Emerging Youngsters in Team Situations, that's what we're talking about today on stealing

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With me, as always, is Sean Siegel. We can find off his work At Rodevishan, we couldn't really come up with a great title for this episode, but I really wanted to talk about Romeo Dobbs, who you mentioned a couple times towards the end of our first episode this week in the first episode for New Unless and Caught. We talked about some of the offenses we tend to refer to as the have-nots. We've been talking about this concept of the haves and have-nots for a couple of years

now and how there's this widening gap.

And here we are in a season where that's become very, very obvious.

Talked about some of those bad offenses or some exciting offenses, maybe some other ones

that don't look great that we want to hit on as well. Some young players that are fun to talk about. Dobbs probably tops on that

list after week three. His star got a lot brighter. Well, he was the focal point of a lot of our

bold predictions coming into the season. And so to have him look that good in

week three was fun. The first two weeks, you can kind of see it and you can kind of see the

frustration that Aaron Rogers is having with the young guys. And then this game, Cemi Watkins,

not able to play. His peer and compatriot there, Christian Watson,

not able to play. And you're thinking, well, if it's going to happen early, I mean, it could

happen at any time. But if it's going to happen early, this is a great spot for it. The Packers

are in a game where it's going to be hard to move the ball against this elite Tampa Bay defense.

It's a game that the Packers need to win after they've struggled against the Bucks recently. It's a game that could have a lot of repercussions for seating in the NFC. You can't just pout your way through this one. You've got to get out there and compete. And you know the Buccaneers are going to look to take away A.J. Dillon and Aaron Jones, which they more or less did.

And I mean, And you know the Buccaneers are going to look to take away A.J. Dillon and Aaron Jones, which they more or less did.

And I mean, you would love to see even more after that first drive.

But for Dobbs to come out and dominate early to be the featured receiver in this offense and to again look good in so many ways. I think that's one of

the underrated elements of his performance in the preseason is that, yeah, I mean, it's against

backup players in many cases. It's with the backup quarterback. But he's winning on a wide

variety of routes and depths.

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