Dread wrote: ↑Tue Jul 26, 2022 9:21 pm Even at 33yrs old Julio Jones is a tremendous threat in the Red Zone.
Bucs also have a prime Mike Evans as another elite red zone target.
Great team separate themselves with red zone play on both sides of the ball. Other than the final score and turnovers its the most important stat in determining who wins.
Bucs stop the run well on defense which traditionally leads to being a good red zone defense.
Julio is a low risk signing. I don't see how the downside outweighs the upside.
Julio Jones. Red Zone threat.
These are mutually exclusive concepts.
For real though, Julio Jones has never been a premier RZ threat. He's had 10 tds in a season once in his entire career. And that was in 2012. Since then he has 2, 6, 8, 6, 3, 8, 6, 3, and 1 TDs in each season. Hilariously he played at least half the season in all but one of those seasons.
The season he had 136 catches for 1,871 yards he only had 8 TDs. Hell, towards the end of his time in ATL they were straight omitting him from RZ packages.
I don't think this is a bad signing by any stretch of the imagination, but some of you guys are deluding yourselves.