I think the point I keep driving home, if there is a WR who is a good all around player, and has deep speed, it is probably worth trading up to get them. A good WR is worth something to us. But a guy who is a deep threat on top of being a good WR is worth a ton to any team, but especially to us.
A team like Washington, they need receiver help in general, so they should just focus on anyone who is any good. I just think we should be a little more choosy, or possibly even draft more then 1, as long as it lands the guy with some speed.
I keep thinking back to teams like our Air Coryell teams, Greatest Show on Turf (Rams)... where a team had the combination of speed and quickness in their WR corp. Those teams often got defenses to play pre-spread out and flat footed. DB rarely got good jumps on passes and often little dinky passes got a lot of yards. WR caught passes got the ball wide open all alone, and then got a ton of yards after the catch. I don't think our WR are that far away from being that kind of group. But it takes that speed element.
No S is going to line up close and start trying to jump the short routes if you have enough speed, and that opens up more then the occasional pass over the top because you fool someone. Dallas was sort of the classic game with that happening, both of Woodhead's TD, as well as Gates to win the game. But I think we can do better. And we are pretty close, but we need that speed.
A team like Washington, they need receiver help in general, so they should just focus on anyone who is any good. I just think we should be a little more choosy, or possibly even draft more then 1, as long as it lands the guy with some speed.
I keep thinking back to teams like our Air Coryell teams, Greatest Show on Turf (Rams)... where a team had the combination of speed and quickness in their WR corp. Those teams often got defenses to play pre-spread out and flat footed. DB rarely got good jumps on passes and often little dinky passes got a lot of yards. WR caught passes got the ball wide open all alone, and then got a ton of yards after the catch. I don't think our WR are that far away from being that kind of group. But it takes that speed element.
No S is going to line up close and start trying to jump the short routes if you have enough speed, and that opens up more then the occasional pass over the top because you fool someone. Dallas was sort of the classic game with that happening, both of Woodhead's TD, as well as Gates to win the game. But I think we can do better. And we are pretty close, but we need that speed.
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