to Adams. The rookie had 31 snaps to Adams’ 40. Third on that totem pole was Allison with 30. Cobb had 24.
In that same game, Adams led the way with five catches for 133 yards. Valdes-Scantling caught two for 45 yards and had the Packers’ only receiving touchdown. Cobb was next with four catches for 40 yards, but his average per catch suggests perhaps he’s lost a step. In a meager six snaps, St. Brown still managed to catch two balls for 31 yards.
Let’s go back to that yards per catch. Cobb is averaging 11.1 through seven games. Not what you’d expect from someone who used to be one the Packers most explosive players.
Not only does it seem Cobb has lost some explosiveness. It also seems Aaron Rodgers is happy to look to Valdes-Scantling and St. Brown just as often, if not more often, than Cobb.
As you probably know, Cobb is currently in a contract year. Thus far, he’s done nothing that suggests the Packers need to re-sign him.
Surely, there’s a home for Cobb with Jon Gruden and the Oakland Raiders, though.
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I told you guys all off season get rid of them both, Cobb and Jordy. I said that on here every damn WR article. Both weren’t worth the money they were being paid.
But yet Dez Bryant is? He is still unsigned..
Signing Dez would have been a nightmare, he was declining with no upside. Besides that he’s a moron.
Not to speak for Kato, but I think he was implying that Skinny was lobbying for Dez in all Skinny’s comments.
That’s what my comment was reflecting, skinny’s past campaigning for Dez.
Cobb or Nelson. Nelson was willing to take a pay cut, stay with the team he loved, and play dependable football. I said this before Jordy was traded. One or two more years would certainly have helped us and the young rceivers. Cobb just seems slow with no quickness in getting off coverage. Kept one year too long I feel.
Actually, his 11.1 average is his highest since 2014, but the season isn’t over.
Here’s my viewpoint besides all the reasons cited above, which are all legit. I tend to look at the bottom line. So in his last full season (2017) he averaged 43 yards a game, and scored 4 td’s. In 2016 he averaged 47 yards a game and also had 4 TD’s for the season.
Now…….pardon fucking me, but who thinks this sounds like the production of a guy raking in 10 million a year, Ted? Gute? Tell me you can’t find a street free agent to equal his production. He earned that contract almost entirely from his one 2014 breakout season. I don’t know bout anyone else, but does that sound like a pattern in Green Bay concerning contracts for your own draft picks? Have one good year, get rich……coast.
So to bring this to a close, i don’t care if he has 1,200 yards this season and 12 TD’s in a contract year. I’ve seen that movie before. They should have let him go before the season and saved some cash. I guess i thought that move was obvious, more so than the Packers brain trust.
As i said before the season when moves were made, who cares if he’s younger at 28, you probably don’t have him on your team when he’s 29 anyway? Am i the only one who thinks of this shit?
We have young talent on the cheap…..c-ya.
Vent over…Thank you.
The pack dont have a brain trust. More like a brain drain.