RP Clips: Nick Sirianni Compared Dontayvion Wicks to Who??

**Matt Harmon** (0:00)
This is Reception Perception, The Show. Now, James Koh and Matt Harmon.

**James Koh** (0:06)
Again, we talk about AJ Brown coming from Philadelphia, a new wide receiver in Philadelphia. Dontayvion Wicks is apparently drawing Keenan Allen comparisons, head coach Nick Sirianni.
Head coach Nick Sirianni compared newly acquired wide receiver Dontayvion Wicks to Keenan Allen saying, quote, The way they are off the line of scrimmage, the way they are at the top of the route, the way they are with a ball in their hands, it just really reminds me of Keenan Allen. Thoughts on Dontayvion Wicks and Keenan Allen comparisons, friend.

**Matt Harmon** (0:44)
I mean, look, do you think, look, I'm laughing because I'm really trying to not make the joke about like, hey, do you think Nick Sirianni typed this into ChatGPT to pop this one out? Yeah, I think he did. Because that was like a headline recently that he used ChatGPT. This obviously defined fresh motivational stories for his team, which, you know, whether that's true or not, and everybody can have their judgment on that. I just wouldn't, I wouldn't have let that one get out. If it was Nick.
I want to let that one go.

**James Koh** (1:25)
I talked about this on my radio show, man. If you are using ChatGPT to come up with inspirational stories, like to like ways to motivate your team, you're not a good coach. Like, I'm sorry, you know, like you as a head coach, you don't have that many. I mean, you have a lot of responsibilities, and one of those responsibilities is to be a motivating person.
If you're using ChatGPT to motivate people, that's not good. That is not good. So I don't know.

**Matt Harmon** (1:54)
Well, I don't want to totally sidebar us here on an AI discussion. However, when you say like, let me just admit this right now. I didn't read the story. I just saw the headlines. So maybe this is what the story is, and I'm being completely unfair to Nick. But I'm actually saying this to try to be fair to Nick Sirianni, if you think about it.
If you're going to tell reporters or this can be a story, and they're going to write, I use, you use ChatGP to find fresh motivational stories, whatever. You need to be very specific.
I need to know what the prompt was. I need to know what the prompt was. That's actually fine in a way if you're just like, hey, what are some cool stories that I could use to, you're just using it basically as a search tool, like, hey, I want to find some cool stories to tell people. Let's be like, all right, find me a ChatGPT quad, whatever. Find me really good restaurants that have this, this, that, and the other, like, okay, you just try to find the using as a search tool. Maybe he's using a search tool. It's like if we're going to do the whole, he use ChatGPT to do this, that, and the other. I don't, my advice to people would just be, if you don't want to get dunked on in the headlines, in the unfair world of social media, you're going to want to be really, really specific about that. You're going to want to really dive into that. You can't just use that as a throw away comment, essentially.
Again, maybe there was more to the story and I haven't read it, but whatever.

**James Koh** (3:24)
No, there's not. I've read the story. There's not.
He basically, he used ChatGPT like Google, which is fine.

**Matt Harmon** (3:33)
But it's fine. But again, I would have just been really detailed about exactly how. I'm going to need to see the master plan, essentially. Anyways, did he type in Dontayvion Wicks, Keenan Allen comps in ChatGPT? Maybe.
Look, Dontayvion Wicks, I got a little candle still lit for Wicks, pun intended. His rookie season was legit, really promising. Now, I do think he got a little bit overrated and overstated for his separation skills. But one of the things I really liked about him was his release moves off the line of scrimmage. 72.7% success rate versus press coverage in his rookie season. Now, let me just go ahead and pull back the curtain here for the listeners. Keenan Allen's success rate versus press in his best years, a lot higher than 72.7%.
A lot higher, but from a percentile, Mark, 72.7%, that's like a 69th percentile.
Pretty nice. 69th percentile, 72.7%. That's promising. You got to build on that though. And that was the problem for Wicks is that I think he actually took a step back, and this is borne out in his reception perception charting. His success rate versus man, zone and press all went down from year one to year two, and that was the issue there with Wicks is that he didn't really take the next step as a route runner as a separator, but he does have pretty good technical prowess in terms of his releases at the line. I do think that's obviously, again, off the line of scrimmage, the way they are at the top of the route. Yeah, some of Wicks' best routes are those breaking routes where he have the moves to get open at the break point and everything. So archetype-wise, it's not the worst comparison in the world. So that's where I stand on that. I actually think Wicks' usage is going to be interesting in the offense.